Ethan had a followup appointment with his pediatrician on Friday. He gained about a pound over the last month! YAY! He’s now up to 22 lbs. We didn’t measure his height because he was being an uncooperative turd. The doctor wants us to keep doing what we’re doing and go back in a month for a weight check.

As long as he keeps gaining something, we are not concerned about his weight anymore. We started giving him a high calorie pediatric drink every day and that helped him gain weight. I counted his calories for the first week and based on those numbers, I guestimated his calories for the remaining time of our experiment. On a great day, he’d consume about 1800 calories. On a really bad day, about 500. On an average day, somewhere around 1100. The pediatric drink adds about 250 calories per day, so it appears that he just wasn’t consuming enough prior to adding that supplement.

Hopefully he continues on the right track and we can put all of this behind us. And maybe find something else to worry about