Taylor has been at daycare for 5 weeks now. The first 2 weeks she hated bottles but adjusted because she had to. The next 2 weeks she was fine and drank 3 oz at a time. Last week and this week (this is week 6) she has started fighting the teachers at daycare again and will only drink 1-2 oz at a time or will take the full hour to drink 3-4 oz but fights them on it. (She would not eat for Kristen Saturday either so we left the Razorback game early to go feed her.) Monday I got a note from the teachers saying "We cannot get Taylor to eat. We need some suggestions! She gets very angry every time we put the bottle in her mouth." (and yes they had very underlined!) So she has been congested some the last 2 weeks and to make sure that is not why she won't eat I took her to the dr yesterday to make sure she didn't have an ear infection or some other issue going on. The dr said she is perfectly fine! Her ears look great and the fluid that was there 2 weeks ago is completely gone…she is not running a fever…she is congested but it has not caused any type of infection where she needs meds for it. The congestion is what is making her cough and her voice sound funny so the dr told me to buy some Little Noses Decongestion drops that you put up their nose. She said to only use it for 3 or 4 days if it seems to help. The main reason for the decongestion drops is because I told her how she has basically stopped eating from bottles all together and school is starting to get frustrated. She said to try the drops and see if she will eat then and if so she is just not eating because of the congestion. If she continues to not eat from bottles, then she is probably just being picky. She said she sees it at times where certain babies only want to breastfeed and will not take a bottle…or certain babies only want a bottle and won’t breastfeed. She said to try giving her the milk in a sippy cup instead of a bottle also and see if that helps. I told the Dr "I'm supposed to learn with my first child...not my 3rd" and she laughed and said "they are all different!" and then shared a story about her 4 kids (which made me feel better)...another reason I love Dr. Furlow at NW Peds...she is so sweet and just open about her personal experiences too!
She said if Taylor continues to not want to eat from bottles to start her on rice cereal earlier than normal. So after the dr appt yesterday I thought “well I need sippy cups and this nose stuff so I’ll go to Target and get them both instead of going to Collier Drug right beside the dr office”. Well Target didn’t carry the nose drops. I then went to Walmart and Walgreens in Fayetteville and they didn’t carry them either. I drove to Springdale Neighborhood Market and they didn’t carry it but called the Springdale Walmart Pharmacy where Maria said “yes we carry it”…so I drove to Springdale Walmart only to find out they don’t carry it but they do carry the saline spray (not what I needed...thanks Maria!). While on my way to Springdale WM I called Harps and they did carry it…so after looking at 5 stores I finally found it at store #6 and then found out that the Colliers right beside the Dr office carry's it also…but I still needed to get my sippy cups so I would have had to go to Target anyway…but I could have saved myself 4 other stops! LOL Oh well…
Since she was not 'sick' I went ahead to dinner with my girlfriends last night thinking Taylor will drink a bottle for Kraig so I'm good. About an hour into dinner Kraig called with Taylor screaming in the background saying "can you eat fast?". So I did, paid the bill and drove home to feed Taylor. Little stinker was happy as could be when she saw me and still didn't eat a lot but ate some. Then when it was bedtime she ate like she normally does and went to sleep and slept great like she does! So the good news is Taylor is not sick…the bad news is she is not eating much at a time and fights them at school…so hopefully she will start eating from bottles again soon so the teachers don’t feel like they are doing something wrong.
To compare -
Lauren gained 3 lbs in 9 weeks from 2 months to 4 months. (11 weeks to 20 weeks)
Colton gained 2 lbs in 5 weeks from 2 months to 4 months. (11 weeks to 16 weeks)
Taylor gained 2 lbs in 8 weeks from 2 months to 4 months. (10 weeks to 18 weeks)
The scale at the dr office said she weighed 15 lbs 4 oz today
(home baby scale says 15 lbs 11 oz so one is off...)
So yes she is gaining weight...just not at the rate my older 2 kids did when they were her age.
If this is just an inkling of what is to come...I'm in trouble! :-)
I mean does this look like an unhappy child? NO...little stinker! She is happy as can be...just won't eat from a bottle!
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