Fussy Baby

Johnny went back to work yesterday and left me & Cash to our own devices. I was, of course, upset that he had to go, but Cash & I did ok. Mom came over about 3:00 with some food for me and she stayed with us until around 10:00. Think she enjoyed getting to spend more time with Cash and hold him. He's been horribly fussy since last Thursday evening and it seems to get worse each day. On Saturday evening, we called the after hours numbers for the home health nurse (Johnny talked to a nurse who wasn't a pediatric nurse but said it sounded to her like colic), the NICU (again the nurse Johnny spoke with said colic) and Cash's doctor (the doctor I talked to said colic isn't very common in a baby so young. I asked if it could be the multi-vitamin he was put on as it has iron in it and seems like when we started giving that to him is when he started getting fussy. She said the multi-vitamin wouldn't have anything to do with why he's uncomfortable.). The home health nurse came to visit today and I questioned her about Cash being so fussy. I brought up the multi-vitamin with iron and she said that's exactly what's causing him to be uncomfortable and in pain. We're supposed to stop his vitamins for two days then start giving it to him again but break up the dose into two 1/2 doses and see if that for sure is the issue. We've been giving him Mylicon drops for gas and seems to help but he's still in obvious discomfort. It's much worse at night so none of us is getting much sleep. Hopefully it is just the iron in the multi-vitamin that's causing him to be so fussy and breaking the dose up into two doses will take care of that. Other than that, Cash is doing great. His check-up from Deb, the home health nurse, went great. He gained 4 oz since Thursday and is up to 4 lbs 15.5 oz. I was a little bummed out that he wasn't 5 lbs -missed it by 1/2 oz!!! That's ok, though. We know when she comes back to see him Friday he'll be over 5 lbs. That's so exciting!!!