Betsy Grace loves to smile and laugh. Most of the time it's for the ceiling fan, the birdies on her swing, shiny things, or bright lights but lately she's had lots of smiles for mommy. I can't even express how much I love that sweet little smile! She also loves to talk. She's always making noises and likes to go back and forth with me as I imitate the noises she makes. I think we are in some trouble once she starts really saying words because if this is any indication she will be talking non stop.
This month also brought about our first diaper rash and trip to the doctor for something other than a well visit. She had a light white coating on her tongue for a while which I was worried might be thrush. She didn't have white any where else in her mouth besides her tongue so I figured maybe I was just being paranoid, but decided to go to the doctor to have it checked out just in case. Unfortunately, the PA said she had a mild case of thrush in her mouth and a yeast diaper rash. So we left with a prescription for Nystatin in oral form and as a cream. We have finished the oral part of the medication, but I don't feel like her tongue looks any better. Her diaper rash cleared up right away thankfully. We had our 2 month appointment today with the doctor and he said that she looked fine and that it's just milk on her tongue. I hope he's right because I really don't want to have to go through the process of bleaching/sterilizing/stripping all of my diapers, bottles, pacifiers, towels, etc. again.
Since she had thrush we've taken a break from using the cloth diapers and are using disposables instead until everything is cleared up. I have to say that I really dislike disposable diapers... they just can't contain the poop! I've experienced more blowouts in the past 2 weeks than I did over the past 6 weeks combined! I never had any problems with our cloth diapers leaking like the disposables. Because of the yeast diaper rash I had to do some intense cleaning of the cloth diapers to kill all the yeast so we don't get it again once we go back to using them. I've also been boiling pacifiers and pump supplies like crazy to try to get rid of the yeast. Sadly, I also had to throw out a bunch of frozen milk that I had stocked up in the freezer. I'm not sure when the thrush began so just to be safe I tossed it all out.
We took our first vacation with baby this month as well. Michael had a three day work conference in St. Pete at the Don Cesar and we went with him. Betsy Grace and I were able to meet up with some friends who live in Tampa for dinner on Wednesday night while Michael was at a work dinner. We just hung out at the hotel most of the time while Michael was in meetings, but it was nice to be away from home and have a change of scenery for a little while.
Today we had our two month visit at the doctor's office. The past few weeks I've been trying to decide what I wanted to do in terms of vaccinations so I've been doing a lot of research. The amount of information, both for and against vaccinations, is overwhelming. It makes my head hurt. I'm not totally against getting vaccines, but some of the ingredients and side effects can be pretty frightening. I still haven't completely made up my mind as to whether or not I want to do the alternative schedule, which spaces out the amount of shots given at one time, or the selective schedule, which only includes the most needed vaccines. Thankfully, both of those schedules are the same for the 2 month check up so I have a few more weeks to make up my mind. Today she had an oral dose of the Rotavirus vaccine and the DTaP shot. Poor little thing... I've never heard her scream so loud.
Betsy Grace has been gaining weight steadily (very thankful that I bought a baby scale) so I've been spacing out our nighttime feedings. At her appointment today she was 11 lbs 1.5oz. I stopped setting the alarm to wake her up to feed her and just follow her lead at night. Normally we have our last feeding before bed at 10pm, she falls asleep in bed with us by 11, wakes up around 3 to eat, wakes up again around 6:45, and then we get up for the day at 8a.m. It feels great to finally get more than 3 hours of sleep at a time.
That pretty much sums up the past month. Until next month... :)
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