Three Months

WOW! I can’t believe it has been three months of pure joy with our angel. She has brought everyone so much happiness. She is the light of our lives. She is such a wonderful baby. I am sure most people say that about their child, but even other people tell us how wonderful she is. Within the last four weeks she has grown such a personality. She is the happiest baby I have ever met. She never meets a stranger. She smiles at everyone and talks to everyone. She has been talking up a storm. She will tell us all about her day. We ask her “so what did you do today?” she will just coo and grunt and tell us everything that happened. She is up to 5 ounces although she still eats every two hours. She is still sleeping through the night. She goes to bed between 8:30-9:00 and wakes up around 6:30. The new thing with her though it fighting sleep. Her little eyes get so heavy and she will just cry and moan with exhausting. I go to our rocker and do a rock, bounce, hum, pat combo and tell her that she isn’t missing anything. After about 20 minutes she is out. She is holding her head up and actually enjoying her tummy time now. Thank goodness. I don’t feel like I am torturing her anymore.

I still have long periods. I feel like I am on my period longer than I am off of it. I started my birth control 14 weeks ago so I am waiting to still get regular. Every now and then when I hold her I have a contraction. That is the only time I feel it. A woman’s’ body is amazing.

At her 2 month appointment the doctor told us that she had torticollis and plagiocephaly (turned neck and flat head) when she said that I just looked at her. I mean really. All we have heard since Aria was born was how pretty her head is. I never noticed her head leaning to one side either, but what do we know, we are not experts. So the doctor assigned a physical therapist to come to the house to evaluate her and start her on PT. Well the first lady came out to do paper work and she said “I have done this for 21 years and your daughter is perfectly fine.” The next lady came out to do a developmental evaluation she said “she is actually developmentally ahead of her age and I don’t think she has torticollis or plagiocephaly” the third lady came out to do the PT evaluation and she confirmed “there is nothing wrong with this child” she actually told me that she had seen three other babies that week that the same doctor said had toticollis. She said she must have gotten burned by a past patient or something. Needless to say our baby is perfect and didn’t need one minute of PT. J ladies, trust your instinct.