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Been a long time since I posted a video of Mikey. Got a cute one of him doing his army crawl. It looks more like the worm in this video but he’s moving forward!

Every month that goes by we can hardly believe that ANOTHER month has gone by. :o)

Mikey is 9 months old today. Our little man is growing up so fast before our eyes. This last month he started to crawl (will post a video shortly) and has been saying Da-da like CRAZY. He LOVES LOVES LOVES his daddy, that is his favorite person and it couldn’t make me happier to see him so happy to see his daddy every day. The smile on his face when he sees him is priceless.

Who knows what is in store for us for this next month.

So today was our big appointment at the specialist’s office. Guess we were hoping for some big hoopla over there but nope. Once we got called back we met with the doctor’s assistant. She looked over Mikey and looked at his head shape and noticed his tilt. She asked me all kinds of questions like if he was vaginal or c-section, when did I deliver him, how does he sleep, when was he diagnosed. Just everything. She noticed his head is elongated and asked me if anyone in the family has that and his daddy kinda has an elongated head. But apparently he has a slight bulge. She also noticed his very very slight flat spot and asked if I had a problem with it. Which I don’t because I hardly notice it myself and I know once he has more hair no one would notice it. Well after she left we had to wait about 10 minutes for the doctor to come in. He came in with 2 prescriptions. One of which was for PT. He wants us to go back. He said that PT should not end until there is absolutely no tilt even when he’s at rest and sick. So no PT break for us I guess. The 2nd prescription was for xrays. He wants to check everything to make sure that there isn’t anything else contributing to Mikey’s torticollis. I asked if we should continue to use the TOT collar and he would like for us to hold off and wait to see how he does within the next month.

We go back in September for a follow-up visit. We’ll have the xrays by then so we’ll see if he has more info for us. He was glad that we came to see him though. Just wish he was more “caring” like some other specialists we have gone to.

Oh here’s a pic of Mikey sitting on the table waiting for the doctor to come in. You can totally see him tilting.

Army crawler! I KNEW Mikey had it in him to crawl he just was to lazy most of the time but this morning he finally showed us that he CAN do it. He doesn’t need to be on all 4s to get across the room, he’s chosen to do it army style! I enticed him with a toy he really wanted and even though he was getting pissy because I kept moving it back I still made him do it and he did it without rolling over which he normally would do. We are so proud of him. Hopefully it wasn’t a fluke!

Oh and update on his illness…he’s still wheezing a lot. He doesn’t care for the nebulizer past 5 minutes of it. But he is getting used to it more and more. I have learned a great way to combat a baby that is refusing to drink their bottle because of a sore throat is to give them a little tylenol about 15-30 minutes before giving them their bottle, they’ll be able to chug it down because the pain won’t be there.

So we went to the Pillbox Pharmacy this afternoon to pick up Mikey medication and his nebulizer. We went in hopes of renting one for 2 weeks but that would come out to $30. For a month rental its $40….to buy one was only $59. The folks there insisted that we’d more than likely have to use this again so I went ahead and bit the bullet and bought it. What the hey right!!?!?! After Mikey’s 7pm bottle we gave him his first nebulizer treatment. At first he didn’t really care for the mask but he’s sit there licking the air as it came up. Such a silly boy! He did GREAT with his first treatment. Of course its too soon to see any kind of progress but I’m hopeful he’ll start feeling like himself really really soon.

So just as we thought Mikey was doing better he took a turn. Our last visit with his doc was on Monday when he was still running a fever. At that time she said if he’s still running one by Wednesday bring him back in. He was fine on Tuesday at home so on Wednesday we figured he’d be fine to go to daycare. And he acted fine the entire day. He started coughing that night but it wasn’t bad. It was right after his bottle too so we though some formula went down the wrong way. He’s done this before, he’s gonna live.

Well he went to daycare yesterday, Thursday, and he’s coughing a little worse but its not all day long just every once in awhile. What was weird is I got a paper saying a kid in his class has RSV, he’s not at daycare right now but they needed to let parents know because its highly contagious. I thought Mikey was in the clear because he had no fever and that usually goes hand in hand with RSV. Well last night before I took him to get ready for bed I noticed he was feeling hot so I took his temp and it was 100.9. Clearly a fever. NOT GOOD especially now that he is coughing. I was going to wait until the morning to make an appointment but he ended up waking up crying and coughing at 2:30am after I got him down I hopped on my computer and logged onto the pediatrician’s website and got us an appointment for 7:50am and then I went back to sleep.

We got to the pediatricians, he was still running a fever but it wasn’t as high as it was last night. She checked his ears and they were clear. His throat was red, and has apparently stayed that way since our visit on Monday. She had to check for strep which he did NOT enjoy at all. She listened to his lungs and could hear him wheezing. The conclusion Mikey has bronchiolitis. He need antibiotics and to do a nebulizer treatment twice a day for 2 weeks. But he will be fine soon enough.

