Good luck kismac!
squatting how awful for you all! D&V is utterly horrid, glad everyone is recovered. How did you manage feeding while poorly? I'm impressed you seem so calm about the whole thing!
RL hugs, that's all I can offer. It does get better, you are still in early days and if I didn't have dh at home I would still be seriously struggling I think so you are doing a stellar job. Talk over it all with your health visitor.
Well my poor boy's bottom was getting better and is now getting worse again despite the canesten at every nappy change, steroid cream 3 times a day, lots of nappy changes and no nappy time when we can manage it. It makes me sad. He also seems to have got reflux. Since his tongue tie was done last Thursday he vomits more frequently and was not settling for longer than 10mins after 2am and I was getting seriously sleep deprived. Infacol was helping for the last two days in getting big burps up and he settled much better but this afternoon he has been just as bad, no burps, hiccups, vomiting and horrible bursts of screaming painful crying that break my heart, writhing and wriggling, and some episodes of his throat closing up so he can't breathe again which had been getting fewer and further between. Not sure why its working less well.
Saw health visitor at clinic yesterday. He's gaining weight fine but she agrees sounds like reflux. He also has the SMELLIEST nappies, even though he is breastfed. She said this is often a sign of cows milk protein intolerance and this can worsen reflux too, plus the bigger volumes of milk he is now able to take more quickly post tie release is probably making things worse.
So she recommended I cut out all dairy for the next 2 weeks and see if he is better. I'd do anything for him to feel better but I have to say day 1 of no dairy has been hard! Dd's birthday means cake and chocolate and ice cream everywhere. No nice cup of tea. Party on Saturday when I will just have jelly and potential short break next week with no cream teas etc makes me feel gloomy! Still, good for my waistline perhaps?
If he does have an intolerance I do wonder if its making his nappy rash worse. And his dry skin. Probably not the newborn axne but that can jog on too, making my beautiful boy look like a spotty teenager!!!
So I'm sad ds gets in so much pain. He did sleep better on infacol, I got a 4 hr stretch between 1 and 5 but then clustered from 5am.
Yawn...