Monday Bailey turned two months old. Really, when people ask me how old she is, it almost makes me sad to say 2 months because it just went so fast! Unfortunatley, her doctor’s appointment was actually a bit depressing. She was still in the 90% for height with her whopping 24 1/4″ tall, but her weight was 8 lbs. 10 oz., now down to only the 10%. Yikes. So, her pediatrician thought maybe I might not be producing enough milk, which, kind of makes me feel really bad that she might have been hungry for the last few weeks. Seriously, at her one week appt. after being born to check out her jaundice, she was 7 lbs. 6 oz., so in over 7 weeks, she only gained just over a pound! Not so good. I felt awful and like I’ve failed in a way. My life is nursing! And it wasn’t enough for her! Not very fun to hear. Then, I started thinking about her surgery and if it would be okay to still go ahead with it, since she was still tiny. So the pediatrician said to talk with the neurosurgeon about that.
So Wednesday was a pretty emotional day with her surgery being Thursday. We met with Dr. Cambrin and he looked at her and said he had been prepared to tell us to reschedule her surgery, but that she looked pretty healthy to him still– just skinny, but healthy. So Devon and I headed over the the lab to get her blood work done. It took at least two minutes for the blood to fill up in the tubes, and Bailey screamed the whole time while I was trying to comfort her. Poor girl. She hated it.
I got out to the van and just started to cry. If I could hardly handle her getting her blood work done, how was tomorrow going to be? I really had a hard time holding it all together on Wednesday. That day was so busy and stressful and so much running around and packing for the boys. It was crazy! But maybe better because it made the day go faster.
Hopefully we’ll get on top of her weight gaining. I did speak with some lactation specialists in the hospital and they were helpful so I think she’ll be fine. One of them even seemed to think that I was totally making plenty, and that Bailey’s just a skinny girl! We’ll see what works–I feel much better about all that now.
Anyways! We love our Bailey and can’t believe 2 months have already passed! She totally laughed out loud at my mom on Wednesday night–SO CUTE! First laugh. She’s laughed a couple times since as well and I love it!