Lauren’s now eight weeks old. She’s grown quite a bit, now much heavier than before. By our estimate, she’s about 11.5 pounds. She’s going to see her Pediatrician tomorrow, and hopefully things will turn out well.
She’s been mostly an easy baby and not so fussy. She has a few persistent problems that we are still trying to deal with.
- She’s gassy a lot of the times. She sucks in milk with vigor most of the time, and as the result, a lot of air go down with the milk as well. Thus we had to interrupt her feeding and burp her quite often. Sometime, the burping can take an hour or longer for the air bubble to come up. We started using Mylicon drops couple of weeks ago, which sped up the burping process, but still her burping routine still takes considerable effort.
- She sometime spits up milk. In the past two weeks, Lauren spitted up 2 oz of milk three times. Twice was because she was fed more than 5 oz of milk without burping, and the other time was because of her overeating. However, it was still a concern for us. JY will ask our pediatrician tomorrow if we should check Lauren for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD).
- Her nose fills with snots at least once a day, and because she doesn’t like to breath through her mouth, she’s fussy and cries until the snots are removed. The snot-removal process is not pleasant, she clearly demonstrate that by using her little fist to push away the bulb syringe. I’m usually the one who does the honor, and yes, I’m an expert at this stuff by now =)
Despite all her problems, Lauren has developed well. She sleeps well, is spending more time playing, is becoming more responsive, and she smiles at the most unexpected times.
Hopefully we’ll have good news after Lauren sees her doctor tomorrow. Please continue to pray for Lauren and our family.