Month: March 2005

Today we took Maxim for his 3-weeks pediatrician check. He was measured, tested, checked and looked into. He gained 300 grams since the last examination which was 9 days ago. He didn’t grow even one centimeter though.

It is also about time for Maxim’s hearing test, but dr.Simos is delaying it a bit, since there is still some water in Maxim’s right ear. This can trigger non-perfect results, so it is better to wait a bit until it disappears.

The biggest concern this time was Maxim’s poo color. During the last few days he is crapping with dark green substense more often than usual. As explained by dr.Simos, this is the sign of disbalance in the boy’s food processing department. There are all sorts of bacteria which are responsible for processing different elements, like water and fat. The green color of his poo shows that there are more of some bacteria than there should be and less of the other than there should be. This disbalance could have also caused his sleeping problems recently by the way. To solve the problem we were adviced to give him some medicine. The medicine is called Beneflora and is produced by good people of Ortis. Beneflora is a soluble powder which regulates digestion and “reinforces the body’s defenses”. The can with 125 grams of the substance should be enough for 10-15 days and costs about 3 CYP in any local farmacy.

We’ll try this thing and we’ll see if Maxim’s poo will change its color from the current dark green into a recommended yellowish. I’ll let you know of any changes.

As I have mentioned yesterday, Maxim is not sleeping very well during the last couple of days. It’s not that big of a problem except for all three of us (my mother, Olga and me) behaving totally weird. We instantly forget what we were doing. We stop talking in the middle of the sentense. We drop everything we touch. We use sugar instead of salt and pepper instead of sugar. We all have red tired eyes. We all want to sleep.

Although a couple of days don’t seem like a long enough period, we are trying everything and anything we can think of to calm Maxim down and make him sleep for at least two and a half hours at a time. After yet another feeding today he wasn’t going to sleep, so I took him for a walk. We went on the balcony. Originally I planned to spend 10 or 15 minutes outside, which should have been more than enough to calm him down a bit. But when he fell asleep after three minutes of fresh air, I suddenly remembered that many parents recommend taking the kid outside for a better sleep. So we brought the cradle and put Maxim in it, covering him with a few rugs and blankets. He slept for 3.5 hours straight.

It was getting cold and dark outside when we decided to bring him back in. He stayed calm for another 20 or 30 minutes and than politely requested to be changed and fed. Now that’s a change! I will practice the outside therapy on him for another few days just to see if there are any changes to his sleeping trends.

Meanwhile, Maxim is three weeks old. This is yet another milestone.