(Almost) 2 Month Appointment

Yesterday Gibs had a weight check appointment. He was such a big boy at his appointment (literally--but I'll get to that later)! I allowed plenty of time for getting myself and the kids ready and for dropping Layla off at my cousin's and actually got to my appointment early! I was pretty impressed with myself as I tend to run late:). It worked out well as the doctor was ready for us early. The doctor thankfully asked if we just wanted to make it his well baby visit instead of just a weight check--otherwise we would have had to go back next week! So even though he is 7 weeks, it was his 2 month appointment. That meant getting 3 shots, but he handled them just fine! He cried when he got poked, but then quickly stopped crying and hardly cried at all through the rest of the appointment. That is quite unlike his big sis:). I'm pretty sure she cried even at her 2 month appointment. He has very watery eyes quite consistantly, but the doctor said it's okay was long we the "tears" aren't yellow--some babies just have that. They have been in the past, so I just need to watch that. It should help if I rub his tear ducts a couple of times a day and hopefully eventually that will go away on its own. We also got a prescription to hopefully help his spitting up and stomach discomfort after eating. He eats really good and is having no problem gaining weight, but it still is hard to have him be so upset after he eats. The doctor says we won't be able to tell until about a week if the medicine is helping or not.

He napped a lot once we got home and slept better last night than he's ever slept. I forgot how sleepy those shots make them! The longest stretch between feedings that he goes at night now is one 4 1/2 hour stretch (the doctor said yesterday that he probably will take an additional 6 weeks to sleep through the night from being born early--we knew that, that is how it worked with Layla too, she took about 8 weeks after her due date to sleep a full 12 hours, but we had hoped with Gibs being bigger that it wouldn't take him so long--it's not looking that way) and then the other stretches are 3-3 1/2 hours. Last night he ate at 7:30 and then went right down and slept until 1! I would have been smart to go to bed at 8 instead of 10, but at least I didn't stay up until he woke up at 1. I fed him and then he slept until 5:30 and then until 8:30 like normal. I'm sure it was just from the immunizations, but it'd be nice if he'd keep doing that! Oh, and we no longer have to add preemie formula to his breast milk bottles, so that's nice! And he said that if he needs formula we can just give him normal formula, so that's nice too!


Here are his stats:
Height: 20.7" 3rd-5th%
Weight: 9 lbs 12.5 oz 25th% Layla was 9 1/2 lbs at 4 months!
Head: 37.2 cm 10th%

Gibson ready to leave for his appointment...


So Layla thought she needed a picture too...


His chubby legs after his shots...


This was from the other day. He often has a hard time staying awake during his "awake time" after feedings.


Layla trying to start a new trend on how to wear hats (she's wearing a sun hat if you can't tell). And of course she had taken her pants off saying she had to go potty (but we are not working on potty training).