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Apr. 30th, 2024 @ 02:44 pm 
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I should update this icon. That picture is about twenty years old.
Because of a silly Star Wars tumblr post we saw we refer to the baby's crying exclusively as "screm". He screm, he scremming, he scremmed.
He's actually a fairly cheerful baby by nature, but his digestive system causes him to Suffer.
I've learned things! I think some of these things weren't things last time I was dealing with babies a lot.
For example, you can get a feed thickener you can mix with a bit of milk and give the baby before and partway through feeding, which helps with reflux. It has the side-effect of causing constipation, which in our case is a secondary benefit because adjusting his poo frequency from "30-40 times per day" to "every day or two" is a significant improvement. His little butt was so raw it was distressing for all of us.
Especially since the first treatment option we tried gave him a rash.
Fortunately, C's cousin is a child health nurse and had some great suggestions, including the feed thickener, which also has him throwing up less. And choking less.
The combination of The Modern World plus her profession created the very weird situation that is texting someone close-up photos of our child's unhappy butt. As she noted: not really up to the usual standard of the pictures I text to various family members.
He's started smiling at me. This is, of course, the most joyful thing ever.
Updates on his likes and dislikes:
Likes: His parents, being cuddled, milk, dummies (sometimes), having his feet tickled (mood-specific, but when he's not in the mood he doesn't care)
Dislikes: The touch of moisture (his nemesis), his thickened gel, being dressed or undressed, two specific bodysuits we have for him
Later this week we will probably add "getting needles", since he's due for his first round of vaccinations. In the hospital he got the Hep B vaccine and only cried for a couple of seconds, then didn't care at all about the heel pricks, but he was all of two days old then and was very "this might as well happen" about most things. He's since acquired a lot more opinions.
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