My baby turned 4 months old on 10-9-2011. I can't believe it's already been 4 months since I brought my tiny baby home from the hospital. Both my boys are growing up way too fast!
We took Haden to his Well Child Check-up today. He is healthy and growing perfectly!
His 4 month stats are,
Weight: a whopping 17lbs! 77.53%tile
Height:25.5 inches 58.52%tile
Head circ: 16.4 inches 23.79%tile
We talked to the doctor about Haden screaming ALL the time. He gave us a prescription for Zantac, to see if it has anything to do with reflux. I had decided that milk protein wasn't a problem and I have been back on dairy for about 2 weeks. The doctor confirmed that if Haden had a dairy problem, then we would definitely know about it. So, yay! No more feeling guilty about eating dairy!
The other possible problem with Haden's screaming, could be that he is still too sensitive, when the doctor was examining him, turning his head, Haden would cry and flail his arms. The doctor said most babies didn't care by this age and didn't react like he was. He said it had something to do with his nervous system being to immature still.
Any way we are going to try the Zantac for two weeks and see if it makes any difference and then re evaluate the situation and see if he needs a different medicine or if we'll just have to let him grow out of the crying.
Here's a picture of Landon at 4 months and of Haden this month. Haden is definitely a fatty :)
sure is a cutie! No fun with the crying all the time, that's just stressful! Carter had reflux and we did some of the zantac, but I also found that a teaspoon of maalox seemed to work better. have you tried "white noise" to get him to calm down in fussy fit times? I would nap him by the dryer or even feed him with the blowdryer going in the sink (because he would cry hard when he was eating).
ReplyDeleteAnyway - best of luck with figuring it out. I'm sure you have & will find some good tricks that help
He doesn't cry while he's eating, but I do run a fan at night and he really likes the blowdryer. Thanks
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