{"id":413,"date":"2009-03-30T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T09:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=413"},"modified":"2009-03-30T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T09:52:31","slug":"bless-his-little-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/03\/30\/bless-his-little-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless his little heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My poor little Alex still struggled over the weekend.&nbsp; I did take him in to see the pediatrician on Friday, who thought it was either reflux or gas or a combination of the two (good thinking&#8230;this much I&#8217;d already figured out).&nbsp; So he wanted me to start him on Zantac consistently to get ahead of any reflux issues.&nbsp; And he recommended a different formula (we&#8217;ve had to start giving Alex a little more after some meals) to try.&nbsp; So off we went&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it was still a rough weekend for the little man.&nbsp; Saturday night and Sunday afternoon were pretty rough.&nbsp; I was so grateful that Eric was there to hold him &#8211; he tends to relax better against his daddy for some reason.&nbsp; He&#8217;d jump between super-happy and really unhappy almost instantly.&nbsp; He&#8217;d doze off and then wake up screaming.&nbsp; Both screaming spells were clearly not hunger-related&#8230;and both ended, finally, with a huge diaper.&nbsp; So the biggest culprit seems to be lower gas that he needs to (but can&#8217;t easily) release.&nbsp; We did finally get him to take a 3-hour nap in his swing, and then they pretty much went straight to bed.&nbsp; And he did okay last night.&nbsp; So maybe (*fingers crossed*) we are starting to get ahead of this&#8230;but I won&#8217;t hold my breath.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the weekend, other than Alex&#8217;s issues, went pretty well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday night was spent setting up and enjoying Eric&#8217;s new PS3.&nbsp; We watched part of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ironman<\/span> (Eric watched all of it&#8230;I had to go feed babies), which looks SUPER COOL in Blue-ray format.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Saturday, my family came over for lunch and to love on the babies for a bit.&nbsp; Karen brought Jason to enjoy some of the attention, too.&nbsp; It was crazy and loud, but fun.<\/li>\n<li>Then my parents, sister and I went to the mall.&nbsp; It was my first time there since a few weeks before the babies were born (I couldn&#8217;t walk very far, so it wasn&#8217;t fun to go).&nbsp; I had to feed the babies there twice (my first attempts to feed in &#8220;public&#8221;), which was an adventure, but we managed.&nbsp; And the twins did a fantastic job being stuck in their car seats all afternoon!<\/li>\n<li>My mom and I got a lot of nice clothes.&nbsp; My mom bought them for me (my birthday present)!&nbsp; It was so fun to hang out with them all while we shopped.&nbsp; And I think my dad really enjoyed being the &#8220;babysitter&#8221; while Mom and I tried on clothes&#8230;he&#8217;s so cute!<\/li>\n<li>Sunday was church, then home.&nbsp; We played our racing game on PS3 and watched the end of the new Indiana Jones movie (we&#8217;d started it on Saturday night, but were interrupted by Alex&#8217;s issues).&nbsp; Then Alex&#8217;s issues started back up, so we just worked with him, fed babies and relaxed for the evening.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>So now it&#8217;s Monday, and I&#8217;m on my own again.&nbsp; Hopefully we have a better day.&nbsp; Actually, both babies are sleeping in their cribs as I type.&nbsp; Alex fell asleep on their playmat and stayed asleep when I moved him.&nbsp; Erin was awake, but put herself out quickly once I moved her.&nbsp; So, I should go and do some chores on my to-do list today.&nbsp; No use wasting my opportunities when they show themselves, huh?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poor little Alex still struggled over the weekend.&nbsp; I did take him in to see the pediatrician on Friday, who thought it was either reflux or gas or a combination of the two (good thinking&#8230;this much I&#8217;d already figured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2009\/03\/30\/bless-his-little-heart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}