Check up..

Brenton had a 2 week check up since starting the new medication. He is now 18lbs 9oz, and 28 1/4in long. That's crazy from his usual 3lbs a month he used to gain. Oh well, he's starting to even out more. :)

Brenton has been doing so much better with the medication. He's currently taking Reglan 4 times a day and Zantac 2 times a day. Since he is doing so well, the Pedi didn't see a need in raising his dosage.

Just wanted to update..

Another update..

We went back to the Pedi today to discuss a couple of things I've been wondering about. Brenton refuses his bottle still at 4 months. The Pedi said that 'maybe he's ready to be weened from the bottle', but that just doesn't seem right at all. So I asked another Pedi and looked it up online and came up with the idea that he may suffer from 'silent reflux'.

I took in the list of symptoms (which he has every single one of) to his Pedi today and he's decided that we could either thicken his formula with cereal or try medication. I went for the medication since we've already did the rice cereal which I don't want to do anymore.

Hopefully this will solve his problems with his darn bottle!

4 Month D/A

Brenton had his 4 month appointment today and he is growing so fast! He is now 18lbs 1oz (90%), 28in long (way above the charts), and head circumference is 43cm (around 50%). He handled his shots like a pro and barely cried - if you could really call what he did crying.

Anyway, he's a healthy, perfect baby boy! :)

A little update..

Brenton has started rolling over now, mostly because I've decided he needs to start doing tummy time. He was on his back today and decided to roll back to front, which he's never had an interest in, yay! He also giggles all the time now. I put his toes up to his mouth and he just laughs his head off.. I'll have to get it on video soon. :)

We've had so much rain the past two days because of hurricane Ike. The lake is equal with the dock now.. which is like 5-6in above it's normal level. It's not letting up any either.

We have his 4 month appt tomorrow though so I'll update more later.

It's been long..

Just thought I'd give a little update!

Brenton is 3 1/2 months old, and it's going by so fast. I weighed him the other day on our home scale and it says he is up to 19lbs already, 4lbs up from his appointment on the 8th of last month. He seriously doesn't stop growing. He is so tall too.. I love it :) He is now wearing 6-9 month clothing and some 12 month clothing. All of his cute little outfits that we had bought he barely got to wear, if he did at all. :(

He has learned to do the little 'raspberries' more and he does it all the time now and laughs at himself. He just loves his Bumbo. We have fed him (so far) sweet peas and prunes. He loves them both! I'm going to start sweet potatoes tomorrow, so hopefully he'll like those also! We have decided to go organic with him. Soy milk, and only organic baby food. I've decided it is for the best for him. :) We have also changed our parenting style to 'attachment parenting.' Brenton is classified as a 'high need baby,' and I cannot just let him cry, so I've decided he needs comfort and now that I have accepted it, I have became a LOT more patient with him.

Devin is working up the wazoo lately. Chaching! ;) I miss him a lot though.. I hate when he has to work like this.. floods take so long to clean up!

I have started working out more and running! It felt great to go running/walking today. I don't need to lose weight, just a couple inches here and there. :)

Anyway, it's almost time to put the wee one to sleep!

3 Month D/A

Brenton had his 3 month appointment today, and everything checks out great. He's growing fast and beautiful. :P

He is now 15lbs 9oz (90%), 25 3/4in long (90%) and his head circumference is 41cm (50%). He is eating 7oz every 2-3 hours so the Pedi said to start giving him some rice in his bottles to hold this growing weed over a bit. :P

He got his Hep B shot today and cried for only a second. He was such a good boy! :)

2 Month D/A

So, we called today to get a new Pedi closer to home for Brenton, and they decided to get him in right today! All in all, I like the Pedi, and his Nurse is very nice.

Anyway, he is now 12lbs 6oz (8lbs 5oz at birth), he's 25in long (22.5 at birth), and his head circumference is 39in! He's so darn big! He got his shots today (besides the Hep B, we saved that for next month), and he cried while getting them, but he was fine when we put him back in his car seat. Poor baby! He loved the oral Rotavirus, lol. The Nurse said most babies don't mind it, but she's never seen a baby who loves it like Brenton did. He will eat anything you put in his mouth, I swear!

The other Pedi we had said to put Brenton on soy formula, and if that didn't work give him the Nutramigen. The soy didn't work, so Nutramigen is was. We've been buying that for a couple weeks now at 25 dollars a can, and this Pedi said he doesn't want him on that formula. He switched him to Enfamil Gentlease. He was going to put him on Similac, but he didn't have any samples, and plus I don't want him on that. So, we'll see how he does on this. No matter what, he was fussy with gas.