So I kept hearing there was this thing called the 4 month sleep regression. This is where your baby pretty much goes back to the newborn stage and wakes up all through the night. We had reached 4 months and 1 week and we were sleeping through the night I thought we were good to go. Then out of no where, up 3-4 times a night. And during the day was so fussy and needy, I just wanted to SCREAM. What happened to my baby that would sleep 12 hours straight? The one that smiled and was always content. Can I get him back please??
About the same time this sleep regression was happening he had started to develop what I thought was a heat rash. This heat rash decided it would be best to just take over Roo's face. :( I talked to my cousin who informed me it was eczema. And that it could be an allergic reaction. This could also explain his acid reflux, and gas. So off to the grocery I went to get him some hypo-allergenic formula. I went with the Nutramigen, which runs you about $26 and would last 2 days. Geez! I gave him that for his last 2 bottles of the night, and BAM! woke up to a new baby. He was no longer fussy, and he only woke up once in the middle of the night. It seemed like smooth sailing, but then a week later he started getting diarrhea, and fussy again. So I decided this time to take him to the doctors. She said he had eczema, and under his neck was actually seborrheic dermatitis. I would need to use special soap, and lotion on him. And for the dermatitis I would need to put on some hydro-cortisone cream whenever he had a flareup. And also, change his formula to Similac's version of what he was on (Alimentum).
He is still on the Similac version, and he is doing great! It also seems to last longer, as the scoops are smaller and don't require you to pack the scoops. So it saves us money, and he's happy, so I am happy. I'm not sure if he was going through the sleep regression, or if he was just going through some tummy issues which was what was waking him up. But the next step was to sleep train this baby, so this mama could get some sleep.
xox-J.
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