We took Carter to his pediatrician yesterday. This past week, he advised to try mostly breastfeeding, hoping it might help with his reflux, as he seems to do it worse with formula. But he had only gained 1 ounce in a week, which is not enough. It seems that he is still so small, that the energy used up while breastfeeding is pretty much equal to what he is taking in, and in a sense, being a little counter-productive. So this week is doing partial breastfeeding, with formula each feeding. We will take him back in a week and let them weigh him and see what his weight is after that. He is taking liquid vitamins, which always seem to make the reflux worse and upset his tummy a little, so the doctor told us to pre-mix his day's formula and mix the vitamins with a large amount and then he would only be getting small amounts at one time. We also asked about trying Zantac, as we had read some babies are on that, but he said Zantac is harder to tolerate than Pepcid, so we will continue with that.
Our dumb question of the day was, what do we do if mama or daddy gets sick? Our funny doctor replied, "Well, we come and take the baby and give him back after about 10 days or so." He said if mama gets sick, her body is making antibodies to whatever she has, and while Carter is breastfeeding, he is also receiving those antibodies. He said Carter may get sick with whatever they have, but he should also be able to fight it fairly well.
It is still so frustrating not being able to take him out anywhere because of the germs and viruses, and once in a while it is really tempting.But if we can hold out until this winter's "sick" season is over, we will be out and about with him. I guess it's not worth the chance of having to go back to the nicu!
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