3 MONTH BABY UPDATE

hey guys okay so one my videos late again and two I'm really sorry about that and three I won't do the aim and four I'll probably do it again I was gonna make this a storytime but then I was like no I have to update you guys on what's been going on with Noah mostly because a lot of people asked me to do this but I haven't been wanting to do this because we've been going through so much with him but I decided okay I'll save the storytime for Tuesday and I'll just hit you guys with a baby update and almost three month baby update which is insane my son is almost 3 months old I also want to do these because I want to look back on them like I look back on my c-section birth story all the time well not like all the time I'm not like watching my videos all the time I was gonna do a story time but that's coming on Tuesday it's super juicy stay tuned well it sound like super juicy but it's like at least medium juicy but before I get started I want to let you guys know that this video is sponsored if you guys remember a little while ago I was sponsored by home escapes it was a game that so many of you tweeted me that you got addicted to so this video is actually sponsored by play Rick's which is the creators of home escapes but this is sponsored by garden scapes and I am not joking you guys I'm not exaggerating because this is a sponsorship look at my phone this is a screenshot of my phone I am on level 86 of garden scapes and I haven't been playing for that long so I am addicted yeah it's safe to say I'm addicted let me explain to you guys what this game is because the concept of it just it just grabs you and it holds you and it doesn't let you go so essentially what garden scapes is is it's a puzzle game it's very simple game play so you play the puzzle you get stars and with those stars you can renovate your garden and do different tasks and your garden is like pretty jacked up ok it's like it's pretty jacked up so with these stars you can complete different tasks to make it new again and it is so addicting you get to choose different benches different trees different landscapes different tree houses like I don't know if I'm doing it justice but oh my god this game is so much fun there's super cute characters there's Austin the butler there's this little doggy which obviously I named Hershey and there's a ton of different areas in the gardens so I am not even close to running out of areas to renovate which is really exciting for me honestly download it you will not regret it it is free for Android and iOS I'm gonna leave the link down below enjoy you're welcome and a huge thanks to garden scapes for sponsoring this video okay so let's get on the video I just want to like candidly talk to you guys about like everything that's gone on since my c-section birth story which I'll link down below if you haven't watched it he was only a week old during that video so so many things have gone on and I want to talk to you guys about it but disclaimer but I am very sensitive when it comes to the way that people talk to me about my son and the things that I should be doing with my son if for any reason at some point I disable the comments to this video I want you guys to know it's because I can't handle it and I'm sure like some of the moms out there can understand like there is so much judgment that goes around with some of the topics that I'm going to talk about and although I'm gonna do the controversial parenting tag with my husband eventually there are things that shouldn't be controversial that are and that people get judged for it's harsh like honestly the judgment that I get can be really really harsh and for no reason and from people who aren't even parents on my last video I was drinking a beer and at that time I was breastfeeding I'm gonna get into the whole breastfeeding situation in this video at that time of that video I had never given him formula at all I was exclusively pumping and giving him milk so whenever I was drinking I always tested my milk and for instance like that night that beer was the only beer that I had and so I still tested my milk it was fine I stored it and whatever that's what I would do I've been pumping for two and a half months basically someone commented that I would rather drink and have fun than breastfeed my son and I let them have it like I told them off because no like you have no idea you you just you don't know me and you don't know how much I'm willing to do for my son you don't know so if for some reason I have to disable the comments in this video it is because I don't want to be going off on everyone in the comments like there are so many of you that are supportive and amazing and I don't want to silence your voice like I don't want to not allow people to see what they want or to give me advice that's friendly and constructive point is I'm super sensitive when it comes to my son I've been going through a lot let's just get into it but if you see that the comments are disabled that's why hopefully I don't have to do that and we can all be adults and twelve year olds don't come in my comments telling me how to be a parent okay I'm sorry if I came across as a little bit angry but I am a little bit angry I get too offensive man like that's my boy like this that's my boy so when I did my c-section birth story he was just a week old and when he was around two weeks two and a half weeks hurricane Irma hit Florida we live in Miami and that's obviously that was like in the path of Emma so we decided to evacuate I'm pretty sure it was just because I had had him like otherwise I would have stayed home and I would have wrote out the hurricane whatever happened happened but because I had him I could not risk being in this house if a flood occurred if the roof freakin came off