Sam is 4 months and three weeks old... He's getting so big, going to be 5 months old a week from today! It's a little surreal thinking that almost 5 months have passed since he was born! This has been a pretty rough week, to be honest, the week started out okay, but by Thursday Sam was extremely fussy and not wanting to eat anything, we took him to the Dr on Friday to find out that he had an ear infection, yikes! We were prescribed some Antibiotics and thankfully he has done much better, he still has a pretty stuffy nose that is interfering with his sleep, so unfortunately he's still been a little grumpy. But not too bad.
And the sleeping through the night thing lasted all of two days before he started feeling sick, so we are back to square one on that. In fact now he's waking up more than before, I know that's just due to all the extra snot in his nose, and I'm hoping the sniffles go away soon so he can get back to feeling better, as much as I hate losing sleep myself, I know that he needs a good nights sleep just as much as I do.
I also think he has an allergy to Prunes, well maybe not exactly an allergy, but he could have had an adverse reaction to them. I started him on them on Sunday night and he didn't have any issues until after I gave them to him Monday morning. That afternoon I noticed he had a pretty bad rash after eating them, so I've stopped giving him those for now... it also could be due to the dryer sheet I used the other day too, so I've been re-washing all his clothes without the dryer sheet to see if that helps too. Once the rash clears up I'm going to try giving it to him again to see how he reacts since that's what the Dr wanted, they told me once the rash clears up to give him just prunes and formula and see if there is a reaction. Apparently sometimes allergies manifest over time and so even if I've fed him something before it could be a reaction to the oatmeal cereal I started giving him, or something completely different! I don't know if it's the prunes though just due to the fact that peaches are in the same food family as prunes and he had no problems with those.
Other than that, things are going well. He's a trooper, even though he hasn't felt well the last few days, he's still been happy... pretty clingy so my house is a disastor since I can't get anything done except for when he's asleep, but that's okay, I like my Sam snuggles when I can get them since I know it's only a matter of time before they are few and far between *tear, he already holds his head up so well all the time and would rather be looking out at everyone than snuggling with Mommy. They grow up so fast...
Other than that, AJ and I are doing amazing, I thought my new shift would make it hard for us to spend time together, but the fact is that we actually spend more time together now than we did before... we usually spend time talking when I get home before going to bed and it gives us that hour of time for just us to spend together, when before I would be going to bed at the same time Sam does and we never really got time just the two of us, so it sure is nice to be able to get that time with him...
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