Oh No!

So as most of you know my little man has been unwell since he was 10 days old. He got his first cold or something and couldnt breathe and ended up on oxygen in hospital, well he hasn't got any better.
As my daughter had broncholitis and was admitted 5 times into hospital with it in her first 8 months and then was diagnosed with asthma at 9 months, we have a pretty good understanding about breathing issues and when to wait it out and when we need to panick. Due to this we were also expecting D to be unwell but not this early :(
Last week he was admitted for 2 days in hospital with broncholitis (the fun begins :(  ) So I quickly rushed around calling our amazing paediatrician asking him to see D. 12 weeks of being continuously unwell is just not doing it for me at all. Our doc is awesome... Though he is booked out til March he quickly squeezed him in, and man am I glad he did.
So we are in his office and he is going through the hospital files and listening to me babble about what has been happening for the last 3 months and he looks up at me with crazy eyes and says " You are in trouble!"  .... Well thats great, just what I wanted to hear :( He also said that D is going to be worse than Mikky... Oh great again *sigh*
So the diagnoses..................
Master D is allergic to something. And this allergy isn't your typical skin rash allergy :( What ever it is is affecting every layer of his body. It is affecting his skin, his lungs/breathing, and also his digestive system. The other thing this allergy is causing is mucous, lots and lots of it too. The nose and throat etc are producing tonnes of mucous to kind of protect itself for the allergin, but this causes another problem. D's lungs are now full of mucous which shows up on an xray and is now in a super high category to getting pneumonia. ( Double sigh) Now considering he is only on formula this makes finding out what it is either totally easy or extremely hard ( I vote for the later). The other thing is it is unlikely to be the formula as D has been unwell even while I was breast feeding, so it could be anything in the whole wide world :( This is where my detective skills step in just like I had to do with Mikkys food allergy lol.
D has been put on a prescription formula for a week to see if there is any change. He had been on it 4 days and nope no change yet BUT... Yesterday we went to a friends house and she had a cat! The was cat hair floating around as she was molting. Anyway.. not long after I noticed D's face had gone all red and his eyes were all red puffy and swollen..hhhmmmmmmm that got me worried but also thinking. We have a staffy who comes inside occasisionally. When we got home the flare up had gone down which was good, but then Troy was playing with our dog and then came up and touch D on the face. Well a while later D's face flared up so much worse than earlier on and the eyes all puffed up. It has been 12 hours and his face is still gross and wiping it clean has not worked :(  My poor little dude. If this is what he is allergic too does that mean I have to get rid of my dog????? It is still only a theory and not confirmed but..... is it a coinsidence or not??????????

The Sleep Solution.

OMG did I under estimated the lack of sleep I was going to get after having Diesel! I knew I would be tired and sleep deprived, but somewhere along the lines I forget how bad it actually was and I certainly wasn't prepared this time. Mikky slept through the night from 8 weeks (I am talking 10 hours straight) and D, well he is 13 weeks old today and still 3 hourly from start of feed to next day and night. This means that I am getting a max of 2 hours sleep at a time. Most days it isn't even worth it.
Now... I remember over the years people telling me how hungry boys are and how they eat you out of house and home and that you can never fill them up. Well I never believed this and thought they were exagerating until now! Seriously this little man of mine has been eating 2 - 3 hourly since birth. He is just so hungry, I swear he will be 7 foot by his 4th birthday lmao. I hear all the other mummies out there talking about their little ones and how they are going 4 hourly and then waking just once through the night and it makes my heart drop. If you ever want to see what a zombie looks like, knock on my door at 7:30 in the morning lol.
You know what? ... The one thing that really bugs me is everyone telling me to nap through the day to catch up. Well if someone can explain to me how you nap with a 23 month old and a 13 week old that wont sleep more than 20 minutes at a time through the day then that would be awesome.  But until then sleep for me during the day is not even an option.... Oh how I miss afternoon nana naps in bed with the heat of the sun from out side ahhhhhhhhhh....
So after 13 weeks of me trying not to kill one of my children from lack of sleep (terrible twos don't help) I came to a conclusion.... Farax!
After being abused for putting my 13 week old on solids it crossed my mind that 1) It is just rice and formula and 2) people put farax in their babes bottles to help fill them up from very early ages, I am talking weeks old. So what it the difference between me putting farax in his bottle or feeding it to him with a spoon ???????
The first try of giving him farax was an absolute success.. If you saw the look on this kids face as he was eating it you would want to feed it to him ALL day lol.. between spoon fulls he was SOOOO happy. He was giggling ang laughing between mouthfuls and was just enjoying it so much. He also stayed in the high chair watching and laughing at the fish tank for the next hour :)
He ate about 2 table spoons of farax, and I was absolutely amazed at his reaction. IF he didnt want it he would of been shaking his head and spitting it out, which wasnt the case at all.
And guess what??? that night he slept 7 HOURS, can you believe it 7 HOURS I say.. I was so happy. The first time I have had more than 2 hours sleep in 3 months, and I felt amazing. It's true, my little man was just hungry. He is going to be a big boy I think :)
Farax will now be his little meal around dinner time until he wants something more. And I am happy I have found something he actually enjoys so much :)
So for all the people out there that reckon I am a bad Mother for starting my child on farax at 13 weeks, well I ask you why? Where is the problem? If he didnt need/want it then he would of refused it and just spat it out!

Peer Pressure!

So here it is:
MY BLOG!
After numerous people telling me I should have a blog, I have finally decided now is the time to do it :)
It is pretty basic at the moment but a I learn how to use this thing it will grow.