Growing, Growing and Growing some more

Allie was born at 37 weeks and 5 days. She was 19 inches and 7 pounds 15 ounces. By the time she left the hospital on October 31 she was down to 6 pounds and 15 ounces. About a week after that she had lost even more weight and was 6 pounds and 12 ounces. That was too much weight loss and she was switched to formula every 2 hours around the clock for 7 days ( I would even have to wake her up to keep her on the 2 hour schedule). What a 7 days that was... Anyway, at the end of those 7 days she had started gaining weight. She wasn't back up to her birth weight but she was "headed in the right direction" according to Dr. Pace.

At her 2 month check-up she was 22 inches and 10 pounds 11 ounces. Today at approximatley 3 months and 3 weeks she is at 25 inches (75th percentile) and 16 pounds (95th percentile)!!! Dr. Pace is quite happy with her size now =) I told him there was no way he could think I wasn't feeding her now!

I am so thankful that she is such a healthy baby! Knock on wood, but so far she hasn't had any sort of illness or issue. I did however take her in one day because (in my infinite wisdom) I thought she was congested. Nope, she was fine. I just had to get saline spray and clean her nose.

Right now she is on Prosobee ( soy) formula. Dr. Pace said that is what is causing her consipation so we are going to switch to Similac Sensitive and try to get away from the soy formula. Hopefully that takes care of the problem and she can stop drinking so much prune juice...

Yeah for a healthy growing baby!!!