Sleep, perchance to dream
Jan. 22nd, 2013 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiMina has had a horrible time sleeping lately. As in, she's woken up every two hours or so. We were convinced on Friday morning that she needed to see the doctor for an ear infection, but indeed she did not. Teething? Crankiness with a cold?
She's fully on cow's milk now, and we are trying to figure out the shift from baby to toddler. Bottles to cups. Less solid food to more solid food. We are trying to let her take the lead, giving her a balanced diet, and making sure she's eating enough. But not too much. This is an ongoing challenge. Sometimes she wants a bottle when she wakes in the night and sometimes she doesn't. We have a bit of forumula power left, so that's what she has when she wakes up in the middle of the night.
We do get some bouts of sleep and peace in between, but I know it is short-lived. She seems to get a cold every month and a half or so. Or teething. Usually both at the same time.
I'm considering looking into craniosacral massage for her. It couldn't hurt, right? She appears to have chronic sinus issues, where it drains into her right ear (always the right), just like her mamma. If some slight massage could help prevent some of that, it would be wonderful. Do you have any suggestions of this in the Boston area?
The pedi said that kids end up with tubes when they have chronic infections in their ears, most of the time, that don't respond to antibiotics. She hasn't had *that* many, and she does respond to the second level of antibiotics. The amoxicillin wasn't cutting it but the augmentin does. Poor muffin.
But our girl is one now! She had a great party with her closest loved ones. I cannot believe we have a toddler on our hands now. Just nuts!
She's fully on cow's milk now, and we are trying to figure out the shift from baby to toddler. Bottles to cups. Less solid food to more solid food. We are trying to let her take the lead, giving her a balanced diet, and making sure she's eating enough. But not too much. This is an ongoing challenge. Sometimes she wants a bottle when she wakes in the night and sometimes she doesn't. We have a bit of forumula power left, so that's what she has when she wakes up in the middle of the night.
We do get some bouts of sleep and peace in between, but I know it is short-lived. She seems to get a cold every month and a half or so. Or teething. Usually both at the same time.
I'm considering looking into craniosacral massage for her. It couldn't hurt, right? She appears to have chronic sinus issues, where it drains into her right ear (always the right), just like her mamma. If some slight massage could help prevent some of that, it would be wonderful. Do you have any suggestions of this in the Boston area?
The pedi said that kids end up with tubes when they have chronic infections in their ears, most of the time, that don't respond to antibiotics. She hasn't had *that* many, and she does respond to the second level of antibiotics. The amoxicillin wasn't cutting it but the augmentin does. Poor muffin.
But our girl is one now! She had a great party with her closest loved ones. I cannot believe we have a toddler on our hands now. Just nuts!
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Date: 2013-01-24 05:27 am (UTC)btw i would strongly recommend seeing a good ENT to consult re chronic sinusitis. i swear by brigham and women's dept. speaking as someone who has chronic sinusitis (or did) and underwent surgery twice for it.
btw, a lot of times sinusitis results from reflux or allergies if not from anatomical issues. so worth looking into that too. talk to your doc about it.