Big Boy

Carter weighed in at 12 pounds, 7 ounces (5641 grams) today!! Yay for almost a pound of weight gain in 10 days :)

We were able to do a test-run at the pediatrician's office today. If we ever have a real emergency, we have all faith that they will handle it with ease.

Carter's been very cranky since we made the changes in his feeds on Monday. He's tolerating the changes by not throwing up his milk, but he acts very uncomfortable and screams to let us know it. We had to put the NG tube back in and when Brad checked the aspirate (contents in his tummy) this afternoon, there was a little bit of blood in it (gasp!). It was 4:30 so I ran to call the ped. before the office closed. As soon as I told them what was going on, they said to come in IMMEDIATELY and they met us at the door. No checking in, no waiting, just rushed straight back to a room. Dr. examined him, while he was screaming (I bet that sounded good through the stethoscope), and couldn't really find anything wrong. She called xray and told them not to leave yet and we went over for the gazillionth xray. (I think our health insurance is going to start questioning why so many xrays???) The xray showed perfect placement of the NG tube and no other problems. It was neat to see though, because we haven't seen one in a while and we were able to see that Carter's heart is shifting to where it's supposed to be and we saw two big, beautiful, full-of-air lungs. (his left and right lungs are "normal" and are about the same size)

Anyway, back to the story...Carter's become obsessive about rolling over during the night and sleeping on his tummy. This constant rolling has caused a great deal of irritation in his nose from the NG tube moving all around. The conclusion on the blood in the tummy is that his nose bled and he swallowed the blood. And the fussiness is blamed on the increase in volume--she explained that it's like eating Thanksgiving dinner every 3 hours--your tummy would hurt, too!

They told us who is on-call tonight and to call anytime tonight or tomorrow if anything else arises, but for now the diagnosis is "nose bleed." I told Dr. that the diagnosis should be "paranoid parents." :)

I think Carter and Lucy are in a competition to see who can get the most attention from us in one week, and it's only Tuesday!