Yesterday marked Adam's two month birthday. In honor of that, we took him to the pediatrician for his two month checkup. We really liked the pediatrician, and we received some great news. Wait...are you sitting down?...Adam weighed 7 lbs, 3 ounces! Isn't that awesome? Even we were surprised by how much he had gained. I expected 6 1/2 lbs or so.
Everything went well and all reports were good. He was still anemic, but I think we still expect this for right now. So we will continue his iron supplement. The bad part was that the little guy had to have four shots, an oral vaccine, and a heel stick! This is so difficult to watch! By the end, I felt like he was covered in band-aids. He was pretty tired the rest of the day but we were also giving him tylenol so that could have also made him sleepy. He seems to be back to himself today thankfully. We discussed that he is going to hate leaving the protection of home if he continues to get a shot every time he leaves the house! We are learning, though that babies are pretty resilient and also have a pretty short memory.
The other big piece of news is that we can now let him wake us up for feeding times at night. Previously, we were still adhering to the schedule he was used to from the NICU of every three hours, and we were told to continue this to help him gain weight. We will be happy to have the opportunity to get a little more sleep! Last night, though, he still woke us up every 3 hours, so we'll see. We are very thankful for the great checkup (minus the shots, for sure) and are definitely enjoying him at this stage.
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