like I don't know I could have risk it I was like no no we are here we ended up evacuating to Georgia which it was a nightmare like it was an absolute nightmare of a drive 16 hours it took us to get to Georgia from Florida it normally only takes like 10 hours but there was traffic and there was no gas anywhere like it was honestly a nightmare stopping every two hours to feed him because he was breastfed but we were safe and we got there safe and luckily we did evacuate because we ended up losing power for like a week here in the house it would have been a nightmare to be without electricity honestly no air conditioning he would have been miserable so it was just like amazing that we got to actually bypass that part of the hurricane but then we had to make the drive back that was fine I mean it wasn't a big deal and we were just lucky that her house was still standing it was like honestly was a very stressful time so that happened I started noticing that he was just different like I noticed when we were leaving Georgia we were driving we had just started driving and he spit up like he actually like vomited he like projectile vomited all the milk that he had just drink and he had never done that before and I was like oh that's weird like maybe my milk just made him sick that one time like I don't know what's going on but it didn't happen again like he threw up I cleaned him up and he fell asleep so I was like okay whatever we made the drive back he was fine and he is to sleep in his snuggle nest which is like basically like a little netted crib type thing like not a crib but it's like a little netted thing that keeps them laying down inside like it's like a little mini crib no it's not I don't know what it is look it up anyway he was sleeping flat is the point I would swaddle him and he would sleep flat on his snuggle nest and he was on that sleep schedule of two hours like every single two hours like a clock he woke up for the first I mean he just stopped doing that like a week and a half ago so for the first like two and a half months basically he was sleeping two hours on the maybe three hours at night he would go but like honestly rarely and it was crazy that sleep schedule is honestly it's it's hard I know that everyone says like uh it's only two months that you have to do that but you start going a little bit crazy me and Nasim always alternated I would feed him once he feeds him once like that's still what we do now it just makes it easier even though he's pretty much sleeping through the night now but like one time he'll wake up but anyway that was happening and then around I want to say like a month old or maybe a month in like a week he was spitting up a lot and it wasn't just spit up like every single burp you would hear there like acid reflux like his spit up would come up and then he would go back down and you can tell was burning him like he would feel so uncomfortable and that wasn't really the reason why I took him to the pediatrician because I know that baby spit up a lot so I was like oh I think it's normal but then he did this thing that's really scary and if any of you have children who have done this let's discuss in the comments but it's it's really scary he basically would gasp in his sleep and not just in asleep he would gasp while he was feeding he would choke while he was feeding he would choke in his sleep that's why he's always slept like right next to me I mean my bed is here and he's like right there not on the bed with us but he's in a swing next to her bed and so he would do this thing like I'm gonna try to imitate what he would do but he would be sleeping like dead asleep and then he'd go like like that like like literally gasping for air like if he can't breathe so when that first started we were freaking out like the first few times that it happened I would just pick him up in a panic and I would just hold him and I didn't know what was going on I thought he could have breathed he'd literally wake up gasp choked and then like go back to sleep and I'm like oh until one night he was gasping so much and choking and so obviously uncomfortable I was crying because it was the middle of the night there was nothing I could do other than just stay awake with him and watch him super closely and hold him like there was nothing that I can do so that night was horrendous and then I called the pediatrician as soon as they opened we went in and got him checked and basically they told me okay he has acid reflux and we're gonna prescribe you zantac which is it's not exactly zantac but it's like as baby's Antec or whatever zantac is basically to prevent the acid in their stomachs so it doesn't completely get rid of it but it like helps lower the amount of ass in their stomach and since he was breastfeeding so many things in my breast milk can play a factor in making it worse or better when it comes to having reflux for him I cut out coffee which was very difficult and I'm vegan and the reason why I mention that is because when you have a baby with reflux the first thing they tell you if you're breastfeeding is to cut out dairy and I said I don't consume dairy anyway they said okay well then cut out the coffee so I cut out the coffee when I cut out the coffee and he was put on zantac he seemed to be getting better like he seemed to be not completely fine but definitely a lot better the gas being cut down a lot and he was doing fine so we kept him on the zantac which I didn't want to have him on medication but I mean there's really nothing you can do when you see your son choking gasping you'll do anything like you will literally do anything so they can just go to sleep and be okay once you started zantac and I cut out the coffee he was doing a lot better until I would say about a week ago he's almost three