9 glorious months!

It's been a stressful week leading up to today, Eleanor's 9th month of making our lives complete. I didn't notice until 2 days ago that she was totally constipated. I know, I am mother of the year! I'm usually at work in the mornings when she poo's so I just didn't really think about it. But the past 3 nights she's only been sleeping about an hour long. This one time, I had just put her down in her crib, holding my breath so she wouldn't wake up. I kept still just to make sure she was fast asleep before I made my exit. So I'm standing over her, holding my nursing bra ready to clip it back into place. But as I was holding it, I was thinking whether or not the clip would make too much noise, so I just held it for a minute or two but she seemed to be doing ok so I slowly clicked it back on. Big mistake!! Elle woke up screaming and I just about cried. I haven't had much sleep and was so delirious from the lack of sleep that I didn't realize that what was really bothering her was that she was completely blocked up.

By the time I noticed, it was well into it's 4th day so a friend suggested I feed her some prunes and apples and some juice as well. So I rushed over to Whole foods but they didn't have plain prunes so I had to go to the regular grocery store. I came back home and fed her as much as she would eat, which was about 2 teaspoons, if that. I tried to force her to eat it but she doesn't do well with solids and gags if there is anything in her mouth. I spent every diaper change massaging her stomach and lifting her legs into her stomach to relive some gas. Speaking of which, I think the main clue for me was that her farts were incredibly stinky and I knew that something was wrong.

The next day, I fed her a different jar of apples and prune and some pear juice and just hoped that something was happening. I had called my pediatrician but they told me they'd call back and didn't. (I'm going to change my ped) Around 3pm, I was sitting behind the computer and she was farting again in my lap so I decided to go check on her diaper and lo and behold, there was enough crap to fill a regular toilet bowl. It was the consistency of clay and tremendously foul. But I was overjoyed. I felt like I had finally taken a breath after holding it for days. It was such a relief as I'm sure it was for her as well.

so the week leading up to my baby's 9th month was pretty eventful. her first bout of constipation. I guess I'll never forget that. Plus we just sold our car over ebay and this past weekend, I cooked a turkey for the first time ever.

Lots of firsts this week but sadly I didn't capture much on film.