Dr. Appointment - 9 Months
Today was a milestone well baby doctor appointment as it was Jacob's 9-monther... Jacob was woke up to be put into his carseat and was actually happier than we anticipated since he was only asleep for about a half hour before leaving.
Jacob weighed 20 pounds, 1 ounce and is 28-1/4 inches long. This puts him right on the average line for height and about as close as you can get without being on it for his weight (smidgen under). Jacob's ear is clear of infection, but does have a little fluid in it. The doctor assured us that this is completely normal and expected shortly after ending antiobiotics for the infection. Jacob is in great health and only has some annoying eczema at the moment. We hope that he will grow out of this soon and is just more annoying to us than anything. It sometimes can look pretty bad, but we just need to put stuff on him so it doesn't get worse.
Many questions were asked and answered. Most of the questions were to confirm what we were already thinking, planning on doing or have already started doing. Jacob will be expanding his repertoire in the realm of baby edibles as we can beginning feeding him baby foods that contain meat as well as other soft foods that we have already given him on occasion. (wedding cake frosting, mashed potatoes, applesauce and whatever else Grandma P. has snuck in... ;) Sydney has tattled on occasion... heehee!) Okay, so a side story... Grandma P took her grandkids to lunch yesterday and forgot Jacob's diaper bag which had his food in it. So, Jacob became hungry and was ordered some applesauce so that he could get his belly filled too! From the story I hear, it doesn't sound like Grandma was going to let the cat out of the bag (partly because she is allergic heehee!), but Sydbear opened that bag right up. It's okay though, Jacob already had some homemade applesauce that his Uncle Rob and Aunt Lynn made last weekend. Okay, so back to the foods. Amy asked about an egg and the doctor first said no, but then said that the yolk would be okay, but not the white. The white is the part of the egg that most allergies stem from. So, Amy and I will not be feeding him any eggs anytime soon, or at least not until after he is a year old. Another issue that was brought up was the fact that Jacob is not getting quite enough formula a day. Jacob enjoys his solid food, but he is going to have to get used to having formula before he gets the solids... The only way we will be able to work in more of it. I'll save the third and quite possibly the biggest topic for tomorrow as this is getting to be on the long side. Also, it will give me something to post another day... ;)!
Jacob is one of the unfortunate souls that was started on the HIB (hepatitis B) 3-shot vaccination series. The first of the series was given to him in the hospital before he even came home for the first time. Unfortunately, there were some complications with the vaccination so it was recalled voluntarily by the supplier. In the meantime, another supplier has a 4-shot series which Jacob has also received so that he was covered. Since the voluntary recall, it was confirmed that there wasn't anything wrong with the vaccination and is now back on the market, but in limited quantites due to the recall. Now that Jacob has started both and due to the shortage, he is now stuck with the 4-shot series. This means that he had two shots today instead of only the one that we were planning on. Jacob wasn't happy about the pokes, but quickly settled down and once again became a tough guy about it.
So, we are going back in a month to check his ears out and then his next regular appointment is his ONE year appointment. As a part of Jacob's reward for being a good boy, well most of the time, we ventured over to the park so that he could swing for a while.
Jacob weighed 20 pounds, 1 ounce and is 28-1/4 inches long. This puts him right on the average line for height and about as close as you can get without being on it for his weight (smidgen under). Jacob's ear is clear of infection, but does have a little fluid in it. The doctor assured us that this is completely normal and expected shortly after ending antiobiotics for the infection. Jacob is in great health and only has some annoying eczema at the moment. We hope that he will grow out of this soon and is just more annoying to us than anything. It sometimes can look pretty bad, but we just need to put stuff on him so it doesn't get worse.
Many questions were asked and answered. Most of the questions were to confirm what we were already thinking, planning on doing or have already started doing. Jacob will be expanding his repertoire in the realm of baby edibles as we can beginning feeding him baby foods that contain meat as well as other soft foods that we have already given him on occasion. (wedding cake frosting, mashed potatoes, applesauce and whatever else Grandma P. has snuck in... ;) Sydney has tattled on occasion... heehee!) Okay, so a side story... Grandma P took her grandkids to lunch yesterday and forgot Jacob's diaper bag which had his food in it. So, Jacob became hungry and was ordered some applesauce so that he could get his belly filled too! From the story I hear, it doesn't sound like Grandma was going to let the cat out of the bag (partly because she is allergic heehee!), but Sydbear opened that bag right up. It's okay though, Jacob already had some homemade applesauce that his Uncle Rob and Aunt Lynn made last weekend. Okay, so back to the foods. Amy asked about an egg and the doctor first said no, but then said that the yolk would be okay, but not the white. The white is the part of the egg that most allergies stem from. So, Amy and I will not be feeding him any eggs anytime soon, or at least not until after he is a year old. Another issue that was brought up was the fact that Jacob is not getting quite enough formula a day. Jacob enjoys his solid food, but he is going to have to get used to having formula before he gets the solids... The only way we will be able to work in more of it. I'll save the third and quite possibly the biggest topic for tomorrow as this is getting to be on the long side. Also, it will give me something to post another day... ;)!
Jacob is one of the unfortunate souls that was started on the HIB (hepatitis B) 3-shot vaccination series. The first of the series was given to him in the hospital before he even came home for the first time. Unfortunately, there were some complications with the vaccination so it was recalled voluntarily by the supplier. In the meantime, another supplier has a 4-shot series which Jacob has also received so that he was covered. Since the voluntary recall, it was confirmed that there wasn't anything wrong with the vaccination and is now back on the market, but in limited quantites due to the recall. Now that Jacob has started both and due to the shortage, he is now stuck with the 4-shot series. This means that he had two shots today instead of only the one that we were planning on. Jacob wasn't happy about the pokes, but quickly settled down and once again became a tough guy about it.
So, we are going back in a month to check his ears out and then his next regular appointment is his ONE year appointment. As a part of Jacob's reward for being a good boy, well most of the time, we ventured over to the park so that he could swing for a while.
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