Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Less cow, more sunshine!

We went to see Dr. Zapata today for a follow-up appointment. He works with us on Landon's food intake. I was eager to go after talking to the dietician on Thursday.

Landon was weighed in when we first got there. He now weighs 31 lbs 14 oz!!!!!! He's gaining weight like crazy! We talked to Dr. Zapata and he told us that we didn't need to keep anymore food journals...YEA!!!! He said to take Landon's milk down to 20 oz a day!!!! (Did I call it or what?!?) So, Braydon and I decided to break up the 20 oz into 3 feedings a day instead of 4. We're really excited cause now if we want to, we can go to bed when Landon goes to bed. We haven't been able to do that for two and a half years now! Normally we have to stay up until 1030 or 11 to start his last feeding while he's sleeping. Then, I have to get up in the middle of the night, half asleep, to take it off of him. It's gonna be so different to sleep through the night.

The dietician said to start giving Landon a Vitamin D supplement daily. I asked if we could just start giving him vitamin D milk, but she said that he wouldn't get enough. So now he just has a dose of vitamin D in his milk in the morning. I believe that vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium, right??

We're really excited that things have been going well. Keep Landon in your thoughts and prayers that he keeps making more progress in the right direction. We're so excited for him!

1 comment:

Kathy said...

Hooray! Here's to sleeping through the night! (Finally!)

Love,
Mom