Sorry this is late, I forgot to post last week after Brooke's doctor appointment on 9/23.
She weighed in at 14 pounds 5 ounces (75th percentile). The doctor also found an ear infection, so we're treating her with antiobiotics for 10 days twice daily. We finally figured out a technique that helps her keep at least some of it down. If I stick my finger in my mouth for her to suck on and then put the medicine dropper further back into the side of her mouth I can slowly dispense it so that she hardly notices it and she'll swallow most of it down. The worse part of it for her is that it's refrigerated and she's not used to having anything cold. Especially first thing in the morning!
The doctor is really pushing us to get her to sleep longer at night. It's not like I want her waking up at 2am every morning to eat, but I feel if she is getting up to eat then I don't really want to deprive her of food. Since I'm still nursing, it's hard to know exactly how much she's eating so if she's still hungry in the middle of the night, I want her to be able to eat. Hopefully once she gets the hang of solids that might fill her up more and help her make it longer. Paige started sleeping through the night around 8 weeks old. But she we were also supplementing her with formula which takes longer to digest so that may have helped. Hopefully soon Brooke will start sleeping longer. In the meantime, don't mind the dark circles under our eyes.
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