On Tuesday evening I started feeling bad, but I thought it was just because I was dehydrated (because I get that way pretty easily). Well, about 12:30am I had David check my temperature and it was 99 and I had really bad chills. I tried to sleep that night...didn't sleep much. I slept that morning when Matthew was sleeping and my dear mom came and got Matthew that afternoon and kept him at her house so I could get some rest. I slept from about 2-7pm, which was good. Wednesday night I started feeling bad and had a fever of 100.9 so I called my doctor. Luckily it was my doctor who was on call. She said she thought it might be mastitis, which is a breast infection. She told me some things to look for and call her in the morning. Those things showed up and I talked with her this morning and she called in an antibiotic which should have me feeling better in 48 hours.
For about the past few days Matthew has had a really rough time in the evenings, from about 6-10pm. He is inconsolable and it looked as though his belly was hurting him. We've been monitoring the blood in his stool which we discovered about two weeks ago. Originally the doctor thought it might have been a tear or a food allergy. Today I called the doctor and he wanted us to come in, so we did. While we were there he confirmed, by looking at Matthew's diapers, that it was a food allergy. Therefore, I've been put on an elimination diet which means no milk, soy, nuts, eggs, and shellfish. This will be hard but it will be worth it.
Originally the doctor put me on a modified version of this so I started drinking soy milk instead of milk thinking it would be okay. When he listed soy today, I knew that had caused his discomfort as I eat cereal every morning. I felt so bad for him and that it had caused him such discomfort. I'll look forward to him getting back to himself as he is not a fussy baby.
He also gave us some medicine for his belly and reflux. Hopefully that will help. I also put some books under his bed to help and something seems to have helped because I put him down at 7:15 after his bath and he has been sound asleep and it is 9:00pm now. Thank you Jesus.
I know that he has been uncomfortable and it just breaks my heart as his mom to know he's hurting and not know how to comfort him. I felt like today we got a game plan from the doctor, though challenging, it will work out better and me and him will both be stronger. I want to continue to give him breastmilk as we do believe that would be better and maybe this diet will help me get more back to my pre-pregnancy self...selfish, I know.
More to come, we're just praying for Matthew's body to get back to normal and it will in a few weeks, says the doctor.
Hang in there Matthew. I know you are hurting but we're on the up and up with getting your belly issues under control. I hate seeing you hurt but I love knowing that my motherly intuition was right about your belly hurting you. We've gotten to know each other haven't we? I love you and will do my part to ensure you are healthy and it is my joy to do that for you.
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