Dr. Riva must have seen the groundhog, because she sentenced us to at least 4 more weeks of dragging this oxygen tank around. We disagreed with her on a few things, particularly Riley's weight since that seems to be the hang-up. Their scale didn't match up with Dr. Nichol's scale or our scale at home and claimed she was closer to 12lbs than the 12lb 12oz that we got last week at Dr. Nichols. Not only that but her claim that she isn't gaining enough weight is comparing her to a what a 7 month old should be, but all of her development has and should be tracked on an adjusted scale, which means she should be looked at as a 4 month old. She also contradicted some other things that Dr. Nichols had told us and tried to make some changes to her feedings. We called Dr. Nichols and he told us to leave the feedings alone and asked us to come in Monday to discuss it since he is her primary care physician and its his job to make those decisions. I'm hoping he'll be able to recommend a different pulmonary doctor since we aren't too happy with Dr. Riva so far. She is very impersonal and so far has reminded me a lot of our first interactions with Dr. Hsiao in her impersonal "bedside manner".
Other than that, not a whole lot of new news. Rainbows came out last week and has said Riley's development is right on track. Her head and neck movement are great, she is sitting up really well, and has started to take the rice cereal better.
This weekend we took advantage of our family's generous free baby sitting and got out of the house a little bit without a baby in tow- went to a Wichita State basketball game and got some errands ran, and then took Riley to the Blessed Sacrament CYO Spaghetti Dinner. It's an annual event that I helped participate in back in the day. It was great to see a few old friends there, show off Riley, and eat some good Italian food.
This next weekend I'm back to my "part-time father" routine as I head to Omaha for our annual "guy's weekend". A few friends and I make the trip to watch Wichita State play at Creighton every year. Hopefully Pam will be able to get away soon too so I don't feel bad always leaving. It will be tough to leave them for just a few days, but after the long days I've had at work it is a much needed break.
Riley's been a really happy baby lately and with Pam home all day every day, she's been a bit of a shutterbug. Check the facebook "winter photos" link to the right to see more, but here's a few of the best:
I can tell in that last picture with Baxter just how much she has grown! She is getting so much bigger.... Stupid doctors cant see that, their scale is off!
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