Not Too Fun

Well, so much for my calm little guy who sleeps all of the time and stares and soaks in the world. He has been sick and his nose has been full of snot. This has not been fun. It isn't with an older baby and toddler but it definalty is not fun with an newborn/infant. He has had this stuffy nose for almost three weeks now and it seems to be getting worse. We have gone through a bottle of nose drops already. There were times that I could give him the drops wihtout suctioning his nose but it is so stuffy now that neither one works not even together most of the time. Let me tell you, so much for my calm little guy. He always wants to be held and needs attention becuase he deons't feel good. He is still a good little baby it is just difficult to hold him all of the time and do homework and play with Kaycee. Poor guy can't sleep because he gets woken up from his air getting cut off from all of the snot. I thought I was sleep derprived from giving birth and his feeding schedule. I think I get about 30 minutes of sleep every 3 hours. I feed and burp him, which takes about 30-45 minutes depeding on the burping. Then he falls asleep and grunts and struggles breathing from his nose. I suction the nose, use the nose drops and it may clear up a bit and then it gets stuffy again. We go through this routine and it is feeding time all over again. Somewhere in there while burping him I wake up and realize I fell asleep. Don't worry I am prepared. I lay back on the couch and prop pillows under my arms so there is not way he rolls off if I do fall asleep. I learned this trick with Kaycee. This is how we had to sleep for the first 3 months because she had colic bad.

DOn't get me wrong. I am not complaining. I think however that everyone may think we fell off the face of the earth because we haven't seen anyone forever. Because of lack of sleep we do this routine until about 11 or 12 and then don't get our day started until about 1 or 2pm. Not only has he been sick but I got sick on top of that. I feel so lazy but I am so exhausted I can't get off the couch. Now that I am starting to feel better though I'm not as exhausted. Hopefully Kayder starts to get better and no one else gets sick agian.