Cosleeping continued

Well…. Co-sleeping seemed to be okay the first night. But the second night, not so much. Aiden didn’t sleep very well, and with him right there up against me, I didn’t sleep very well either. So last night he was back in the bouncer, and that worked out okay.

So I think we will continue to play it by ear, letting him sleep wherever he seems most able to settle down. My research on Co-sleeping found two very opposite opinions on the matter. There are people out there who will adamantly shout that Co-sleeping is horrible and is a direct cause for SIDS, and others who point out that most of the rest of the world encourages Co-sleeping and that deaths are actually considerably lower when a baby co-sleeps with an AWARE parent. (not under the influence of drugs or alcohol).

One site even insisted that the AAP recommendation against Co-Sleeping was solely a campaign by the crib manufacturers to sell more cribs. In the end, I don’t know what the perfect solution is, so we are just going to do what seems to work best for our baby.

I have also been researching his eczema some more, to try to figure out what else we can do to try to stop that in its tracks. I came across a really informative site that talked about the rash and a correlation to Food allergies. It said that in fact, the brighter red and more prominent the rash the more likely it is to be a food allergy. Aiden’s stomach is covered with a bright red rash exactly like what the article spoke about.

I read a lot of people who have had issues with the LIPIL in the Enfamil product, and I am beginning to wonder if that is part of the problem. Enfamil no longer makes any of their products without the LIPIL, so to check this we would have to move to another brand, which we probably will not do without the Doctor’s consent.

Another issue that I have read is the protein levels in the different formulas and how much it is broken down. Apparently normal formula is 100% complete protein, Nutramigen is 21% and the Similac version is 17%. Some parents have said that moving from the 21% to the 17% was enough of a difference to help their child’s eczema disappear. So we will be bringing all of this up to our Doctor. In the meantime we have more creams to put on his little body than we know what to do with. And the itching never seems to get any better.

We’ll find the solution eventually though.