Immunizations, friends and more!

John had his two month check up today, including immunizations. We really liked the doctor we saw today. John's official weight is 7 pounds, 15 ounces (1st %ile for his age- 9 weeks- but great for his adjusted age- 3 weeks), which means he has almost doubled his birth weight. His height is 21 1/4 inches (4th %ile for his age and very good for his adjusted age), which means he has grown 4 1/4 inches since birth. He screamed his head off for his shots (3 of them), which made me laugh, mean Mommy that I am!

We are going to switch John's reflux medication from Previcid to Prilosec; the reasoning behind this is the Kaiser pharmacy doesn't compound the Previcid into a liquid suspension and we'd have to go way out of our way to get to a pharmacy where they do compound it, plus it isn't covered under our insurance so we'd not only be driving, we'd be spending more money. Hopefully the Prilosec will work just as well.

We are going to keep John on the heart monitor for a couple of more weeks before sending the data it has been collecting to the company who owns the monitor so they can interepret the data, and then we'll make a decision whether the monitor is really needed or not. Today's doctor didn't see why John is even on it, based on info from the hospital discharge summary, and we told him we didn't really think he needed it either. It was all based on one incompetent nurse and one incident which may or may not have happened. But the doctor today pointed out that it is nice to have the monitor until we get past the SIDS risk period, which Bill has been saying for a while, too. We are not going to have him on the monitor 24/7 now, only at night when we are all sleeping (ha, like that happens) and during the day when he is sleeping and we might not be in the room to watch him, etc.

We went out to lunch today after John's appointment. He slept through the whole thing. It was nice to be able to do something and not worry about the monitor going off (it is such a loud beep). Then when we got home, we saw our neighbor from around the corner out walking with her new baby and her mother. We had not met them yet but knew she had a baby around John's due date or a little after because they had "It's a boy" balloons on their mailbox like we did. So, since they were passing our house, we went out with John to meet them. The mom's name is Allison and her son is Braden (I think). He was HUGE!!! He was over 9 pounds when he was born, which is still bigger than John is at 9 weeks. She took my phone number and we are going to try to get together to walk some. So John has his first playmate in the neighborhood.

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Today's pics: 1) John in his new swing, crying because it was feeding time and he wasn't happy. He liked the swing this morning, but I couldn't find the camera to take the picture. 2) John with my friend Anna, who brought the swing by. The swing was a shower gift from Anna and Shannon, who are throwing me the baby shower we haven't had yet due to John's early birth.