Doctor's Appointment

Marcus took Abby Lu to the doctor on Tuesday afternoon. Her congested nose has been with us off and on for about 4 weeks. We wanted to make sure we weren't missing anything. When she sounded congested, we were running the humidifier and doing swing sessions in the bathroom with the shower on and using the aspirator, but we can't seem to make it go all the way away. She said we were doing fine and to keep it up.

Marcus also asked her about a couple of other things-

* We have been approved for rice cereal! Yea! I have been excited to explore more than just milk with Abby.

* We were told to stick with 5 6oz. bottles per day and not up them to 8 oz. which we did a few weeks ago. We could rarely get her to take the full bottle, but read that 40 total ounces was appropriate for her age.

* We upped her reflux medicine. Since she was a few months old we have given her reflux medicine 2x per day to help with her spit up. We haven't ever upped the dosage even though she has doubled in size. We found that the past few weeks about an hour after her bottle she would spit up at least one ounce in one big burp. It was hard to manage and although she didn't mind it wasn't healthy. So, we increased the dosage and hopefully she'll keep it all down.

* We also found that she now weighs 15 pounds and 12 ounces. Perfect weight gain since last time.

I am glad we took her and was given reassurance on a couple of lurking issues. Let's hope the nose gets better. It bothers her most at night when she is trying to sleep and that makes her fussy.