We took James to the pediatrician this morning for his 7-month checkup. He weighed in at 14 pounds and 15 ounces. Almost 15 pounds! The pediatrician thinks James has an infection in his left ear so he prescribed Cefdinir for 10 days. In a post a couple of weeks ago…
Well, crap! James had an appointment with his neurologist today and when Stacy showed him the video of James’ "quirks", he thought they looked like infantile spasms and wants to treat them as such until we get a confirmation EEG. Wait a minute! Let’s back up for a second. On…
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James has been having what we think are GI (gastrointestinal) issues for a while now. He doesn’t seem to be tolerating his food well so yesterday we switched his formula from Similac Alimentum to Similac Sensitive to see if that helps. Today we took James to a different GI doctor…
My employer had a health and wellness fair a while back and there was a chiropractor there that was doing free consultations. I had never been to a chiropractor before and didn’t really know what they did so I stopped to chat with him. He gave me his spiel and…
James had an appointment with his pediatrician this morning. He got the second doses of these vaccines: Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP) Hepatitis B (HepB) Pneumococcal (PCV13) He received the first doses of these vaccines at his first appointment with the pediatrician on November 6th. 2009 CDC Recommended Immunization…
James went to see the eye doctor today. It was the same eye doctor that saw James in the NICU. From the exam James was given in the NICU, we were already aware that the optic nerve in his left eye didn’t fully develop. Now it seems that he is…