While we were there she decided to just do his 9 month appointment since we would be going back in a week for that, no sense in coming yet again. The only thing they couldn’t do was his shot. She noticed him majorly tilting and asked me about torticollis. I told her what we’ve been doing and that we have an appointment with a specialist for next week. She checked his eyes to make sure that wasn’t contributing to it and it isn’t. She also mentioned that he has a lot of balance and strength and thinks he’ll be one of those kids that skips crawling all together and to not worry about it at all.

His 9 month stats are:

Weight: 21.13 lbs (75-90th percentile)
Height: 29″ (90th percentile)
Head Cm: 45cm (50-75th percentile)

We had all intentions of having a nice relaxing long weekend starting with taking off from work on Thursday but why would things go the way WE want them to!?!?!? Everything was great up until 4:30 on Thursday when Mikey woke up from his nap. At first he was his normal cheerful self. Full of smiles and laughs. Got to the living room and sat him on the floor with his toys while I got his bottle ready. Then all hell broke loose. He started wailing like he has never wailed before. This loud cry with a grunt. After 15 minutes of it I figured it had to be one of his teeth that are trying to come through so I gave him some tylenol and tried to feed him. It took an hour to give him his 6oz bottle.

After an hour of giving him tylenol he was still wailing and grunting. I immediately thought he must be super constipated and it must be hard for him to push it out. So before I called the pediatrician I took his temp and it was up to 101, but I figured it had to be from all of his crying making him hot. They told me to bring him in immediately. We waited and waited, like we always do over there! We are seriously considering switching doctors because of this crap. The doc looked him over, did a CBC, and a urine sample and nothing came up. He said it could be teething related or it could be the beginnings of a virus and to see how he does the next few days.

Well for the most part Friday was ok except he started getting super cranky that night. On Saturday he woke up feverish so I started giving him tylenol. He then turned super cranky again with his grunting cries so I would alternate with motrin. Nothing was working though. He couldn’t nap because he was so irritable, so because of that we decided to run our errands anyways. Of course our last stop was Publix and by then he was exhausted from not being able to sleep. So we put him in his stroller instead of in the cart and he cried and cried and cried. Eventually daddy had to take him out of the stroller and carry him around the store pushing the stroller. Poor baby would cry in his sleep from being so uncomfortable.

It was a challenge to get him to fall asleep that night but we finally got him down. Found out that around 1:30am he woke himself up and daddy was still awake so he picked him up and brought him to the living room and he passed out on his chest until daddy woke up around 4 and put him back in his crib. I had no idea this went on but at 5:30 Mikey woke up wailing so I ran to his room and he was HOT. I took his temp and it was up to 103 so I took off his pj’s and threw him in a bath to cool him off. Then dressed him in a onesie to go back to sleep. He managed to sleep until 8 and then we started the cranky/crying/grunting/fever thing all over on Sunday.

So here we are Monday morning. Mikey should be in daycare right now and I should be at the office. But nope we are both home. Why? Because he’s still running a fever, it was 100.4 again this morning. And he’s still super cranky and fussy. Thankfully I’m able to work from home so I’m doing that. I called up his doctor immediately at 8am to talk to the nurse and she recommended that we go back in so we have an appointment today at 1:30. Hopefully his doctor can give us a better insight as to what’s bother the poor little guy.

Ok enough of the boring torticollis updates time for a fun Mikey update. I figured I’d add a much needed picture in here of our boy. Mikey’s favorite person right now is his daddy. He LOVES his daddy. Every time he sees his daddy he has the BIGGEST grin on his face. Well at daycare we gave them a family picture that they laminated and put on the floor so that the kids can see their family members when they start becoming more mobile. Every time I go to daycare to see him we stop by our picture and I sit him in front of it. And every time Mikey pets his daddy. It’s the cutest thing.

Eeeeeeek! So I saw 1 tooth nub next to his right upper tooth late last week and I thought that was it. Well yesterday afternoon Mikey was screaming his head off because he was in pain. I decided to give him some tylenol but I wanted to take a peek first. I checked all of his gums and it looks like he another 2 teeth at the same time. So soon enough he’ll have 4 teeth up top and two on the bottom. Won’t that look weird! He refused to let me take a peek this morning to see if we had any progress overnight so I’ll have to wait to see if he’ll give me that peek later on today. I guess we are 2 teeth closer to being done with baby teeth!

Well this will be our last PT update for quite some time. We went today for a reevaluation. He’s doing things he should be doing for his age and there are things he just doesn’t want to do, like going up on all 4’s. She thinks he doesn’t have the strength but it can also be because he’s just lazy. Fortunately or unfortunately there is nothing more she can show me to do to help him. She has shown me everything for his age. Since we originally went for just torticollis she told me that it was totally up to me if I wanted to stay for his developmental delays but we would just do what we have been doing at every session. Nothing new to learn.

We were told that we could take a break and maybe come back when he’s 1 for a reevaluation to make sure he is at where he should be. Of course if he regresses for several weeks in a row that she would like for us to come in asap, but the tilting will come and go and we will just need to keep doing what we are doing daily. So I opted for us to take a break and we will get Mikey reevaluated once he turns 1.