Kaden at 2 Months

I think I have put off doing this post because I’m in denial that he is growing.  Maybe if I ignore it, he will just stay little.  Unfortunately, he has grown even since his visit on the 20^th when he was weighed.  At least I’m pretty sure.  It seems that way.  I haven’t actually weighed him but he seems heavier.  Here are his stats from the visit:

 Weight- 11lb 5oz (29%)

Height- 24.5 (97%)

Head- 16 (91%)

The nurse was a little generous on his height, I don’t think he was quite that tall.  It’s hard to measure a squirming baby.  We saw Dr. Hatch and he said that his percentage had dropped since his last visit.  I’m not that surprised since he was quite large when he was born.  Dr. Hatch acted like he was debating on whether to worry about the drop.  I think he may have been tempted to tell me to supplement, but he is a big breastfeeding advocate, one of the reasons I like to go to him.  And he knows me and trusts me so he didn’t tell me I needed to.  Not that I would have anyway.  I’m not worried about it.  Kaden eats a lot.  But I am going to try and get him to eat a little more when possible just so there is no need to worry.

Kaden is meeting all the milestones.  He smiles, makes little noises (not a ton, he’s barely starting to coo and squeal, and the kids sure love to hear it when he does make noise), his eyes seem to focus and follow objects more.  You know, all the exciting things a 2 month old can do.  Anyway, he’s doing great.  Or at least he was.  Until he got his shots.

He was sad when he got his shots, as would be expected.  Then he slept the entire day only waking up partially when I forced him to in order to feed him, and he was very groggy when he was trying to eat.  And when he was awake he would cry out in pain.  Then that night he was up a few times crying out in pain.  I gave him Tylenol a couple times and put a little magnesium in his bath to help soothe the muscles.  He also had a fever that night and the next day, which is another reason I felt like he needed Tylonel.  I don’t remember any of my other kids responding so badly to the shots.  He was cranky when he was awake.  He just wanted to be cuddled all the time.  This is another reason I have not gotten to this post until now.  He was such a different baby!  He had been sleeping until 4 or 5 consistently and there were quite a few times where he slept until 7 or later.  But after the shots he wasn’t sleeping well.  He would wake up around 3 or 4 and eat, but when I laid him down he would wake up again.  I ended up spending two hours a night trying to get him to go back to sleep, half the time bringing him into bed with me because I just gave up trying to put him in his crib.  It’s been like 10 days and he’s barely starting to get back to the happy boy we know that actually sleeps.

I took some pictures of him really quick one morning because he was in a good mood.  I didn’t set up a background or anything, I was just trying to hurry while he was smiling.  Ryan was trying to get him to smile so he was looking at him.  They didn’t turn out all that great so I thought I would just get some more a different day.  But then he got his shots and he didn’t have any happy times other than a few smiles here or there when we were holding him.  So we will have to wait until next month for some (hopefully) better smiles.

His eyes are looking more and more like Sadie’s shade of blue.  But the rest of him really reminds us of Dylan.  Maybe it’s the outfits that he wears that were Dylan’s.  I still think he has a bit of all the kids in him.

Here are some pictures from the last month or so.  He had his first bottle in December. 

Actually, that’s the only bottle he’s ever had.  It was the week of Christmas and I needed to run to the grocery store in the morning and I didn’t want to wait and feed him because I was worried the stores would get crazy so I just left and told Ryan to give him some milk I had pumped if he got fussy.  He was just starting to give it to him when I got home so I snapped a picture.  The bottle was gone by the time I got the picture.  Kaden had no problem drinking it down.  He likes his pacifier and he has a strong sucking reflex.  He has his hands to his mouth a lot of times and I think there’s a good chance he will eventually find his thumb.  But I’m worried that if that happens he will suck it to death.  He does love his pacifier, but he’s not super dependent on it either.  I try to give it to him when he’s mostly asleep after feeds and he spits it out.  And he will often lose it when he’s squirming around in his crib at night but he still falls asleep without a fuss.  I have the video monitor on him so I can watch him and I can see that his eyes are wide open and he doesn’t have the pacifier.

He likes his swing.  I love the swing so much! 

I don’t remember if I mentioned how I came to get this swing.  My old swing that I had with all my other kids ended up dying when I lent it to my friend.  It was already dying before I gave it to her, but she told me it started smoking…  So that one was toast.  I was really concerned that I was going to have to buy a brand new one because it is pretty much my one must-have for babies.  But as luck would have it, my old next-door neighbor posted a couple baby things for sale on Facebook and she was selling this swing for $30!  I nabbed it fast.  Of course, this was before many people knew I was preggo and since it was on Facebook and I had commented on it, some people found out.  Kind of funny, but it was never really a big secret anyway.  So I was SO happy, I can’t even tell you what a relief it was to have this taken care of.  I ended up buying a car seat from another friend also since mine was expired.  We still have the expired one in the garage and I’m not sure what to do with it?  We can’t donate it, I don’t think.  Do we just toss it in the trash?  Is there a recycle place somewhere?

This was him sleeping in the bouncer my friend gave me.  Our cat took over our old bouncer so I was happy when Liz offered me this one.  He was just so cute with his squishy face I had to get some pictures.

And there’s not much better than a sleeping baby.  Before the whole shot drama, he was in the habit of waking once in the early morning and then sleeping in until like 9:30.  I was running on the treadmill and stuff before he ever got up.  It was really nice.  Some days I was hovering over him waiting for him to wake so I could get on with my day.  Love him!

They grow too fast!  And I don’t take enough pictures!  I need to make an effort to get my camera out more.  And the video camera too.  I’ve been trying to get video of this sweet baby stage, especially when the other kids are being cute with him.  It won’t last!