The Colic Chronicles

This is what I feel the new title of our blog should be. It is still an ongoing battle, but the Nutramigen along with the Prilosec plus a little bit of Mylicon seems to be helping (and don't let me forget to mention Levison drops during the really rough episodes). What a combo! The Nutramigen has been much easier for her to digest and she is having much more regular dirty diapers now. Thank goodness...wow, never thought I'd say that. Poor Kylie is still being monitored regularly by Dr. Hammad. He calls every other day to see how we are progressing. I swear I am not exaggerating when I say it has been ROUGH. On Sunday, our sweet neighbor called and Lee answered the phone. She was in a panic asking if I was alright, Lee was a little caught off guard and said that yes, I was fine. She said well the reason I ask is that Kea's name was listed in the church bulletin under the prayer list. Haha, I guess word has gotten out that we have been a little stressed to say the least. I thought that was funny and to whoever put my name on the prayer list...THANK YOU. We will take all the prayers we can get. :) Everyone keeps saying "in 3 months this will go away", I appreciate the encouragement but please understand that 3 months seems a lifetime away right now. haha. We are just hoping that something will click tonight or tomorrow instead :). I am going to Montgomery for work on Wednesdays now since the person I trained for months and months while I was prego turned in her notice the day I delivered. Wonderful. While the timing isn't perfect, it is a nice break and my mom has been nice enough to come over on Tuesday nights to help out so I can get some sleep before driving to work and then she keeps Kylie at our house on Wednesday. Things are progressing little by little each day and I am just crossing my fingers that everything will be okay before she is scheduled to start daycare (the week after Labor Day), if not I am going to have to work some sort of arrangement out with work b/c there is no way a person can care for her right now that is also having to care for other babies. We have found that taking a bath and being in the swing works wonders!!! She may be the cleanest baby in the world as many baths as we give in an effort to soothe her tummy. I guess the warm water helps. And as far as the swing goes, there are times where I feel guilty because she is in it so much...but whatever works. Maybe my next post should be "Whatever Works", that has been my motto the past couple of weeks!

Swinging Away!