All About Noah: The Third Six Months

This post should bring me up to where we were when I started this blog a year ago. (I know, I haven't posted in over a year, but I kind of lost my password.)

So Noah turned 1 and things were okay. He was saying a few words, mostly daddy and ball. He began walking at 13 months. He seemed to be doing well. Except....He didn't really play with anything. I mean he played, but mostly by turning cars over and spinning the wheels. He was very quiet. He was content to spend most of his time alone. He never let us know he was thirsty or hungry. We just had to go on a schedule. He didn't point to things he was interested in or bring us things to show us. We didn't know what was normal for a 1 year old. Noah was our first child, but something definitely didn't seem right.

We still had the same issues with chunky textures. He was over a year old and still couldn't eat Stage 3 baby food. When he turned 1, we started him on whole milk. Almost immediately Noah began vomiting frequently. He seemed to have this dazed look in his eyes most of the time and just didn't interact with us. The pediatrician said the same old thing, "he'll grow out of it, back off the milk for a little while." We didn't know what to do. We just kind of went with the flow and followed the pediatrician's advice. We put Noah back on milk-based formula, but things didn't improve much. He still vomited, maybe not as frequently but he still did.

Finally in May of 2008, we finally began to get some answers to what was going on with Noah.

All About Noah: The First Six Months

This post will be all about my sweet, beautiful baby boy, Noah David. Here goes:

Noah was born at 8:34 pm on December 6, 2006. He was about 3 weeks early. He weighed 6 lbs. and was 19.5 inches long. He had trouble breathing shortly after birth and was placed on C-PAP his first night. The next day his right lung collapsed and he had a chest tube placed. He also suffered from jaundice and a possible milk intolerance. He spent his first week in the Special Care Nursery (SCN) hooked up to IVs, feeding tubes, oxygen and monitors.

On December 13, we were finally able to bring our pride and joy home. We were so excited! Noah's breathing was normal and he had been started on a soy-based formula. When he was 2 days old, we discovered that he had been sent home from the hospital with the beginnings of thrush and we spent the next 2 months trying to get rid of it. Noah was not necessarily what one would call an "easy baby", but we knew that he had been through alot in his short life. During the next few months, we also noticed that Noah seemed to be more fussy than we had expected. When Noah was around 2 months old, he began having trouble with severe constipation. His pediatrician told us it was normal. He told us to give him corn syrup and wrote a script for a laxative. After 2 weeks of Noah being constipated, we decided to switch him back to milk-based formula. At the time, it seemed like a great idea. After a few days, Noah was no longer constipated and things seemed to get better.

Other than some minor spit-up issues here and there, Noah seemed to be doing really well over the next couple of months . He was still pretty fussy, but nothing like it had been before. He began solids and did really well. Noah seemed to be doing what babies his age were supposed to be doing. He was eating well, smiling, playing and growing.