Back Pains, Baby Pains and Cat Pains

Wow, what a week!!

We've had our most difficult week so far this week. It all started on Tuesday. . . . . . . . . . .

BACK PAINS

Tuesday morning Sal was having a sleep in (we take it in turns when Sal doesn't have to work) Tracie was out in the living room with the boys. Ethan was lying on the ground having some floor time. He started to get a bit whingey (like you do when your sick of being on the floor) so Tracie bent down to pick him up. On the way down she felt sudden pain and heard her back crack . She picked him up anyway, and discovered she couldn't stand up straight! Poor Tracie gave her self a nasty back injury. She went to the doctor who says she's probably pulled some muscle or ligament or tendon or something. She was given pain killers and told to rest (very difficult thing to do with 6 month old twins!!). Sal managed to get the week off work to help her with the boys. Tracie's mum came to visit this weekend so she's been helping too. Tracie has had to take masses of pain killers to even move so she's had to 'pump and dump' all her breast milk. It's almost painful to see all that lovely breast milk going down the drain. It's now Sunday and Tracie's back is still painful but she's suffering through it and cutting down the pain killers so Ethan can have some milk. Not sure if it's the right thing to do, but read the next story and see what you think.



BABY PAINS

Ethan has been a very unhappy baby this week, and we're not entirely sure why.
He has had a few changes this week:
1)His mummy hasn't been picking him and and cuddling and carrying him as much.
2)He had some avocado for the first time on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
3)He's had more formula this week than he's used to and a different brand of formula. (When we knew he'd be needing more formula because of Tracie's back injury we went out and bought some. We bought a different brand because the last one was making his belly upset when he was on it before) Perhaps this brand is no good either???

On Monday and Tuesday he was ok.
Wednesday evening poor baby cried for about 2 hours before finally settling to sleep and sleeping through the night.
Thursday was a terrible day. He slept ok in the morning but cried and cried and cried when we tried to put him down for a 3pm nap. He finally slept when we took him for a walk in the pram. Thursday evening he went to sleep ok at 7pm. Woke at 8:30pm and SCREAMED for ages We ended up taking him to an after hours medical centre at 10pm to make sure he was ok. Doctor said he's fine. We bought him home and he cried and cried and cried some more. He was finally rocked to sleep at 11pm. He woke again at 1:30am and cried for another hour. After being rocked back to sleep AGAIN, he slept until 6:30am.
Friday was just as bad. He was a MISERABLE whinging and grizzling from the moment he got up. Tracie was having her turn for a sleep in (because her back was super sore and she was exhausted from the night) so Sal took the boys for a walk. We were away about 2 hours, and Ethan had another sleep in the pram. Ethan fought us again when it came time for his 3pm nap. It was about an hour of hysterical crying! Again he had a small nap in the pram. We don't really like to rely on the pram to make him sleep, but he was SO SO SO over tired he just needed some sleep! Friday night was better, he went to sleep without a problem and slept through the night.
Saturday was also fine. He was a little tireder than normal, but slept well, and only had minimal (and normal) grizzles about going to bed! He slept through the night and is back to his happy self this morning.
We're still not sure what exactly his problem was. We think he might have had some type of belly pain that got worse when he lay down as he was alright when he was awake. The uncontrollable hysterical crying only started when he knew he was about to go to bed. It was almost like he was afraid of bed. Thank god he's ok now. Last few times he's gone to bed without a fuss.


CAT PAINS
Our poor pussy cat hasn't been too well this week. She's been using the kitty litter A LOT more than usual. She's had that problem before, and she had urinary tract infection. We noticed some blood in the kitty litter on Friday so we took her straight to the vet. He also thinks she has a urinary tract infection so she was given some painkillers and antibiotics. She's getting better now. We hope that will fix her problem. She's not so kitty litter obsessed now.
On Friday when we took the cat to the vet Ethan was screaming and screaming. It was chaos, he'd been crying for an hour, Tracie was trying to settle him, Sal was on the phone trying to get some help on the 24h parents helpline about Ethan crying, and trying to catch the cat at the same time. It came time for us to go, so we left the boys (and a screaming Ethan) with their grandma. We've never left them before, but she took them for a walk in the pram and they both went to sleep. We were worried about leaving them, but looking back it wasn't so bad. I used to be afraid to leave them, I feel like I could leave them again now - It's really not so bad!