7 Weeks and a New Year

William was 7 weeks old yesterday and is healthy. Lately we have been dealing with gas, he seems to do just fine getting out the lower gas, it is the upper gas (burps) that I seem to be struggling with. When I feed him I burp him right away and usually get out a couple good burps, but later on he spits up and has more burps he needs to get out. Last night he woke up screaming at 3am because he had spit up and got curdled milk in his nose. It must have hurt as he was howling, I felt so bad. Adam ended up getting up to help me/relieve me as I was getting pretty stressed out by his cries and the lack of sleep.

I think William is gulping air when I am feeding him, but I am not exactly sure how to get him to stop that. Adam suggested that we feed him bottles only as he seems to be less gassy when we do that, but the thought of waking up to an alarm and pumping and then feeding at night does not sound good to me. We are going to try some gas relief drops, forgo his vitamin and I am going to try to watch his latch closer to see if there is anything there I can do.

The last couple of days and nights have been rough, just when I thought we were doing better and going for 4 hours between feedings during the night, he reverted back to every 2 hours. By the time I get him fed and burped and burped again and then back to bed I am lucky to fall asleep before he wants to wake up again. I hope it is just a short growth spurt and we can get back to lengthening out the night feedings soon.

7 Week picture in the Police onsie, still fitting, but getting tight lengthwise.

Sleeping on Daddy's shoulder.

Adam is back to work now, I was so glad he was able to stay home with me for so long. It was a great help and a great experience. It has brought us closer together and made us an even stronger team.

Pam (Adam's Mom) came out to visit us for New Years and will stay till Adam's birthday and is again a great help. We are lucky to have such great family who visit us often!

We didn't stay up for the New Years, I think we crashed at 9pm, but I was up with William for a feeding at midnight and so we celebrated together. We are looking forward to all the firsts this year, and hope it will be a good and healthy year for all those we know.