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Last night was not a happy good night for little Mia. It was filled with pain, crying, and being scared. Poor little thing.
I should have known something was up, before bedtime she was extreemly fussy. She didn't want to play, be held, or sit still. I just thought maybe she was still recovering from the crazy weekend and she also had a busy day that day as well with little rest. So instead of waiting until her usual time to bathe her and get her ready to bed, I started her night time ritual early. I had her in the tub by 6:30 and she seemed to enjoy herself and have fun. (She LOVES baths) then it was time to get out. She usually gets pretty fussy when I take her out of the bath. She likes being little "nature girl" and wants stay naked without a diaper but of course I can't let her stay that way. So the battle of getting her ready for bed began. Due to her excema she has to have 4 different lotions/creams on. I start off with her Aveeno bedtime lotion on her body, then put some aqua-four on her face (she HATES this, I don't blame her its all greasy and thick) then A&D cream for her bootie to prevent diaper rash while she sleeps, and finally some cordizone on any spots on her body that are breaking out in excema, . This time it was the inner part of her ears. (I still can't understand why this happens sometimes). This made her fly off the handle. The cream is supposed to calm down the itching and clear up the rash but just touching it made her cry. She has been pulling at her ear all weekend and was still doing it that day. Anyways I eventually got her jammies on and fed her her bedtime bottle (8oz). Usually she finishes her bottle and throws it to let me know she doesn't want it anymore. However, after finishing it this time she just got MAD. I wasn't sure if she wanted more or if she was just being cranky. I didn't think she could still be hungry since she ate some snackies and water before her bath. So after a good burp I put her down to bed. She seemed to calm down and get comfy so I thought that was that. WRONG!
Two hours later, at 9 o'clock I heard her cry out. She does this sometimes and its usually due to her waking herself up or trying to get comfy in her bed again. I didn't pay much attention to it since it is a usual occurance. Sure enough she soon stopped and I figured that was that. WRONG!
I was dead tired from earlier in the day and started getting ready for bed myself at 10 o'clock. Thats when it happened. Mia screamed out again, but this time it was a different kind of scream. Not the usual whiny "trying to get comfy again" cry. She kept crying and crying and it was getting worse and worse so I ran upstairs to check on her. She was sitting in her bed just crying her little eyes out. I picked her up and attempted to comfort her. She usually stops crying once I pick her up and talk to her but this didn't work this time. She kept crying and pulling at her ear. Eventually after some pacing and rocking she calmed down. I figured since she was already awake I would change her diaper and give her a fresh one so she could be more comfy when I put her back down. She didn't like this, she cried through most of the diaper change. I got her back up and thats when Daddy came in the room. (He was working from home last night) She right away perked up and leaned over to him so he could pick her up. I thought to myself awww she doesn't want her Mama and was kind of saddened by this, however, after Adrian held her she quickly turned around and leaned back towards me. She wanted me to hold her. I thought this was kind of funny but very odd for her. I attempted to put her back down but she just exploded in crying again and pulled on her ear. So I got her up, walked her to the nearby bathroom and sat her up on the sink so I could get a better look at her ear. The excema was already cleared up by the cordizone I put on it during bathtime and it wasn't red or irriated. No more tiny bumps and the skin was smooth. She didn't really care for me to touch it but she didn't cry. I then checked her mouth to see if maybe a tooth was coming in and irriating her. She had her usually little bumps but they weren't irritated or breaking though, so that wasn't it either. So I laid her back down and she wasn't to happy with this but there was nothing else I could check. So I closed the door and left her crying. I waited by the door and after about a min. she calmed down and I didn't ear anything else. I waited an extra 15mins before I went to bed to see if she would cry again but I didn't hear anything. So before I climbed into bed I decided to check on her, assuming she had to be sleeping by now, I opened her door really quietly and snuck over to her crib. To my shock she was laying there with her blankey just staring at me!! I wasn't expecting that so I quickly left the room, not wanting her to wake up more. Sure enough she started crying again after she saw me. I went to bed anyways and listened for her to stop. She eventually did and I then let myself fall asleep. I was extreemly tired by this point.
