My First week as a full time mom!

My first week home has been eventful and busy.  I attended my first PT session in months and learned how to support her body to help her learn to crawl.  So far its been frustrating for me and her (for me to see her try so hard) and for her…well to have to try so hard! lol  But I can see progress. 

 

We have begun the new “big girl” diet we got from the nutritionist. This is our first week on it; it has less bottles and no more processed baby food. Now she gets egg or yogurt or meat for protein and pretty much all the fruits and veg as she can chomp! We are watching her carbs to make sure they are healthy/whole grain to keep her from gaining any more chub.  At this point we want her to grow into her weight and so far so good.  She hasn’t really gained anything in the last 6 weeks or so but has grown another inch.  So, hurray baby girl and hurray us.  Keeping that weight down will help her in her efforts to crawl. 

 

She got a little case of thrush this week and we had to see the pedi to get some medicine to rub in her mouth.  And, of course, with the addition of more solid foods, we are having to adjust her milk of magnesia dose to make sure she doesn’t get “backed up”.  But so far, so good! 

 

She has certainly noticed that I am home more often and has decided it must be some sort of wacky, awesome perpetual weekend party.  I hear mom, ma, mom, mom, ma ma mum, mom, ma, ma…… well, you get the idea….

 

She is also loving having me around to hold her a LOT.  Apparently, she has been taking notes on my behavior for months.  She must have noticed how I always run to her at night with any little disgruntled sound she makes to put her bink in her mouth and wind up her bear mobile. She has paid attention to how I’m the love-to-cuddle her one who doesn’t force her to hold her own bottle (yes! Guilty!) and so now she has decided that having mom home is an excuse to get her way 24/7.

 

She’s a bright girl and knows what the word “no” means.  As testament to this fact, when we were at the optometrist earlier this week (oh, yeah, we went there too! Lol) she was wearing her glasses for the exam and she went to take them off her face to nom on them and was told “no” and had her hand moved.  The lip came out and trembled a little.  She reached her hand up slowly this time and again it was “no” and her hand was moved.  The eyes teared up and the already-stuck-out lip turned down and trembled even more as she wailed like her heart was crushed.  But…she didn’t try to pull her glasses off again.  She’s such a precious sweet heart!  Lord I love her!!

 

She has also started mimicking simple sounds and words with greater frequency.  Like “up”.  She amazes me with how clever she is.  If you ask her to find her belly, she will grab her chub roll and if you ask her where her belly button is, she will poke one little finger in her belly button and then grin at you like, “Here is is!  Found it!”  I melt at the sight of her smile.  I think she may be right about me- “pushover” is by nature what I am with her….but I am working on making sure I only melt when it won’t turn her into a crazy wild baby with no home training.

 

As for the ophthalmologist, she will still wear her glasses and be patched. I have ordered her some new lenses and she’ll be sporting her little pink frames again soon. In six months we go back to see if we can discontinue them at that time.  They are now only to prevent eye strain in the eye that turned in so that it can continue to strengthen. Her vision is normal.  So, once the right eye is as strong as the left, she won’t need them anymore.

 

Well, I am writing this during naptime (and its gradually drawing to a close) so I better go for now. I will post another update next week cause we have lots more appointments!  We have our yearly urodynamics study which will have us a Nemours all day!  Then our weekly PT and her one year shots and checkup. 

 

Plus, I found out that as an alumni, I can still use UNF’s library to print out some scholarly journals I plan to use as reference materials for the book.   This staying home business is keeping me hopping and I LOVE it!