Well-Baby and a very late V-day
Let me get caught up. First, Happy Valentine's Day! Bryan and I have a Valentine's Day tradition of not celebrating Valentine's Day on the 14th. So this year we celebrated Valentine's day on the 15th. Although on Tuesday I did get very lovely tulips, my favorite, delivered to the house.
Bryan got a replacement Lucky In Love Bamboo plant delivered to the office. That has sentimental value to it which he seemed to appreciate. Wednesday night, the 15th, my Mom and Dad (Mom Mom and Pop Pop) came over to babysit and we hit up Little Italy. And can you keep a secret? I trialed dairy. A LOT of dairy, way more than I anticipated. Hey they said he could outgrow it by 6 - 12 months so how will I know unless I try right? Not only did I eat my favorite meal from my favorite Italian restaraunt which contained sausage (hidden dairy) but I ate their killer house salad which contains cheese in their dressing.
But why stop there?
We wanted to go to Vaccaro's for coffee but we should have known better, you can't go into the best Italian bakery and not get dessert. I was craving some Italian Coconut cookies which I'm not sure of the ingredients but they are half dipped in chocolate and I'm sure there is either butter or milk, some kind of dairy product and possibly (most likely?) egg. Oops, guess that was 2 trials. But you know me, I don't like to mess around so what the heck, let's throw in a cannoli. A chocolate chip in a chocolate dipped shell cannoli. Now that's a dairy trial.
I didn't notice any issues with it but I kind of think there could be a delayed reaction or if I was to continue eating dairy daily we may run into trouble. That was a one time splurge and I'll wait a few weeks, or months, before doing it again. Or until I happen to end up in Little Italy again. I will say the guilt was overwhelming for a few feeding sessions so not something I'm really tempted to do again.
My other Valentine and I celebrated by hitting up Mother Goose on the Loose story time. The love is in the air.
He even took a minute out of his busy work day to pose for a picture. How sweet.
Now to current day....
He went in for his well-baby although I'm not sure which month appointment this was supposed to be. His last 6 month one was on 1.13 and I was told to come back in 7 - 8 weeks. I told the girl this when I made the appointment and she put me down for today. When I showed up the nurse was asking me which appointment this was supposed to be since I was just there about 5 weeks ago. If I actually thought for a second instead of being so distracted and spacey, I would have caught this when the girl made my appointment. Fortunately they didn't try to send us home.
He weighed in at 20 lbs even and 29". This keeps him at the 75% range for weight and 90% for height although she didn't have him very straight when measuring him. It was just about 1/4" growth since the last appointment but even the doctor said the height isn't very accurate at this age for that reason so I think he's still more like 95% for height.
Everything else was routine. His ear infections healed perfectly (ha! with no antibiotics!) and he is healthy overall. We are getting a referral to a Urologist because, not to be too graphic, but some of his circumcision came a little....uncircumcized I guess for lack of a better term. It's common in chubby babies and we were told about it but didn't know we had to keep up on it for the rest of his life. We thought just until the doc said it healed up nicely. This is one reason why circumcisions are becoming less and less common these days and I see why. Poor thing, I felt bad enough doing it once and now he has to go in for a tune up.
I actually felt a little rushed at this appointment, there were a few minor questions I had that we didn't get to. Much to Julian's dismay they did have time for his shots. These were his 6 months shots and I think we're all caught up now. He didn't handle these as well as the last ones but no side effects at all so far. I don't give him any Tylenol either unless he gets a fever or acts like there is pain but he had neither. He got the flu shot and I was really hesitant because of the egg but since his allergic reactions are GI and not anaphalactic I thought the risk of the flu was worse than the risk of a yucky diaper. I think getting the shots bothered him so much today because he was way late for a nap and already fussy. I was warned that today's shots were the ones, if any, would cause fever and fussiness throughout the night. I actually think they injected him with some happy juice because he was so cheerful this evening. That's about it, his next appointment isn't for another 3 months. Good, we can use the break!
