William had his one year appointment with the pediatrician today. According to the doctor he is doing very well. He was 21 lbs (25% percentile) and 29 1/2" (50th percentile). He's been looking a little chubby lately, so I was glad to see that he wasn't overweight:) He's doing great! The doctor said we can go ahead and try the dairy products. He said most babies outgrow the dairy allergy, but we need to watch him carefully over the next few weeks to make sure he's tolerating it. Even if we have to keep him on soy products, I'm just glad to see a end coming to the formula train!
Will is developing an overbite from the passy, so we'll be giving that to the passy fairy this week. I'm not sure if we'll go cold turkey or try and ween him. We've already been decreasing his dependence on it, but we'll have to speed up that process. I guess braces are in his future :(
He also has until he is 15 months old to start walking...so we have 3 months to get the boy on his feet. After that, they start testing to see if there is a problem. Personally I just think he prefers to be carried around. He was a late crawler, I would expect that he would also be a late walker.
Someone told me that the earlier they get their teeth the later they walk, so far that is proving itself to be correct.
The shocker of the visit was that he has a double ear infection!!! He's shown no symptoms this time. I was amazed. Given his history with ear infections and antibiotics, the doctor did give us an oral antibiotic but warned me that it may not work and we may have to progress to the antibiotic shot. We'll go by and have his chiropractor give his ears a tug this week and see if that, in tangent with the antibiotics will take care of the problem. I'm really not wanting to give him the shot.
Will did have the Pneumococcal vaccine booster today, but that was it. I did not allow them to give the Chicken Pox or MMR vaccines. I know that we will not give him the Chicken Pox vaccine, but I'm still up in the air about MMR. At the very least, I'll be putting that one off as long as possible....probably until he starts kindergarden. He has his next appointment at 15 months and I believe we are now done with all of the shots that we've agreed to give him with the exception of a few boosters at age 2 and 4. YEAH!
After the appointment, I dropped Will off at daycare. He is now out of the infant room and started in his new room today. I have to say, we absolutely loved the ladies in the infant room and I am going to miss them greatly! I let the new teachers know he would be late today due to his appointment and they said that would be fine. When I entered the new room I was basically ignored. It really ticked me off. I know they were cleaning up from lunch, but when you see me standing by the door with my arms full, obviously not really knowing what I should do with my son in this new room, maybe you should give me some direction! I finally had to say "where should I put him?" before one of them came and got him from me and put him in the bucket seat at the lunch table. After taking him, the lady just went back to what she was doing and didn't really say anything else to me except asking if he could have juice. I again had to ask if there was anything else I needed to for Will before I left. It just wasn't the warm welcoming environment I have been accustomed to in the infant room and for the first time since we began taking Will there, I wanted to cry when I left. The ladies in the infant room were always busy feeding this baby, changing that baby, rocking this one, playing with that one, but every single one always greeted us when we walked in the door and seemed glad to see us. Hopefully it will be better this afternoon when I pick him up. Maybe I just caught them at a bad time. I've heard good things about this new room, but I definately didn't see it today.
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