Charlie's "well" visit

Charlie had his four month check-up today but it didn't end up being much of a well visit. The poor little guy has bronchiolitis (the smoking dinosaur is back), two ear infections, and thrush. We're holding off on treating the ear infections right now, which is good since there just isn't enough time in the day to do 3-4 breathing treatments, 4 doses of thrush medication, 2 doses of reflux medicine AND 2 doses of antibiotics each day! I need a personal assistant just to keep up with all of it.

Considering everything he has going on, Charlie is doing okay, but he's definitely not feeling well. His cough sounds horrible and his nose doesn't stop running. It's horrible not being able to do anything to make him feel better or to prevent him from getting all of these nasty bugs (short of locking us all up in the house until cold and flu season is over). The doctor said that it's normal for a second child to have cold after cold, but knowing it's normal doesn't make it much easier for him. I'm just praying that he'll get over this nasty cold and be well for a good stretch of time -- otherwise, we'll be sitting in an ENT's office very soon (the doc said that if he gets another ear infection before 6 months, we'll need to go see one and he'll probably recommend tubes -- YUCK!).

So other than the numerous illnesses, Charlie is actually doing very well -- he weighs 16 pounds (60th percentile -- up from the 40th at 4 months), is 26.25 inches long (82nd percentile) and his head is in the 80th percentile. His stats are probably slightly inflated since he's actually 4.5 months old, but I'm thrilled with them -- I'll never understand how he's able to gain weight when he seems to spit up everything he eats, but he does and that's what's important!