5 months old!!!!

Joslyn turned 5 months old on September 11! What an a mazing LITTLE creature she is! she can sit on her own now, for a few minutes if she does not get distracted. She is continuing to pull herself up with out help! How crazy is that?! When she sees something that she wants, she will simply dive to get it! No matter where she is..... she is very trusting! We have to be careful now how we hold her, or she could "dive" out of our arms.

She has not been eating well for about 3 weeks now. She will nurse for 3-4 minutes and then pull off and cry. I am lucky if I can get her to nurse for 10 minutes total! So we went in to see her doctor for a weigh in. She is still gaining weight so they are not concerned. But we are. Her GI Specialist appt is on the 24th. SO we plan on talking to Dr. Lui about her feeding. She is back on Prevacid, in hopes that the med will help her feeding. (if it is her reflux) Her Pediatrician thinks her feeding needs are just changing, so she does not need as much as she used to. But that does not explain why she will nurse for 3-4 mins and cry. When she went for her weigh in, she was 11 lbs 15.5 ounces (on an empty tummy) and when I fed her she was 12 lbs 2.9 ounces. She is still tiny.... but gaining weight. We will see what her GI Doc says.

On a good note: she is still has "hammy" as ever! See her picture.... that was taken on the 11th (her 5 months bday.) She is posing!!! What a funny girl!!!!!


Jacky

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!!!!!