Ben has been having a good winter season thus far. No colds to speak of (despite both Josh and I having bad ones!) so we are crossing our fingers that continues. We have been to the pulminologist who gave us a nebulizer so that if Ben does get a cold, we can start administering medicine immediately. We are due to see her monthly this winter and then space it out further as he gets bigger and stronger. We also saw a GI doctor who I was not thrilled with. He end diagnosis is Ben is a normal infant with the spit up but seemed to take the attitude that I was the one pushing to go to all of his doctors and was trying to over medicate him. I explained he wasn’t on any medicine besides Zantac but it didn’t make much of a difference. I am going to talk to our pediatrician and if she still feels there is a need for Ben to see a GI doctor, we will find a new one. We go to the pediatrician twice a month now, once to get his RSV shot (RSV is a severe cold that affects babies under the age of two but greatly affects preemies) and the other time to get regular immunizations. You can’t give an immunization within two weeks of the RSV shot and RSV has to be given 28-30 days apart so we are on a fairly strict schedule.
Ben is now eating between 3oz and 4oz at feedings and sleeping better at night. Routinely 7-9 hours which has been great. He weighs 9lbs now and looks markedly bigger to everyone that sees him regularly. Although he is still in newborn sized clothes, we see that he will soon grow out of them. My dad sent an adorable Peacoat for him for the winter that is 0-3m that is still a little too big for him but will be perfect mid winter.
He still isn’t really smiling or laughing yet, but it will come. Josh and I agree that he has smiled twice so far…but the doctors say he just has so much going on, not to expect everything will happen when it is supposed to.
Otherwise, Josh and I have thrown ourselves into the house hunt. Housing prices are down so much along with interest rates that is we were to buy a modest house, it would be about 2/3 of what we pay in rent so its actually cheaper for us to find a house right now. We have been spending Saturdays with a realtor and are hoping to find something soon. We’ll keep you posted!
December 2008
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Ben and I returned to Boston a week ago Sunday to celebrate Thanksgiving and hang out for the week. Josh joined us Thursday morning. Unfortunately, I was not greeted with the happiest news. Despite holding a company meeting a week prior saying that layoffs were over, they apparently forgot they had yet to close the “New York Office” which meant I strolled into work on Monday all happy to see my co-workers whom I hadn’t seen in a month and promptly got laid off. Not effective until Dec 31st. But as of the new year, I will be unemployed. This comes on the heels of the excitement of recently getting Ben into daycare (nanny share didn’t work out…) as of Jan 5th. So, Ben now has daycare but I don’t have a job. We will get it all figured out and luckily have a few weeks to do so before we are down to one income but I have concluded that 2008 just wasn’t our year…
In Ben news, we are going to the pediatrician tomm so we can update everyone on weight. We also are going to the pediatric GI doctor to try and figure out why he spits up so much.
