The Dreaded Gas

So we have made it through week 3! Rykken is going to be 4 weeks old tomorrow! Rykken is still doing great! He is gaining weight like crazy...as of his last doctors appointment on the 2nd he was 9lbs 6oz! I am sure he is well over 10lbs now, but it feels like he is 50lbs when I am lugging his carseat around! His face is starting to fill out and his hair is starting to thin and it is starting to get lighter. I think he is going to have light brown hair with red in it. You can already see the red coming through. He is starting to change and I think he already looks so much different than when he was born. He has developed a minor case of baby acne, and a major case of baby gas! I am really loving the Mylicon drops...they are a God send! So to say the least the past couple of days and nights have been very rough, and I don't know who it has been rougher on...me or Rykken. Rykken is not a good sleeper...he is very restless all the time. During the day its expected because of all the background noise, but at night we sleep in complete silence with complete darkness expect for his little night light and he is still restless....ALL THE TIME. All night long I listen to him kicking his feet and grunting even when he is asleep. The child kicks his legs so much and so hard that he stays swaddled for maybe 15 minutes before he has managed to kick the blanket off. I am assuming the leg kicking has to do with the gas...its just so frustrating! On top of the restless sleeping he is waking up screaming to eat every two hours on the dot. Then it takes him a good 20 minutes to eat and by the time I get him back to sleep he is back up in a hour and a half. I AM VERY VERY TIRED and very discouraged. I'm trying different feeding schedules, I've tried offering him more ounces of formula, I've tried everything! During the day he is stretching his feedings to every 3 to 3.5 hours, but at night its a different story...and when he is screaming bloody murder at 2am its very hard to try to make him hold out. He is also starting to become more alert...so he is starting to stay awake longer during the day...and night! Last night he woke up at 4am to eat and didn't go back to sleep until 6:30am. It's loads of fun! So basically besides night time things are good! I'm working on getting a firewire cord to be able to hook my video camera up to my computer to upload video. So hopefully here in the next couple of days I will have some video of Rykken loaded onto the site. Don't hold your breath...it may take awhile!