Ellie Foster: Week 7

This week Ellie has started sleeping in her own crib in her room. I think it was harder on me than it was on her actually. I thought all along that I would have her in our room until she was at least 3 months old (yes I am a crazy first time mom), but she started becoming too big for the bassinette/packnplay that we had set up for her so the time had come. The last couple of days she has managed to sleep from about 10:30 until 3 and then will go back to her bed for another 1.5-2 hours before she gets up again and wants to snuggle before her next feeding. We are making strides.

In other news, Ellie is starting to smile alot more. She has inherited her daddy's dimples which are the cutest thing ever. She is starting to interact more with her surroundings and is able to entertain herself alittle. Today she was able to play and look at her toys on her playmat for 30 minutes which was huge. The other night, it was 3am and I had layed her back down after her feeding and she was not sleeping and she was just smiling at her crib mobile.

But probably the biggest news this week (at least for me) is it looks like I am going to have to give up dairy food while I am nursing Ellie. I had noticed (and everyone else) that Ellie was having terrible gas that was not making her a happy girl especially at night when it was waking her up. We had tried gripe water and gas drops but nothing really was seeming to remedy the problem. So I made an appointment to see the pediatrician when she mentioned that I feed Ellie formula for 3 days to see if she is doing better. If she did, it would mean she has an intolerance to a milk protein which she would grow out of at 1 year (yay for me). Well because I was nursing, I just wasn't too big on feeding her formula and also did not want her to start liking bottles to much. So after discussing with Adam, I have decided that if it will make baby girl feel better then I will be giving up dairy (at least most of the time, I don't think I will be able to give up mashed potatoes during Thanksgiving and Christmas!) We will see if it does the trick. It's amazing the things you will do for your kid. So far I am on day 4 of no dairy or at least 90% no dairy and it isn't too bad. It's amazing how much does have dairy in it though. But honestly how could you not give up dairy with a sweet face like that.