months old in eight days so I guess when he was around two-and-a-half months me and Nasim had stepped out to do errands and we came back and my mom and my stepdad were freaking out now they're really emotional with him like I have to kind of calm them down and say like he's fine because they tend to like freak out when he does like small things and I get it they love him they're his grandparents like they're just really emotional with him so I got home and they were freaking out like my mom was crying and she goes Jessie I was gonna call 9-1-1 and I'm like what and she told me basically that he was choking so bad and that his body went limp and he wouldn't respond to her and she thought that he just passed out like she didn't know what happened and then all of a sudden he woke up and Here I am thinking that he probably just woke up coughed a few times and fell asleep and she's like freaking out and I was like mom he's fine whatever and it's not that I didn't believe my mom it's just like I said they're really emotional with him I went to go take him a bath so he would relax and it would make him feel better and as I was setting up the bathtub I was holding him and he started choking so bad I have never seen him choke like this he could not catch his breath I would blow on his forehead because when you blow on a baby's forehead it causes them to like like gasp for air I don't know why but I blew on his forehead and he kept trying to like catch his breath and he couldn't and his face was just turning bright bright red and I was freaking out and I just for a Nassim and Nassim came running over and I'm just like I don't know I don't know what to do like freaking out and all of a sudden he just caught his breath and he was like huh and that is like music to my ears if any parents know what I'm talking about like if your child has ever choked if you have a child with reflux you definitely know what I'm talking about it is a nightmare like you don't you feel so helpless when that happened and he was choking so bad and it was because he had spit up so for those of you that are maybe like confused when they have reflux their spit up like they choked on it even after he spit up and he was choking like that he wasn't relieved after so I was just like holding him and I told my mom you need to call the pediatrician like right now it was like 10 o'clock at night she answered the phone and basically she recommended that we put him on cereal this is a whole controversial topic let's get into it basically cereal is like it sounds like cereal like it's like oatmeal cereal so it's little flakes of oatmeal I wasn't gonna do this because it's an aspiration hazard so basically if you put it in a bottle which is the only way that he can have it right now because he's thrusting his tongue a lot like I can never spoon for you to him something right now he's just very very not ready for it but basically the only way to give them cereal at this time is in a bottle and since it comes in flakes it makes the milk thicker so the whole concept is not since the cereal thickens the breast milk or the formula you can put it in both it weighs down in their stomachs so it settles in their stomach so that it won't come back up so easily breast milk is like water so it would come up like nothing and so she basically suggested since he's already on Santa she said go and get him cereal right now and see what happens so basically what I did I went to got cereal I blended it up super super fine like into a fine powder cuz it comes in flakes which when put in a bottle I can get why it's an aspiration hazard because it's more like flaky and like oatmeal E but when you blend it up really really really really really fine and you put it in the bottle it just makes it thicker like there's no chunks of anything in there it's just a thicker milk and honestly he drank it perfectly fine he had no problems drinking and he didn't choke once and really quick I just wanted to add in here that I was doing everything for his acid reflux like I was sitting him up after feeding I was sitting him up while he was feeding he's sitting up while he's sleeping like literally his swing is like inclined I burped him every half ounce I was doing everything that I could for his acid reflux like I did everything I could for and that was pretty much like the last resort for us that night he slept so good like he slept so calm it was insane we started having to put the cereal in his bottles and we saw an immediate difference he stopped spitting up as much he seemed like he was doing a lot better until like three days ago when things started getting really really bad he has always been fussy and uncomfortable like I had never noticed this until it stopped happening but like when we would lay him flat he would just be like moving like so much like he couldn't stand being flat he had to be sitting up or being held because he just like he was so fussy but I chalked it up to like okay he has reflux so that's why he feels uncomfortable and that's why you know he doesn't like to be laying flat but like three days ago I started noticing that he got like a really really bad diaper rash on his butt in the like crack of his butt I'm sorry is this TMI I guess when you're a parent it just is not TMI it's like it's but poop pee like it's all like the same crap but whatever in his little butt crack there was a rash like a really really dark red rash with white bumps on it and I was like why does he have such bad diaper rash we haven't changed his diaper cream he was using the same diapers that he'd been using for a little bit at the same time that that started happening I got my period again I don't want to get too TMI again but I got my period like three weeks ago then I got the Kiley know which is