Prelogar Land

Back to operation put weight on the kid. We went and saw Dr. Molly on Tuesday for a weight check. He lost a few ounces. He did get taller, he’s in the 30% for height and 1% for weight. But his weight was 21 lbs 10 oz and three months ago it was 22 lbs 1 oz. He has become more regular in the last months, but not enough to make him lose weight. I also mentioned the teething and night waking. She said teeth should not wake him up at night (which I disagree). With his history of enlarged kidney, she decided to do a urine culture to check for UTI. Do you know how they collect urine on a toddler boy? They put a penis shaped plastic bag around their penis with major adhesive on one side. No exactly comfortable. When he FINALLY pees in the thing (you should have seen him walk in this) the nurse yanks it off. He said “ouch – penis- pinch” for like two hours. Everywhere we go “ouch-penis-pinch”. No UTI. It’s teeth. Now that the second tooth is mostly out, he’s sleeping through the night again.

She did have some good suggestions for increasing calories. Since he won’t drink milk (and why would he when he has breastmilk?) she suggested at least 16 oz of whole milk yogurt each day and more meat. He loves his yogurt so we’ll see when we go back in a month for a weigh-in.

We’ve got another toddler birthday party tonight and a lot of other stuff going on this week. Many good things going on, I will have to update during the next nap!