Ah, week 11 (last week)...what do you have in store for us? Well, at least there is a beautiful, whole-mouth smile tucked away in there. Brings much joy to your mamma to see you smiling more these days!!
Another weight check - up one ounce in one week. :(
Cardiologist appt - he says you are still looking good! :) He put your stats on the actual Down Syndrome height/weight chart and you are 75th percentile! Nice to know our pediatrician office says there IS a growth chart for Downs children, but is not using it. Argh!
Eating - well that has become MUCH better the last few days!! Something just seems to have clicked and you are drinking more and more of your bottles, good to the last drop! We are still only on about 75 mls, but you are certainly drinking more and more of them all gone. It is such a welcome sight!! Funny that your older brother and sister cheer for you when you finish a bottle...guess we have been living bottle to bottle too closely around here. :)
Week 12 - you snuck up on me! Today was another weight check at the pediatrician office. Thankfully your new eating habits have become obvious!! You gained 5 ounces in the last week - up to 10 lbs. 7 ounces!! YEEEE HAW!! With this new eating pattern during the day (barely making it 3 hours till next feeding), you are able to go a good 5-6 hour stretch at night. Now if only daddy and I were ready for bed at the moment you go to sleep...guess we better work on that so we can get at least 5 hours too...
Here's hoping your new found love of eating is here to stay! It is a very welcome sight in this mamma's eyes!! The throwing up has not been as bad, I assume thanks to the Nutramigen formula, but you do still throw up some...usually during a bottle, so that tells me you are just full of air thanks to how quickly you are trying to drink them now. It is amazing how quickly we went from trying to feed you every 3 1/2 hours to you now wanting a bottle every 3 hours or sooner.
Not too much going on this week. We just have a meeting with the County Early Intervention ladies to see what plan of action they have for you...OT, PT, speech?? Wonder what all it will be...
Thank you all for your prayers and support!
What a handsome, handsome little guy!! So glad things are going well and he's healthy!!! Btw, push for PT & Speech (I know ST for a baby sounds weird, but hopefully they'll have someone that can focus on oral-motor stimulation) for sure (our EI PT said that so early on the PT did OT stuff, and the OT could be added in later as the true gross motor skills start to emerge), but if they'll give you all 3, then that's great!!
ReplyDeleteI love Caleb's cute smile! So good to hear about his all-around improvements! Way to go, Caleb!!!
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