Good News and Bad News

Well, we have some good news after Friday's doctor visits. Our first visit was with the ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat). Jackson's right ear appears to still have some fluid, but it is not infected which means the ear infection has cleared up. The doctor recommended that we wait and see what happens. Hopefully, he will not need tubes, but if it gets infected again, then we may have to look at getting tubes put in. I am thankful to not have to go through this surgery right now and we pray that we won't have to, but if we do, it is very routine and I know that Jackson will be in good hands.

Our second visit was with the pediatrician. Jackson is healthy and doing great! He really enjoyed talking with and flirting with the nurse practitioner :)

Here are his nine month stats:

Weight: 20 lbs. 11 oz. 48th percentile

Height: 29 inches 75th percentile

Head: 18 1/2 inches 48th percentile

I always feel like he is so big and chunky, but he's really average for his weight. I think it's because Brady was always very low in weight - there was one visit where I remember him being down in the 5th percentile after he started crawling and moving around more!

Now for the bad news!! Wednesday night I came home from a LONG day at work to find out that Jackson had fallen on a dining room chair. Apparently, he was pulling himself up on the chair and somehow lost his balance. He bumped his lip pretty bad and it bled for awhile. Brett put him to sleep around 7:30, but he either sucked the blood clot out while sucking on his pacifier or he just irritated it and it was bleeding again when I got home around 8:30. It looked really bad and I even called the doctor, but she told us to wait and it would probably get better. It did finally stop bleeding and although he was up a couple times during the night, by the next morning he was doing better and just had a fat lip :( This was his first big injury and it was SO hard to see him in pain. I'm just glad it wasn't anything more serious.

The first picture was taken Thursday morning. Brett chose a red outfit for him to match the bleeding.

This picture was taken on Friday. You can see a little swelling on his upper lip, but it's hard to notice a difference unless you really look closely.

And just so Brady doesn't feel left out...here he is being silly with his oranges at dinner last night!