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2 Months

Truett had his two month appointment this past Monday, and he did not react well to the immunizations. I know there are a lot of strong opinions out there regarding vaccines, and I have some of my own. I think that growing up with a grandfather who was a paraplegic as a result of a childhood case of polio gave me some 1st hand evidence about why vaccinations are so important (although at one point as a kid I somehow had the idea that asparagus gave you polio-this was before I had a better grasp of how germs and diseases work :)). It was so hard to see him so miserable though, and screaming at the shots was just the beginning. He ran a fever of over 100 for at least 24 hours, and was so pathetic the whole time. He only wanted to be held constantly while he slept and ate. His little whimpers while he was sleeping made me want to whimper myself, and he spent the whole night sleeping on my chest. I am going to try to move his 4 month appointment to a Friday now that we know how he is likely to react to more vaccines. He is in the 97% for height and weight, tipping the scale at 14 lb 15 oz and measuring 25 inches. He is in the 99% for head circumference, which cracked me up, and also explained why none of the newborn hats ever really fit!

For the last couple of weeks or so (not counting Monday night!) he has been sleeping for at least 6 hours at a stretch at night and sometimes as long as 8 hours. I am soooooooo thankful that he is such a good sleeper, especially since I am going back to work in just over a week. I am not taking any credit for his sleeping habits, just feeling very blessed. Tonight is the first night we are trying to put him down in his crib by himself in his own room. Up until now, he has been sleeping his Amby Baby bed and I LOVE it, but we will have to change to the crib in the next couple of months and I would rather do it now while I can still take naps during the day, just in case we have some rough nights.

In other baby news (I will have other things to talk about someday-right now my life is pretty much focused on him) I have had to give up dairy because it was giving him gas. We were at that point that we were giving him milacon a few times a day, and gas was waking him up at night so when a friend suggested I try avoiding dairy I decided it was worth a try and cut it out for several days. Then one day last week I had two pieces of pizza for lunch and I was up with him in the middle of the night because he had gas. That taught me my lesson! I am not 100% dairy free, I still have margarine on my toast (which has dairy in it) and I eat baked goods that contain dairy, but these things don't seem to bother him. We are now pretty much gas free, and an unexpected side benefit is that his umbilical hernia seems way flatter now that he isn't straining all the time.