I think as long as I get the post up while he is still 7 months I’m not really late right? Poor buddy. Second child syndrome all the way! A few big things happened since Baby D’s 6 month baby update. I swear babies are like ninjas – you blink your eyes and they are sitting pretty showing off some new tricks!
Growth:
One month after his 6 month appointment and Baby D has already put on another pound plus! He was nearly 22lbs at his last Doctor’s appointment. (Which was a follow up on his food/eating – more on that later down the post.) He now is fully wearing size 12 months, but many of those are getting tight. (Especially his pjs). I have begun the process of pulling out the 18 month clothing already. Someone told me he is starting to look like a little boy and less like a baby. I wanted to cry…
Looks:
This month Baby D has decided to start growing even more blond hair, but mostly right down the middle of his head! Still trying to figure out what color his eyes are. Some days they are blue with a little hazel, other days they are almost completely hazel, but most days they are steel gray. Very cool. I wanted to try and take a picture to compare them, it will be fun to do this again when my husband comes home so we can see everyone’s eyes. Genetics totally awe me sometimes!
It really is pretty neat that K is a mini me, and D is a mini Daddy. I thought for sure looking at his 3d ultrasound images he was going to be his brother’s twin!
Firsts & Milestones:
Baby D IS MOBILE – Almost! He is scooching and rolling places! I thought for sure he’d be crawling by now, but he seems okay learning this new trick for now and I am MORE than okay with that! He is more confident sitting up unassisted, and has perfected the belly flop, leg flip to get from sitting to scooching!
He got his second tooth shortly after turning 7 months, and I am pretty certain he is working on two more on the bottom.
He loves playing peek-a-boo. I can’t get enough of it with him. He is so joyful when he does it. He smiles with his eyes.
Baby D has also started to give hugs. He smashes himself into me and when I say “aww hugs” he does it over again and again.
Sleep:
Whaa-Whaa… Not much has changed since his 6 month update. However, I am now convicted he is in pain at night and not having night terrors. Really, I have wondered that since these excessive night time wake ups started at 4 months. He seems to be unable to get comfortable at night. Normally by this age baby can roll over or change positions to get more comfortable. Baby D doesn’t do that. I think it really ties into his food…
Food:
Baby D is still nursing every 2-3 hours. Occasionally going 4 hours. He isn’t doing well with solids, so breast milk continues to be is only form of food. Even still, I remember my first son started spacing out nursing by this point. We started then stopped solids at 6 months. I felt like he wasn’t ready because he would throw up very shortly after eating. So we stopped for a few weeks. We had a follow up visit with our Pediatrician who expressed he thought Baby D was being stubborn. He wanted me to do food 3 times a day every day. He felt like it would help him at night. (I should express here, I love my Pediatrician and have never felt led wrong by him. He has always listened to me.) I didn’t argue, but part of me really wishes I did. It was around this time I started to let dairy slip back into my diet. It was only a couple of days until I noticed the eczema return. Right after that he started spitting up after nursing again. Time to go back to dairy free.
We started food again as directed by the Pediatrician, but it didn’t go well. While Baby D was really excited to be eating and actually ate his food, about 4 hours later he woke up and projectile vomited everywhere. (Well, mostly on me.) At first I thought he had picked up a stomach bug, but a few hours later he woke up and nursed and by morning he was fine. Suddenly I realizes he wasn’t throwing up when we first started solids because he didn’t like them, but because his body didn’t want it. In fact it was then it dawned on me every single time he ate food, he threw up. We stopped for one more week. I knew if he threw up again, it was going to be something more serious. This past week we tried again. 4 hours later, vomiting this time worse than the last time. So bananas, avocados, and oatmeal… all thrown up.
My biggest fear is he has something wrong internally. That would explain the night time crying. I worry he’s been in pain for the past several months. If you heard him cry at night, you might agree. Even my mother expressed that concern when we visited home in May. I think he also may have food allergies. That scares me. I think the best case scenario is that it’s undiagnosed reflux. Hopefully I will convey my frustration and extreme concern tomorrow. I made an appointment as soon as he started throwing up last week. I really want some answers for him.
