Vitamin D free

Well....something like that. :) My little cutie, Ryan, had his 2-month follow-up visit to the Endocrinologist for his vitamin D count. Apparently vitamin D is given to babies mostly in the last 4 weeks and he missed out. Normal numbers are around 23-50ish. In the NICU he was around 750! When we left he was in the 600's...a month later he was in the 500's and today I am happy to say that he is only slightly elevated (he never said the actual bumber). Dr. B said we can discontinue the ergo calciferol (vitamin D) drops. Yay!!!!!!! BUT......(there's always a but it seems) he had ordered a thorough blood check and Ryan 's bilirubin levels were higher than when we left the NICU. So he called my pediatrician (which I thought was super nice instead of just telling me about it and to follow up alone) and they asked him to order more bloodwork (ugh ) to be done this week and to follow up with the pediatrician next week. Which is fine cuz his 4-month well visit is coming up, but it is just another thing.

He did get his stats checked & he weighs 12 lbs 2 oz and is 23.5" long. I don't know where he stands on an. 'Adjusted' percentage but the doc says that he is getting higher on the scale.

We do have a follow up appt with the endocrinologist in 3 months just to make sure that 3 months off the drops his numbers don't increase. Sounds thorough to me.

So we have his 4-month well visit at the end of this month; his follow-up eye appt. in December; 6-month well-visit at the end of December; follow-up endocrinologist appt. in January & his follow-up cardiologist appt. for the murmur in February. Whew! I hope then he can be released from preemie- dome! He truly is doing so well though and I just absolutely love this kid to pieces. Even when he's whiny, I pick him up and just want to snuggle him.

Oh and I brought the older boys to the appt....along with busy bags (thanks Pinterest). It kept Logan occupied, but Carter was requesting help so I was attempting to help while listen to the doctor and smile at Ryan since he was staring at me and smiling. :). Next time I am going to give Carter the busy bag at home so he can get used to how to play with the item and won't need so much help. Today it was a picture I cut out of a magazine (Phineas & Ferb and McQueen) and glued on Popsicle sticks. Another one was craft sticks with Velcro so they could build stuff.

Okay....that is all!