I’ve been trying to write a blog entry about my little angel baby all day but I can’t seem to ever sit down and get one written. By time I check my Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader it is time to feed her again. We’ll get a routine down eventually, I know it.
Zoey is doing well. She was up a lot last night so I think her nights and days are messed up already. She is starting to wake up every 2-3 hours on her own and ready to eat so we didn’t set the timer at all last night or today. We also stopped writing down how much / when she was eating because I think she is now eating on demand and we aren’t having to wake her up as much to eat. It’s a lot easier not worrying about time like that but boy when she wakes up hungry she wants to eat right then. At least before we had time to make the bottle and have it ready before she could start screaming her little head off. But I am really thankful that she is eating so much better now. She is eating a good 1 3/4 to 2 oz per feeding now. Grow baby grow!
She has also been battling some pretty icky diaper rash. We were using the Method brand diaper cream but that has proven to be a big waste. I think her diaper rash only got WORSE while we were using it so I am not using it anymore. We’re back to using Desitin and I think Gene is going to pick up some Butt Paste next time he is at the store. It seems like it might be getting slightly better but it just looks so painful. She screams her head of when we wipe over that area with a wipe. So we’ve had her in cloth diapers today, regardless of how big they are on her. I’m using a wipe solution of water, baby wash and tea tree oil and we’re using super soft flannel wipes to wipe her bottom. She doesn’t cry or anything when I wipe her with those. I probably wont keep her in the cloth diapers for a while because they just swallow her but we’ll keep using the flannel wipes for the time being because they are good for her sore bottom.
I did really bad with keeping up with pumping today. There is always tomorrow right? Ugh. I just know I should have been better. Today has been a real “off” day. Didn’t pump regularly, never even got out of my pajamas. Gene changed into clothes so he could run a DVD back to the library and pick up our Chinese food for dinner and he is back in his jammies already. We’ve been total slobs today! I am gonna get a shower in a little while because tomorrow morning we’re going to try to make it up to his work, if the weather permits.
The weather here has been a real downer lately. It has been storming and raining and cloudy just about every day this week and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get much better anytime soon. Actually, we’re getting a cold front this weekend and it’s going to be in the 50s and 60s for the highs. In MAY! Ugh. I am so ready for this crap to be over. I need some sunshine in my life (besides my little princess baby, of course)!