Lochlan has been doing - and I'll use the word I use a lot with him - amazing. This lil guy never ceases to amaze me. Ha ha there I said it again!!!
Oh dear I just checked to see where I had left off with details and whoa nelly, it's been almost a full month! I'll give you the Reader's Digest version!
Our miracle baby now weighs almost 10 pounds!!!! Can you believe it? It's almost time to break out the party hats and streamers and bells and whistles. I did say I'd be throwing a celebration when he hits that milestone. And it's just around the corner!
Lochlan weighed 9 pounds and 12 3/4 ounces this past Wednesday. (Jan 19th) Although he did have an enormous....and I'm talkin HUGE #2 a little while later so chances are, he's a little less than that! But we will take it!!!
I'm not sure how long/tall he is just yet. I'll find out on Friday. And hopefully by then he will be over that 10 pound mark! Look out next Saturday night. Party at the McDonald's!!! But don't be disappointed if I go to bed before 9pm! That's about all I can make it too these days. Except on Mondays nights when I'm watching Brad, the Bachelor! I can definitely stay awake on those nights! ha ha
Loch's been having some constipation issues for the past few weeks but I'm crossing my fingers it's sorted itself out now. But there really wasn't anything different happening in his diet. He'd been already on the cereal for over a month with no issues and he really wasn't getting all that much more. Poor lil guy. He's such a calm baby that you rarely know when something is bothering him.
Speaking of food - sort of, his first solids after the cereal was prunes! (to help move things along the doc said it could be an intro food) He liked it at first but now that he's tried Butternut Squash and Sweet Potatoes...look out!! Abby loved the Dried Fruit Puree (prunes, apricots, and apples) Loch, not so much. He does this thing where he purses his lips and blows. So cute. But unfortunate. I really need him to eat it!
The prunes weren't doing much to help, so his pediatrician put him on Lactulose. It still wasn't doing anything so she doubled the dose. Well, 10 ml is a lot of a lil guy. I ended up mixing it with his sweet potatoes and he gobbled it right up! Thank Goodness! Anyway I won't spend too much time on the poop subject but just know I think he's on the right track now.
A few weeks before Christmas my camera decided to break. Okay, perhaps it didn't decide exactly, I dropped it at the Sydenham Santa Claus parade. On the pavement. Whoops! Still hoping to get it fixed. I got an iPod for Christmas and it's with me everywhere pretty much so I tend to take pics on it now. Only problem is I can only email the pics to myself....wait that's not true, I suppose I could plug it in and download them to my computer. I'll do that so I can post some pics from this last month. And some video.
Lochlan's been starting to laugh more at me...with me...no probably at me. So cute to hear his giggle. I'll have to record it and share it's so darn cute. I don't know exactly the first time he laughed because I didn't clue in that it was his laugh! I just knew it was a super cute sound. But he does it more on a regular basis. Love that he does.
Oooh some exciting news: he's being weaned from his puffers!!! He is now only on 2 puffers twice a day. With 2 puffs and 3 puffs for them. So just the Ventilin which opens up his lungs and Flovent which is the steroid. So nice to not have to worry about when he will wake up in the night to give him his puffers or whether to go in and do them anyway and risk him waking up. Now he gets them before he goes to bed and when he wakes up in the morning! I sleep better I find too because like I said I'm not waking up thinking about his puffers. Sleep. Yes....some nights are great, others a bit tougher. He was waking up around 4 or 5 in the morning and then going back to sleep but the last few days he's been up around 1:30, and then 4:30, then his usual 6:30 or 7:30. Hopefully that won't last too much longer. I think I've put in enough dues that I can have a full nights sleep please!! Thank Goodness Abby no longer wakes up in the night and come stomping into our room for milk or whatever because she heard Lochlan stirring. And she's starting to sleep in a little bit later these days. Rather than the 5:15am wake up call we were getting for a good month or two, she's now between 6:15-6:45. Not horrible when you compare it to the 5am hour which....God Bless you who can do it, I find it extremely challenging. Yay for Dora and Diego!!!
Lochlan's off of his lasix too. Just this past week and he seems to be doing great. The lasix was used to help clear the extra fluid from his lungs. So big changes in the last few weeks.
He has another RSV shot this past week and we went to get his hearing checked again on Thursday. What a fun time! Not so much really. When you are expected to get your child to sleep, it doesn't happen! Finally after a few hours and only about 15 minutes to go before the lady had to catch her bus, he fell asleep. He should have been tired too! Guess it must have been the 3 hour nap he took that morning! But I refuse to wake up a sleeping baby. That's when they are most developing. So the results were that he has no permanent hearing loss!!!!!! He is still however, congested in his right ear which is only temporary. Yay!
His next eye appointment will be in the next month or so. (can't recall) And he goes to the special infant clinic in March.
That's about all the big news I think. I will try my hardest to blog more. It's tough when you get the kids to bed and then have about an hour or so to yourself before heading to bed! But I want to remember everything and I'm sure Lochlan (or his wife and kids) will want to know details one day.
Here are some pics from his very first official photo shoot we had yesterday at Serendipity Studios in Napanee. So so good...I chose a few to post as most are very similar. Can't wait to enlarge them and frame them and put them up on our wall!!
And I can't wait to go back to have family portraits done.
It's about time!
Cheers!
Jenn
Our little supermodel:
Jenn, I would sooooo love to call you someday. So fun to read your posts and see pictures and to think, "Hey, that's where we are!" Timmy is grabbing his toes now too. I LOVE it! So cute when babies do that.
ReplyDeleteAnd I completely hear you on the sleep thing. Some nights he'll go most of the night - like 11-7 even - and then suddenly we're doing 11, 2, 4, 6:30 and I think, "What just happened?"
And Timmy just broke the 10-pound mark this past week so I know Lochlan is right behind him.
I think we're finally ready for cereals here. Timmy is starting to want more bottles and I know the milk supply won't hold out forever. Wish Lochlan could tell him that solids really aren't that bad. Open up, little buddy!
Staying up way too late blogging these days. Usually ends up biting me in the behind as the later I stay up, the earlier the kids get up. (Yes, I'm right there with you on the older ones with the early wake-up call. Callie is generally around 4am these days. Whatever happened to everyone sleeping through the night? Anytime someone asks me about another baby I think of my nights and think, "Not a chance." We don't add babies until we're getting some sleep and right now, we're not sleeping.)
Speaking of, I hear Timmy again. And someone else. Blast. Over and out, good buddy! Keep up the good work! I'll look forward to the 10-pounder celebration post!
Ten four good buddy! You're funny! And I'm so glad we have become blog friends! I always look forward to reading about how your family is doing. One day we'll have to chat on the phone. That'd be great!
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