We had Renee's two-month checkup and shots on Monday. Poor baby. Her and mommy howeled and moaned together. She's up to 9lbs 3oz. She didn't seem to have any side effects other than that she slept pretty much steady for 24-hours afterwards. I thought I had hit the jackpot until I hit the 24-hour mark and she transformed from super sleepy baby to super crabby baby. We're having the Beanski Fantaski Football draft tonight at our house and I have no idea how I'm going to get the house cleaned and make appetizers while dealing with said super crabby baby. I guess I should start with not spending her morning "rest" (where she rolls around in her crib and grunts hard in order to poop) blogging.
We've been battling what I was hoping was Baby Acne and what appears to be Baby Eczema since Renee was three-and-a-half weeks old. It goes away and just when I think it's gone for good, it shows up again in full force. I feel so bad for her...this morning it is pussy and looks like it hurts. The doctor gave me some steroidal creme a couple of weeks ago that I used for about a day and then quit because I read some horror stories about the correlation between the use of these cremes and skin cancer later in life. So do I use the creme to help prevent infection like the pediatrician said to do or do I put lotion on it and hope for the best in order to avoid the guilt that may happen later when she develops skin cancer? Does anyone else do this (i.e. read crap on the internet and become convinced that you're ruining your child's life and that your pediatrician must not know about the study linking the two because otherwise she would have never prescribed the cancer-causing agent in the first place)? The internet stresses me out. I guess it did help me determine that in addition to cow's milk, caffeine, onions, corn and peppers I shouldn't eat eggs while breastfeeding. We had omelettes for dinner last night. Hopefully that's the culprit for why it is so bad today. The problem here is that one of these days there are no longer going to be any foods that I can eat. And me and the baby are going to starve to death.
To cheer me up from this downer of a post:
That is really an interesting lighting. Too bad he's drooling ....or close to it!
hee hee
Posted by: Mom | October 19, 2007 at 08:00 AM
umm, yeah, just breastfeeding in general stresses me out, not to mention reading things on the internet. you're my hero.
hope renee feels better soon and hope you have fun tonight!
Posted by: kim | October 19, 2007 at 08:00 AM
That is a great pix of those two...I am a lucky lady! LOL. What a dork.
Posted by: Lucky lady | October 19, 2007 at 08:01 AM