2 Months

K has come a long way in two months.

Comparison: Brand new and the tail end of a smile.

 As you can see, she is smiling for real now, these aren't just from gas. We haven't gotten a big, wide-open-mouth smile on camera yet, but she is doing it more and more. (Check out that double-chin)

 

According to a website, K has all of the advanced skills for a 2 month old. She holds her head steady,

 

(though she does get a little wobbly when she is really tired).

She can bear weight on her legs,

 

and she can lift her head and shoulders when she is on her tummy.

She also likes to sit up. Sometimes I sit her up in her boppy pillow with her back leaning against it, and she tries to straighten up. She's never done it for more than a second, but she is working on it. Until then, she loves to sit on our laps with her back against our stomachs. Today Ian propped her up on the couch.

Sometimes I forget how little she is. At her two-month appointment, K weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces, which is still under 5th percentile. They didn't measure her, but I did at home, and got 20 inches (though I didn't pull her quite as much as they do at the doctors), which is also under 5th percentile. Strangers always ask me if she is a few weeks old. She is still wearing mostly newborn clothes, though long-sleeves and pants tend to be a little short. (It's hard to tell in this picture since her legs are bent, but the cuffs on these pants are supposed to be folded up, and even with them left down they are highwaters.)

She sleeps really well at night, which we are very happy for. I feed her, then we wrap her up, and rock her until her eyes start to close. Then we put her down, usually around 8. Then she fusses for a little bit and then goes to sleep. This last week she has hardly fussed at all, she just keeps quiet and goes right to sleep. Then she'll wake up around 1 or 2 to eat, and once again she'll go right to sleep, then stays alseep until 8 or 9 in the morning.

The sad thing about being two months old, is that means its time for the first round of vaccinations. K did amazing though. She woke up right when we went into the room, and was smiling at the nurse. Then she got two shots in her left thigh, one in the right, and a vaccination that is just oral. She cried two minutes tops. Afterward, when we were waiting around to make sure she didn't have a reaction, she was really happy again, and was smiling at everybody. There was kid there who had just gotten some shots for school. He looked as if he was 12 or 13 and he was complaining about how it hurt so much and how he was in pain. Finally his mom said, "that little baby just got shots too, and she is smiling". She told him.
These aren't the best pictures, but they show her band-aids.

K did give us a little scare this week. Last Saturday she threw up, and instead of just being yellowish curdled milk, it was light brown, which automatically made me think it might be old blood. But, it was pretty light and she acted fine, so I didn't go anything about it. On Sunday she had more brown spit-up, but was still acting fine. I wasn't sure if I needed to do anything or not, but then on Monday morning, her poop was almost black, which is almost caused by the presence of blood. So we went to the doctor and sure enough it was blood. He said that since everything else was perfectly normal the blood was probably from a small tear in her esophagus from coughing or spitting up too hard, and if that was the case her poop would go back to normal color by the end of the week. He also prescribed a medication to keep her from spitting up. She does really good taking her medicine (she must like peppermint), and sure enough, this morning her poop was its normal mustardy-yellow. We're very grateful that it was something so minor and that it didn't bother her at all. (It was interesting though, because when Ian got home and saw the prescription, he said, "That's the doctor who diagnosed me with leukemia." Poor guy--that's got to be one of the worst things about being a doctor.)