Jaxen - 4 Months & Dr. Appointment

Today, Jaxen had his 4 month check-up with Dr. K. He now weighs 15 lbs and 9 oz! He is 25 1/2 in. long. All his stats are in the 50-75% range. We have a good, growing boy on our hands!

The one concern she had was over a rash Jaxen has on his belly. She said it is a viral rash and should go away within a week. No medicine was given for the rash, but he did get a prescription medicine for the eggsema that is on his legs and arms.

He got another round of shots and did very well with them. He was pretty fussy this afternoon, but after his nap was feeling better.

We talked about starting him on solid foods. The end result from our talk was that as long as he is getting enough, I will continue to only give him breast milk until he is 6 months old (supplementing formula, when needed). We both agreed that would be best for him. Now if he gets to the point where he is hungry all the time, I will start in on solid foods.

I asked what we would start him on, and how often...etc. And we found out that she (and new studies) are now recommending that babies start on green vegetables, then fruit, then introduce rice cereal. That was news to us...we always heard that rice cereal was the first thing to be started on. The reasoning behind it is that with the growing rate of obesity, they prefer that babies start on vegetables over carbohydrates. So that's that. We still have a bit before we try it out, but we do need to start thinking in that direction.

Jaxen still sleeps through the night very well! He normally goes down for bed between 9:30 and 10pm. And sleeps until at least 6:30am. During the day he naps about 4 times, ranging from 45 minutes (afternoon/evening) to 2 hours (morning).

Jaxen basically is wearing 3-6 month clothes. He wears 6 month pajamas. He is out growing clothes by the day.

We just moved up to size 2 diapers. They fit him well.

He does not roll over yet, or crawl. Which is fine by me. But the doctor showed us a great exercise to do with him - and I think he will master the rolling over pretty soon!

Jaxen loves beat-boxing! It is too funny. Nik will beat-box with him and he just laughs. I will try to catch it on video one day. This past weekend, some of our teens were hanging around and Nik told them that. So they all started in! It was pretty cute. Jaxen actually fell asleep to it after awhile.