Today we had Adalyn's 4 month well-checkup appointment with the pediatrician. She tipped the scales at 8 pounds 4 ounces (3.76kg), which was an increase of almost 1/2 pound (200 grams) in just 1 week! Her length and head circumference stayed pretty much the same, but that can be normal due to it only being a week. She is still less than 2% percentile, but her pedi said that she is following her own growth curve very well and isn't concerned at all.
Her pedi said that we can also start trying to feed her rice cereal with a spoon at our discretion. She said that she may not really be able to do it since she may not have the eating reflex down, but that it's worth a try. If not, she said to give her the rice cereal in the bottle to get her body used to it. She said that at 6 months she would really like to start Adalyn on vegetables. I can't believe that this is already happening! I don't know if we'll start it tonight (since she got her shots today), but I'll report back when I do!
She got 2 immunizations today, and she was such a trooper! All morning I felt guilty because she would look at me with such contentment when I was feeding her a bottle, and all I could think was that I was going to take her to get shots and she had no clue! :) She cried her pouty mouth cry for less than 1 minute, and wanted to be held instead of in the carrier (until we got to the car), but other than that did pretty well. She's laying on me right now, somewhat wrapped in the Moby wrap, and is sucking away on her pacifier sleeping soundly.
Which brings me to another development this week. Adalyn has been needing the oxygen less and less. YAY! She still needs it when she deep sleeps in the RNP, but only needs it for feeds about 1/4 of the time. That's an improvement! So, little by little she is needing the oxygen less and less, and soon she won't need it at all! Since she only needs to be wired to the pulse ox for pretty much the whole day, I've been putting Adalyn in the Moby wrap and wearing her for several hours a day. I wear her while on the recliner, while doing housework, and even while working out! Rodney went running the other day, and I decided to do modify my workout a little and did light dancing/aerobic steps with Adalyn strapped in. Of course the Britney Spears Pandora station was blaring, and I was moving around, and Adalyn LOVED IT! She pretty much slept the whole time, even with me singing along! It was really fun "dancing" with Adalyn. :)
The Moby wrap was also fabulous when we went over to my parents for our weekly family dinners with the whole family. I strapped Adalyn in and we all got to sit at the table and eat. I actually had her facing out, so she was part of the dinner table. She LOVED looking at everyone and she just sat there quietly while we all ate. Then, we strapped Adalyn in the Moby on my mom. She said it was comfortable, but would ask me every 5 minutes if the baby was ok and if she was breathing fine! She was so cute! Happy to report that Adalyn also enjoyed the hug hold with Abuelita. :)
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