Language:
Lots and lots of babbling. Lots of talking back to us. I swear he even looked at me and said “Mama”. (Only he never repeated it.) He has been squeezing since the day we brought him home from the hospital and he still loves to do that. He has also started to talk himself to sleep.
We have been working a lot with baby signs this past month. He can still sign “milk” but only does it when he wants to and certainly not when he’s super hungry. His favorite time to sign it is while he is nursing (which is super cute – hand on head signing milk), and after he’s done eating he will pull my shirt and sign milk. He doesn’t want more (I’ve offered) he just wants to let me know he knows what and where it is.
Favorite Moments:
I continue to love to watch him look at his brother in pure adoration. He just thinks he is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Baby D is super happy during the day. His smile has a way of calming me down. I especially love when I’m disciplining his brother, and I look over at Baby D and he’s smirking at me. As if to tell me – you just wait mom!
His laughter. He laughs all day long. Full belly laughs. I can’t get enough of it!
He started reaching up to me this month to be picked up. That made my heart melt. I just love this little boy and all the personality he is filled with.
I wonder what month 8 will bring us!
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What a cutie!
HUGS, I hope you get the sleeping/eating figured out. It’s so tough when we don’t know how to fix things for them.
Thank you Kerri – it is hard. We have a few tests to schedule, so hopefully that will help get us some answers!
Awe poor guy! I know that can be rough not knowing what’s going on. My son has had some night terrors in the past and they are aweful! The initial not knowing was the hardest because sometimes I’d just sit there and cry with him. Hopefully your doctor can get something figured out quickly.
But, otherwise he is absolutely adorable and looks like a healthy, happy baby!
Thank you! I appreciate your words of support, but I am sad to read you son has had night terrors. Poor little man!
Absolutely adorable pictures! I’m not a doctor, but I wouldn’t worry too much about food allergies at this point since your little guy is throwing up after three different things. Hopefully you can get some answers soon!
Thank you Rachel, yes that is the least of our worries as of this point. Dr. has scheduled us for an Upper GI scan.
He’s way too cute!
I love those monthly stickers!!! Your little one is ADORABLE! Good job Mama!
My daughter is a week behind your son, so I love reading and hearing about him. My daughter started reaching for me to pick her up this week. Total tug at the heart strings! I feel you!!!!
Emily, what you are describing sounds like what my cousins went through and are going through. They went to several appoints and GI’s ask your doctor if he knows what #FPIES is, if he doesn’t do not let him dismiss you tell him to research it. Gavin would eat and a couple hours later profusely throw up projectile as you describe here and get lathargic. Some cases are worse then others where even moms breast milk will cause it but you have already deduced it to what Gavin’s parents did it is the food. Follow your intuition.
My cousins went and did a Google search for rice cereal and projectile vomiting and found a YouTube video for a child with the same symptoms. They told the doctor when they went for the GI again and he blamed my cousin and said she was not watching what she was eating while nursing Gavin. He is two now and he still can not have solid food, his nourishment is a special formula. We are about to publish a post with a paypal donation button to get him to a childrens hospital in Denver so he can trial foods. He has to be in a hospital for this because of the reactions that can be caused from the foods.
I don’t tell you this to scare you, but most doctors are unaware of #FPIES and misdiagnose children. All I know is what my family is going through and it breaks my heart there are to many of these cases.
Go here thefpiesfoundation.org and then here iaffpe.org
I hope I am wrong and all I have done is brought awareness of #FPIES to others who don’t know about it and eliminated one thing that is wrong with precious baby D and that gorgeous smile of his.
Thank you for sharing that. I have a friend who is going through it right now, but my understanding it was from protein or grains? While he has had grains, I pulled that and he’s only eating fruits and veggies. Regardless, even if this isn’t our answer it may be someone else’s answer so thank you for sharing it!!
I pray that they are able to get the help they need with their little boy. I can only imagine how stressful that is. Thank you!
What a handsome devil and he always looks so happy, kinda like his mother!
Oh my goodness, what an absolutely adorable baby! Love the eye comparison!
SO SWEET!!! Such a fun age!
I hope you can figure out what is wrong with him tummy at his appt. He is such a cutie.
What a cutie! Look at those strong legs!!