I figured I've spared you from the poop talk recently but you can use an update. Once we introduced solids he now only poops every 3 days as opposed to 3+ times a day which is completely normal for a breastfed baby especially mixed with solids. He's not constipated, you know that by the texture of the stool. But I rather change 3 poopy diapers a day than this massive explosive thing we have on the 3rd day that requires a fire truck to hose him down. Plus a complete change of clothes and a head to toe bath. But I must say cloth diapers (Fuzzibuns) do sooooo much better at actually keeping the poop in, in our case at least. Now I make sure he has them on every 3rd day. It's also hard to say if it looks normal since solids can make it all funky (and stinky, hello, what the heck??)
I'm assuming since he isn't going as much that means the allergy thing is OK. At first he seemed to have difficulty with the new textured poop but now he seems to be used to passing the slightly thicker matter more comfortably. But he has been spitting up a lot the last week or so. He only does this when he has a sensitivity to something. Because I've been so crazy with the food, I have no idea what it can be. It could be his solids or something I'm eating. Top suspects for his food: Sweet Potato and Carrots (which he loves) My top suspects: Coffee (which is 90% decaf), OJ, diary/soy free chocolate, potatoes (I've been eating fries by the troft-ful) or my ahem, minor dairy trial on Vday. But the spit up was here before my dairy trial, all the more reason why I shouldn't have done it. As of today we're going through a detox, as I like to call it. Solids are on hold for him and I'm not eating the suspects until the spit up ceases. He hasn't done it today so I'm thinking one of those is definitely the cause since in the past it comes and goes as quickly as the offending food. I'll reintro those one at a time, slooowly.
I need to be more structured with his solids introduction which I didn't want to be but we really need to. I did see a speck of blood last week but he strained that day and I was kinda thinking it could have been a fissure from the straining. Haven't seen it since. I guess all in all our diets are pretty good. I am still loving the variety and being able to go out to eat. This allowed Julian and I to meet Bryan for lunch yesterday. I'm still dairy/soy/egg and nut free and we'll be introducing solids based on a chart I was given for Infants with Allergies. He doesn't seem to miss the solids too much, he doesn't like many of them anyway plus they don't need them for the first year anyway. He only seems to really like carrots, avocado and rice cereal. Oh and I think zuchini/squash but he only had that once before solids went on hold. He does better when he feeds himself as opposed to use spooning him mashed up food. He's too mature for that, what do you think he's a baby or something??
Bryan got a replacement Lucky In Love Bamboo plant delivered to the office. That has sentimental value to it which he seemed to appreciate. Wednesday night, the 15th, my Mom and Dad (Mom Mom and Pop Pop) came over to babysit and we hit up Little Italy. And can you keep a secret? I trialed dairy. A LOT of dairy, way more than I anticipated. Hey they said he could outgrow it by 6 - 12 months so how will I know unless I try right? Not only did I eat my favorite meal from my favorite Italian restaraunt which contained sausage (hidden dairy) but I ate their killer house salad which contains cheese in their dressing.
But why stop there?
We wanted to go to Vaccaro's for coffee but we should have known better, you can't go into the best Italian bakery and not get dessert. I was craving some Italian Coconut cookies which I'm not sure of the ingredients but they are half dipped in chocolate and I'm sure there is either butter or milk, some kind of dairy product and possibly (most likely?) egg. Oops, guess that was 2 trials. But you know me, I don't like to mess around so what the heck, let's throw in a cannoli. A chocolate chip in a chocolate dipped shell cannoli. Now that's a dairy trial.
I didn't notice any issues with it but I kind of think there could be a delayed reaction or if I was to continue eating dairy daily we may run into trouble. That was a one time splurge and I'll wait a few weeks, or months, before doing it again. Or until I happen to end up in Little Italy again. I will say the guilt was overwhelming for a few feeding sessions so not something I'm really tempted to do again.
My other Valentine and I celebrated by hitting up Mother Goose on the Loose story time. The love is in the air.
He even took a minute out of his busy work day to pose for a picture. How sweet.
Now to current day....
He went in for his well-baby although I'm not sure which month appointment this was supposed to be. His last 6 month one was on 1.13 and I was told to come back in 7 - 8 weeks. I told the girl this when I made the appointment and she put me down for today. When I showed up the nurse was asking me which appointment this was supposed to be since I was just there about 5 weeks ago. If I actually thought for a second instead of being so distracted and spacey, I would have caught this when the girl made my appointment. Fortunately they didn't try to send us home.
