Jac and Daddy and I went to see the pediatrician today. Jac has been having a lot of gas and spit-ups and we (read Taj) haven been getting a bit worried.
Jac now weighs in at 5 pounds 2.5 ounces! Yeah! He broke 5 pounds but he is a bit off the growth curve that he had established the first 2 weeks he was home with a weight gain of only 3.5 ounces in 6 days.
We (along with his doctor) have decided to switch him to pure breast milk for 2 days (I am going to pump hind milk and separate it again which I have not been doing since he came home) and give him just that and see if the gas and the spit-ups get any better. We are also increasing his Prevacid to 1.5 ml twice a day (up from 1.0 ml twice per day). Given his weight gain of more than a pound! since he left the hospital this increase is appropriate.
We are going to try the pure breast milk for 2 days and go back for a weight check on Wednesday morning and see how he is doing. We are hoping that he will gain weight and be more comfortable which will make all of us happier.
Having a refluxy and gassy baby is a bit challenging to say the least.
We tried the boob again twice today. He was not able to latch on this afternoon but he got on this evening but did not do much sucking or swallowing. The nipple shield is still confusing him. He is now at the weight that a lot of twins are born at - but without the muscle tone of a full term baby that would give him the strong suck needed to drink directly from the breast. I am going to make another appointment with the lactation consultants and see if perhaps I can have someone come to the house.
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