Bennett Update

As many of you have already read on my blog, there have been concerns with Bennett's lack of weight and height gain. We were told to start loading up on calories--lots of butter on everything! Gains were still minimal. After talking with my sister, we starting adding half and half into his milk and added Pediasure to his diet. Recently, we saw a nutrionist who had us take detailed notes about Bennett's diet for 3 days. Her conclusion--he is getting plently of calories. So, we went back to our pediatrician and he has finally hit 20 lbs. but he's still not where they would like him to be. Our doctor ran some more blood tests and found that his growth hormone is low--44 and the normal is 55-300+. In a few weeks, we will be meeting with the endocrinologist to determine if added growth hormone is necessary or if our little boy is just plain going to be little :-) I personally think he's just not blessed with big genes and is going to be a small kid. But I am glad that were are checking all these other avenues just in case. As always, I will try and keep everyone updated once we get more information. Ryan and I were joking if we should determine that the growth hormone is necessary and he meets all the requirements, we still may have some hope of making him a tall basketball player yet! Just kidding and it will certainly be a long discussion before any decisions are made. As for baby number 2, he seems to be doing well and growing well.