Labay Family: Cooper -18 Month

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Cooper -18 Month

Little Cooper turned 18 months on the 5th of February! Although he's not really that little... he weighs 30lbs.! The twins only weigh 27 lbs. each and they are 2 years older! I love my big boy!!! Cooper is talking a lot more and is even starting to put some words together. He still grunts a lot when he wants something but he has started saying water, bath, teeth, bowl, and things like that to let me know what he wants. He says I love you, Thank you, car, truck, and tons more stuff. And can repeat almost anything you ask him to. Cooper loves baths, dinosaurs, books, bananas, green beans, brushing his teeth, his daddy, and his Momo. Actually he loves everybody, but he is always WAY happy to see Daddy or Momo walk through the door! He sleeps from 8pm to 7:30am every night and takes on nap during the day usually from 11am to 2pm. He is perfectly sweet and is just a good baby! Love him!!!
We did see Dr. Dimmeck for his 18 month well baby check-up, but I'm afraid that was our last visit to STMC for him anyway. Although it is very convenient to have a Dr. local, I often times question the care we were getting and wondering what another doctors opinion would be. Looking back, I still think something should have been done about the shape of Camron's head very early on. It has turned out to be ok, but still wish we could have done better. Anyway none of my kids are very sickly little kids and in fact the twins have never even had an ear infections. Well, Cooper is on his third since Christmas. This is why I took him to a new pedi this week. Since the problem kept reoccurring, I wanted to get another opinion about what was going on. We found Dr. McDavitt at Grand Parkway Pediatrics though the suggestion of family and friends. We actually love her! She was very good with Cooper and checked him out thoroughly and prescribed him a "more potent" antibiotic that hopefully will knock the infection out for good. If not she will refer us to an ENT to make sure his hearing is not being affected. If it is, he will have to have tubes put in. I hope it doesn't come to this and really wish for the best.

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Jennifer said...: I used dr. Mcdavitt with Connor when we lived in sugar land and loved her! Then we moved to ec and it was getting old driving there for any little sickness we had.; February 18, 2012 at 8:34 PM

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My Pregnancy

Feb. 22, 2008 - Positive Pregnancy!
Feb. 28, 2008 - TWINS!
14 Weeks - Cervical Cerclage
24 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 3 days -Pre-Term Labor. Sent home on fetal monitoring and terbutaline pump. I have to monitor for contractions once a day and send the readings in for review. The terbutaline pump in a cathater in my leg that sends a contiunous flow of "anti-contraction" medicine into me. Complete bed-rest!
28 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 90% effacement of cervix. Cerclage still in tact but pulling. If it broke I would have to deliver and this is too soon. The babies are measuring 2.8 and 2.11 pounds. Was in the hospital for 23 days this time.
31 Weeks - Was sent home. Babies were 3.9 and 3.10 pounds. Stay on bed-rest.
36 Weeks 3 Days - Scheduled C-Section
Babies Born October 3, 2008!!!

5 Years of Infertility

Brent and I had dated for years - since my senior year of High School and were finally married on September 27, 2003. We had been together so long that we decided we would start a family immediately. Things turned out to be a bit more difficult than we planned. After many years of trying and medical intervention I was finally diagnoised with Endometriosis in Feb. of 2007. My disease was severe - stage 4 and had spread to my liver. After having exploratory surgery Dr. Cook thought that my ovaries and tubes were capable of functioning properly enough to produce a pregnancy but with the hostile environment inside of me I would need lots of help. We began Lupron therapy that would last 6 months as a way to try to "kill" off some of the endo. When the 6 months was up we began rounds of Clomid with IUI (Intra-Uteran Insemination). We did 2 cycles of this with no result. Our only other option was IVF which we decided to begin in January of 2008. After carefully following the treatment schedule of meds. and shots we had 14 eggs retrieved on Feb. 5, 2008 and of the 14 eggs 6 fertilized and became embryos. On Feb. 8, 2008 Dr. Gill transfered 3 of the best of the embryos. Two weeks later (Feb. 22nd) MaryLou called with the good news that my pregnancy test was positive!!!