4-Month Appointment

Well, it's hard to believe, but Boone had his 4-month check-up on Wednesday of this week.

Weight: 11lbs 15oz

Length: 23 1/2 in

Head circumference: 16 1/2 in

His doctor said he looked good, and was doing a good job putting weight on his legs and holding his head up. We asked about his reflux that's starting to come back and her suggestion was to add rice cereal to his bottles to see if this helps him to keep them down better. We're going to try this first and hope it works so he doesn't have to have any additional medicine. And he'll be starting food soon, so that should help as well.

We got some new shampoo for his cradle cap, so hopefully that will relieve some of the itchiness from his little head, as he's been-a-scratching!

Need to work much more on tummy time. Unfortunately this is definately not one of our little guy's favorite things to do and he often just lays there and cries no matter what kind of enticements we try to give him. But the back of his head is quite flat and we need to encourage him to strengthen the appropriate muscles so he can start to roll over and spend more time off the back of his head. We've also been using the Bumbo seat and ExerSaucer too, just to give the back of his head a little break. We talked to his teachers at his school also to help us with this. Our homework, at least 5 minutes of tummy-time 3 times a day. His doctor will follow on his head shape at his 6 month appointment and we'll go from there.