Another cutie baby picture. I love this hat! ---->

Similac saved my marriage! Well, not really, of course. I don't know if I've mentioned that I personally believe that I had the crankiest baby to ever live on earth. Ever. She basically screamed non-stop from about 4 pm until she passed out at night and never really napped. Well, we thought it was some kind of intolerance to something in my diet that was getting passed into my breast milk. I eliminated all of the usual culprits and nothing really changed. To make a long (10 week!) story short, I just couldn't bear to listen to her cry and cry and cry anymore so I mixed up a bottle of formula on Thursday at 11 am to just give it a go. Instant fix. New baby. She slept for about 19 hours. She was only up a total of 2 or 3 hours between 11 am Thursday and 6 am Friday.

So I called the doctor Friday and they wanted me to bring her in. She had not gained any weight in the almost two weeks it had been since her 2 month checkup. The doctor said that it could be anything in my diet causing the problem and that we should consider switching to formula or goat milk since I have already tried eliminating so many foods. I cried when she stopped nursing while at the doctor's office. She was a completely different baby when I put her on formula on Friday and Saturday. I cut out a few more foods from my diet on Thursday afternoon and tried to nurse again today with the same result. So, we're done nursing.

Prince Charming reacted to the baby differently, too, when she wasn't screaming her head off (imagine that). He's gotten over whatever it was (probably the amazing-shrieking baby) that was bothering him and he's "back" now. He apologized today for reacting so poorly to everything and he's back to his usual self. My son also stayed home more this weekend (no wailing babe) and it was nice. So, like I said at first, Similac saved my marriage. Now I just need someone to save my while they return to their non-milky state!