Pediatrician Appointments-
These days it seems as though Thomas is at the pediatrician for one thing or another every week or two. Every time something resolves, something new pops up! Thomas has his SECOND ear infection in just under two months. This time its a double infection so he's back on the Amoxicillin. Today was his last dose so hopefully its gone and doesn't come back for a long long time!
While we were there, the pediatrician took a peek at the red spots on his face. He had baby acne as a newborn and there were three spots that never went away and that was over five months ago! To make matters worse, the spots were all puffed up and seemed to hurt Thomas when you touched his face. The pediatrician said it looked like he scratched himself and it got infected so she gave us some medicated ointment. However, a week later and it looks worse. Everyone that I've shown the pictures to said that it looked like a staph infection. ::::sigh::::: So I called the pediatrician back today and they sent over a new ointment for him that we've started using tonight. If its not better by Tuesday we'll have to go in to be seen......again, LOL.
Thomas also has been holding his breath a lot lately and its gotten a bit scary. We asked the pediatrician about it and she ordered an EKG to rule out any heart related issues. Since we can mostly tell what his triggers are (pain and being scared) we can at least anticipate him holding his breath. She said this is very common and most children will not grow out of this until their 3-4 years old! Holy moly!! Basically when Thomas gets upset about something his face freezes and he stops breathing. His whole body is still and his face turns bright red. Then he starts breathing again but very shallow and has this catatonic look on his face and continues just staring blankly at me. Super scary but she's not concerned at this point! This is what Thomas looks like after an episode. It's like he's scared from what happened and gets really clingy.
Specialists appointments-
Thomas saw both the neurosurgeon and the geneticist last week. The neurosurgeon ordered another ultrasound of his head but from what he saw of Thomas he looked fine. There was talk about him possibly needing a helmet but another doctor came in for a final measurement and it was determined that he wouldn't need one afterall. The geneticist ordered an IGF-1 level to be drawn.....that is growth hormone....and then referred us to a Pediatric Endocrinologist.Thomas can't get in there until January but the hormone level should be back by Monday so at least we can have an idea if he's headed towards a Growth Hormone Deficiency diagnosis and following in my footsteps. There will probably be more information and updates in next month's blog.
Thanksgiving-
Thomas celebrated his first Thanksgiving!!! He tried some mashed potatoes....not a fan. Instead, he would prefer just the Stage 2 Turkey and Rice! After dinner he took a little snooze with Grandpa!
Top teeth-
Thomas has the bottom two teeth and now both teeth up on top are starting to poke through! He's smacking his lips all the time now and maybe when all four teeth are in he can start working on some more real food! No picture since he's a little shark and you can barely get a peek in there let alone a picture!
Crawling-
Still rocking! He's soooooo close to crawling but not yet!! The geneticist said that based on what he's been doing lately that he'd probably start crawling within a week or so and that by Christmas he'd have it down pat!
First snow-
Since he had a double ear infection I didn't want to take him outside in the snow but Thomas is ready for the next time!!! Jim showed him what snow looks like!!
We also had our Fall photo shoot come back and also had holiday photos at JCPenny. Be sure to check them out on our Shutterfly page!! There's so many of them and they're all great so its hard to choose which ones to post.
Here's some cute random pictures from the month!!
Jordan says that fall is a nice time for a wedding :) xoxoxoxoxo Thomas
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