Saturday, September 13, 2008

Formula fiasco/update

Most of you already know this, but Calvin suffers from minor Reflux. It has progressively gotten worse since we put him on formula. This past week he has thrown up/spit up most of his bottles and been unhappy with eating...which is a FIRST! The boy Loves his milk!!! Anyway this morning he threw up pretty much everything he had eaten since last night. It was his worst episode yet. He was very pale and clammy. I took him to the Dr. this morning and she gave us some sample formula that has rice cereal in it, and he has taken 2 bottles so far and hasn't spit up at all:) (but I am not naive enough to think 2 bottles has solved our problem) So, we are going to have to switch his formula starting as soon as I can contact the WIC office. She told me to have them give Calvin a soy-based formula for the next month. She also said we can put rice in his other formula. She wants us to monitor him like this until his 4 month apt and than see how he is doing. If the rice works, than she is going to write him a RX for the new kind she gave us this morning. Please pray that this will work for our big guy! (who weighed in at 17.8 with clothes on)

On a much happier note, he likes to lay with his legs in the air now and look at them. Due to his enormous size, he wont be rolling over anytime soon. But looking at his legs is a start. He was even raising them up and slamming them back down this morning!!!(4:30am) Needless to say, it is cute, but I have been up since 4:30am!

I joined facebook...I felt that most people are doing it, and it is way more popular than blogging. I probably wont keep up my site like I do this, but we'll see. I really just wanted to stay in touch with some of our friends who don't blog.

4 more weeks until our trip home. I am pretty excited. I haven't been home since December. It is going to be pretty jam-packed with visiting though! I have a whole list of people to see and things we are doing...and I believe I have totally forgotten what it is like to travel with a NB. I'm not excited about that part. But the really cool thing is that if he doesn't do well, I can just jump in my van and leave!!! I don't have to wait it out until my plane ride:)

Hannah got her haircut last night. I pretty much was either going to severely harm her or needed to cut it off. I chose the safer route:) Although she wouldn't sit still this time, so you never know, it had potential to be harmful as well:)
I hate tangles!!!!!!!!
And so does Hannah.


Happy Saturday!

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