December 1, 2008

Chasen weeks 2-3

So week 2 was my first week alone with Chasen and by Friday I had lost it. Chasen started to not sleep more then an hour at night he wouldn't let me put him down during the day, I wasn't able to eat till ean got home because every time I layed him down he would scream. So by Friday I was at the end of my rope and at 2:30 after hours of screaming I put Chasen in his car seat and we went for a drive, the only way he would sleep. We drove around for and hour while I cried then I realized I could go through the drive through at hardees and actually EAT something! When I got home he started crying again and I called Ean and told him he had to come home early because I didn't think I could do it any more. He casually says oh, well my mom will be there in an hour and she is gonna babysit so we can go on a date.
"WHAT??!" why didn't you tell me this earlier, my prayers have been answered!!
so Ean and I went on our first date!

Joellyn had the same problem with Chasen where she couldn't lay him down without him screaming she mentioned that Garin had had acid reflux. So over the weekend it got worse and he was throwing up after every feeding and I was having to sleep with him on my chest which means I wasn't sleeping because I was scared I would roll over on him. Finally on Monday after I was covered in puke I took him to the Dr. and they diagnosed him with baby acid reflux, prescribed him so zantac and we are doing better. He sleeps with a wedge so his head is elevated and he has mostly stopped puking after his feedings.
We both go back to the Dr. tomorrow, Chasen goes for a weight check because he had lost 4oz and I go to get antibiotics for mastitis. Hopefully this will be the end of Dr. bills for a while, between Kevin and chasen we have spent around $350 this month.
Kids are expensive.
In other news Thanksgiving was good we were in north English for 5 days and it was so nice to have grammie help with chasen and I know she enjoyed it too!
Ean has a roofing job in ashland neb. so we are leaving wed. morning for my moms! I'm excited because i get to celebrate Alyssa and Jackson's bdays with them :) but I'm nervous about the 5hr car ride with chasen and Kevin...we will have a full car.
I've updated with several pictures, 1st bath, 1st bottle, ect...check them out http://documented.smugmug.com/Caskey%20babies

1 comment:

Keri Speidel said...

Hey, if you ever need to drop Chasen off for a little bit while you run errands or get coffee...my door is always open! We'd love to have him...I'm serious!! I hope you're feeling better, mastitis sucks.