Nola @ 4 Months

Nola turned FOUR months old on May 27th! Here's what she's up to these days...

• At the doctor's office on 5/28 (her regular 4 month checkup), she weighed 15 lbs, 0.5 oz. (80th percentile). She was 24.33" long (54th percentile) and her head circumference was 42 cm (78th percentile).
• She now takes a 6 oz bottle every 3-3 1/2 hours (sometimes longer). Dr. Schaefer said we can start feeding her cereal and then after a couple of weeks we can introduce vegetables.
• She still wears size 2 diapers, but now, she wears 3-6 month clothes.
• At her 4 month checkup, Dr. Schaefer said she has another ear infection. I suspected as much because she has a cold. She's been sneezing and coughing for several days and I've been getting lots of use out of the old nasal aspirator. (Yuck.) He started her on yet another antibiotic (Suprax) and put in a referral to the ENT to get tubes put in her ears. He said that there's just no reason to delay the inevitable for her. Another doctor had suggested that we wait because most babies don't have ear problems during the summer. Well, it's summer and she already has an infection. Tube time!
• Also at the checkup, she got her scheduled immunizations: DTAP HIB IPV, Pneumonia & Rotavirus. They were out of the Prevnar shots, so we have to go back for that one in a week or so.
• Nola is officially a thumbsucker. We know she's going to sleep when she puts her thumb in her mouth and the other hand over one of her eyes. Then when she falls asleep, the hand that was over her eyes goes straight to the back of her head. She sleeps like this (one thumb in the mouth and one hand on the back of her head) all the time. She's not picky about which thumb it is, though. Either one suits her just fine.

• With the recurrent ear infections that we've been fighting, Nola's cooing and "talking" have really tapered. I'm very hopeful that it won't affect her speech development since we're pushing to get tubes in quickly. It bothers me that she's not talking to us like she was, but not because I think there's anything wrong with her - just because I liked it when she did it. She does it still occasionally, but not like she used to. She still smiles from head to toe, so I know she's interacting just the same.
• Rudy swears up and down that she laughed one day when he was tickling her cheeks, but I haven't heard it yet. She did roll over at daycare on Thursday (5/27) for the first time and I happened to still be there to see it. She's only done it once since then and that was with a lot of encouragement and a little boost in the right direction.
• School is almost out for summer. Nola will be home with us for the whole summer and I can't wait for all of the adventures that we'll have. Caleb is going to school part-time for the social interaction and continuity, but Nola will be home everyday. Should be a fun summer!

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