It is amazing how babies morph our lives. 6 months ago I was up and packing the car with Patrick on Saturday mornings for a tailgating and football Saturday. Now I’m holding Chloe and typing a blog update on her spit up! We took her to her doctor yesterday and she weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces so she’s gaining weight at a nice rate. For reference, she was 7 pounds 7 ounces exactly 2 weeks ago. However, the last few days have been awful for Chloe since she’s been spitting up more and fussy for 90 minutes to 2 hours after eating so she hasn’t been sleeping much…and neither has mommy. We are now going to give her Prevacid twice a day. If this doesn’t work by Monday, we are going to start a medicine called Reglan. Kelly and I were so lucky that Chloe didn’t have any major problems being born slightly early, despite the fact tons of research is showing kids like her are a booming population of kids that do terrible 24 hours after birth. This seems to be a nagging problem we’ll have for the foreseeable future partly due to her being early. I’d take this rather than any type of pulmonary issue requiring breathing treatments though.
One quick thing, two patients that I got to know well during my intern year just passed away. Dylan was 7 and Lynsey was 20. Both had leukemia. Keep them and their families in your thoughts today. It makes me feel even more blessed to have a healthy baby when I think of them.
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