Well Nate went in for his 4 month well-check and to receive his next round of shots. He got three shots and some sort of rotavirus thingy in a liquid form. Let me just say, he did good when we were there but the past 30 hours have been slightly horrible!
Here's Nate getting a bath before heading to the doctor. We can't get enough of the tigger towel photos!
Now, me trying to pose with Nate but he's obviously not really having it. He loves bath time but despises drying/toweling off time.
We got to the doctor's office and Nate had not pooped for over a day which is not normal for him. Once we got in the car, I noticed quite a foul smell. Once I determined it wasn't Joe, I assumed Nate had finally relieved himself :) Here's Nate arriving at the doctors, happy as a clam with some doody in his shorts.
Little does he know what's coming his way. Notice his nice little blue polo shirt. He was also wearing his little green shorts. He's now able to fit in a few of his outfits rather than just onesies. He doesn't fit well in his pants because he has no waist. He's very long but not chunky, except for the cheeks. All of his pants are really long on him because his legs are short but his torso is really long. He wears 3 month old shirts but newborn pants. The little outfits are kind of cute because he looks like a little boy/man so it's just funny to see him in those clothes, however, this does not last long for this little man. If you recall the last time Nate went to the doctor, he destroyed the whole table by pooping and peeing more than 3-4 times all over the doctor and anything in his general vicinity. Well.....he did it again!!
Here's the little bugger, contemplating multiple ways he can embarrass us.
So when we got in the office and stripped him down for his weigh in, we came to find out that he had pooped all the way up his back almost to his neck! I had Joe change him at first and started to hear the now infamous "Joe gag" begin and knew it couldn't be good. I got up and just started laughing. The nurse ran to get another one of those sealable bags for hazardous waste! Well the beastly little guy started rolling and struggling around while being changed so he got his poopy little body rolled all over the table and she had to keep pulling and ripping the dirty sheet off. Good job Nathan James! I guess that's what holding your poo in will do to ya. That poor polo shirt was absolutely covered in poop!
Well, once he was clean and in a new diaper he got weighed in at 11 pounds 5 ounces. He's also 23 inches long and his head circumference is 15.5 inches. He's now in the 10th percentile of term babies for his 4 month age! Then came the shots...ohh those lovely shots. The nurse seemed a little panicked yet again and did the first 2, which of course made him holler away. She then grabbed the 3rd one and about jammed it in his leg like she was going to jump start his heart. I was VERY close to saying something unkind to her but thought better of it. Nate screamed as loud as he could and calmed down in about 10 seconds with his pacifier. The real fun happened over the next 30 hours.
Here's the champ with his war wounds.
Here's daddy Joe comforting him with a bottle once we got home.
When we got home after the doctors Nate pretty much cried on and off from 3 pm till 10 pm. He finally went to bed around 10:30 and slept till 2:30 am then got up again around 5:30 am and 7 am. By 7 he was a little happy for about half an hour and then irate for the rest of the day if he wasn't completely zonked out. It's now 9 pm as I write this and he is down in his crib and asleep. Hopefully for a good few hours but who knows? Anyways, those side effects of crankiness/tiredness/lack of hunger are quite true! Oh well, hopefully tomorrow he will be less cranky and hungrier so he can improve his mood.
The doctor said he looks great! At one point she was holding him and he was standing for a solid 20 seconds with her holding him and she got really excited and said, Whoa, look at this you guys, look at this. We told her he'd been doing that awhile now because she thought it was the first time. She was quite impressed with him and his strength! She keeps guessing that he's going to be rolling/crawling/walking along with other 4 month olds instead of 2 month olds. I'm not so sure about that and couldn't care either way really. His hernia isn't sticking out of his belly button as much but it has kind of spread out. I don't know how to explain it but she said there still isn't really anything they can do about it for months yet, so he just has to continue to deal with it. Not always easy because it's uncomfortable for him but it should heal soon...keep your fingers crossed. Till next time!
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