Baby updates

*disclaimer- if something doesn't make sense or there are major typos, please remember they are due to extreme sleep deprivation. I apologize in advance. :)

Well, we just went in for our two month check up (can you believe its been 2 months?) yesterday. And we are hopefully on our way to less crying.

The babies have been crying pretty much all night every night from 5-11 and Ella continues to cry during the day as well. This has been going on for the last 6 weeks, and it just keeps on getting worse.

The last two weeks in particular have really sucked! So our sleep deprived brains started wondering if it was anything else other than just colicky fussy babies. A few weeks ago I started trying to cut out foods that I thought may be upsetting their tummies but it didn't change anything.

We also give them one bottle of formula a night and when we switched from milk based formula to soy they did improve a little bit. But the crying continued.

So then I thought maybe they just aren't getting enough sleep and are over tired (I really didn't think about the fact that they sleep about 19 hours a day...sleep deprived!), so I started putting them to bed earlier. Which luckily at least got them to sleep earlier which meant less crying, but then it meant that they woke up sooner and more often all.night.long!

So here I sit sleep deprived and nursing all day long just trying to get these babies to stop crying and to go back to sleep. And then they started to refuse to even comfort nurse. We rocked, swaddled, shushed, used white noise, sang, danced, walked with them in the sling and baby bjorn, went outside, went for car rides, and anything else we could think of. Everything worked for about 5 minutes or on the odd rare occasion that it put them to sleep. So basically they would sleep, eat , poop , and cry with maybe 10 minutes a day of being what we thought a baby should be like. It got so bad that we would just have to let them cry in their beds and just walk away for 10 minutes. This broke my heart, I really hate to hear them crying.

But a person can only take so much. I would literally count down the minutes until Brandon got home at night to help out. I am so lucky to have him!! He is the best dad ever, I definitely have a hubby that knows how to pitch in and really do half of the work with these babies!! We are a good team!

As I was sitting there trying to formulate a complete thought, a light bulb went off, maybe its reflux? So when we went to the dr. we told him about the crying and everything else and really thought he was going to tell us "its just colic, they'll grow out of it" but thank goodness he had another plan of action for us! Love this man!! He gave us some zantac for the reflux, took us off of the soy formula and put us on a milk and soy free formula (with lots of free samples!), and told me to cut all milk and soy out of my diet.

So after 24 hours on the zantac we are already starting to see some changes. The babies have periods during the day that they will just sit and observe without crying. I can actually calm Ella by putting her in the bouncy seat. We are still have periods of screaming but we went from about 4-5 hours of screaming a day to 1-2 hours. That is a major improvement. I've read that it can take up to two weeks to take full effect, but it is already looking better. I still haven't cut the milk and soy out of my diet, because I wanted to see if the zantac worked before I went through all of that.

But the craziest thing happened last night, I fed the babies, swaddled them up and put them to bed while they were still awake and they went right to sleep! You don't understand, this NEVER happens. And guess what? Tonight same deal. I'm pinching myself to see if this is a dream (which would mean I was getting sleep). And last night they slept from 11-3:30 and then were up again at 6. Oh wait that was just Beck....Ella was up at 2 and then 4 again but its still better than my usual 1-2 hour periods of sleep at night. This was so nice!! So cross you fingers and send sleepy thoughts that this happens again. :)

So at 2 months Beck is 11lbs 6.5 ozs and 22 1/2" Which puts him in the 50% for weight and 25% for height and this isn't even for their adjusted age!! Ella on the other hand is still my petite flower. She is 8lbs 14ozs and 20" which puts her in the 3-5% for weight and <3% for her height. This is also the non adjusted age percentages. So Ella is right on track for a 36 week preemie and Beck is way ahead of the curve. I was so happy to see that they were doing so well. They are obviously getting enough breast milk!!!