Primary Children's and 6 months

How is it possible Bennett is 6 months old already?  It just does not seem possible.  10 days before he hit 6 months he proved he was my child and had his first ear infection.  He'd been pulling or digging on his ear but didn't have a fever and was still sleeping just fine so I waited a few days.  Then he got an eye infection and when the doctor was checking him he found double ear infections.  That's my boy - it must be a McBride thing.  When I hear people say their children have never had ear infections I'm like really?  What would that be like.  I just pray he doesn't follow so closely in Max's footsteps.

 I can't find his paper with his 6 months stats, but I know he weighed 18lbs 3oz and was in about the 75% for both height and weight and the 30% for head.  The doctor was concerned about his heart murmur this month, he said it sounded louder and bigger or more pronounced and wanted him checked at Primary Children's.  So we did.  I was concerned, but not obsessed. In fact I was pretty proud of how calm I was about the whole thing, Bennett looks like a perfectly healthy kid, he's growing, eating and alert so I wasn't too worried.

We saw Dr. Martin on 11/29 and after an EKG and several blood pressure checks she said Bennett either had a benign heart murmur that deals with the electrical pulses in your heart or a whole in his heart.  So she ordered an ultra sound of his heart.

The ultra sound was really cool to watch.  Bennett was asleep for most of it and it just amazed me how hard a heart has to work.  The ultra sound showed no hole and Dr. Martin said this kind of heart murmur will get louder and more pronounced until he's about 2 or 3, it's nothing to be worried over and we don't need to bring him back up to have it checked.  That was a great feeling.

Every time I go into Primary's I am more thankful for my three healthy children.  I am so grateful for the blessing they are to me!

Bennett got another ear infection about a week after his 6 month check up.  And he's stopped sleeping through the night.  He's decided he's starving in the middle of the night and he's killing his mother!  Not really, but I've been spoiled and miss sleeping through the night baby.

He's eating really well and loves noodles, squash, pumpkin, bread and the only thing that he wouldn't eat was waffles.  It must have been a texture that he couldn't swallow.

He is rolling over like a mad man and pretty much gets anything he wants ;) Oh and I should probably document, although begrudgingly, that Bennett's first word was "dada".  Why?!?   He love's his dad that is for sure, and I really don't care, but for Mike's sake I pretend that I do, it means so much to him.  (Now doesn't that make me sound like wife of the year!)