We had Lakelyn's 6 month check up on September 30th! We originally were supposed to go in on September 21st to see Dr. Benji Rogers, but I had to work that day and had to reschedule and ended up not being able to get in to see him so we saw Dr. Sudheimer (I think that is how you spell her name). So we were a little bummed. Not that she isn't a good doctor because she is we just prefer to see him.
Anyway, my concerns at this appointment were:
-I had a cold a couple of weeks ago and she had a runny nose for about a week and would get fussy at times and started pulling at her ear again when she got tired or fussy (she stopped doing this for the most part so her doing it again concerned me) So I wanted to make sure she wasn't getting sick and maybe it was more of her teething. I did not notice any kind of fever.
-My cycle came back when she was about 3-4 month old and now every time its about to start I notice a huge decrease in my milk supply. Because of this we have been having to supplement with formula more than I want to (about 2 bottles a day). She doesn't really like the formula at all. She does better with the already mixed formula than she does with the powder stuff, but she just doesn't like it and spits it up a good bit even with all of the different brands that I have tried.
-She also had a spot on the roof of her mouth that I was worried was thrush starting back up again
-Her sleeping at night was HORRIBLE. waking on average 4-5 times a night. There was a couple of weeks where she was waking every 30 mins to an hour. Not necessarily to eat, but just wanted to be picked up for a minute, given a paci, or nursed just to nurse.
The doctor looked at her ears and nose and stuff and said there were no signs of an ear infection so it could be teething or a little cold or maybe a mixture of both. She said its hard to tell at this stage and its treated the same. She said as long as there is no fever and she seems fine not to worry. If she gets fussy like she may be in pain or starts to run a fever I could give her Tylenol.
The spot on the top of her mouth was a little cyst thing that she said a lot of babies get. its nothing to worry about
She said her weight and growth chart looked awesome so she had no concerns with her eating. She is getting what she needs and to keep doing what I'm doing.
As for the sleep at night.. she said she should NOT be waking up at night and she shouldn't be hungry she has just learned that she can nurse and be comforted when she wakes instead of falling back to sleep on her own so that is what she is doing. She said for me NOT to go in there at night when she cries. Basically the "cry it out" method. This is something I was not all that happy about. I understand some people can do it, but I just cannot let my child cry and cry when she just wants a quick snuggle. If she is just fussy or whining I usually let her do that for a little bit to see if she'll go back to sleep and sometimes she does. However, sometimes it turns into a real cry with tears or she'll be sitting up or on her hands and knees stuck in the corner of her crib and not able to figure out how to roll back over to the middle of the crib or something. And I'm not going to sit there and let her do that. I will go in there pick her up for a minute, settle her down, give her a paci, lay her down and she usually goes back to sleep. There are some nights where she knows its me and wants to nurse and I will nurse her. We have gotten better since this appointment and I have only been nursing her maybe once in the night. I have had a night where it was 2 times, but Tyler has been stepping up a lot and helping get up with her at night which I think has helped her fall back asleep without me and without nursing. Sometimes if she is still really fussy and crying we'll give her a little bit of juice and she falls back asleep again. So its a work in progress, but it is progress and its been good progress so I will not be doing the entire "cry it out" method.
And a little off topic of her actual appointment, but I have to rant for a second. Every time I go in there some little kid with a runny nose and hands in their mouth touching everything running around like a wild hyena comes up to my child and tried to get all up in her face touching her. Like back the HECK up and parents control you child! I mean how rude and annoying. My child is not sick and I'd prefer for it to stay that way. I mean I literally had to lightly push this little girl (her shirt was soaking wet with who knows what and she had her hands all in her mouth trying to touch lakelyn in the face) and tell her "no, you need to back up and don't touch her" then the mom with her other 2 children and baby said "come her insert name here". I was so annoyed!
Back to her appointment:
The nurse came in and got all of the concerns and her weight and length and stuff:
She weighed: 14 pounds 9 ounces
She was 25.5in long
Her head circumference was 16.25 cm
She was getting two shots in her leg and one oral. She also got the first part of her flu shot making it 3 sticks in the leg again :( With each appointment it gets harder and harder. This was the first time she looked at me and cried and wanted me when another person had her. She did ok with the nurse getting her measurements. She did ok with the Dr. for a minute, but was looking at me kind of sad and then when she laid her down that's when she started to cry and reach for me and after that she didn't stop until I picked her up. And then when the shots came she screamed. You could hear the pain in her cry and it broke my heart into a million pieces! I grabbed her as soon as she finished and just held her and gave her the rest of her bottle (she was also hungry and sleepy by the time she got the shots so that didn't help) But she calmed right down until I had to get her dressed. After that we was good to go and passed right out the second I put her in her carseat. Again, we weren't even out of the parking lot when she fell asleep.
So overall, she is a perfect healthy little girl that just wants her momma <3 I'm not complaining either!
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