Starting just after Dagney turned 8 months old his sleep paterns started changing for the better. No more getting up every 1-2 hours which was soo amazing! I thought finally he had his sleeping figured out and things were going to start to look up. Keep in mind Dagney had been getting up every 1-2 hours since he was born. Actually I think he slept a tiny bit better for the first two weeks of his life and then eveyrthing went down hill from there. Anyways, so I thought things were looking up. He was sleeping from about 7:30is at night until about 4 or 5 for a feeding and then up at 6am. I didn't mind I had an early bird on my hands as long as I was able to get 4-5 hours of sleep and NOT broken up. I was happy, well rested, felt GREAT and I thought for once my ppd was starting to come under control. Well he then started to teeth, which after both teeth broke through over 3 days went back to sleep normaly thank goodness, but he then started learning new milestones. I thought it my head, "great! here we go again with the no sleep, because his brain wont let him sleep", but the weekend he leanred how to crawl fully, go from crawling to sitting and then pulling himself up on things and walking around them his sleep didn't really get disrupted until a week after he learned eveyrthing new. He was SO restless! I couldn't get him to sleep at bedtime, he would wake every two hours again and then he would get up at 1 or 2am for food and not want to go back to sleep for a good hour and a half which was totally odd for him. I thought maybe it was the milestone, well here we are going into the third week. He has started to sleep a tiny bit better, last night was the first. But he has started with his night terrors or nightmares, not sure which it is.
Those things are scary! Not just for him but for me too. I don't think I have ran to his bedroom that fast in a while! He screams bloody murder like he has seen a ghost, and someone is killing him or hurting him badly. He isn't awake when I go in, well maybe half but not really? I usually pick him up and have to sooth him back to sleep, which takes awhile again.
Than he has been having frequent bowel movements too. In the upwards of 7 times a day, which is not normal for him either. Uusually he will have one in the morning and MAYBE one in the afternoon. Its like florecent green/yellow slime it looks like. I know, sorry too much info!! But I don't think its right. And a bad diaper rash. Whenever I keep looking up on the internet what it could be all I come up with is a virus or teething. But could teething last THIS long? Usually when he is teething his cheeks get really rosy and he has really bad nights for about 3 days when the tooth breaks through and then thats it. Nothings before the mater and nothing after. So I really don't think its teething. But what could it be? He seems fine other then the sleep paterns being all over the place and having a hard time getting him to sleep since he is so restless.
I am so confused. I might take him to teh doctors just to mention it and see what they say. I think if it was only the sleep paterns being all ove rthe place I would just chalk it up to being the milestones, but because of the bowel movemtns being totally off and his bum rash he has had for two weeks is still there I am having a hard time figuring out what it may be.
I swear I feel like 5 months ago when he was pooing blood, projectile vomiting and crying all the time again and we had no idea what was wrong with him. :( I hope he is okay though.
Meg have you thought of maybe having him tested for celiac's disease? Typicaly symptoms are loose stools/bloody stools, abdominal cramping/pain especially is evenings {could be why hes waking up seemingly in pain} and poor wt gain. Now, I've seen patients be on a normal weight gain scale..so that one shouldn't be completely dependable for a symptom. In fact the Dr. I worked for his son had all the symptoms other than the wt issue and thats why he didn't test him..then at his wife's urging he did and sure enough his little boy was positive for celiac's disease. A few diet changes and he says its like having a different child in the home.
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