2 Months April 13, 2007

Well we just got back from our 2 month appointment….and all the shots! Fiona is doing great…she’s over 23″ long…weighs 12.7 lbs….and is around 75% of kids her age….everything is growing great and right on track. She looks good and sounds good and is “still a VERY observant and alert little baby” She smiled and laughed at herself in the mirror and really did great. She of course cried when she got her shots and the Dr. told me to expect her to be fussy for a few days….but then what would be new? Maybe I have an advantage here because it won’t seem that bad to me =) I gave her some tylenol and will probably give her some at least for the rest of today.

We talked more about fussy babies. The good thing is that both of the pediatricians that I see had fussy babies so they’ve been there and know exactly what we’re going through. Really I think I’ve finally accepted the fact that this is how little Fiona is going to be for a while longer…and I think not only is she getting better but I’m getting better and that makes everything…well…better! Now I just need to get my mom to understand that yes…some babies really do cry this much and no…nothing is wrong with her….and maybe, just maybe she actually doesn’t remember like she thinks she does!

We also talked about the bottle. The Dr. that I saw today has a 11 mo. old son who sounds exactly like Fiona. He cried in his car seat and the car….was always fussy….and ABSOLUTELY refused the bottle. I told her that I had read about people offering nothing but the bottle for 48 hours to get the kid to cave and that I wasn’t sure how I felt about that but what where her thoughts. She said she didn’t like the sounds of that either. Basically one of two things will happen when I go back to work. She will finally get hungry enough while I’m gone to take the bottle (her son held out for 10 hrs her first day back to work and then slammed 4 ounces at once and took it after that) or Fiona will figure it out and just won’t eat during the day and then will eat all night long….which of course will mean that I will get considerably less sleep…but my daughter won’t be starving. The Dr. assured me that healthy babies will not let themselves starve so she will figure a way to make up for it one way or another. If she does start losing weight then we can be concerned.

So that’s the deal. I will still offer her a bottle every day till I go back to work and then we will just have to see what she decides to do. I have 2 more bottles still on their way here for her to try. Wish us luck!

(i will post her 2 mo. photo in bit….there are techinical problems on the site right now!)