The appointment.

The doctor appointment with the cardiologist at Children's Hospital was today. Kelly did not get to go because she has caught the flu. Her mom has come down to help with Aiden at home and take care of Kelly. Daddy and mimi (Eric's mom) went to the doctor.

After another echocardiogram and various other small test, the doctor informed us that Aiden has a mild obstruction of the pulmonary valve. Simply put, it is not opening and closing allowing proper flow like one would like to see. Since it is a mild case, both before and now,
we have a followup appointment in three months. If nothing worsens, nothing gets done and there is nothing to worry about. Since it has not changed between newborn and one month, everyone is hopeful that it will stay that way.

Very good news indeed! The murmur is still present but very low in sound. Also good news and I assume that one follows the other in this case although I didn't ask at the time.

We are one half ounce from having a ten pound baby boy 21 inches long!

Weight update - We are growing

Nothing too big to see here but Aiden had another doctors appointment today and he weighed in at 8 lb. 12.5 oz. That is two ounces shy of a one pound weight gain in 6 days. The doctor was impressed or in a state of disbelief. The growth spurt continues.

The 2.5 week check up.

Aiden went in for his 3 week check up, early (2/10/09), and we were glad to hear that he now weighs 7 lb 14.5 oz. He gained more than 14 oz in 7 days. Great news! However, he is still very low in his national percentile rankings (all less than 33%). He may be small but at least he is not out of proportion in any direction he grows. This makes him look good. :-) Aiden grew 0.75" in the same 7 day period. A growth spurt! 

What makes this 2.5 week checkup so funny is it was on the day he was allegedly due. Kinda weird sitting in the doctors office with a human being that was not supposed to arrive until that day.

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We received lots of advice when everyone found out we were having a baby. Breast feed (and watch your child become President), let them cry it out, you will find out now, I told you so, etc. We can only say one thing about having a child. Your life will never be the same again.

Congratulations to the Morton's! Please reference the above paragraph. :-)

That's not sweat!

It's pee! We realized today that Aiden wasn't making sweat while taking naps on his daddys belly. It was pee!

We figured this out after watching the first NHRA race of the season today. Aiden is going to be a drag racer. He drank and slept through the boring parts and wet his pants so he wouldn't have to get up to miss anything.

He is disappointed Ashley Force got married but daddy has told him there are plenty of fish at the track.

Two weeks and one day. We have a belly button.

Two weeks and one day after Aiden showed up on his schedule, we have a belly button. Sometime between 4:30 am and 8 am this morning the dried chord fell off. We keep excellent records so it was easy to determine the period. Lula Belle and Princess Jonesy, we are not keeping it. We are throwing it away in the trash can.

It has been a few days.

It has been a while since we have made a post. Daddy is back at work, for the most part and mommy is keeping me all day long. Unfortunately, I was having problems holding my food down. It turns out that after another trip to the doctor, I have acid reflux problems and I have to take medicine. Without my medicine, my food comes back up every time I am laid flat. Daddy also had to elevate my bed in addition to the medicine. 

Then, I started giving more problems with my number 2 habits. I am starting one teaspoon of dark Karo syrup tonight to help that out as well. Fun, fun! The doctor did tell me that I weighed seven pounds. I should be back to my birthweight by Friday.

Besides this, we have been trying to rest as much as possible since I have allowed my mommy and daddy to have any since I was born. I think they believe I am some sort of showoff. Lucky for them, I have chosen not to be a cry baby.

Super Bowl XLIII

Aiden fell asleep after throwing a fit when the Steelers won. Blah!