Zane update

He is better! Thank you God, Thank you God! And a thank you to all you who prayed! I found this concoction called Bubble-b-Gone and it has helped immensely. He has started nursing the right side again (he's been refusing that for a month) and even started to smile at me during! What a change from a stiff body screaming bloody murder to a sweet smiling happy eater. I know this sounds digusting, but I think it's all related to pooping and somehow the Bubble stuff helped. He went on strike 3 nights ago and didn't eat from 4:30pm til almost 10pm. I was frantic. I mean that's 5 1/2 hours and he usually eats every 2!! He just cried and cried. I prayed a lot and massaged his belly and gave him Bubble-B-Gone ....and prayed some more. Finally, he pooped a bucketful and then placidly nursed like there had never been anything wrong. Since then, things have been great.....so peaceful and lovely. Zane, there are just things in life you need to learn early son, pooping skills is one of them.

PS Check out the creepy guy in the background. :o) My new brother-in-law Josh is pretty funny. Love you Josh!

Zano

Zane's cousin, McClain(3yrs) calls him "Zano". I think it sounds funny, like a magician. "Attenton everyone! The great an mighty Zano, will produce a white rabbit out of this ordinary black hat!" Anyway, little Zane, here has been a trial for his parents. Mostly for his mama who is fanatical about breastfeeding. I do not want to quit no matter what he throws my way! It's been really rough for about 3 weeks now. The first month of his life was so great. He latched on by himself, and he nursed happily. Now, everything is hard and he just screams like I'm torturing him. It's a battle that I'm getting weary of. He's on acid reflux medicine but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. My pediatrician is on vacation, so the nurses couldn't offer up any more suggestions that I hadn't already tried. I'm going to call La Leche today and see if someone there can help me. On a happy note, he is so cute! He's a cuddle-bug, has kept his blue eyes and when he's not crying he's smiling. I love the little guy so much. I just hate that he hurts.

Happy 18 months Wyatt!

Granny loads him up with stuffed animals
and then pulls him all over the yard in his little red wagon.
What a great grandma!

His 18 month birthday was yesterday....but I forgot. I had a bad dream about him last night. It was a long dream, but in a nutshell Wyatt was all of a sudden *really* skinny. If you know my son, you know that he is a chubby little dude! Anyway, this school was trying to tell me I didn't feed him enough and if he didn't start gaining weight then they were going to take him away from me. Scary thought! It must be a throwback from the days when he was about 3months and the doctor was trying to get me to give him formula b/c he was so skinny. Those beginning months of breastfeeding him were so hard and I always secretly felt like everyone frowned on me b/c I was nursing him. He was just so skinny, I was afraid people would think my milk wasn't good. Of course I think I'd read every book out there on the subject and my family was super supportive. and I was almost fanatical about what I ate and didn't eat.....come to find out it was acid reflux all the time. The week after we put him on medicine he started nursing nonstop.....and now I think he wants to eat non-stop! The kid *loves* food! I think we're going to dress him up as a chef for Halloween. :o)