The best way to describe the doctor that we saw without being mean, would be to say that he was verrrrry set in his ways, extremely old-fashioned and had been doing this for so long that it seemed like he was basically reading from a script, asking his routine questions that he asks at every baby well-check appointment and going through the movements as quick as he could so he could move onto the next patient, just to do it all over again.
I went in with a few questions that I was really anxious to have answered. After about two minutes I realized I would not have the answers when I walked out. In fact, I would be more confused and frustrated that I was when I arrived.
He thought I was swaddling Owen because it was winter time and he was cold, not because he pulls out his pacifier, waps himself in the head and cant seem to settle himself down without the swaddle.
His suggestion to help Owen keep the pacifier in his mouth was to somehow get a receiving blanket and put it through the hole of the pacifier and somehow mash it up to his face so he could find it on his own....yeah, I have no idea either. Don't doctors usually tell you not to put blankets in the crib with a baby? He thinks that the reason he has starting eating again at night is because he needs to start solids, even though everything I have ever read suggests waiting until 6 months.
I guess the only good information I got from the appointment was that Owen is healthy and hitting all the developmental milestones right on time...and that's what really matters.
Anyway, here are his 4 month stats:
Height: 24 inches, 65-75%
Weight: 16 lbs, 85-90%
Head: 50%
He is our big boy!
He has learned to roll over from tummy to back and is working on back to tummy, he almost has it! Apparently there is something called the 4 month sleep regression....and we are knee-deep in it! All the progress we made in the sleep department seemed to go straight out the window in the last two weeks. But I think we are finally making progress again and its getting better. If I continue to write about it, I may start to cry, so Ill leave it at that.
It seems that no matter how much or little he sleeps during the day, he is still the cheery little guy we love so much!
We have started going for an after dinner walk each night to look at the Christmas lights in the neighborhood. Eli really enjoys it and we get a kick out of all the things he says on our walks.
All of a sudden Eli is saying EVERYTHING. And speaking in sentences, and becoming extremely independent, and makes us laugh all the time.
I do believe we are in the terrible twos. It isn't so terrible, but man, he is wearing us out! The energy. The independence. The tantrums. But goodness he is sweet and pretty funny!
He loves looking at the lights and points out the same burnt out light in one of our neighbors yards and is very concerned about it every night.
