GI check up

Yesterday we were suppose to have her "last" GI appt. But someone made an error when they made our appointment. Dr. Lui was not at the main office! So she just got weighed and measured. I have a call into Dr. Lui's nurse seeing if we need to reschedule or not.

Joslyn now weighs 16 lbs 9 ounces and is just about 26 inches long. This puts her in the 10-25% for both her weight and length. She is doing super... she is still a little small..... but she is growing and looking SO GREAT!

She is also learning how to suck out of her Nuby Straw sippy cup! She drank about 1/2 ounces out of it yesterday!!!!! WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. It will be the most wonderful, perfect, MERRY, amazing, happiest Christmas I think we have ever had. Our gift is here.... not in my belly, but here with us. She is healthy, (minus her reflux) happy, amazing, and every other wonderful word there is!

Merry Christmas to everyone!

Love to everyone!
Jacky, Stephen, Joslyn olivia and Mackinac Island

reflux not doing so well and well visit update

Poor Joslyn. She has been having a rough week with her reflux. She was doing pretty well after we put her back on her Zantac.... but then a few days later she began having horrible feeding issues. She would arch her back, scream, cry... latch back on for a few seconds and start the whole thing over again. So we upped her dose to .8 ml (the doc said we can give her 1 ml now.) I had been eating something different during breakfast so I stopped that yesterday. I had been having one piece of toast with apple butter on it. Today she ate better than she has been. So either the medicine is helping, she was being hurt by the apple butter, or a combination both. Reflux is not fun. It is heart breaking when you know that all she wants to do is eat... and she can not. It is not a hunger cry she is doing. It is a painful cry. It is just so sad....It is a feeling that I can not describe. I feel so helpless.. all I can do is try the maalox and try to calm her down. She arches her back so much that you can barely hold her. She gets sooo stiff that you can't even cuddle with her. It just brings me to tears.

On a happier note. Joslyn now weighs 11 lbs 15 ounces. (This was after a feeding. Before her feeding the doctor weighed her and she was only 11 lbs 10 ounces. We were upset that she only gained 10 ounces in one month.... but I fed her and weighed her again and found out that she got 5 ounces in that feeding. So we were much happier!!!)
She is almost 25 inches long and her head is 16 inches long.
This puts her in the 5-10% for weight
25-50% for height
and 25-50% for her head.

The doctor is not concerned about her weight as she is gaining. She said that Joslyn just may be a petite baby, however if her weight slows down and she drops in the % then we will have to look into that more. But so far no concern! wahoo!!!!!!! Joslyn got one shot and her RotoVirus vaccine. We will go back next month for her other 2 remaining 4 month shots. Breaking them up is working for us. She seems to not have a bad reaction at all. I had to give her 2 doses of Tylenol.... but other than that no fever, no rash, no red mark where she got her shot. She did well.

Right now Joslyn is sleeping so peacefully! I wonder what she dreams about. Sometimes she will laugh in her sleep, giggle, smile and she is talking in her sleep right now! So sweet... the sound is just so sweet.

Jacky

PS little pooky is 20 weeks old!!!!!