Two Months Old

Ellie had her two month check-up this morning with Dr. Mulqueen. It went well. She's a healthy little girl. She stayed perfectly on the 90th percentile curve that she's been on since birth for both height and weight. She's 12 pounds 11 ounces and 23 3/4 inches tall. She had 2 shots today plus a drink for the rotavirus. I took Charlotte to the appointment too. Well, when Ellie got the shots, she let out a pretty loud scream and Charlotte hugged my leg and was holding back tears. She's so sweet, she sympathy cries if another kid is crying. She hasn't done it for Ellie before but this cry was louder than the norm and I think it scared her.

I asked about the flu shot and after he explained things a little, I decided Stephe and I will get the vaccine but the kids will not. I've never had the vaccine before and probably wouldn't do it if it wasn't for the kids. Since Charlotte's only at daycare 2 days a week (and one of those days, she's the only kid there), chances are if she got the flu, it would be from us. He told me she's not the highest risk and that it was up to us whether we wanted her to have one.

We're still trying to figure out what type of formula to put Eleanor on. We started with Enfamil Premium with Lipil which she was spitting up with. So I went and bought Nestle Goodstart Gentle Ease which was made her spit up even worse. I bought a can of Enfamil Prosobee Soy which she didn't spit up but she started having trouble pooping. So I tried Enfamil AR which was even worse for pooping so I went back to the Soy. She seemed to be doing better until last night when had trouble pooping again and then today was spitting up. Dr. Mulqueen gave us a sample of Enfamil GentleEase. He wants us to try that for a couple days to see if it helps. We'll give him a call Thursday to decide whether or not she'll need the prescription formula. It's pretty frustrating knowing that she had no issues at all while on breast milk. I wish nursing went better for us.... :( Hopefully we'll get this all straightened out soon. I have 3 almost full cans of different formula on the counter right now that we can't use.