it was an impressive streak, but carys was unseated by big brother sebastian early this week. to be fair, she gave up her crown with no struggle at all. and to be totally objective, sebastian won it by default.
however, carys has made a huge effort these past two days and is now wearing her crown again. and if you think she has bribed the judges by saying, "mummeeeee, iwubu" you are absolutely correct.
apologies for the silence, not that i couldn't think up lots to say on the topic of female protection (say FEMPRO and you seem a lot cooler), more like other things were happening around me, and taking up my energy. some bad, mostly good.
i took jasper to the doctor this week. he has been walking with a limp for a bit and has not grown more than 2cm in the past six months. the dr noted his thinner legs, and quickly asked if young jude had received all his polio shots. thankfully i had checked just the other day, and was able to say, YES. he then checked his reflexes and said they were good, so for now we have nothing to worry about.
on the topic of jasper's height, the dr told me what i already know, that pulmicort, one of the medicines used to help jj with his breathing stunts growth. that is one of the reasons we try not to use the pulmicort except when we need to. when i told the dr this, he nodded and said basically, "fair enough", and then explained that another reason jude has stopped growing is because all his energy/calories are going towards trying to breathe, and that leaves nothing left over to contribute towards growing. not sure i completely understand, but it sounds good. he did mention and i do believe that children do grow in fits and starts, but still.
the girls seem to be at the 3rd and 5th height and weight percentiles, while jasper is at around the 10th for weight and the 2nd for height. and if they seem small, i just pull out the madeline dresses the girls were allowed to wear after they topped the four lb mark, and shake my head. perspective is always good.
Hey Tess, I wanted to pop in and say that Claire of course due to her PROM had very small lungs and had to put all her energy into breathing, and she too didn't grow for a long time til the breathing stuff was resolved and the steroids were weaned. She's about four inches short than her identical triplet sisters, who are almost always the same weight/height. All that breathing stuff definitely made her smaller. We saw some improvement when we added more calories to her diet and also more protein. We sometimes even add whipping cream to her milk etc and all of that definitely perked her up, but she's still small comparatively. Hope that is confirming... btw most of the growth seems to go to keeping her trunk a good size, the legs/arms can get quite skinny :-)
Posted by: Peggy from Seattle | April 15, 2006 at 01:50 AM
Only two in the running? Or should I say, Wow! Two in the running! Pretty good!
Posted by: joeinvegas | April 15, 2006 at 04:18 AM
Yes, perspective is ALWAYS good!!!
Posted by: Karen | April 15, 2006 at 04:30 AM
Let JJ know that Auntie has some Girl guide cookies for him, and those shold easily help him gain a ounce or two. I know it helps me in that way.
Happy Easter to you and your clan.
xo
Posted by: Auntie Pammie | April 15, 2006 at 06:19 AM
We use pulmicort. We don't have a choice unfortunately and we had to increase it a few weeks ago. Total bummer just when Sean was starting to finally grow.
He is having a lung function test soon to determine how damaged his lungs are. He doesn't gain weight due to the lungs working so hard AND food allergies. Once we found the allergy problem, the weight packed on almost overnight.
Posted by: Shelly | April 19, 2006 at 12:40 AM