HJ's 9 month check up and appointment with the nutritionist

So yesterday was Hayden Jack's 9 month well baby check. He was suppose to see dr. Dygo (which is also his nutritionist) because I dont like any other dr. there. So when I get there some residents walk in and tell me Im seeing Hayden today and I told them no I want his dr. they told me I dont have the say so over who my child sees or dont see there. So after they evaluated him and blew all my questions off without answering any I cursed them out big time. BTW he was 14 lbs and 25.3 in which is 6.3kg and 63 cm. So afterwards I tried to make an apt with his special dr (who is also nutritionist and specializes in low weight babies) and they told me I may be able to get an apt in August but wasnt for sure yet!!!! I immediately went out of there and switched drs to the pedi that my 3 older boys see. He did another 9 mnth well visit on HJ said he was way too small and he's probably a perfect little boy but he wanted to give me all the answers and test for everything just to make sure he doenst have anything wrong with him. They did bloodwork and all (thyroid, chemisty? and other blood tests to test for anything possible to do with growth). I was so happy someone was understanding my concerns. Prescribed him some vitamin supplement drops also. Just having to wait on the test results now. He goes back in a month for another recheck :) Oh and on the way home (im assuming my new pedi called the nutritionist/special dr)because Dr. Dygo called and wanted to see Hayden first thing in the morning at 10:20 :) Today we went to Dr. Dygo (the specialist/nutritionist) and of course she was wonderful! So caring and understanding and definately agreed that HJ was very underweight and definately needed to gain. The first thing she did was take down what he eats and how much/how often each day. Since he's never been offically allergy tested she's sending him to an allergy specialist and going to see if he has a definate milk allergy (which will never go away) or a milk intolerance (which means he will be able to have milk in the future). She also suggested we switch from powdered formula to concentrated because concentrated formula is thicker than powder and will "stick" to him better. She also told me to continue putting the olive oil in his veggies and meats everyday. She also wants him off pureed foods and on to stage 3 foods only!!! Again because of stage 3 being thick it will "stick" to him better. She wants me to add an extra meal to his schedule, which will be cereal mixed with his formula before bed. She wants him having meats twice per day instead of once (lunch and supper), She wants him to have fruit for dessert at breakfast, lunch, and supper and with the fruit add 1 scoop of nutramigen formula powder to his fruit 3 times per day. offer avacados, baby meat sticks, puffs, more fruit with scoop of powder formula in it, etc. as snacks throughout the day, along with his 5-6 6oz bottles of formula per day! Thats alot of food for a tiny baby so good thing he loves to eat and doesnt turn down food LOL. She wants to see him back in 3-4 weeks and hoping for a big weight gain :) so keep your fingers crossed!

Hayden Jack is 9 months Old!!!!

I cant believe my lil peanut is already 9 mos old. In just 3 short months I will be celebrating him turning 1! Baby Jack is such a sweet, smart, loving little boy. He is doing so much now! He is crawling now, He can pull to stand on anything, and when he wakes in the mornings he is standing up in his crib hollering mama mama! He is also already starting to let go of things and stand alone for a couple of seconds. He also got 2 more teeth in, his top 2 front teeth are through now! I am not sure how big he is right now but he has his 9 month check up next Tuesday. He is drinking about 4 6oz bottles per day. He eats either rice or oatmeal baby cereal mixed with 1/2 jar of stage 2 food for breakfast, 1/2 jar of stage 2 veggie and 1/2 jar stage 2 fruit for lunch, and He has just started eating stage 3 foods so for dinner he has 1/2 jar of stage 3 dinners which usually include meat, pasta, and veggies! He also snacks on the puffs throughout the day. He is still wearing 0/3 months clothes except sleepers are a 3/6 months, but he is starting to wear some 3/6 months stuff as well. He is in size 1 shoes, and his cloth diapers are still on the smallest setting but in disposables we finally went to a size 2, not bc he outgrew size 1 but because I ran out of size 1 and still had size 2 left from my baby shower so since we only use disposables at night we use them, plus he would sometimes leak at night with the size 1. My lil man is always smiling which that makes me so happy! But he is def. still a mamas boy and although he can now crawl and pull up he still def. prefers to be held by mommy most of the day and Im still wearing him if I have to get something done! Just cant believe how fast my tiny peanut is growing :(