Day 8

Not keeping up on posts.

Today was a day I wanted to give up about a dozen times. Then I think, "How silly...I can't give up...who else is going to do this job?" And obviously nobody except me. Micah's first nap longer than 10 minutes was at 3 PM in my arms. Which means my house is a mess and not much was accomplished.

I have been so tired that even walking up the stirs is exhausting. Every day I tell Sage that I don't have much patience...it's fair warning in case she feels the urge to be naughty.

When Shane walks through the door everything seems better. I hand Micah to him and go put Sage to bed...very relaxing after caring for Micah all day. Then some nights (like tonight) I escape for a little while. Tonight I ran away to the grocery store and library. I came home to find Shane folding a mountain of clothes, dishes all washed. I am a lucky girl.

Sage was an absolute doll today. Playing with him, feeding him pears, holding his arms down for about 10 minutes while I lotioned him up, changed his clothes, pinned his socks to his onesie. Wow! You can tell how much they love each other. Micah is always happy to see her and she lights up around him and billows and coos to him.

Micah had a thickshake today...pears blended with rice milk. It was a hit. even bigger hit were slushy, frozen pears...loved them.

No poos today. 1 yesterday, 2 day before.

1.5 days without Neocate (hypoallaergenic formula).
4 days without honey in rice milk.
2 days without maple syrup in rice milk.

Jane (our eczema mentor in Australia) tells me that her daughter had a terrible reaction when they changed her diet...it got worse before it got better. That certainly seems to be the case right now. Last 3 days have been SO itchy and his skin looks terrible.

Tomorrow I will find multivitamin to put in rice milk.