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| Love this picture!! Tummy time! |
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| All Smiles |
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| Have to ask Ava to laugh and not smile to get a good picture! |
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| In gramme's shoes |
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| This is my brother. |
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Some Pictures
Friday, March 11, 2011
Our Visit with Grandma Nini
As you know we had been struggling with Noah not sleeping and it was tiring and wearing on us. Mike's mom offered to come out and help last week. It was such a nice gesture and such a great help. I really, really appreciated it.
Here are some pictures from her visit.
Susan and Troy came over on Tuesday and it was awesome to have some help. There was one point where Susan and Grandma Nini were in the kitchen cooking. Troy was playing with Ava. Mike was in the office catching up on some work. I was in the family room with Noah sleeping in his Moby Wrap catching up on Tivo. It was awesome. What a nice treat it was.
Here are some pictures from her visit.
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| Auntie Susan, Uncle Troy and Ava playing Flying Bobo |
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| Grandma Nini (or Nini as Ava calls her) playing outside. |
Noah is 2 Months Old
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| This is where Noah usually sleeps for his 5 o'clock catnap! |
He has been soaking through his diaper every night and that is usually why he is waking up. We have had to change him every night and not just his diaper, his outfit too! Noah is one of those babies that does not like to sit in a wet or poopy diaper. Ava never minded it.
He weighs 13 lbs 4.5 oz! He is 23 1/2" long.
He is in size 2 diapers.
He wears 6 months clothes!! I pulled out some of his short sleeve onesies and if he goes through a growth spurt, he won't be able to wear them very long. They fit great now. Wow! I guess that will teach me not to buy ahead. He is just so tall.
He takes 3 naps and a catnap a day. He averages 45 minutes to 2 or 3 hours per nap.
He started on formula full time on March 4th. I feel a lot of guilt about not breastfeeding, but it had been a struggle for both of us. I am pumping and we are going to feed him all the pumped breast milk not that we feel that he was suffering from acid reflux and not a milk allergy.
He is smiling and cooing a ton. He will hold onto my hand and follow my voice.
He is a calm and happy baby. We just love him to pieces.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Ava's 2 Year Doctor Appointment
I just realized I didn't post the information from Ava's doctors appointment. We went last Thursday.
Weight: 29 lbs
Height: 36 1/4" (It has been said that if you double their height when they are 2, that will be their adult height. Looks like she will be 6 feet tall). Can you say Volleyball player?!?
Overall, the doctor said she was doing well even though I felt like every time she asked us something, we said "nooo".
Ava has a little anexity around strangers. She demonstrated by crying the entire doctor's appointment. She needs to start taking a multivitamin and we need to cut out the juice. We have started letting her only have juice at breakfast time and offering milk and water for her other meals. Eventually she will drink it, right? So far it has been a battle.
Weight: 29 lbs
Height: 36 1/4" (It has been said that if you double their height when they are 2, that will be their adult height. Looks like she will be 6 feet tall). Can you say Volleyball player?!?
Overall, the doctor said she was doing well even though I felt like every time she asked us something, we said "nooo".
Ava has a little anexity around strangers. She demonstrated by crying the entire doctor's appointment. She needs to start taking a multivitamin and we need to cut out the juice. We have started letting her only have juice at breakfast time and offering milk and water for her other meals. Eventually she will drink it, right? So far it has been a battle.
Noah's Reflux Story...Part 1
Well, it has been a long couple of weeks at the Leptuch household. This is what has been going on with Noah and it is part 1 because we are not sure what the "real" answer is..
When Noah was about 4 weeks old, he started this thing where he would only sleep for 20 minute naps. There were the occasional longer ones, but he always woke up, like clockwork, 20 mins into it. Everyone kept saying that it will get better that he is just a baby, but it didn't. In fact, his sleep got worse. In the back of my mind, I kept thinking that something must be wrong.
Noah has always been "gassy" (sorry TMI), so we started him on Mylicon gas drops. That seemed to help him out. Fast forward to 6 weeks old and the sleep was getting worse. Not only was he not napping more than 20 mins at a time during the day, he was NOT sleeping at night. We were lucky to get a 2 hour block of sleep. He would go to bed at 7pm and sleep until 9 or 9:30 and then wake up every hour after that. I would eventually feed him around 12 or 1 and then after that, he would wake up every 20-30 mins. He couldn't resettle. After a week of this and many sleepless nights, I made an appt to see our pediatrician. I was doing a lot of research online to see if I could figure anything out. There had to be a medical reason for this. This is just not normal.
Ava had reflux as a baby, but she had many of the common symptoms, such as frequent spitting up and a lot of crying. Noah did not have those symptoms, so I didn't think of it right away. His symptom's were:
He never burped.
When he did burp, they were "wet burps"
Not sleeping
Belly distended
Just not comfortable at times
Weird eating habits.(He never seemed hungry, he would just eat when I fed him. He never seemed to want more or less. He didn't feed well towards the end, he would be squirmy and fussy)
I did read that sometimes babies with reflux will wake after 20 mins (the first light sleep cycle) because they are uncomfortable.
He is gaining weight like a champ, but I think that can be the reflux, because some babies will eat because it makes them feel better until it starts to come up. He never really cried for food. I just fed him every 3 hours. I started pumping and bottle feeding him last weekend so that I would know how much he was getting. He was eating about 4-5 oz a feeding. He is now 12 lbs 9 oz (as of 4/4/11). He is a big baby. I thought that maybe he wasn't sleeping because he was hungry. But after having his bottles, he still woke up.
At our pediatricians visit,based on our description, the doctor gave us Zantac as she said that it sounds like reflux.
