Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Wyatt's weight check


Today we went back to the doctor to have Wyatt's weight checked. He weighed 8 lb. 6 oz., so he is up 9 ounces from two weeks ago. They would like him to gain 20-30 grams a day, and this ended up being 19 grams a day. So... we are not too far off. The pediatrics resident made me worried when she talked with us first, but the staff doctor didn't seem quite as worried about his weight gain. She did tell us that we shouldn't let him go longer than four hours at night between feedings, but I don't think we will do that. He has just started to get into a good bedtime/sleeping routine, and I don't want to mess that up. Even if he does sleep longer than four hours, usually it's only one 5 or 6 hour stretch, and then he goes back to every three hours.
Anyway, the appointment fell at a bad time for Wyatt, because he was supposed to be napping. So the poor baby fell asleep in the waiting room, then I had to undress him to weigh him which woke him up, then we waited for the doctor and he fell back asleep, then she had to mess with him and wake him up... Then he cried the whole way home until I fed him! Poor baby! So he had a little bit of a rough night tonight. Aaron fed him his bedtime bottle and put him down for the night, and he even fussed a little after he laid him down which is unusual for him. But, I convinced him to go to sleep and now he has been down for just over an hour. Hopefully he gets some good sleep! (Now I need to pump and get to bed too! :) )

2 comments:

Mrs. Clark said...

Poor sleepy head! I think he looks great!

Sara said...

I think his resemblance to Aaron really comes thru in this picture. He's a doll!! Wyatt, not Aaron :)