Okay, that's not my nickname for her, it's her fathers nickname for her. But it cracks me up when he says it in the "happy baby voice". Ahh, I can imagine the therapy bills now!
I realized today that I haven't updated my blog in awhile...Bad bad Mom.
Emmy is 8 weeks old today. This week (on the 20th) marks her official 2 month old birthday. It's amazing how fast time has gone, especially since I am awake for so much more of it! LOL
Emmy smiles a lot now (oh how I love that!), and she can hold her head up on her own quite well. But you must be very, very careful, since my daughter is a spaz, she will headbutt you and lean backwards so quickly that you will almost drop her if you don't pay attention! (Notice I said ALMOST drop her, I haven't dropped her, but I have so many many fears of doing it.) I did drop a baby bottle on her yesterday by accident. Luckily, it was empty and she was completely unfazed. I, however, was ready to call the authorities to turn myself in for child abuse.
She also has become quite adapt at grabbing my hair when she wants to, and/or shirt, Keith's chest hair, pretty much anything within her reach. She doesn't really reach for toys yet, she seems to enjoy causing us pain! LOL
Her weight continues to climb which is great! She weighed 9 lbs at the pediatrician office on Thursday. This put her up an entire weight percentile and turned out she gained 1 lb 3 ozs in a week!
Overall, she's a happy little baby who is as cute as can be. She has a few problems that I have mentioned before in my blog, but I will update them now.
Reflux: Her acid reflux sucks. I can't put a positive spin on it no matter how hard I try. If there is anything that is causing all of us extraordinary stress these past few weeks, it is this. She will eat (we burp her after every ounce of formula), she may spit up a bit after eating, which I consider very normal. I keep her upright for 30 minutes after the feed, where she will sleep with her head on my shoulder. She is then placed in her swing to keep her upright while she sleeps.
About an hour or two after the feed the fun begins. She will start to whimper in her sleep. Then, the whimpering will get louder, and she will begin to rub her face. All of a sudden, she will howl, and the cute lil child looks like an extra on the Exorcist set. It's crazy! Spew will come out her nose and mouth, she will be upset, and my heart breaks because there is nothing that I can do at the moment to take her pain away.
We have tried to switch formulas (this has been a problem since birth). We have tried thickening the formula. We tried dosing her with a small amount of Maalox after her feeds. This did cut down on the pain, but it also caused a HUGE case of diarrhea. She just started Zantac, however, at the moment it makes her puke more LOL. I also changed her formula one more time to the uber-expensive, guaranteed-no-allergies formula. It's worth a shot. The Pediatrician said it couldn't hurt, except the pocketbook! LOL
Her hips: She had an ultrasound on April 5th. Last week, we were called into the Ped's office for the exact reason I thought it was for. Her hips are bad. We have an appointment with the Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon on Wednesday. I am assuming they are going to want to put her in the Pavlik Harness to try to correct them. We will see.
Other than that, I am tentatively going to say that Emmy slept through the night for the very first time last night. Tentatively because I don't know that it will be an ongoing thing, but she did sleep for 7 hours straight. She fell asleep around 1:30 am early this morning, and when I got up at 8:00, she was still asleep. This has been the absolutely LONGEST she has EVER slept. I had to make sure she was still breathing when I awoke!
So, here's my tentative HAPPY DANCE! No true celebrations until she happens to do it again (tonight Em, sleep through the night again tonight! LOL).
