1. In the last few days, you can hear Matthew's stomach slosh around. I would expect this if he had just consumed a lot of liquids and I was swinging him around, but this is hours after he's eaten and you can hear it slosh just when you pick him up. Weird.
2. Also in the last few days, he's gone from eating an amazing amount of baby food in one sitting to absolutely hating even being put in his chair to eat. Doesn't matter if we are giving him baby food or table food, he just doesn't want to eat right now. Not fun.
3. Since he got his teeth, Matthew has been grinding them on a periodic basis. Now he does it constantly. I've been trying to find a oral-maxillofacial specialist (wondering if Matthew's jaw/mouth are a little unusual), but I'm having trouble finding one that deals in pediatrics. Besides a potential physiological reason, I'm not sure why else he may be grinding his teeth.
I debated whether to the call the pediatrician about these oddities, and finally decided that I might as well on the off chance these are all related. Earliest we could get in is tomorrow morning. I can't imagine what he'll be able to say or do, but doing nothing doesn't seem to be improving our situation.
Update from pediatrician-- the doctor believes that Matthew may have a host of ailments-- a possible sinus infection, a possible GI bug that's been going around and (to top it off) pink eye. We are planning to treat the pink eye, but going to wait and see about the sinus infection/GI bug. He also recommended getting a maxillofacial specialist from our pediatric dentist (who we just happen to be seeing on Tuesday).
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