Then at 12:30am she screamed out again. This time Daddy went over first. I was trying to clear my head since I was woken from a dead sleep and then got up. She was hanging out in her crib while Daddy was consoling her over the side. He said that she wouldn't really settle down and doesn't want to be left alone and to him she sounded congested. As soon as I walked into the room and sat down next to Adrian by the crib she lit up. She started smiling and acting silly. What to do now?! I figured eventhough it was a bit to early in the night to give her, her night time bottle I hoped if I did she would go back to sleep. We also agreed that something was definately not right with her and decided to give her some tylonal incase something was hurting her that we couldn't figure out. So I changed her diaper, this time it was more wet than the last time I changed it. I checked her nose and it was clear of boogers so she wasn't conjested in her nose. Then I decided to change her jammies. Though they were the thinner kind we thought maybe they weren't breathing very good for her and she was over heating. (Though she wasn't sweating when we found her). So I changed her into a onesie and checked the label of her other jammies. Sure enough, it was 100% polyester (I usually only dress her in cotton due to her excema) Ah-Ha!!! The possible culprit! I gave her alittle tylonal and fed her another 8oz bottle. The same thing happened again with the bottle, as soon as she finished it she got MAD! I burped her again and off to bed we went. She cheered up and I put her in bed, kissed her goodnight and she went right down. Phew.... now I can get some rest... WRONG!
4am she screamed and cried out again. I quickly got up and checked on her. This time she was on her side with her blankey and didn't see me. She kept whiny and literally started tossing and turning, crying out. I listened and sure enough just like Adrian said earlier, it almost sounded like she couldn't breathe very good. Almost like if she was conjested. She was getting frusterating because she couldn't get comfry so she sat up. Her tiny head woobling since she was half asleep. Her breathing got better, then she laid back down and sure enough started sounding conjested again. I needed to use the restroom bad and figured it would be some time of consoling of so I snuck out and used it before she saw me in the room. By the time I got back she had fallen back to sleep. So I went back to bed.
7:30am came around and again she started crying off and on (she usually wakes up at 9-930). However, She didn't cry as much like earlier in the night. I didn't want her to get up since I hoped she would get more rest if left in her crib. So I listened for her... she would go back to sleep then wake up then go back to sleep and at 9am I finally went in there and got her up. She seemed like she was in a good mood. I checked her nose and it was clean and clear. Her ear was fine too. I fed her breakfast and played with her a bit. She seemed back to normal. Then it was nap time, I put her down at 11 and she went down good. However, just now I heard her wake up again crying its 11:50am. This is really unusal because her early morning naps are always about 1.5- 2 hrs long. Not sure why she can't sleep. Hmmm... anyways we will have to see how the rest of the day goes and how tonight goes.
I am not really sure whats going on with her. Hopefully its just one of those things that will pass.
************ UPDATE***********
Well her nap didn't go too smoothly. She kept waking up off and on till I finally got her up. I gave her to Adrian to watch and I went up stairs and tore apart her whole room and spring cleaned it. I defy for anyone to find a spec of dust in it now. (I think the dust contributed to her congestion last night because I get that way with dust too) I washed all her sheets and blankets, cleaned every slat in her blinds, vaccumed her carpet like crazy, dusted all her furniture, pounded all her stuffed animals and just cleaned like mad. Then I aired it out, now it feels and smells clean. I wasn't sure if I should put her crib bumper back on so I decided to see what she would do without it for awhile. BIG MISTAKE! When I put her down for her mid-afternoon nap right away she went nuts in her crib and tried to stand up... she slipped and BAM! she hit her head hard against the side of her crib. I quickly picked her up expecting her to scream and cry but she didn't. I was surprised then put her back down. She seemed ok, and I went back downstairs to sit on the couch with Adrian. I had the baby monitor on and we both heard BLAM! .........*big pause*.....WAAAAAAAAAAH! I ran upstairs to see what happened and she was screaming and crying her crib. She hit her head again. So I picked her up, consoled her then put her on the floor to play while I put the bumper back on the crib. After I got that all set up I laid her back down. She eventually fell asleep and was knocked out for a good 2 hours YAY! I usually don't let her sleep that long so close to her bedtime, but I felt bad for her since she didn't get much rest last night or earlier in the day. So I let her sleep until she woke up on her own. After she woke up she was all smiles and happy. She played and played and we even watched her favorite show "Yo, Gabba Gabba" and she danced to it. It soon started really get late for her so I got her ready for her night time bath and set up her stuff for bed. I put her cool-mist humidifer in her room and got that going since it did feel alittle dry up there. After letting her play in the bath I got her all set up for bed and put her down. She seemed to go down good because I have yet to hear a peep out of her. Hopefully it will be a good night, we all could use some much needed rest.
