4 months

Simon turned 4 months old on Tuesday! We celebrated with his 4-month appointment with his pediatrician. Drumroll please...

He is now 13 lb. 10 oz. (25th percentile) and 25 inches (50th percentile). Dr. Yuan was pleased with everything... except the fact that he is nowhere near sleeping through the night. He's still getting up twice each night, in fact. It seems that we keep resolving one issue only to arrive at another... first we stopped swaddling and he slept better, then got worse. Then he started sleeping on his tummy and slept better, then got worse. I think more recently the issue has been hunger... he's started becoming very easily distracted when eating, and decides he's done when he's had just enough to no longer be really really hungry. We've helped the issue by going up a stage in his bottle nipples - the faster flow gets more food in him before he checks out. Another issue lately might be that he's not warm enough - the temps have gotten chillier out here. So we're going to try putting him in more layers when putting him to bed.

In any event, Simon was pronounced in great health, and was given his 4-month vaccines. He also got his first dose of Synagis, which is the antibody to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a cause of colds in adults but potentially terrible illness in babies. We're very grateful that our health insurance approved him to get it, even though he didn't meet the strict guidelines for it. (He doesn't have "chronic" lung problems, but he did have really awful issues at birth, and would have a really difficult time if he got sick.)

On a similar note, Troy and I got our H1N1 vaccines this week, which we are very happy about. (Well I am happy. Troy just keeps talking about how he's got "government nanobots" circulating in his system - he thinks flu shots are a conspiracy to inoculate us all with who-knows-what. He humored me and got this one anyway.) And our nanny is getting her shot on Monday. So the people spending the most time with Simon are all going to be protected, thankfully!

Enough babbling Anne - pictures already! I leave you with some of the cute ones nanny T sent this past week. Enjoy!