anZel/Arden

ESS…random photos…

Written by jlz on September 23, 2006 – 11:39 am -

So anZel’s been sleeping through the night for over a week now. It has been great for us since we don’t have to feed him at night anymore. He does about 12 hours and then wakes up. He never cries when he wakes up though. He just opens his eyes and looks around. Sometimes we don’t even know he’s awak even if we were in the same room as he. Though due to his eczema, we still have to swaddle him so he doesn’t scratch himself silly.

Actually he did wake us up a couple of nights. The first was Sunday night. For some reason he had rash all over his body and we had to go to the emergency room at around 1:30 in the morning. Waited in the hospital for over 3 hours before the doctor came. Looked at anZel for like 30 seconds and prescribed him a steroid medication and some antibiotics. Didn’t really say why there was a rash, just said it’s probably ezcema. By the time we came back it was already 5AM in the morning!!

anZel waiting patiently in the hospital

The hospital has AC blasting…we had to wrap anZel up…he sleeps pretty well on those hospital beds…

anZel’s been taking the antibiotic for almost a week now. Today’s the last day. Unfortunately I think the antibiotic made him throw up the formula a couple of times, projectile style…

The second night he woke us up was again around 1AM. He started making noises and twitching and moaning. We couldn’t figure out what the heck was wrong with him. I tried to calm him down but he just wouldn’t stop. I finally took him downstairs to change his diaper. Then I saw what happened. He’s trying to push something out!!

anZel hadn’t pooped for a couple of days by then so he’s probably a bit consitipated. Normally he poops in the morning after the first feeding. But given that he hadn’t done that for a couple of days, he’s decided to try it at night! So I held his legs and let him do his business. A couple of minutes later, he apparently finished his business and felt right back to sleep. Unfortunately I have to clean up his mess!!!

He did that again around 5AM in the morning. Except this time by the time I got over to his room he’s almost done with his business and felt back to sleep right away. I just left him there

As grandma helen always says, all she cares is that he eats, shits and sleeps. Everything else doesn’t matter. So she was very happy to see that anZel did his business that night.

Here are some more random photos…

anZel standing!?!?!?