A changing tide

Well it has been a while since a posted on here... the birth and first three months of a baby girl in fact. Our lives have changed a lot since then and in some ways that I did not expect, but I am loving being a mom! Sometime soon I will post the back story of what all has gone on and the timeline, but for now here is an update on all what happened at her doctors appointment yesterday. We went for her 4 month check up with her general doctor (I know she is only 3 1/2 months old, her doctor visit schedule is messed up, oh well!)

She is up to 11lb 13oz. When we went to GI on 22nd she was at 11lb 5oz. So in 10 days she gained 6oz. The goal is at least 1oz a day... But we are happy that it is a gain and not a loss!

We talked about a whole list of things. On Saturday when my mom and I were at Khol's Jillian had 2 nasty poops. During that time of undressing her we noticed that Jillian's toes where purple (like soneone hit them with a bat). By the time we got home they where back to normal. I brought this up with the doctor. She said that if it happens again that we will need to go see a cardiologist. Now I have a reason to look at her cute little feet more :)

When she did her physical exam her doctor noticed this dimple on Jillian's ear. Her doctor asked how long it had been there and I told her since birth. She asked if anyone had talked to me about it and I said no. She said it can mean one of 3 things. 1. It is completely cosmetic and nothing to worry about. 2. It can be associated with hearing loss, which is less likely in Jillian's case because she passed her newborn hearing screening or 3. a problem with her kidneys. We are now waiting on scheduling to call so we can set up an ultrasound of her kidneys to rule that out.

We talk about the pile of paperwork that children's had sent the doctor so she was up to date with what was going on there. That was a little confusing because they sent her results for a test from genetics that did not make much sense. Her nurse ended up calling up there and they said that genetics will go over that with us on the 23rd...

Her doctor laid her down during part of her exam and Jillian promptly started doing her funny breathing. Her doctor asked how often this happened and I told her all the time and that normally it sounded worse then what it was at that time. She looked me in the eye and said "I dont want to scare you, but you know CPR right." Thankfully I just redid my certification, however I REALLY hope to never use it. Her concern is that Jillian will choke on her reflux and she would need CPR until we could get her more help. Thus anyone who will be responsible for Jillian from now on needs to know CPR.

We also talked about immunizations.  Jillian has always been on a modified schedule for shots because I have an egg allergy and wanted to be cautious. She has only ever gotten 2 shots at a time. However the last 2 time she has gotten shots she has ended up at Children's 11 days later. We have decided that for now she will only get 1 shot at a time and we will space them out so she gets one every other week. This is as long as she does not get sick. If she does we are done with shots for now. We are not sure if her immune system just cant handle the stress of them. So for now we will go to her ped's office every other Tuesday for the next two months to keep her on track. She did get one shot yesterday so she is really sleepy today.

So that is the Jillian update for now.

A picture of her sleeping last week. That is kind of what today has looked like. Except today she has spent part of the day sleeping on me in her new Moby wrap from the Easter Bunny. That has been amazing today because she has wanted to be sungled up and this way she has been able to be close while I get a few things off my to-day list checked off.