Check-Ups

Tuesday I took the girls to the doctor for their 4 month check up. Lexyn weighed 8 pounds 14.6 ounces. She was 21 1/2 inches long and her head measured 14 1/2 inches. She was in the 5% in everything. Brittyn weighed 8 pounds 15.6 ounces. She was 22 1/2 inches long, and her head measured 14 1/2 inches. She was also in the 5% in everything. Their doctor was really unhappy with their weight. He said they aren't eating enough and he wanted to change their formula back to a preemie formula, like Similac Neosure, which is what they started first when I stopped breastfeeding but they projectile vomited it. So then they started Enfamil Lipil and they did the same so he then switched them to Enfamil Prosobee. Brittyn has done very well on it, projectile vomiting about one bottle a week as opposed to every bottle; but Lexyn still projectile vomited the soy so he then switched her to Nutramigen Lipil. She has been doing great on it. I begged him yesterday not to switch their formula again. He gave me a recipe to put more powder to the water so that it would be 24 calorie instead of just 20 cal. Then he told me to feed them every 3 hours during the day. Because of the girls swallowing issues they have to have each bottle thickened to Nectar so we use cereal or simply thick. When they get cereal they usually don't eat but every 4 1/2 to 5 hours. So the past 2 days of trying to make them eat every 3 hours has been a chore. They just keep looking at me like, "mom, we are stuffed!" We go back for weight checks on the 29th, and we have to pray they have gained what he wants so he won't change their formula. They are still having some apnea alarms so there is no talk at this point when their monitors will come off. They did get their first shot to help prevent RSV. They will get 5 more shots one every 28 days. He told us not to leave the house except for doctor appointments starting November through the end of March. He did say we could go to church but not to let kids around them and do not put them in the nursery. He said that no one should be near them that has a cough or the sniffles, and anyone that does come over must wash their hands and use hand sanitizer before touching them. So hopefully we won't go crazy from being house bound, and the girls won't get badly sick this season. Here are a few recent pictures for you to enjoy.