Two Months

Alex turned two months old yesterday and is doing great. she had her check-up yesterday and currently weighs in at nine pounds, four ounces! This is great because she gained over two pounds this past month, which is a little more than normal. She needs to do this because she needs to play catch up some. She is still on her medicine for another month at least, which we expected, and she's also on Zantac to help some with spit up that's kind of creamy and not just milk. (Acid reflux.) We have also come to the conclusion that we think she's lactose intolerant, something very common in babies, so I am on a total diet lacking in cheese (NO PIZZA), milk (NO PUDDING), and ice cream (NO ICE CREAM). How sad is that? We have a formula that she shouldn't be allergic to now. This will be great if for some reason I'm gone and she really needs to eat, which has happened occasionally.

She also has something called an umbilical hernia, which sounds scary but isn't. Her little belly button sticks out like you wouldn't believe. It's a little weird but not something to worry about. 75% of the cases correct themselves by the time the child is two years old, so we really hope that we're in that 75%. (There is a possibility of corrective surgery, but it's not something to worry about at all, so don't concern yourselves...)

Overall, Dr. Mora is pleased with her progress, even though she's still only in the 25th percentile of weight, height, and head size for girls, but that's to be expected.

At home she's doing really well. Jason and I think that we're both finally getting better (we started taking parasite medicine and it seems to be working). Alex has been sleeping for longer periods of time at the beginning of the night, so I am pretty regularly able to have at least three hours of sleep in a row at the beginning. She continues to brin gher hand to her mouth, and she now has a little play area set up near our back door where I do some development exercises with her and just hang out some. She did the GREATEST thing this morning! I attached a foil ball to a ribbon to help encourage her to move her hands up and try to swat at it. It's early for that, but it was an easy thing to make and try out. She did not swat at it. However, she got realy interested in it and she tracked it with her eyes, left to right and up and down, for about 2 or3 minutes, which was amazing! she just kept following it with her eyes. I've seen her do this a little bit but never to that extent. It's pretty cool. I also took out a few spices to have her smell, which was kind of fun, and I lift her up by her hands and her neck is starting to get so strong. She can't hold it up yet, but she's getting there.

Okay, sorry nopics this time. She just woke up and is HUNGRY!