Maybe I Am On To Something.........

Last night I left my son with a friend of mine for a couple of hours while I went and had a final dress fitting for a bridesmaid dress and of course I left him screaming his head off. Luckily, the friend that I left him with was very capable of handling his "fit" but still I felt bad leaving him. In a effort to not begin to cry, I tried thinking of what may be causing these fits that he seems to have every day.

I began to think that the "fit" would happen about two hours after I would give him his juice bottle. I am giving him juice to help with his constipation issue. In addition to the "fit" he would then spit up for a couple of hours and would also scream 1/2 way through his bottle. So my conclusion is that maybe the juice is upseting his little tummy. I decided that I would do 2 things to test my theory out today.

First, no juice until bed time and I am going to do 1/2 juice and 1/2 water and see what that does. Frank and I decided to get out of the house today and go to the mall. I dread outings because these "fits" of course, happen when we are out. I am so excited to say that we had the most wonderful two hours at the mall today!!! No "fits" and he was a very happy baby the whole time!!

I really think that I am right about the juice upsetting his tummy. I hope that tonight when I water it down that it will ease some of the upset but still take care of the constipation issue.

Keep your fingers crossed!

Frankie and His "Big Boy" Bed

Good morning! Last night was a big night @ the Guerra household! Baby Frankie moved from sleeping in our room to sleeping in his crib in his room. He had started sleeping through the night last week and so I figured it was time. My husband from day 1 of bringing him home had asked when he would move into his own room at which I replied..."I don't know"!? Well, I know now. He did very well for his first night. Our bedtime routine got a little messed up last night due to getting home late last night so I was not sure how it was going to go. He went down for bed about 10:30 and woke up at 12:30 to eat. He then was back to sleep about 1:00 and slept until 6. I would say that was good for his first night! I, on the otherhand, did not get much sleep. I kept waking up and turning on the monitor to see how he was doing and also to hear him breathing. What a wonderful sound!!

Frankie went for his first road trip last night. We went for trip to see a friend and her husband and their new home. Frankie did fairly well in the car until about 30 minutes into it and he was done. He is still not too sure about that car seat! After we got to my friend's house, he decided that screaming for a hour and a half was a hot idea. Turned out that his little legs were bothering him from the shots the day before.
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Wish us luck on Sunday as we travel to Kansas City for the day!

2 Month Appointment

Today was Frankie's two month appointment. I have been dreading this day for awhile now because I knew that shots were apart of the appointment. I can't even handle when the dogs get shots, how was I going to handle my baby getting them!?

Frankie weighs in @ 11 pounds 12 oz., is 23 inches long and his head measures at 15 3/4 inches. He is in the 55% for his age. Very healthy!!

I talked with the doctor about starting cereal next week and he agreed that it would be a good idea. I really think that he will love the cereal!! We are going to keep on the 2 oz. of juice every day to help with the flow of things and he is now taking about 4-5 oz. of formula about every 2 hours. He likes to eat like his momma!

He is now starting to try and roll over by bringing his knees to his chest and moving to the left. I have this feeling he is going to be a lefty as he favors that side a lot!!

Frankie has his dose of tylenol in him as I am typing this and seems to be out for awhile! :-)

Poor little man...........

A few weeks ago I decided that I would check out Target's brand of formula. I compared the ingrediants to the Similac and determined that they were the same. Target's brand of formula was $10 cheaper so I decided that I would talk to the doctor about his thoughts on switching him to Target's brand.
He gave us the go ahead and so we made the switch.

Poor baby, it made him so constipated to the point that he was passing a little blood with his stools. After a call to Blank ER, (of course this happened after the doctor's office had closed!) I was instructed to give him some juice to help him pass his stools.

I gave him some juice (after thinking that I was going to hurt him by giving him juice!) last night because we have struggled with this for a few days. We are going to do 1/2 oz. of juice with a 1/2 of water every night before he goes to bed and hope that this helps. There is no worse feeling in the world than when your baby is in pain and you are so limited in what you can do!

Our next appointment with the doctor is April 21st and we will re-evaluate at that time.

Frankie Jr.

We are excited to announce the birth of Frankie Jr. on 2/16/2010! He weighed in at 7 pounds
2 oz.  and was 20 inches long. It took awhile for him to arrive into the world but he made it!

Frank came home from work on Monday, 2/15 around 9:30 at night and I told him that I had felt very different all day. I had been having contractions for about a week so it was not unusual to me to be having them as I had all day. I was focused on Thursday 2/18 because that is the day that I was to be induced. I decided to go to bed early hoping that I would feel much better when I woke up in the morning. Around midnight I woke up to a really bad contraction and bad back pain. I called Frank from the basement and asked if he could hang out with me for awhile. I decided to get into the bath tub to see if I would start feeling better. After some time in the bath tub, Frank called the doctor. We ended up going to the hospital around 2 a.m.

Once we were at the hospital, it was determined that my contractions were 1-2 minutes apart.  IYikes!! I was not dialating so the doctor wanted to send me home around 8 a.m.  I informed her that I was not leaving because I felt awful!! Within 15 minutes my water broke and we were well on our way - or so I thought! I pushed until around 1:30 in the afternoon when it was determined that my blood pressure was way to high to continue so we ended up having a c-section. Frankie was born at 2:17 p.m.

Frankie is 8 weeks today and the time has gone by so quickly! He is now taking 4 oz. bottles about every 2 hours and weighes in at 11 pounds 1 oz.  He loves to eat!! He looks a lot like Frank and we even see a little bit of Frank's mom in him!

We thank God every day for this wonderful blessing he has brought to us! We love him so much and can't wait to see what each day brings!