No, Matt, Erin and I have not fallen off the face of the earth, we've just had a rough end to the week.
Erin went in for her 2 month check up on Thursday. She's still wonderfully healthy and growing well. She was 12 lbs 7 oz and almost 24 inches long, putting her in about the 75% for both. I went to my baby book and I was only 24 inches and 12 lbs 3oz when I was 3 months old. This just confirms what we keep noticing about her being a big baby. Our pediatrician was a little concerned about Erin's preference for looking to the right. We noticed this when she was less than 2 weeks old, but it's just gotten more pronounced since then. Our doc thinks that she has tightening of one of her neck muscles at this point which now makes it hard for her to look the other way. We've been trying to do stretches and we're going to go to a physical therapist soon because her head is already looking asymmetric. Not so good. Otherwise she got a clean bill of health.
I on the other hand, have not been so healthy. I started feeling really tired at the end of the week, but just chalked it up to a few months of interrupted sleep and an especially sleepless weekend. Unfortunately when it didn't improve with a few naps and I got a fever, I couldn't blame it on Erin any longer. I've now had nightly fevers since Thursday night and low grade temps daily. I have no appetite and my real meal was Friday night. I am so tired that I'm not really able to take care of Erin for large parts of the day and my muscles and joints are killing me when my temp spikes. Not so much fun. The problem is that my symptoms are so non-specific I can't blame it on a cold, stomach bug or UTI that I can either take meds for or know generally the time course of my funk. So I went in today to get tested for lyme. I didn't have a tick bite that I knew about or a rash, but it could fit with how I'm feeling. The doc today said that he'd treat me today if I wasn't breastfeeding, but that we need to be more careful because of Erin. He's totally right, I just am hanging on to hope that we figure out what this is so I can feel better.
Given my inability to do anything productive or even care for Erin these last few days, Matt has relatively effortlessly stepped in and is now doing everything with Erin except breastfeeding and also working. He is amazing. To see him juggle prep for work, work and laundry, yard work, housecleaning and dog exercise while taking care of Erin you would think that he's the one with 2 months practice. He is just amazing. Laura has also been doing most of the Erin care when Matt's at work. It's been uncomfortably hot (even more miserable when I'm running a temp) and we've been packing up and heading over to Jan and Dean's wonderfully air conditioned house. I've been napping while Laura and Erin get some good playtime and cuddle time. Jan and Dean have been at the cabin this weekend, but are coming home tomorrow AM and will help out as well. I could not be luckier to have such a incredible and supportive family and how happy I am that Matt and I are not going this alone. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Enough about me. Erin is handling most of this change in routine very well. She didn't sleep too well the night after her shots, but she's not getting back into the hang of it. She's now up once at night (about 4am) and then sleeping until 7:30. Pretty doable, but I think that I was spoiled by her sleeping totally through the night last week. I'm also struggling with picking her up at night since that's when I feel the weakest and the most achy.
Erin hasn't really gotten any new tricks this week, but she continues to perfect her old ones. She smiles all the time now and loves to play on her toy mat and in her bouncy seat. Whereas before i think that she hit the toys totally by accident, she's starting to have some purpose behind her swings. She is still putting her fist in her mouth whenever she doesn't have her nuk and has found her thumb occasionally. She has trouble keeping anything in her mouth, but she loves to try. She also tries to get anything in the vicinity of her mouth into it, so I think that we're going to have a kid who's really mouthy and I'm envisioning mouthfuls of dog hair already. Yum.
2 comments:
Wow Fran, what a tough week! There must be something about the 2 month mark. I came down with mastitis and mono when Lily was about 2 months old. I wonder if that's when our immune systems give up from the lack of sleep. I hope they figure it out so you can get better quick! Take care!
Oh, Fran! I hope you're starting to feel better!! Someone should tell our bodies that they are just NOT allowed to get sick once we have babies. Everything just gets too hard! I'm glad you're being well taken care of.
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