He weighed in at 20 lbs even and 29". This keeps him at the 75% range for weight and 90% for height although she didn't have him very straight when measuring him. It was just about 1/4" growth since the last appointment but even the doctor said the height isn't very accurate at this age for that reason so I think he's still more like 95% for height.
Everything else was routine. His ear infections healed perfectly (ha! with no antibiotics!) and he is healthy overall. We are getting a referral to a Urologist because, not to be too graphic, but some of his circumcision came a little....uncircumcized I guess for lack of a better term. It's common in chubby babies and we were told about it but didn't know we had to keep up on it for the rest of his life. We thought just until the doc said it healed up nicely. This is one reason why circumcisions are becoming less and less common these days and I see why. Poor thing, I felt bad enough doing it once and now he has to go in for a tune up.
I actually felt a little rushed at this appointment, there were a few minor questions I had that we didn't get to. Much to Julian's dismay they did have time for his shots. These were his 6 months shots and I think we're all caught up now. He didn't handle these as well as the last ones but no side effects at all so far. I don't give him any Tylenol either unless he gets a fever or acts like there is pain but he had neither. He got the flu shot and I was really hesitant because of the egg but since his allergic reactions are GI and not anaphalactic I thought the risk of the flu was worse than the risk of a yucky diaper. I think getting the shots bothered him so much today because he was way late for a nap and already fussy. I was warned that today's shots were the ones, if any, would cause fever and fussiness throughout the night. I actually think they injected him with some happy juice because he was so cheerful this evening. That's about it, his next appointment isn't for another 3 months. Good, we can use the break!
I figured I've spared you from the poop talk recently but you can use an update. Once we introduced solids he now only poops every 3 days as opposed to 3+ times a day which is completely normal for a breastfed baby especially mixed with solids. He's not constipated, you know that by the texture of the stool. But I rather change 3 poopy diapers a day than this massive explosive thing we have on the 3rd day that requires a fire truck to hose him down. Plus a complete change of clothes and a head to toe bath. But I must say cloth diapers (Fuzzibuns) do sooooo much better at actually keeping the poop in, in our case at least. Now I make sure he has them on every 3rd day. It's also hard to say if it looks normal since solids can make it all funky (and stinky, hello, what the heck??)
I'm assuming since he isn't going as much that means the allergy thing is OK. At first he seemed to have difficulty with the new textured poop but now he seems to be used to passing the slightly thicker matter more comfortably. But he has been spitting up a lot the last week or so. He only does this when he has a sensitivity to something. Because I've been so crazy with the food, I have no idea what it can be. It could be his solids or something I'm eating. Top suspects for his food: Sweet Potato and Carrots (which he loves) My top suspects: Coffee (which is 90% decaf), OJ, diary/soy free chocolate, potatoes (I've been eating fries by the troft-ful) or my ahem, minor dairy trial on Vday. But the spit up was here before my dairy trial, all the more reason why I shouldn't have done it. As of today we're going through a detox, as I like to call it. Solids are on hold for him and I'm not eating the suspects until the spit up ceases. He hasn't done it today so I'm thinking one of those is definitely the cause since in the past it comes and goes as quickly as the offending food. I'll reintro those one at a time, slooowly.
I need to be more structured with his solids introduction which I didn't want to be but we really need to. I did see a speck of blood last week but he strained that day and I was kinda thinking it could have been a fissure from the straining. Haven't seen it since. I guess all in all our diets are pretty good. I am still loving the variety and being able to go out to eat. This allowed Julian and I to meet Bryan for lunch yesterday. I'm still dairy/soy/egg and nut free and we'll be introducing solids based on a chart I was given for Infants with Allergies. He doesn't seem to miss the solids too much, he doesn't like many of them anyway plus they don't need them for the first year anyway. He only seems to really like carrots, avocado and rice cereal. Oh and I think zuchini/squash but he only had that once before solids went on hold. He does better when he feeds himself as opposed to use spooning him mashed up food. He's too mature for that, what do you think he's a baby or something??
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