4 months - Doctor Visit

Noah had his 4 month doctor's visit today. His stats are 15 pounds, 15 ounces (69%), 26 inches long (83%), and head circumference of 16 3/4 inches (55%). Don't ask me where the length came from. The doctor was pleased with everything he saw, especially that he sounds better. So glad that Mr. Noah is feeling and sounding better.

Then, we had a discussion about solid foods which I really want to post here because I feel like this question is going to come up a lot in the next few months. The doctor suggested starting rice cereal by spoon. We told him that we would rather wait on solid foods because we don't think Noah is ready. The main reason for this is because he still uses his tongue to push food out of his mouth. He also hasn't shown any interest in our food and he still seems satisfied with just breastmilk. Our second issue is with the cereal itself. We asked what the reason behind the cereal was and our doctor (as many other doctors will say) said it's to give him texture and teach him how to eat off a spoon. But, as I have researched, cereal has NO nutritional value. I guess I shouldn't say it has no value, because it does have extra iron which if needed would be good for formula fed babies but breastfed babies already have an increase in iron. That's the neat thing about breastmilk. It actually "reads" Noah's saliva and interprets it to what he needs and then the milk responds by making that extra vitamin or mineral. That's why my milk increases in caloric value as he gets older and that's why you don't need to increase the amount of milk he is taking in (as you would with formula fed babies). Anyway, getting back to cereal having no value...the doctor agreed with us. We told him we wanted to start him on fruits and veggies and skip the cereal which he was fine with but he wants us to wait until 6 months to make sure his body is able to handle that. This is totally fine with us seeing as though we want to wait until 6 months (or more) for any solid foods regardless. We basically see no reason to force solid foods on him before he is ready and he will definitely let us know when he is ready.

Ok - step down off of soapbox. I'm sure I'm going to have to re-explain that about 400 times, but oh well. I'm still sick, so I think I'm headed off to bed. Night.

4 months - Swimming/High Chair

We FINALLY bought Noah's high chair. It was a huge decision because I couldn't decide which one fit all my needs. Most importantly we wanted one that had the T-bar attached to the chair (not the tray). We really liked this Fisher Price one (that we ended up getting) and a Peg Perego one. Honestly the 2 biggest factors in why we bought the Fisher Price one was that we couldn't see the Peg Perego one in person anywhere (it was only online) and the Peg Perego one had a huge gap between the baby and tray where the Fisher Price ones comes close to him. However, I didn't care for the bright colors that the Fisher Price one had, oh well. Here is Noah showing off his neat chair:

After shopping this morning, we decided to take Noah on his first pool trip. Here he is sporting his new swim threads and the floaty. I think he had a great time, he smiled and laughed the whole time. He even made a new friend in the neighborhood.


When we left, we strapped him in his car seat and before we even had the car started, he was out. Noah loves sucking on his thumb now and I guess he wanted to still hang on to his swim hat.


I would say Noah is just about 100% over his sickness. Just a little congestion and we are still finishing out the antibiotics and breathing treatments. Unfortunately, I now have a low fever and don't feel very good. Hopefully my body fights it off quickly, I need to get back to a regular work schedule this week. Oh and one last item, Noah is now rolling from his back to his belly. I've been trying to get it on video, but I guess he's camera shy. Hopefully I'll get some video this week and post it later.

4 months - Sickness

So Noah was sick about a month ago and he never really got over it. He developed this cough which would make him vomit, especially right after a meal. Then on Tuesday morning, he developed a low fever which required David to go pick him up from daycare. He took him to the doctor and the doctor said it could just be a continuation of the virus he had before and he just hadn't gotten rid of it, or it could be a whole new thing, adding on top of what he already had. So the doctor sent him for chest x-rays, which came back clean. So the doctor suggested using a nebulizer for a breathing treatment several times every day. We did that for the remainder of Tuesday and all day Wednesday.

Thursday we took him back to the doctor. He was still having a fever and vomiting. The doctor looked at his ears and said they looked good, but he was still having a lot of congestion so we are supposed to continue the breathing treatments through the weekend. We also got an antibiotic to help fight off anything that is keeping him from getting well, especially since he is in daycare.

He seemed a lot better on Thursday. So far, he hasn't had a fever since Thursday afternoon, so about 24 hours feverless now. He also hasn't vomited since Thursday morning. You can tell he is generally in a better mood. Now if we can just get this congestion out of here. Hopefully this is the road to healthy Noah, because sick Noah is not very much fun. I'll keep everyone posted about his progress.

If he is doing better by Monday, he will get his 4-month well baby checkup.