A day later, Mike and I still didn't feel right, so we called a pediatric gastroentrology doctor.We got in the following day. She said that it could be reflux or a milk allergy. She put us on a 24 hour reflux relief medicine, Previcid. I guess Zantac wears off. She told us to try this for a couple of days and see if we see any improvement. If not, she gave us samples of formula that doesn't contain any milk protein. She noticed that the area around his bum was red and it has always been that way. She said that was common in babies that were allergic to milk. (But then again, it could just be Noah). I am to just do formula for the next week. I am weening off the breastfeeding as it has been a challenge anyway. (It is painful, I might add). She also ordered a swallow test to make sure that the fluid isn't going back into his lungs. The area around his mouth turns blue after he eats and he is really phlegmy after eating and wheezing for a while after.
This has been frustrating and tiring all in one. I am not sure what we are expecting to see. I am just wanting to see him sleep, but I worry that after weeks of the same sleep pattern, it is going to take time to fix that and we won't know if anything is working.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that he will start sleeping better. Last night he did ok, but that is because we ended up holding him a lot of the night. I don't want to be doing that every night.
When Noah was about 4 weeks old, he started this thing where he would only sleep for 20 minute naps. There were the occasional longer ones, but he always woke up, like clockwork, 20 mins into it. Everyone kept saying that it will get better that he is just a baby, but it didn't. In fact, his sleep got worse. In the back of my mind, I kept thinking that something must be wrong.
Noah has always been "gassy" (sorry TMI), so we started him on Mylicon gas drops. That seemed to help him out. Fast forward to 6 weeks old and the sleep was getting worse. Not only was he not napping more than 20 mins at a time during the day, he was NOT sleeping at night. We were lucky to get a 2 hour block of sleep. He would go to bed at 7pm and sleep until 9 or 9:30 and then wake up every hour after that. I would eventually feed him around 12 or 1 and then after that, he would wake up every 20-30 mins. He couldn't resettle. After a week of this and many sleepless nights, I made an appt to see our pediatrician. I was doing a lot of research online to see if I could figure anything out. There had to be a medical reason for this. This is just not normal.
Ava had reflux as a baby, but she had many of the common symptoms, such as frequent spitting up and a lot of crying. Noah did not have those symptoms, so I didn't think of it right away. His symptom's were:
He never burped.
When he did burp, they were "wet burps"
Not sleeping
Belly distended
Just not comfortable at times
Weird eating habits.(He never seemed hungry, he would just eat when I fed him. He never seemed to want more or less. He didn't feed well towards the end, he would be squirmy and fussy)
I did read that sometimes babies with reflux will wake after 20 mins (the first light sleep cycle) because they are uncomfortable.
He is gaining weight like a champ, but I think that can be the reflux, because some babies will eat because it makes them feel better until it starts to come up. He never really cried for food. I just fed him every 3 hours. I started pumping and bottle feeding him last weekend so that I would know how much he was getting. He was eating about 4-5 oz a feeding. He is now 12 lbs 9 oz (as of 4/4/11). He is a big baby. I thought that maybe he wasn't sleeping because he was hungry. But after having his bottles, he still woke up.
At our pediatricians visit,based on our description, the doctor gave us Zantac as she said that it sounds like reflux.
A day later, Mike and I still didn't feel right, so we called a pediatric gastroentrology doctor.We got in the following day. She said that it could be reflux or a milk allergy. She put us on a 24 hour reflux relief medicine, Previcid. I guess Zantac wears off. She told us to try this for a couple of days and see if we see any improvement. If not, she gave us samples of formula that doesn't contain any milk protein. She noticed that the area around his bum was red and it has always been that way. She said that was common in babies that were allergic to milk. (But then again, it could just be Noah). I am to just do formula for the next week. I am weening off the breastfeeding as it has been a challenge anyway. (It is painful, I might add). She also ordered a swallow test to make sure that the fluid isn't going back into his lungs. The area around his mouth turns blue after he eats and he is really phlegmy after eating and wheezing for a while after.
This has been frustrating and tiring all in one. I am not sure what we are expecting to see. I am just wanting to see him sleep, but I worry that after weeks of the same sleep pattern, it is going to take time to fix that and we won't know if anything is working.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that he will start sleeping better. Last night he did ok, but that is because we ended up holding him a lot of the night. I don't want to be doing that every night.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Noah's First Smiles
Battle of Wills
There has been an ongoing battle over here at the Leptuch household. It is Ava (and Bobo, Fee-fee, and paci) vs. Mom and Dad at bedtime. As I mentioned before, when we put her down in her crib at night, she has been immediately throwing Bobo, Fee-fee and paci out of the crib and crying for mommy or daddy. She actually says "mommy, are you?" or "daddy, are you? Translation: mommy or daddy, where are you? Then we would go in and pick them up and put them in her crib.As soon as we would walk out the door, she would throw them out again. This would go on for an hour sometimes. Finally we said enough is enough. A two year old is not going to rule us. So we let her throw them out and let her cry for about 8-10 minutes and then would go in and tell her to go to sleep and that she couldn't have them back because she threw them out of her crib. We would leave and she would cry harder. This would go on for a while and finally we would give in and give her one of the three. The first night it was paci. Then she woke up at 1:15 am crying for us, really wanting her Bobo. After about an hour, we gave her bobo and she went to bed. The 2nd night, it happened again. After about 15 minutes, Mike gave her Bobo. This time she slept until 3 am in which I gave her paci. Fast forward to the 3rd night and she went down without a fight and did not throw anything out of her crib and she slept in until 6 am. Let's hope it will happen again tonight!
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