basically like a birth control that they put in your uterus and then it also releases like hormones so like a week after I got that I got my period again and I still have it now when you get your period in your breast feeding some women's milk supply drops a lot and mine dropped to basically nothing I did what I always do when my milk supply drops and I was drinking the milk flow powder that you put an orange juice a tastes so disgusting and literally makes me have the worst stomachaches I was drinking the pink stork vitamins I was eating milk full lactation bars which I have a ton of them I'm gonna do a giveaway on Instagram so if your mom that's breastfeeding these are like dairy free gluten free I don't know amazing lactation bars they kind of taste a little bit gross but they work amazingly so if you're a mom that's breastfeeding call my Instagram I'm gonna do a giveaway anyway besides the point I was doing everything I basically like went into hyperdrive with my pumping schedule with drinking all of my vitamins and like everything that I do to produce more milk so that I can I'd say even though I have frozen breast milk I still have frozen breast milk but I was scared that I would run out because he drinks three ounces during the day every like two hours of breast milk and I was like I can't keep up with that like I am pumping like half an ounce every time I pump and I was pumping before like seven ounces every time I punked it was pretty bad like it was drastically lowering my supply so I got scared and I thought that the best thing to do would be to give him half formula soy formula I don't really care what your opinions on soy formula are I've done my research that's what I want to give my child everyone started getting on me like aren't there so many hormones in soy formula like do you know how many hormones are in cow's milk formula anyway not gonna get into that debate I just I can't but anyway I decided I'm gonna give him half formula half breast milk because if I ever have to put him on formula for any reason because my milk supply doesn't come back because this is like 20 times lower than it was my last period like it was like nothing and I was like oh my gosh my milk is gonna dry up I'm gonna have to put him on formula and it's gonna be such a drastic change that it's gonna make him sick I cried a lot because I am attached to him having my milk I totally wanted to go a year I have seen the benefits of breast milk me and Nasim got so sick borderline had a flu and Noah did not get sick and he was in the room with us the entire time not a sniffle not anything he was drinking my breast milk and that was like his medicine like he was literally amazing it was so crazy to me cuz I was sure he was gonna get sick they have no immune systems in the beginning of their lives and breast milk is like honestly a second immune system for them so I got attached to that I was like I need to give him all of my antibodies I believe that if you can breastfeed amazing and I think you should and I think it's beneficial for the baby like a hundred percent there's no denying that yes it's hard yes it's time-consuming but in my opinion it's worth it or at least it was worth it for my child so I never wanted to put him on formula but I decided to give him half formula half breast milk cuz he would still be getting the antibodies or whatever from my breast milk so I started doing that I would say like a day before I started giving him half and half he was screaming in pain like just I mean he would just be laying down and screaming and nothing we did helped no diaper change no bath not holding him nothing helped like none of those things helped so we were exhausted because when you have a screaming baby that is inconsolable and you don't know what to and you're giving him as medicine you're doing everything you should be doing like he was still just screaming in pain I didn't know what it was the screaming in pain only got worse like he only seemed more uncomfortable I mean it was just to the point that it was unbearable and I had to go to the studio to record my new song that I'm gonna put out I'm not gonna say when I'm putting it out because every time I say I'm gonna put out something I just yeah I just don't but basically I was at the recording studio and Nasim had to make the executive decision to give him all formula for at least one feeding because he was screaming so bad that Nasim was just like listen we need to see if it's your breast milk making him feel this way because he's been uncomfortable for over a month now I just want to see like if it helps him I was hurt by this not because formula is the devil or like anything like that I just I'm so attached um I do not want to cry I'm just like so attached to him that I just want to do everything I can to make him the healthiest that he can be and I believed that that was my breast milk so he gave him formula just straight formula no cereal in the bottle nothing and immediately Noah was better and he just was like a different baby he just literally ate and went to sleep and he had never done that like he always would like stay up for like 30 minutes just like like that like literally panting like that's what he would do every single time and when he had that formula for the first time he knocked out and just completely was at peace I don't know what I was even thinking oh I mean if you're a mom that has either pumped or breastfed like you get it it is something that you pretty much dedicate your life to you're always pumping you're always storing milk or thinking about the next feed or nursing your life revolves around it and my life has revolved around it for two-and-a-half months I just couldn't believe that my milk was what was hurting him I didn't even know that was