2 Brothers Layne

First of all I HUGE thanks to Daddy for picking up my slack last night.  I'm surprised he could make any sense of my half asleep babbling about the Dr. visits.  There are a few other things that we covered at the appointments.  The nutritionist says that Jonah's BMI is at the 50th percentile range, his height and weight are both in the 10th percentile.  So that means that he is small for his age but right on track (BMI wise).  Keeping him at 50% is the goal.  We pickup a box of this new high calorie formula on Friday to try it out to see if it makes a difference and if so we'll gladly switch. Jonah on the awesome exam table in Dr. Chartrand's office. Our second visit was to Jonah's new Developmental Pediatrician Dr. Chartrand.  She seems like she will be a fantastic advocate to have on our side and I'm so pleased for the change.  Dr. Chartrand did suggest/recommend that we pull Jonah from school and revert back to house arrest at Thanksgiving ...

Today Jonah stayed home from school for a couple of reasons.  One, he still has a cough, and two he had a doctors appointment at noon.  Anyway, at the visit, the nutritionist, is going to change Jonah's formula from a 1 Kcal/ml to a 1.5Kcal/ml.  This should help alleviate Jonah from the large volume of feedings.  Also at the visit she suggested we keep Jonah home from school after Thanksgiving until he recovers from his surgery in December.  Jonah also had a Pre-Evaluation for his surgery today.  I guess it went well, Tanya didn't pass on much of anything to me about it.  Poor Tanya was super spent today.  When I arrived home from work she was asleep on the couch.  As I was washing up in the kitchen sink I heard he wake with a start.  She was stressed because Meds haven't been drawn, and Jonah was not being fed.  I told her it wasn't a big deal and forced her into bed, tucked her in and attended to Jonah.  She was unwilling but...