Lately, it had turned to projectile vomiting pretty much daily. If it's not projectile, it will be multiple heaves leaving him, you, or both soaked. The daycare went through every spare outfit I had left there not once, but twice in the past 2 weeks.
Needless to say, Cooper saw his pediatrician this week. He had only gained 3 ounces since his last visit and that didn't satisfy Dr. Sponenberg so an ultrasound was ordered to look for a condition called pyloric stenosis.
I couldn't resist a few photos to document this. He didn't think it was a big deal, and the ladies doing the ultrasound were pretty smitten with him. I sure hope they got good enough pictures of the right thing. It took quite some time to find "it". I don't think they have babies in there often.
I was pleased that the results were negative. The game plan was to switch to exclusively pumping so that I could add rice cereal to his bottles and thicken up the milk. I'm not completely following his recommendations, but we are seeing a substantial improvement so far. He hasn't soaked any daycare ladies since we began adding cereal to his bottles. We go back for a follow up appointment this week. Cross your fingers that his weight gain is back on the uphill.
Yay!
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