happy girl!

Eleanor is happy and I'm so happy!  For a while there I was getting worried something might be wrong.  It was really, really hard to get her to smile and her laugh was almost like a cry at times.  She fussed a lot and I thought maybe she's just so different from Hutson as a baby.  People are always saying how different their kids are.  But something just always felt off since she was about 6 weeks old.  She slept fine though so I was a little baffled.  I was getting nervous.  At Christmas time we spent time with my brother and his baby that is 7 weeks older than Ella.  Mia was so happy and it made me sad.  Why wasn't my baby as happy?  Was it me?  Was it because she wasn't in daycare?  Was I not giving her enough attention?  Could she be autistic?  Then right after Christmas her sleep went haywire.  It was taking me forever to get her down and then she was up more at night than ever.  I was frazzled and frustrated.  So I took her to the pediatrician.  Healthwise she was fine except for some gross details about her bowel movements (sorry).  The pediatrician suggested I stop dairy to see if that would help and we came up with a plan for the sleep thing (Ferber).  Turns out she has an intolerance for the dairy I had been consuming.  Now that I've stopped dairy she's a whole different baby.  She's smiling all the time and laughs and is just happy!  Life in general is just better.  I feel really bad it took me so long to figure it out.   Here's a sweet picture of my happy, dairy free baby!  :)