Eliana visited the doctor's office Thursday, Dec. 4th for her annual checkup and round of shots. I deliberately booked the last appointment of the day so we did not have to leave immediately after and PHEW that was needed. After the nicesities where done out came the little blue tray with FOUR needles waiting for her little arms to pierce. As Eliana was more wiggly than the last shots at 6 months the doctor had me hold her in my arms and restrain one arm at a time. I forgot what this was like. I wanted to cry for my little baby as she screamed and screamed and screamed. Even after her legs were still shaking. It was almost 20 minutes before Eliana settled and got dressed. We brought along some of her favourite toys to distract her but it did not help. She has 2 sets of little cirlce bandages on each arm. The pictures above are today (day after) and she is much happier.
On the positive side she weighed in at 22lbs 10 oz and is at 75%percentile, not bad for a preemie.
Eliana had been consuming alot of her calories at night so the doctor recommended we stop that and that should aide in her eating more during the day (besides the itchy teeth (10 to date) that make her not want to eat or sleep). So we tried this last night and she went to bed at 8pm, woke at 12:11 am with a few screams and fell back to sleep while being rocked, then got up before 2 am and stayed up til 3am when we gave her a bottle. After that she slept to 8am. So not bad only 1 bottle so hopefully we will continue to wean her off and we will all get some sleep in about 1 years time when the other 10 teeth are due to come up. LOL...
Overall she is doing great today, abit tired as while she walks she is bumping and falling more than usual so a few days of recovery and she will be back to her self. For me, give me another year or so and I will catch up with my sleep too.
On the positive side she weighed in at 22lbs 10 oz and is at 75%percentile, not bad for a preemie.
Eliana had been consuming alot of her calories at night so the doctor recommended we stop that and that should aide in her eating more during the day (besides the itchy teeth (10 to date) that make her not want to eat or sleep). So we tried this last night and she went to bed at 8pm, woke at 12:11 am with a few screams and fell back to sleep while being rocked, then got up before 2 am and stayed up til 3am when we gave her a bottle. After that she slept to 8am. So not bad only 1 bottle so hopefully we will continue to wean her off and we will all get some sleep in about 1 years time when the other 10 teeth are due to come up. LOL...
Overall she is doing great today, abit tired as while she walks she is bumping and falling more than usual so a few days of recovery and she will be back to her self. For me, give me another year or so and I will catch up with my sleep too.
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