Constipation

Natalie has been doing awesome with bedtime for over a week and a half now...that is until tonight! Poor little girl is constipated!  Her poop was harder each time today and her poor little face turns bright red every time she was trying to have a bowel movement!  (I'm sure she is going to love that I wrote about this when she is older!)  Now that I am completely out of breastmilk and no longer pumping, the combination of formula and eating solids has not settled well with Miss Natalie.

However, she does seem to like squash much better than she liked carrots!  Instead of rice today, she had some oatmeal and seemed to like that as well. I "Googled" 'constipation' in a 5 month old that said to introduce pears or prunes or to give 1 oz of juice (pear or prune) with 1 oz of water. I didn't have these, so we did 1 oz of apple juice with 1 oz of water, which of course she wouldn't take until it was warmed up!  But, once it was warmed up, she seemed to enjoy it. Hopefully, doing this once a day will help her constipation. Hopefully, she will go to bed soon too (she is wearing Mommy out tonight)!

Tonight when I was at Walmart, as I was pulling into the parking lot I got to thinking...before having a baby I would park nowhere near a spot that had a cart in it that someone had left because it annoyed me, but now I am elated when I pull into a parking spot that has a cart already there. Reason being that I can just plop Natalie in her carseat in the cart and head on into the store instead of lugging it up to the building before placing her in the cart. I will be happy when she is doing well sitting up unsupported and I can put her in the cart and not even have to deal with the carseat since that thing gets super heavy!

Tonight, Bobby and Tim got everything out of our storage unit and it is now in the garage until we have time to put stuff away which probably won't be until next week or so. I picked up the blinds I ordered and can't wait to put them up, which again probably won't be until next week or longer (I hope next week but with the crazy hours Bobby has been working who knows). A guy came and mowed our sad looking dirt-filled, weedy yard tonight which I was grateful because coming home and looking at our awful yard (which will be awful until probably next year) really stresses me out for some reason!  I can't wait until we have some "free time" to get our house completely organized!

I think we have almost everything ready and packed to head up to South Bend tomorrow to begin the Brodzinski-Davis wedding festivities!  I'm seeing many pictures in my next couple of posts!

Oh yeah...Natalie is still awake and "talking up a storm!"  I really hope she falls asleep soon!!!!!!