Buona forchetta

rice cereal
Originally uploaded by michellanea

Waiting around for laundry to dry out on the line. Three sets of crib sheets out there, it's about to storm and if things don't dry, Dylan will be sleeping on a sheetless mattress tonight. We've already vomited on two pairs of baby jeans this morning. The two pairs that took four days to dry this week...We had a check-up with the pediatrician this morning and things are going really well. Dylan's eczema is pretty under control except for a patch on the back of his head that the doctor convinced me to put cortisone cream on so that he'll stop scratching and making himself bleed. I'd been avoiding the cortisone but it seems we have no other choice. I asked the pediatrician what to do about Dylan's horrible sleeping habits. Last night, for example, he woke up every two hours and wouldn't go back to sleep without breastfeeding. And during the day he never, ever sleeps. By the end of the day, he's an overstimulated, overtired little man. The doctor said he should be sleeping 12 hours at night and at least two or three hours during the day. Yeah, OK, I already knew that. She didn't have any suggestions for how to get him to sleep during the day but she said I should let him cry a bit at night when he wakes up. I asked how long I should let him cry and she said "Until he goes back to sleep." When I told her that this is a kid with stamina who has been known to cry for seven and eight hours straight even when being carried around (much less being left in his crib where he REALLY gets hysterical if not picked up in a timely manner), she basically just shrugged her shoulders. I'm more frustrated than ever.

Today we tried some rice cereal (see video). I tasted it myself and it was pretty gross but being the "buona forchetta" (in Italian when someone is a good eater, they are said to have a "good fork") he is, Dylan scarfed it right up.