possible like I literally didn't know that that could happen and I don't know if he is lactose intolerant I'm not sure if that's what it is or if he's allergic to something in my breast milk which is more than likely what it is like something that I'm eating but I'm gonna be honest with you guys I eat super healthy like not like super healthy but like I eat healthy I don't even eat a lot of processed vegan food anymore I'm dairy-free obviously I don't even eat a lot of soy which he's not allergic to because he's on soy formula now and he's doing great I don't know what could have been like what am I gonna do start cutting out rice start cutting out potatoes or broccoli or like I won't have anything left to eat like a big staple of my diet is vegetables and stuff that he could be allergic to I don't know I'll find out later on in life obviously but it was hurting him like a lot he was screaming so bad in pain and and we just think we couldn't do it anymore and I already cried a lot about it I already cried a lot about the fact that my milk was hurting him I wanted to do like everything I could for him like I would have done anything he has been a different child he lays down and he just like looks at us while we're changing him like hello he still spits up obviously still has acid reflux we're still giving him zantac I'm really hoping that he outgrows the acid reflux soon but that's what happened honestly like that's been the biggest chunk of like his baby update so other than that that's really like his biggest update developmentally like there's not much going on he does smile and he laughs but a lot of the times he'll like laugh and then he'll spit up so I'm like were you just laughing because you needed to spit up like I don't get it but I think sometimes he definitely has genuine smiles and laughs like I posted on Instagram this video of him like laughing and smiling and stuff and by the way I'm sorry that I don't like actually have him but he's sleeping and honestly I know I'm not gonna wake him up to do this video I'm sorry it's like 1:00 in the morning so if I wake him up right now it'll be a disaster so I'm just not gonna do that but hopefully you guys understand I'm gonna put like pictures in here so you guys know what he looks like I'm gonna put a little videos and stuff and yeah developmentally he's smiling he does rollover during tummy time I don't know that's really it developmentally like I didn't even want to make this video yet because his update like for him is really just that he's been sick and now he's getting better and he rolls over during tummy time like that's it other than that he's still in the stage where he's just sleeping and eating a lot he does focus on lights and things like that like he has a little mobile by his crib and he does focus on it a lot like you can tell he notices people like he recognizes voices and people and he is more alert like he spends I would say he eats and then spends like 45 minutes awake like wide awake and then he knocks out so he does have more time and yeah I mean what else that's pretty much it I don't know if this video was like interesting or if you guys even care about this kind of thing like I know that a lot of people have been asking me to do this I don't know I guess I've been nervous about doing this because I knew that I would have to tell you guys about putting him on formula you know I'm learning now that every plan that I have pretty much just does not work out when it comes to parenting you think you know what you're doing and you think you know what you're gonna do and you don't because your child will want something different or like something different or just do something that is completely the opposite of the way you plan things and it's been happening that way since birth like literally since I had a birth and had to have a c-section like things have just not gone the way that I thought they were gonna go and that's just parenting so if you guys have any questions for me leave them down below if the comments are not disabled and I want to go in and like answer your questions I should have asked you guys on Twitter to ask me questions for this but I think it's long enough as it is I went into like a super in-depth explanation of his acid reflux but anyway I feel like I've been so defensive about formula because people are very nasty when it comes to that but like I said at the end of the day you're not watching my son choke on his own spit up to the point where he can't breathe and scream and pain for three hours you're just you're not here for that again sorry guys that I'm so defensive like I'm really really sorry I don't want to come across like as a [ __ ] honestly but I think you can understand like I'm defensive when it comes to my child I just am and I'm trying so hard to be a good mom and I already put enough pressure on myself so the pressure of other people it like really is kind of like getting to me anyway I hope you guys like this type of video I don't know it was really just me like being me and talking and not being funny at all so I don't know if anyone's gonna like this crap but if you did like this let me know if you want future baby updates cuz I can totally do that and I like having them for myself to look back on honestly when he gets older and yeah on Tuesday there will be a storytime like I said it's juicy it's about a Viner that I dated me stranded in a club but anyway until then thank you guys so much for watching please subscribe to my channel cuz I put on new videos every Tuesday and Saturday and I will see you on Tuesday bye

Channel: JessiSmiles

Views: 579,190

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Id: 96mF4-pS2VE

Length: 24min 8sec (1448 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 11 2017