7 MONTHS OLD BABY WEIGHT

?????????????,??????????,???????????????,????????????????;??????????????????????????????,?????????????????????????,??2???????,????????7???,??????????97,??????????25,??????50,????75,???????1??????,????8??,?????????10,??????,??????????????,?????????????,???????????,???????,??????????,??????????,??????????????????The city is located the Taipei basin the southwest corner, has many friends all to live in here, in recent years concentric made in the correlation government unit, the public works and the transportation construction all one after finished; the second highway passes through, the transports line begin, the large-scale quantity sells shop enter and be stationed in, the high tech garden area birth, attracts more population to move into. Today reaches agreement to go the wife colleague family's baby, 2 months big male baby, already equally had 7 kilogram heavy with the daughter, has reached 97 in the growth curve percentage, but our daughter only had 25 in the body weight, fortunately had 50 in the height, but encircled head has 75, but another friend 1 year old female baby, the body weight only had 8 kilograms, I thought the percentage should only have 10, from doctor's angle, so long as had the growth health all were normal. Moreover, since starts to drink the formula milk and the non-staple food product, the daughter starts to appear tires of the milk, perhaps is the digestion is not good, perhaps does not like the powdered milk flavor, perhaps is uncomfortable due to growing tooth, really hoped was allowed a bit faster to restore the former good appetite.

Today, Robin is two months old. This morning she weighed 3550 gram (7lb 14.3oz), which means she added a good 1100 grams to her birth weight.

In the past weeks we realized that mother milk gave a bad case of cramps. So this weekend the "bullet went through the church" (Dutch expression) and we switched to formula. Boy, what a change. Cramps are gone, skin improved after two days (rash on her cheeks all but disappeared) and she is generally a much nicer baby. Better eye contact, more alert and awake.

She hasn't laughed yet though. Most babies do that around 6-7 weeks. She has the occasional smile, but that's more a grimace, lifting up one corner of her mouth.

On the CMV infection side, the medication was stopped 3 weeks ago. So she is now on her own and should keep the virus under control. The viral load was very low when the medication stopped, and is bound to get up at least somewhat. Beginning of November the viral load will be checked again.

Last Wednesday we spotted the tiny red spots again, the petechiae. Reason for us to call the doctors, which told us to come over. Full blood work was done, no sign of anything specific, and in general the blood values had improved compared to 2 weeks earlier. Strange. We're keeping our cool for now, at least until the next viral load test.

Big priority now is to get rid of the night-feeding, usually around 2-3 am. Hopefully the formula will do its magic there as well.