Well, its been a few days since we began our quest to find what is causing Caleb’s discomfort. I have to admit we did not follow the plan exactly. After only a bottle and a half of formula which left all three of us frustrated, we nixed the formula and decided for me to stick to the strict diet and breastfeed through it until everything would be out of my system. We would just tolerate Caleb’s complaints until then. Then, one night of fuss made us cave and we started giving him Zantac a few days ago. So we’re basically doing everything at once instead of one thing at a time.

I have to say I think his reflux has diminished but now he seems to be having some gas issues. Go figure, right? So now, I’m going to start eating wheat and dairy again in moderation but lay off the gassy foods (like cabbage, broccoli, corn, beans, etc.) We’re getting serious about burping him well and keeping him upright after eating so he has a chance to keep everything down. We’ve decided that if he continues to be problematic this weekend, we’ll try the formula for a few days just to see if anything in my milk is affecting him. This will help ease our minds about what I’m eating and what I’m not.

My parents came down here on Monday to help out and keep us well fed. They’ve been great at soothing Caleb when he gets fussy. Between the four of us, he’s been okay and Andy and my sanity has slowly returned to a satisfactory level.

As far as sleeping, Caleb’s been a champ (knock on wood). He’s really getting into the hang of waking, grunting for attention, getting his diaper changed, eating, burping and going back to sleep all in about 40 minutes. His first sleeping stretch lasts about 3 1/2 hours and goes to about 2 hour cycles from there. He’s bee sleeping a lot during the day but apparently that doesn’t really affect his night sleeping so I won’t complain.