Lily will be 10 weeks old tomorrow! This morning, we took her in for her 2 month visit. It was a little late, because her doctor was on vacation last week. Her doctor's office gave us the option of seeing someone else in his absence, but we really enjoy her doctor and he's so great with her that we decided to wait until he was back in the office to take her in for her check up. She did great, as usual, even giving her doctor a big smile and chatting with him a little bit during her exam. We got her measurements again and although I could tell she'd grown (I had to clean out some clothes she'd outgrown this weekend), it's always cool to see the numbers. Today was also a vaccine visit - definitely not mommy's favorite visit so far. Lily did really well with her shots - she didn't care a bit about the oral vaccine and after her 3(!) vaccines in her legs, she only cried for a few minutes and then went to sleep and slept for the ride home. I think she handled them better than I did!
We also got a chance to talk to her doctor about Lily's reflux. Before our trip to the beach, I took Lily in to the doctor because of some excessive spitting up and pain/fussiness while eating and after eating. The doctor we saw that day told us that all babies, to some extent, have reflux due to an immature sphincter at the bottom of the esophagus that allows stomach contents to come back up because of gas or an overfull tummy, resulting in lovely spit up. It looked to her like Lily had just a little bit more reflux than the usual baby and we talked about some reflux precautions to use during and after feeding her, which include burping more frequently and sitting her upright for 30 minutes to an hour after she eats to help gravity do its work - this is why a lot of her most recent pictures are done in her car seat - it's the best place for her to sit up after eating! Unfortunately, while we were at the beach, she had to take a trip to the pediatrician down there (an extremely nice doctor) because of some brown fluid and a tiny bit of blood that was mixed in with her regular spit up. It looked like her esophagus was really irritated from the reflux, so she was put on Zantac to decrease the amount of acid in her tummy. Her regular doctor told us today that we can try getting her off the Zantac in a couple of weeks and see how she does; both her daddy and I would like for her to not be on this long term. We'll keep doing the reflux precautions to try and help decrease her spitting up and the irritation on her little system.
Here were her stats today:
Her weight was 9lbs 9oz, putting her above the 10th percentile now! Her head circumference was up to 38 cm and her length was a full 22 inches - her length puts her above the 25th percentile and her head circumference puts her right in the 25th percentile for her age. Her doctor seems pretty happy with how she's growing and her developmental progress to this point.
Lily at home:
Lily's still eating exclusively breastmilk, either nursing or bottled breastmilk when we're out and about. She's eating a steady every 3 hours, except for in the evening, when she still wants to eat every 2-2.5 hrs. For the past week, she's been going to bed between 9-10pm and sleeping until 2:30 or 3 every night, which mommy loves! She nurses and then goes right back to sleep for another 3-4 hours, depending on the day. After she wakes up in the morning, we have our playtime and Lily does her tummy time (she's still not a fan) and she gets to chat with her butterflies for awhile. This is really the best time to see her smile and hear her chatting away.
She's not really in a steady routine during the day, but does usually do a morning and afternoon nap for 2-3 hours and then another nap in the evening. Her morning nap seems to fall between 9-11am most days and her afternoon nap usually falls after she eats again in the early afternoon. Her evening nap is usually at some point in the early evening, around 5 or 6, and is usually her shortest nap of the day, if she's slept well throughout the day. After she wakes up for that, she may have a little bit of a fussy time before she's ready to get her bath (if it's a bath night), change into her jammies, get all swaddled up, nurse and head off to sleep.
Instead of doing an eat, activity, sleep schedule, we do more of a eat, sleep, activity schedule. Because Lily has to sit in her seat or be held upright for 30 minutes after eating, she usually falls back asleep before we can do any playtime, so her playtimes usually come after she wakes back up and before she's hungry again. We do tummy time twice a day, most days, because she's still pretty frustrated by it and really only tolerates it for a little while before getting pretty upset. She is getting better about it though, the easier it gets for her to turn her head from side to side and pick up for a little while.
Lily is starting to smile a lot now, and even laugh/giggle a little bit, which is so fun to hear! She's much better at eye contact now and will turn her head when she hears a noise she's interested in - usually when either I or Richard are talking. She loves to chat with her carseat toys and really enjoys rattles and watching the baby in the mirror - either in our big bathroom mirror or in the mirror on her playmat and in the car. She's also started watching Oz and Stella and you can tell they are extremely fascinating to her. Usually, Oz is up with us in the morning during her playmat time and she will stare at him when he's checking things out.
Here are a couple of videos I took yesterday of Lily just hanging out on her playmat and during tummy time:
This next one is of her eating her fist - one of her newer tricks when she doesn't have her pacifier - and the last is of her after eating - she sure is happy when she has a full tummy!
And a couple comparison pictures:
Lily in her carseat the day we brought her home:
Lily in her carseat Friday:
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