Meet Tristan

We would like to introduce the newest addition to our family, Mr. Tristan Cole Pelhank. As mentioned before, he is an easy baby. He has three basic cries: one for when he’s hungry, one for when he’s uncomfortable or hurting in some way, and the other is his tired cry. They are all distinctly different cries, and he doesn’t use them that often. He smiles so much more than he cries. From my experience, that is extremely rare in a baby. And because each cry is so easily readable, he is surprisingly easy to care for.

Tristan is extremely strong. He was able to hold his head up (for short periods of time) when he was two days old. He could stand while holding your two fingers at 2 months old. And he was able to roll over from belly to back at 9 weeks of age!!! His other accomplishments: can hold a toy, smiles and laughs, coos when you talk to him and says “ooh” and “ahh”, can bring his hands together, bats at toys, blows bubbles, recognizes our voices, holds his head steady…just to name a few.

He unfortunately developed bronchiolitis at 2 ½ months that we’ve been working to get rid of. He has to get his medication through a nebulizer. It’s essentially an inhaler for babies. At the beginning, we had to give him nebulizer treatments three times a day. But now that he seems to be getting better, we’re down to twice daily. When his breathing and coughing are back to normal, he won’t have to use it at all. He takes it like a champ though. At the beginning, he didn’t even make a fuss. He’d sit there and let us put that mask over his face, as it puffed the vapors that look like smoke directly in front of his eyes, without the least bit of a fuss. Lately he’s been a little less tolerant, but he’s still pretty darn tough in my eyes. We just hope that he get better soon.

Nebulizer treatments