She is cracking me and Jim up on a regular basis. Her language skills have changed so much in the last month or so. She will pop out with a "I don't think so..." or "You know better than that" in a conversation. She doesn't just say it, she does it at the right time. We're guessing she understands what she's saying. She's probably heard it enough in the right context that she can put it together.
Not only is she able to put some more slang type things together, she's also singing more of her songs from beginning to end. Before she would just sing part of it, now she's able to memorize a whole verse of a larger song or a full smaller song. So cool.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
One month visit today
We had her one month visit today with her doctor. She's gone from a 50% baby to an 80% baby. She's grown 35% in the last four weeks. Amazing. She weighed 9 lbs. 8.5 ounces and was 22.5 inches long. Her head is "smaller" like Reagan's was - not surprising.
I had questions about two things - her head and her breathing pattern. I have noticed in the last few weeks that she likes to look over her right shoulder predominately. I asked and she said it seemed that her neck muscles were tighter on one side and to start doing some simple stretching exercises to work on that - turn her head to the left and touch her ear to her shoulder every diaper change. She did mention that her head was slightly flattened on that side already and that we would watch it. If it's not better by the two month visit, we'd have to do some therapy for her. sigh... no biggie though.
When the doctor was showing us the exercises, she cried the whole time. Now tonight, she seems to only want to look to the left side. Odd.
She said the shallow to deep to non-breathing was normal. Thank goodness. It made me feel better.
No shots this time either. All in all the visit went well. She said she was beautiful and strong. Go Maddy!
I had questions about two things - her head and her breathing pattern. I have noticed in the last few weeks that she likes to look over her right shoulder predominately. I asked and she said it seemed that her neck muscles were tighter on one side and to start doing some simple stretching exercises to work on that - turn her head to the left and touch her ear to her shoulder every diaper change. She did mention that her head was slightly flattened on that side already and that we would watch it. If it's not better by the two month visit, we'd have to do some therapy for her. sigh... no biggie though.
When the doctor was showing us the exercises, she cried the whole time. Now tonight, she seems to only want to look to the left side. Odd.
She said the shallow to deep to non-breathing was normal. Thank goodness. It made me feel better.
No shots this time either. All in all the visit went well. She said she was beautiful and strong. Go Maddy!
Eating all the time
I guess Maddy is on a growth spurt because she is eating all the time. The book I've been reading to help me understand how to get her on a schedule calls her eating schedule a problem... you tell a baby that. She will "eat on schedule" which is every three hours. Then she'll add another meal in after one hour. So she's eating twice in three hours. She only does that a few times a day, but it's tiring sometimes.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Crib tonight
Tonight is the night for the crib again. I have been catching up on my "Babywise" reading and discovered that my scheduling for Maddy is a bit off. I have her eat and play cycles reversed. I hope to straighten that out starting today. I also need to let her start learning how to sleep in her bed sooner than I did with Reagan since I'll be going back to work much sooner this time. I need to her to sleep better.
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
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