Up to 9 Months

So I am LONG overdue for a baby Cameron update! The last few months have been crazy with me starting work, Kadan starting kindergarten, and taking way too many credits for school! So here you go.... I'll redeem myself...


Towards the end of the summer Cameron went 3 months gaining only a little over a pound total.... not so good. The doc said he is certainly not malnurished, because he was growing in height VERY well and he was doing awesome on his development. But baby fat is good and we wanted him to gain weight. So we started "calorie packing" which is like what we did when he came home from the hospital. Back then we were adding preemie formula to the breastmilk he got from a bottle to make it more calories. So we started adding formula and rice cereal to his baby food.

The next month he had gained a pound and a half, and we were very excited! So we backed off a little on the calorie packing. We went in for a weight check yesterday and he had only gained 10 oz. sigh. Not horrible, but definitely not what we were hoping for. 15-30 oz a month is 'good' range. So we're back to the calorie packing thing.

Healthwise he's been excellent, no issues there. He's had the typical small colds for the season, but nothing major. He is getting his first tooth! : ) It's slow coming in, but it's working its way up. Thus, everything and anything goes straight to his mouth to chomp on. And he really is an awesome eater, he's eating plenty calories for his weight, but it's just not really 'sticking', so we have to add to it.

A developmental specialist comes out to our house once a month to work with him and check his development and help him get caught up. He's about the developmental level of an 8 month old in almost all areas. (He is 9 months old chronological age, but would only be 7 months if he was born on time, so being at 8 months is good.) The only score that's been consistently low is his receptive language. He has a hearing evaluation in January. We know he CAN hear, he's just not responding to sounds and voices quite as good as he should be for his age. So we'll see how that goes.

He is starting to crawl and finally starting to babble a little bit. He is still super teeny, in 3-6 month clothes, so it's so funny to see him eating graham crackers and crawling around. He even gets up on his hands and feet sometimes. It looks like we have this 4 month old baby crawling around the house. : )

He is a super happy little guy. He loves his big brothers and any and all attention they give him. If you say, "Cameron give me kisses" and make kissing noises he'll lean in and give a big open mouth slobbery kiss all over your chin/cheek. : ) It's excellent. : )

SO grateful for my little baby and that he's done so good! I know too many family's with preemies who were not quite as lucky to avoid all the problems we've been able to avoid. I'm very grateful for my little guy and for each little milestone he makes.