update

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with this :( Wyatt and I have been back and forth between Wilmington and here all summer :/ so since I've missed so much I'll start back at his 4 month shots. We spent almost 5 hours at the doctors that day (they forgot about us at the end) but they had a student do his checkup first and busted his head on the wall so he was screaming and then an hour after that after I got him calmed down and back to sleep the actual doctor came in did his checkup and ramblings and switched his formula to soy instead of gentle ease because of the acid reflux and wanted to send him for an upper and lower GI track test to look for kinks in his intestines. So an hour after that the nurse came in the room to clean it and then realized we still needed shots so she went off and got everything ready and finally gave him the 4 month shots at this point it was almost 6 and I still had to drive home 2 hours away. So I kept up on tylenol for the pain and so he didn't get a fever. Which he did have a low grade one but nothing too major. So the GI track test was a week after his shots and by this point the kid hadn't pooped in 3 days! So I take him into the doctor the day before his test and they tell me give him apple juice and that should make him go but it will make his acid reflux worse ughhh! So I do the juice the rest of the day and he had a fever of 100.3 at the doc's office so I had to monitor it for the rest of the day/night. Well he struck 103.4 that night so of course I'm flippin' shit about horror stories of babies running high fevers and having brain damage so I call the hospital to talk to a nurse and she told me all about baby fevers and to just keep up on tylenol and only bring him in at 105 ONE ZERO FIVE for real?? I know they probably know what they're talking about but I hand my keys ready if that temp got to 104 we were going in because there wasn't a reason for him to have a fever so I was worried. Anyway the next morning we had to be at the hospital at 7 for the GI test. And he wasn't allowed food 4-6 hours before that. Let me tell you a hungry baby is NO joke and my hungry baby was not pleased!! So they get us back into the xray room and he is doing pretty good but then it's time to STRAP HIM DOWN to a wood bored so he can't move and take pictures so he is screaming and crying so I'm crying cause it's heartbreaking seeing him like that. so after about another hourish of that because they turn the bored to put him on each side and all that he has to drink a bottle of barium (this white NASTY chalk-like fluid that highlights his GI track) so at this point he is starving and would eat anything and I have to feed him while he is strapped to the wood bored sobbing. He took some but was still pretty upset and lying flat on his back made it come back up because you cant feed acid reflux babies on their back :( so finally he gets unstrapped and I have to feed him the rest of the bottle and they took regular xrays for the next hour to see how long it took to get to the intestines and if their were any kinks. Well come to find out barium makes you more constipated so the juice had helped and was starting to clear him out when boom barium comes in and stops all progress! So over the next week he was screaming and straining and ripping his booty trying to push this super hard poop out and it's not working even with help. So we end up in the ER for 5 hours that weekend and the doctor says nothing I can do besides a suppository and you can get a referral to a specialist! So naturally I wanted to bite her freaking head off because my poor baby can't poop and it's hurting him! So the suppository worked and he had pooped and at this point I was doing prune juice in every bottle and molasses with water to try to help him go and not rip! So he went a couple times then again stopped going so I'm trying everything still and it's not happening! So we go back to the doctor and they switch his formula to this super expensive stuff and put him on myralax. Well this so called formula that is suppose to be good for spit up as well as soft poop makes him projectile vomit and continuously gag on it as it comes back up. But it turned out that my friends mom is a baby constipation specialist so she called me and gave me some tips on helping him go with the myralax and sure enough about an hour after I gave it to him he blew out EVERYWHERE!! We were in a restaurant too lol. He soaked his carseat, his outfit, my entire shirt but I was SO HAPPY he finally went lol. So we stripped him down in the bathroom and cleaned him all up and got changed and he has been going every since and we have had a few more blow outs so I have been covered in poop a lot this week haha I rather have to take a few extra showers then have him hurting and not pooping. And that has been our month!

4 months!!

We are a third of the way done this year :) he is growing up SO quickly it's insane! I was looking at his newborn pictures and it's just crazy how different he looks -handsome of course but WAY different lol. We had our first 4th of July together- unless we wanna count when he was in my belly and I didn't know it yet lol- but we didn't do much of anything he was asleep before dark and I didn't want to keep him up just for fireworks that may or may not scare him because they're so loud! I put him in a cute little american flag jumper but within 30 minutes he had pooped out of it and I didn't even get a picture :( maybe next year lol...
I take him to the doctor tomorrow for his 4 month shots I hope he does okay! Apparently there is a recall on tylenol again (of course each time I need to give him some it's recalled ) but I have the CVS brand so hopefully that is okay to give him before his shots! He did really good last time and hopefully he will stay asleep on the 2 hour drive there and back :/ ... He has been rolling from his back to belly- he hasn't mastered it yet but tries his absolute hardest lol. He rolled over in his bouncey seat today I was cooking and had him in it and I look over and he was on his belly looking around happy as can be haha.. His acid reflux is getting worse :( so hopefully the doctor can do something tomorrow. The medicines make him projectile vomit his bottles, the similac sensitive makes him vomit, and the rice just makes the spit up chunky :( .. He is teething really bad so I don't know if that could upset his tummy enough to make him throw up acid and clabbered milk curds or what is making it worse :( it has a nasty burnt kinda smell to it too and he cries so it's obviously hurting him which really sucks! By 6 months to a year it usually fixes itself the doctor said but I don't want him to hurt for an entire year over this and the only other medicine has a serious side effect and causes heart problems so I'm not putting him on that especially with his heart murmur so who knows what else there is to help him. He has been sleeping SO well at night though for a few weeks he'll go to bed around 7:30 give or take an hour and then sleep til 4 or so and then gets up around 7 and we stay in bed for about 30 minutes then get up and start the day :)... He is racked out now and I need to get to bed too so I'll try and post again soon :)