Piper Two Week Checkup

Today Piper had her two week checkup. Overall Dr. Booth thinks she is doing really well. She is basically back to her birth weight of 7 pounds 13 ounces (she weighed in at 7 pounds 12 ounces). Last Thursday Dr. Booth asked us to start supplementing since Piper hadn't had a bowel movement in a few days. He was thinking that she might be slightly dehydrated and that she might not be gaining any weight if she was having bowel movements. Since Piper is now back to her birth weight, Dr. Booth said we could discontinuing supplementing. Yeah!!!

Piper is definitely a more challenging child for us because she cries a lot more than Pennington ever did. It appears as though her tummy hurts and she probably has Colic. I talked to Dr. Booth about this and we decided to give her a Probiotic (aka Natural Bacteria). The idea behind the Probiotic is that it can calm down her tummy. The only way to give her the Probiotic is to give it to her in a bottle so she is still getting 2 ounces of formula in a bottle a day. From what I can tell this is really helping. She doesn't seem to be as cranky as she used to.