Colic

Well, I haven't updated in awhile, so here's a recap.

Logan is now almost 6 weeks old (Monday). He is doing really well. He is getting so stong! He holds his head up for a few minutes at a time, and loves to put weight on his little legs.

Some things we've been doing:

Last weekend, we spent the first night out of our house with Logan. We went to Nick's parents for the weekend since it was supposed to be in the high 90's! That makes our condo very hot. On Sunday, all the guys went boating/innertubing. Logan, Martha, Maureen and I sat on the side of the lake. Logan loved being outside. We had his clothes off most of the time (naked baby!) and he was really comfortable. At one point, he started screaming in pain and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I was afraid that he had been bitten by a bug! I finally figured out that he had his hand intertwined in his hair. It was wrapped all around his fingers, and he was PULLING really hard. His scalp was all red by the time I got him to let go (he has a death grip!), and he had a fistfull of hair :( Poor thing!

Tuesday, my friend Jeanene and I took our little guys to a Mom and Baby class. Her little Joey is 5 1/2 months old. We had a good time and learned a lot of useful information. We will be going back every week until I start school at the end of September.

That night, Logan started screaming. He cried from 6-9:30pm. The next night, the same thing happened, but then he was up again from 4am-7am screaming. I took him to the doctor yesterday, and he was diagnosed with colic. The doctor gave me some formula to try. We have been giving him a bottle of 1/2 formula 1/2 milk before bed so he will sleep longer since he is still up every 1-2 hours. Hopefully he'll grow out of this fast. It is so hard seeing your baby in pain and not being able to do anything about it.

He weighed in yesterday at 10 lbs, 4 1/2 oz. Up from just over 10 lbs on Tuesday at the class!

That's about it for now. I'll try and work harder at updating more often!

-Kristin