Up & Down

I know its been a couple of weeks since I last blogged. I probably should have blogged last week, however I was in a slump. I was really not in the mood to share the news that Logan happened to lose 5 ounces. I felt like this was becoming a routine of writing the same thing from week to week. We were shocked as that is a pretty big loss from what he was up the week before! He was weighed last Tuesday, February 13th and much to our dismay he had indeed lost putting him at 11pds 7ounces. I was a ball of mixed emotions. My dietitian reassured me that there was no need to panic, sometimes babies that have a hard time gaining weight will go one step forward, two steps back, until they can get to where they need to be. We had also increased his feeds quite a bit in hopes that he would gain, but this just made him vomit more which also contributed to the weight loss. Our dietitian Brad told us to drop him back down to 100ml per bottle and just bump up the night feeds on the g-tube (as he seems to keep that all down) and also to try to introduce rice cereal again. 

On Thursday, Feb 14th I took Logan back to Mac for our g-tube follow up appointment with Dr. Bailey. She was pleased with how everything looked, although there was no infection he did have a weird growth of skin growing around the gtube hole & it was slightly red so they cauterised it just to be safe. The nurse told me its ok if he screams it's normal that most kids will cry when they put silver nitrate on a wound. Logan just looked up and smiled at her the whole time...go figure. He must have one seriously high pain tolerance!

Over the family day weekend we spent alot of time out & about, so of coarse on Monday night our family started out with some sort of bug. Olivia has managed to avoid getting it, but the boys got a weird virus. Mostly just alot of diarhea & runny noses, but Logan was also vomiting excessively (alot more then normal). Logan definitely got hit the hardest, we could tell he was fighting something. Our chiropractor even mentioned that Logan must be fighting something because his spine was quite rigid & tense (this was before we even had a chance to tell him that Logan was fighting against something!). That night Logan screamed for a good 3 hours and NOTHING that we did for him made him happy.  On top of it Logan also had something this week called "Fifth disease, or erythema infectiosum...a mildly to moderately contagious viral infection. Fifth disease usually begins with the distinctive, sudden appearance of bright red cheeks that look as though the child has been slapped. He had this really bad on the right side of his face, I almost didn't dare take him out in public. It's been a long week, he finally started to become more like himself as of Friday. Here's to hoping that Adam & I don't catch anything now!

Logan was also weighed this week on Thursday (Feb 21st). We braced ourselves for another huge loss seeing as he has been sick all week. Well we were wrong, somehow, for some strange reason he actually managed to gain ONE OUNCE! Whaaaat??...its not much but I'll take it!! Logan never ceases to amaze us with his results from week to week. We think that he was on the right track of gaining and then lost weight with being sick, so maybe next week will be much better now that he's on the road to recovery! Our dietitian comes next Tuesday for another weigh in and I will do my best to update you all by Tuesday evening and not take so long this time. Praying for better results next week!