Tuesday, February 3, 2009
4 month checkup
Today I took Jack for his 4 month checkup and shots. He now weighs 15 pounds 4 ounces and is in the 60% for weight, and is 24 inches tall, the 16% for height. The doc said he is no basketball player but he is getting there, still a little squatty body apparently, although if you see the kid you wont believe he is "short". Everything looks great he has some cradle cap and thanks to martin and miller genetics some eczema, so I get to put on .5% hydrocortisone cream on his head, 1% hydrocortisone cream on his body where the eczema is and lather on the thick expensive eucerine cream all over. He did the practice sitting up and said he has excellent neck control and is doing great with sitting up and building up those muscles, he also laughed and said he should sit pretty well because he has a large base lol. I told him I started feeding him rice cereal and he asked if I was using a spoon I said yes, apparenty that is a good thing so they start learning how to control their tongues and mouths, he said well now that he has got the hang of it you can start feeding him baby food, and of course only feed one food at a time for a bit and only do fruits and divide them in colors and once he has that down start with vegis. I am glad I decided to just spoon feed him even if it is a little messier and a little more time consuming. He told me it is never to early to start reading to him I said Oh I do read to him a lot, then he said that it doesn't have to be baby books and I laughed and told him how he is learning all about business and economics with dad. Then Jack got some shots and the yummy rotavirus junk, boy he really knows how to push out that lower lip. Apparently the shots were pretty traumatizing because he has been snoozing a ton this afternoon. Its really rough being such a little guy. I just keep thinking how blessed we have been that Jack has not been sick all winter, so very very blessed. The doc said it isnt a bad idea to stay a bit antisocial, so we will be although we are quite a bit more social than we used to be.
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Ryder had eczema also. I use the Aveeno Baby soothing relief moisture cream on him. I started out using it twice a day on him and then it got to the point where I put it on once a day and now I just put it on when he gets out of the bath. Something else that I noticed really helps is I only bath him every other day. Just thought I would let you know what has worked for us. This cream is a little cheaper than the Eucerin thing. I have been there and done that.
Good to know that Jack is growing and doing so good! I am thinking that he might have Mitch's body build! He looks like Mitch in more than one way I guess...if he didn't look like Dan I would say there was a mix up in Heaven!! FYI-the Equate brand of lotion that is right by the Eucerin has the exact same ingredients, we just bought some and we'll let you know if it works the same it is about 1/3 of the price!!
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