My peanut needs butter!! :)

So, James and I have been wondering if Ethan was gaining any weight since he came off the oxygen. I was concerned enough about it that I set up a doctors appointment to get his weight checked. We went in last Tuesday and he weighed 17lbs 5.5oz.

Guess what?

That is the exact same weight he was 2 months before when we went to their 12 month check up.

So, he has not gained any weight. But... he hasn't lost any either. So, Ethan is now on a high calorie diet. We are putting butter and cheese in everything that he is eating. He is getting about 3oz of half&half in his milk (3oz .5&.5 and 5oz of milk). We also put Carnation Instant Breakfast in his oatmeal in the morning to make it extremely high cal.

However, he needs to be keeping his food down. He hasn't had the best track record this week at keeping his food down after eating. He gets to gagging and then he doesn't keep his food down. (Alex is actually having this same issue too.) But we had forgotten his Prevacid for a few days, so hopefully with a couple of days of us remember it will help him get back to none puking.

We will be going back in on election day to do a quick weight check and then we will go in again on Nov 16th for the 15 month check up. If he doesn't gain weight or doesn't gain enough weight we will be discussing going back to the pulmonologist about the O2 issue.

Sometimes if the body is working too hard on trying keep it's o2 supply up then it doesn't work on gaining weight. So, if the high cal diet doesn't work, we may have to go back on o2. I really don't want to, and I am sure Ethan really doesn't want to. But if that is what we need to do then we will do it.

Please pray that he gains weight these next couple of weeks.