I can't believe our baby girl is three months old. Wow! It's hard to believe that a year ago this month we were in the middle of our IVF cycle. Now, a year later, we have a 3 months old little miracle. What a blessing!
Little Miss is getting so big. This weekend I packed up her newborn clothes and sent them off to someone else to use. She's now solidly wearing her 3 month clothes, some 0-3, and is almost ready for 3-6.
At 3 months Miss Riley...
- is drinking from a 3 month nipple (demands it if we slip a 1 in there)
- has found her hands and is sucking on her hands like crazy
- loves to sit and stand, still with help of course
- rolls from her stomach to her back, both ways, especially when you're trying to do tummy time
- holds her head up on her own, though it still gets a little wobbly when she's tired
- blows lots of spit bubbles
- imitates certain hand gestures like waving and pointing her index finger (for those that think I'm crazy Twins and Two Moms can verify)
- squeals, and yells, when she's happy or mad (no giggling but she's so close)
- has lots of smiles for everyone
- loves watching the Baby Channel (though we try to limit this, but it sure helps when laundry needs to be done or bottles need to be sterilized)
There are some things we're working on.
- She still favors her right side because of the Hygroma and her surgery. She's going to Physical Therapy and we have lots of exercises and stretches we do with her every day. She's slowly doing better. She can move her head to the left, but she favors looking to her right, especially when she's tired. We also make sure when she's in her bassinet, crib, swing, chair, etc. that she has to look to the left to look at us, her toys, etc.
- She still has a flat spot on the right side of the back of her head from laying on the Hygroma as she was growing in the womb. Because of this we try to always hold her towards the left, feed her to the left, and she is now sleeping on her left side. We're hoping to correct it without her having to wear a reshaping helmet.
- Her right ear sticks out and is slightly larger than her left due to being folded in half all those months in the womb. We tape it down, or have her wear headbands, around the house to help. She sees her Plastic Surgeon again at six months. At that time he'll decide if he wants to tack her ear back and fix her scar in the front. Her scar looks fantastic and is hardly noticeable except for one little place in the front. He told us after the surgery that they may have to fix this after six months.
- Little Miss sometimes has issues with bowel movements. She can go more than week without a BM. Right now she's on day seven. She's got a little bit of stinky gas, ok, maybe a lot, and gets a little fussy when trying to pass gas. We HATE her having gas pains and being constipated so any experience on this one is appreciated. Her pediatrician did tell us to start giving her apple or pear juice everyday. This helped for awhile but for some reason she's on another dry spell.
We took her for her three month pictures on Friday but she was pretty grumpy, because she needs to poop, and wouldn't really smile. So, as soon as she goes we'll take her back for pictures.
Until then here are some of my favorite pictures from Riley's third month of life.
12 comments:
SO cute!
Sounds like she's moving right along. Great job mommies!
Thanks for sharing!
Happy 3 Months little Riley!!!
She is doing so well!
Plus, she's so damn cute, how do you stand it!
She is so adorable.....Happy 3 months!
Happy 3months birthday..
so cute... love her bracklet - so cute...
She's so advance. Way to go on all of your milestones.
I need to hold her again. I just can't stand how cute she is.
Give her a big huge kiss from me.
Next year....beer and the lake for sure :)
Yay! Happy 3 months!
She is so cute and growing so fast!
Sorry about the poop issue. It is so hard to deal with that. I have had to help many a baby poop and it is not fun.
happy 3 months! :) she is getting so big! and isn't it amazing how much they change and everything they can do now? love the pictures!
oops that was me, stacey...
She is such a doll and seems to be doing so well! I always love to see your update:)
Super Sweet! Ohh.. I wish I could go back in time and snugle with my girls when they were that age. Riley is such a doll!
I love it when Riley turns another month old cause I know you are going to blog!! Just kidding...love the update and the pics. She gets cuter everytime I see her!
here are a few things we learned to help with the gas and the poop. if you take her legs and move them like she is rideing a bike and then slowly push her knees to bending slowly pushing on her tummy...not to hard but it helps getting thing moving. in massage school we learned that massaging that tummy in clock wise circles on her tummy also hlps get the digestion moving...if this does make sence or you want to ask questions call me you have my number if not leave me a message on my blog and Will call you!
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