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Unexpected Trip

July 24th, 2007

Ended up having to take James into the Dr. office today. He’d been getting worse with crying and being quite unconsoliable thru the day. Usually it started around 4pm and lasted till 10ish but the last week or so it’s gotten progressively worse and ending at starting around 9:30am and ending around 10pm. I was thinking it was just collic, we started giving him gas medication on Friday on a regular basis-at first we saw an improvement but then it got worse again. We wanted to be sure it wasn’t anything to be concerned about, and am glad we did.

Turns out, he gained 3lbs in the last month (last seen June 29th) so his doseage of his reflux medication was half what it should be for his weight. Or at least that’s what the Dr thinks is the cause, if it doesn’t get better in a week we’ll go back in. So cross fingers and toes that this does it. It is very hard to watch your son cry and cry and cry and there be nothing you can do to help him.

James weighed in at 8lbs 5oz.
Evelyn weighed in at 9lbs 6oz.

I was shocked. We did weigh them on the scale at home (with us and them, then just us) and there was a 8lb difference for James and a 9lb difference for Evelyn but I guess I just didn’t think our scale was very accurate. This is really awesome. It feels totally wonderful knowing that I’m supplying Evelyn with all her nutrition and half of James’ as he is still being supplemented for growth-though I seriously bet he’s more than good now to not supplement anymore.

They are getting closer and closer to doubling their birth weights. Evelyn needs to be 11lbs 6oz and James needs to be 9lbs 14oz.

We won’t see, hopefully, the Dr again till the middle of August for their 2 month checkup and shots-though we have to see the Dr 2 weeks after their 2 month mark as he was so full.

 

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