Three Month Stats:
Head Circumference: 15 something
Length: 25 something
Weight: 13.15 or something
So no Pediatrician appointment this month, these are approximations from our visit to the GI doctor a few weeks ago. They didn't give me a print out, thus the super accurate numbers :)
Speaking of GI doctors, he said that it was in fact a milk allergy. Apparently there is a type of Milk Protein allergy that is not able to be tested for and that looking at her symptoms, that is what she had. So we had to put her on Nutramigen formula for seven days while her and I took a probiotic daily. Hypoallergenic formula is both crazy expensive and super smelly; the stuff smells like cat food so I can't imagine it tastes all that great. But after struggling to take the first bottle, she ate like a champ the rest of the time.
So for a week I had the worst of both worlds because I was cleaning bottles and pumping breast milk so I was happy when the week was up. Then we went back to nursing and taking the probiotics daily. She is still her happy and chunky self, so as long as that stays the same there shouldn't be a problem. Worse case, she grows out of it by the time she is one. We follow up with the GI doctor on Tuesday.
Lucy's Loves:
- Eating. When she was on the bottles she would get a very serious look on her face and hold the bottle with one or both hands while she pounded it down.
- Staring at the fan or light and talking/singing to them
- Talking to her bunny mobile in the morning
- Eating her fists/attempting to suck her thumb. She has almost got it down!
- Smiling and laughing at us
- Pulling her hair, sometimes really hard
- Yelling (not crying) when she is done laying in her crib
- Taking short naps, yelling at us (see above), smiling when she sees us, then wanting us to hold her in her room so she can finish sleeping :)
- Drooling and spitting up. We go through a lot of clothes and burp clothes in our house.
- Wiggling; I am pretty sure she never stops moving, even in her sleep. She starts at one end of the bed and by morning she is somewhere completely different. And she is usually pretty quiet about it. Either that or we have ghosts, but I'm betting on the wiggling.
- Looking at everything in sight. She insists on being held facing out if she is awake. I have to be pretty quick when we switch sides for nursing otherwise she gets distracted.
- Getting so strong and being able to kind of sit in the Bumbo
- Looking at herself in the mirror
- Getting better at putting herself to sleep
- Sleeping all night long
Top 5 things people say about Lucy when they see her:
5. How old is she? (I respond) then they say "Wow, that's a big baby!"
4. Look at those blue eyes!
3. Wow, she is so alert! She just looks at everything.
2. She is such a good baby!
1. I love her hair!
This little girl makes us so happy!
