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Failure to Thrive

Posted in failure to thrive on January 29, 2008| 32 Comments »

Ellie is officially “failing to thrive”. She weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces on January 4th. She weighed 7 pounds 8.4 ounces on January 22nd. We spent a full week adding extra calories to any expressed breast milk (EBM) bottles she received (3-4 per day while I’m at work, none on the weekend), and pushing feedings every 3 hours during the day.

Today she weighed… 7 pounds 8.4 ounces.

So we’re going to do a trial of Zantac, knowing that it probably won’t help because she’s not showing ANY of the classic signs of reflux except for failure to gain weight, but also knowing it won’t hurt either. And I’m making an appointment with a pediatric gastroenterologist who will hopefully have some more answers for us (though I’m not counting on it).

My poor, tiny Ellie.

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Moo!

Posted in breastfeeding on January 29, 2008| 11 Comments »

I have pumped 7432.5 ounces of milk since September 19th, 2007. That is 58 gallons of milk. That is not counting any of milk they’ve gotten from direct breast feeding. My next project is to add up the number of hours I’ve spent breast feeding. When this is all over, I’m totaling up all the gallons I pumped, the hours spent breast feeding, and the number of diapers changed (I have a log of all of this stuff) and I’m sending them a bill before they go off to college.

But seriously folks, I do it with love. Really. Still, 58 gallons??? Can you believe it? I can’t!

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Moo!

Posted in breastfeeding on January 29, 2008| 5 Comments »

I have pumped 7432.5 ounces of milk since September 19th, 2007. That is 58 gallons of milk. That is not counting any of milk they've gotten from direct breast feeding. My next project is to add up the number of hours I've spent breast feeding. When this is all over, I'm totaling up all the gallons I pumped, the hours spent breast feeding, and the number of diapers changed (I have a log of all of this stuff) and I'm sending them a bill before they go off to college.

But seriously folks, I do it with love. Really. Still, 58 gallons??? Can you believe it? I can't!

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Failure to Thrive

Posted in failure to thrive on January 29, 2008| 34 Comments »

Ellie is officially "failing to thrive". She weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces on January 4th. She weighed 7 pounds 8.4 ounces on January 22nd. We spent a full week adding extra calories to any expressed breast milk (EBM) bottles she received (3-4 per day while I'm at work, none on the weekend), and pushing feedings every 3 hours during the day.

Today she weighed… 7 pounds 8.4 ounces.

So we're going to do a trial of Zantac, knowing that it probably won't help because she's not showing ANY of the classic signs of reflux except for failure to gain weight, but also knowing it won't hurt either. And I'm making an appointment with a pediatric gastroenterologist who will hopefully have some more answers for us (though I'm not counting on it).

My poor, tiny Ellie.

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