Baylor man... 4 months old!

BAYLOR RYAN... 4 MONTHS OLD!

Weight - 12 lbs 13oz dropped to 20th percentile. 

Length - 26" So Tall! 90th percentile. 

Head Circumference - not sure but it was 40th percentile. 

Clothing Size - 3-6 months. Pants and sleepers are 6 months because he is so long. 3 month onesies still fit. Size 2 Pampers Swaddler sensitive diapers. 

Sleeping - He is still on a very predictable schedule. Bedtime around 7-8pm. Sleeps until 4am, eats, and goes back to sleep until 7:30, eats and then usually stays awake for a little while until falling back asleep around 9-930. He takes 2-3 short 30-45 min naps in the morning and then a long afternoon nap from about 2-5.  He is sleeping through the night more. But we have to get up at least once to give him his binky and then he falls right back asleep. 

Teeth - nadda. So much drool and chewing but no signs of teeth. 

Eating - Prevacid was working great. Sleeping through the night, no crying, no spit up. He was like a whole new baby. But unfortunately it was a compound and the compound breaks down after about 15 days and starts to lose its effect. Back to spitting up until we can get a new refill. 

Movement - Rolls all over the place. Loves tummy time.

Milestones - Sitting up, starting to pull his knees under him to try and get on all 4. Sleeps on his tummy.

Favorite toys/activities - Anything he can chew on. "Playing with his sister!"

Dislikes - Spitting up, going days and days without pooping

What we love - What a good, easy, chill baby he is. How much his sister adores him. 

What we don't love - Acid Reflux. Not consistently sleeping through the night. 

What we're looking forward to- Sleeping through the night and growing out of his acid reflux. 

4 MONTH CHECK UP-

Dr. Freeman is concerned with B not gaining very much weight in the last 2 months and dropping quite a bit on the growth chart. There are a couple factors that we are looking at. 1. It could be his acid reflux and spitting up along with not eating more than 2-3 oz every 3ish hours during the day. Or 2) it could be that he is developmentally like a 6-9 month old and burning a lot more calories than most 4 month olds. So he is having his weight gain drop off now instead of at 9 months. I think it is more related to #1. 

Other than his weight and acid reflux he is doing so great. Dr. Freeman thinks he will be like his sister and crawling at 6m and walking at 9m if not sooner. 

We are holding off on starting solids due to his lack of weight gain which is kind of a double edge sword. Solids will help with the AR but we need him to get his calories from milk and not rice cereal. At 6 months we will re-evaluate our plan. 

B had 3 shots and 1 oral vaccine. He took them like a champ. He hardly cried at all and wasn't fussy or feverish at all.