No hospital this week. Nan - I asked her about that and she thought about it for a minute and said she didn't think so - that'd she'd expect breathing problems with that too which we haven't noticed.
His tests came back much better than they expected so that's good. We're giving him another medicine to - hopefully - help stop the spitting up. We're also going to do almost every feeding as pump, fortify the milk with a special formula to pump up the calories, then nurse some when he's done with that. *sigh* Don't they know I have NaNoing to do *g*?
Seriously - they said it could be a number of things - they're going to test my milk to make sure it's as high in calories as it's supposed to be [4th nursed baby in fairly rapid succession, said it's not unheard of]. They said it could also be that he has an exceptionally high metabolism [you know, one of those guys who can eat anything they want and never gain an ounce] or that he's just not absorbing everything right [but again - his blood work looks good].
If he hasn't gained AT LEAST 4oz by Friday he'll be in the hospital. They'd prefer at least 5-6. He'd not dehydrated or have any other obvious signs of anything except that he's not gaining weight.
Just for a frame of reference: normally I plan 2-3 hours for a doc appointment. That includes everything from shoes and hair for my older kids to accounting for them running behind and then the trip home - today took close to 8. No telling how long next week might take even if he doesn't end up hospitalized....
Anyway - I'm ready for some serious peace and quiet. DH ended up going with us [I didn't know he was going to try] and that was a good thing because mid appointment, we got a call that DD6 was throwing up at school so he went to get her and then we ate lunch [after he peed after an hour and a half] and then waited another hour [almost] in the waiting room - they'd said come back in an hour for the test results - we came back in 1:15 or so and it still took almost another hour for them to get the results.
Somehow, I doubt I'm going to get any NaNoing done tonight as much as I'd love to do nothing but. The laundry and playroom cleaning that had been on today's schedule hasn't been touched.
But the pizza was good
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Carol