Thursday, September 11, 2008

Didn't even make it one week this time!

Since last friday she still hasn't been sleeping well and started to arch her back crying again. We were almost out of her acid reflux medicine so I called and set an appt and we went yesterday. She weighs 12lbs 6 oz and is other wise doing extremely great. I was told that Zantac is one of the few medicines that you can become immune to and it can just stop working for you. Dr. Wolfe switched us to Prevacid instead. She only has to get this once a day compared to the twice a day for the Zantac. It must be a different tier drug because it runs $30 for 30 days supply after the insurance pays $40 and Dr. Wolfe told me that they make them submit a paper stating that she has already been on Zantac and it did not work for her. I was told that the reason she doesn't sleep more than two hours at a time most of the time is because she is waking up in pain from her belly and the only thing she knows to soothe herself is the bottle so she will cry for it and eat everytime to help herself feel better. Which makes sense when we were waking up every hour. The other night we actually did four hours, then three hours, and then three hours again. I woke up feeling like we had accomplished something then last night we were three then two then two then two. It must have just been a night where her stomach didn't hurt as much. Autumn decided that we needed to wake up really early this morning and was up talking to me by quarter till five. She sat in the kitchen in the bumbo seat while I made coffee (something I normally don't do at home but wait till work)lunches and steamed her bottles. She got so excited watching me she started talking so loudly she was yelling at me. She woke Zack up who came in around 6 to play for a few minutes. Hopefully we will get a good report from the sitter today. Yesterday she slept for her first two hour nap for them. Only because when she wakes up she normally only drinks about a half an ounce and then doesn't care. So I stopped giving her anything when she first wakes up. She gets dropped off around 7:15 and the sitter has her wait until 8am to eat her first bottle. Since I started doing this on Monday she has been drinking the full 4oz her first bottle and actually napping for them, at least in the morning.

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