How Typical..

I had this conversation with Luke this morning:

Matt: Hey buddy!
Luke: Waaahhh!
Matt: Yeah, yeah, you're hungry, I know.
Luke: Waaahhh!
Matt: Yeah we're getting to it. Anything else I should know?
Luke: Aaa.
Matt: Say again?
Luke: *Liquidy discharge*

It wasn't the most satisfying little talk, but what did I expect?

Luke had a worse night than normal last night. We've started supplementing him less, so he's a little crankier since he's not being stuffed to the brim every feeding.

The real reason for his crankiness is probably his newly clogged tear duct. We think it started yesterday because we saw his eye leaking a lot of water. We thought it was just his tear ducts starting to work. Well, I guess if they leak a lot of water, they might be clogged. Well, by late last night, he started having some crusty pussy stuff on his eye. We'd clean him off, and it would be back in ten minutes.

We learned earlier at the doctor's to rub around his eye to attempt to unclog it. All that has succeeded in doing was upsetting him. Melissa thought his eye might be swelling, which the nurse said was something to worry about.

However, Erika read somewhere that breast milk could help clogged ducts. We've started applying that, and he seems to be a little better so far. We'll have to see how that progresses.

Melissa's having a great time feeding Luke. He's taking nearly an hour every feeding now, and it's starting to be a real burden on Melissa. If we could get him feeding correctly, we'd be done in 15-30 minutes. For some reason he still thinks nursing is the perfect time to catch a quick nap.

If you have a baby that cries a lot, you might experience the phenomenon that Melissa and I did. We both at various times have hallucinated that the baby is crying. You sort of hear the crying in your head, and you seriously have to concentrate to tell whether or not it's really happening. This tends to happen more often around 3 a.m.