2 Month Doctor Visit

Well I have a lot to report today. We had our 2 month check up, actually more like 9wks, but who's counting. I'll break it down by baby, then have a both baby section.

Harlan
Weight 9lbs4ozs
Length 20.5 inches
Head 14-3/4

Doctor said she is looking and it processing nicely. All her action, sounds, feel are normal. She has some thrush coming back, so she will get more of that medicine for a little while.

Lanier
Weight 10lbs2ozs
Length 21 inches
Head 14-1/4

Doctor said she is looking good.The best news is she is now off of her anpea machine. Since she has gone almost 6 weeks without an episode, not counting ones while giving medicine, the doctor felt it was time to get her off of it. Plus we have only had her in it for 4-5 hours a day for the last 2 weeks.Lanier will also be going in at the end of March for her PT/OT checkup for being in the NNICU. We will be doing this every 3 months until she is a year old.

Both Babies

1. As for the both of them, their sizes come in around the 25th perctentile for weight and head size. The length is only in the 5th percentile, but she said length is very hard to get at this age and the 6 month length is the one they really go by. The doctor said since they were not extreme preemies that she was not going to do a age adjustment on them, since they are processing normally.


2. They had their Zantac and Reglan dosage raised since they have gained more weight. We will need to have it adjusted again at a 3 month weigh in.


3. The doctor also said we can start placing them on their stomachs during the day to help build muscle and coordination. But they still need to sleep on their backs


4. They have been moved off of the high calorie food and can go to regular formula. Yea for us, the regular stuff is a lot cheaper and the way they have been downing the NeoSure, it was getting right expensive. Granted we did have some freebie formula for having twins., but the ride home put them to sleep and hopefully will sleep it off. We also were told to give them infant Tylenol to help reduce any fever and pain.

Finally a new post

Well its been a little while since I have done an update on the babies. Daddy has been a bit busy with work and hasn't had a chance to update. I also have a few pictures to upload, maybe I'll get to those in the nest day or so.

As far as the girls go, they are growing and growing. We have had to move them in to their own cribs now. They were getting so big, that they would touch one side or the other with very little effort.

This earlier this week, they got to spend some time with the grandparents while Dana went to a baby sale. She was able to pick up some swings, toys, stroller, and the like for a real good price. According to Dana, Grandma has a new appreciation for what we go through on a daily basis. One baby is easy, 2 is a bit more time consuming. We joke that we would have had to hire help if it had been triplets.

On Friday, we go in for our 2 month doctors visit. Which means shot time. So we will have some upset babies tomorrow. More on that after the fact.

Well daddy has to get to get to work now, even if it is just upstairs at the home-office.

Not so little anymore

Well our little ones are not so little anymore. We went to the doctor's today to talk about Lanier (more later on that), but we got them both weighed. This is at 7 weeks, 4 days old. Remember they came home at 4lbs9ozs for Harlan and 4lbs13ozs for Lanier.

Harlan - 8Lbs 4ozs
Lanier - 9lbs 2ozs

The reason we went in today was to have the doc look at Lanier's eye and to discuss her monitor results. Her eye seemed to be extra watery and would sometimes form sticky stuff to the point of the eye not wanting to open. Well turns out that it is fairly common and we can just wash it out. But if it continues, we can get a antibacterial gel to put on it.

As far as her monitor, we are having doubts as to the effectiveness of it. Our last reading seemed a bit off and the doc said we can leave her out of it as long as she is awake but she still needs it at night and during naps.

We will also be calling to get a new monitor, just to make sure that it was not the reason for the odd results we got. The results showed 6 events and we recorded none of those, because the monitor never went off.

Also along those lines, since they are gaining weight, the doc up'd the dosage of the medicine for the antacid and spitup.

Harlan in mamma's hand 

Lanier in froggy outfit 

some more baby pics 

one more of 2 

Sleeping Babies 

Sleeping babies at Grandmas house 

Sleeping angels 1.30.06