You may be wondering where I've been this last month. Well this certainly has been such a challenging month and unfortunately I don't feel I have handled it well. The last two posts shared some of those beginning challenges and things just got worse from there. I started having suspicions on Tuesday the 16th when the family was over for Gami's dinner, that my milk supply might be low. Nolan was having real difficulty nursing. By Thursday night I realized how seriously low my milk supply was and that poor Nolan was starving. Just when we had started to make some possible progress on the sleep training, I had to start nursing on a 2 hour schedule and pump around the clock too. Plus I had to feed him in the middle of the night again until my milk came in. It finally started to improve slightly that Sunday, however it still wasn't a great supply of milk and we struggled through all of the feedings. I typically had to give him a bottle after feeding him as he wasn't satisfied and was just so upset. The waking in the night seemed to get worse too and he was up all the time, sometimes every hour. Naps weren't happening either and I was a mess. Basically he screamed during feedings and whenever he was supposed to be sleeping!! Finally after 2 weeks of this not improving (Friday 3/26) I called the doctor and explained the problems we were having. He told me that everything that I was describing was reflux and to put him on Prevacid. Well then Nolan threw me for a loop and that evening suddenly the feedings went perfectly, it felt like my milk had finally come in and was satisfying him and he did great Friday evening and all Saturday. He then slept through the night on Saturday night (an Anniversary gift to his Mommy and Daddy!) until 5:30am! So I started thinking that maybe he didn't have reflux. Then things started getting bad again and by Tuesday we decided to try the Prevacid to see if it would help. Another change that we made this month was to give Nolan a bottle at the last feeding at 11pm in order to make sure he goes to bed with a full tummy. With both the medicine to help his reflux pain and the full bottle, he has finally started sleeping at night!! Friday morning he slept till 5:30, Saturday 6:30, and on Sunday morning he slept until 7:30 without even crying once!! What a happy Easter gift! Sunday night he woke up twice because our little Houidini got out of the swaddle. But overall he's doing so much better and after a few nights of sleep, I finally feel like I'm starting to come out of my fog as well. Maybe I'll be able to manage my life again! I have literally had to put everything on hold this month. I really felt God telling me that I need to prioritize my family first and my other responsibilities need to come second. I apologize if I have neglected friendships, thank you notes, Bible studies, email, phone calls, bridesmaid responsibilities, etc. Here's hoping things will get better and stay that way!
Things that I've missed blogging about this month:
Graham and I had a wonderful 6th anniversary! We started the day with a family breakfast at our favorite local spot--Loren's Cafe and then had a fun shopping outing at the mall. By the way, Nicholas is so cute now about weddings and getting married ever since Kristin's wedding. That morning at breakfast I told him that 6 years ago Mommy and Daddy got married. He looked at me and pointed to himself and said with great excitement "Mommy, I want Nicholas to get married too!" Now whenever he sees me dressed up wearing a dress or even just a nice outfit, he'll look at up at me and say "Mommy, are you getting married?" That night Graham and I celebrated by having a wonderful dinner at The Village Tavern and then shopping at the Christian Bookstore and Target for the boys' Easter baskets (yes we are very much parents!). Then I had a great 29th birthday (my Golden birthday--29 on the 29th). Mom and Nolan and I went shopping while Nick was at school and that was lots of fun because Mom bought me some really cute dresses and a sweater. That night the family went to dinner at Sugo's. Papa was so sweet and he treated me to a lobster dinner!!
Easter festivities were wonderful too. Nicholas really got into Easter this year. On Wednesday we colored eggs with Mimi--Nick LOVED coloring the eggs. Then Thursday, he got to go to school for a makeup snow day and they had an easter egg hunt. On Saturday we got together with our Sunday School class and had a picnic and another egg hunt. On Sunday he woke to find his and Nolan's baskets and the Easter Bunny had also left a "Happy Easter" message with little bunnies and carrots on the glass door. Church was a wonderful celebration of our Lord's Resurrection and then we went to Mimi and PopPop's for more egg hunts (both inside and outside) and a delicious Easter dinner!
If we didn't have enough on our plate, I decided to potty train Nicholas this week while on Spring Break (talk about a wild and crazy Spring Break 2010!!). I borrowed a book called "Toilet Training in Less than a Day". I studied for my final exam and stocked up on all of the supplies I needed. Monday came upon me quickly and I was so nervous that it was going to go awfully and be a disaster. We started out with a potty training doll and Nicholas first taught the doll how to potty, thus learning himself. He had three accidents in the very beginning while we were still in the process of teaching the doll, but once he got on the potty himself and had his first success, he did wonderfully! On Monday he peed 12 or more times in the potty and had 2 BMs in the potty with only one accident (while he and Daddy were outside playing). Today was day two and again he did great! I'm so proud of him and he too is so proud of himself. I wonder how we will ever leave the house though as he seems to have to go every 15 minutes! But I can't even express how wonderful it is to not change his diapers.
Sweet Nolan is all smiles and has the best laugh these days. It's so much fun to make him laugh. Oh, and I got a surprise photo shoot for his 3 month pictures. Can't wait to share those when we get them! (Hopefully I'll post Easter pictures soon too)
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