Today we celebrate our 2nd wedding anniversary, not together mind you, but none the less two years ago today is the day that I married my best friend!
At this time two years ago, I was getting ready to walk down the aisle at 1:30 in the afternoon! I remember standing outside the doors of the Wedgewood Room at the beautiful Fairmont Hotel MacDonald with my parents and bridesmaids by my side. The wedding planner told me that in minutes the doors would open and I would be walking down the aisle towards my soon to be handsome husband. I remember how nervous I was. I kept saying 'I can't do this!' It wasn't that I was nervous to marry Brendon, that wasn't it at all! I was more than ready to do that. I was more so nervous about the day 'being all about me'. I have always been the type of person to not want to be noticed, and to just blend into a crowd. I didn't want everyone to stare at me for the entire day, that was mortifying, really. But I did it! As nervous as I was. Our wedding was beautiful and perfect! I thank my parents for making it all come together. I am so blessed to have the family I have. It was the best day of my life, well tied for the best day of my life...
Today I celebrate our second anniversary with our sweet baby boy, who is my everything! As Brendon is out of town working until Friday. Next week we will be jet setting to our most favorite place in the world (that we've been too!), Maui, to celebrate our second anniversary together!
Brendon is my best friend, the love of my life, my husband. I am pretty certain there isn't two people who laugh more with each other than we do! I am so lucky, blessed and thankful to get to spend the rest of my life with him!
...Falling in love with him was easy. Staying in love with him is easier...
xo
A
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Monday, 16 September 2013
Oh poop!
It's been a while!
Here's what we've been up to this last month...
First things first, Beckham pooped! Finally. But, not on his own. He hadn't pooped in 19 days. After multiple suppository's, pears, prunes, peaches, prune juice, corn syrup in water...you name it, we tried it! The poor guy would push his little brains out multiple times a day...and nothing! No gas, no poop, no nothing...for 19 days. I was in correspondence with our pediatrician for the past couple weeks. We finally went into see him on day 14. He felt the hard mass of stool in his tummy, prescribed him lax-a-day, sent us for an X-ray, and sent us on our way...5 days of lax-a-day increasing the dosage, and still no poop had this mama annoyed that though the pediatrician said 'he should be pooping one - two times a day' that it was 'fine' that he hadn't pooped in 19 days. Yesterday we decided that we wanted a second opinion and took him into the Stollery Children's Hospital. They ended up giving him an enema. It worked pretty well instantly but me oh my did he ever cry. A cry I had never heard before. I guess you get severely painful stomach cramps when given an enema. Poor guy. But we were SO excited to see poop! The things that excite us these days...
Last month Beckham attended his first concert. Selena Gomez. I know, right? I had never even heard of her. Brendon won the tickets through work, and for whatever reason really wanted to go. She lip synced the entire show. And is not in the least talented, in my opinion.
Last month we also went to Calgary for 4 nights. Brendon had work meetings there, so we decided to tag along. It was Beckham's first time away from home. He did okay, at best. He was great during the day, but did not sleep well at night, being in playpen and sharing a room with us. I ended up getting to catch up with 4 of my girl friends while there. It was SO nice to catch up with them individually and introduce Beckham to them!
Now onto September.
Earlier this month we attended one of my very first friends wedding, in Saskatchewan. Yep, we packed Beckham up and drove 9 hours each way to share in this special day, with a special friend! Surprisingly, Beckham did SO well the entire weekend!
This past week we drove to Calgary to get Beckham's 6 month/our family pictures done! We had them done by Myrtle & Moss Photography. Angie and I went to Junior High and High School together. She is an incredibly talented photographer. We are so happy with our photos.
And last but certainly not least...we celebrated my brothers 28 Birthday this month. My brother is one of thee most important people in my life. He is genuine, smart, caring, passionate...really he's the full meal deal! He will graduate from University in January, after 8 years, we are so darn proud of him! He deserves all the success in the world. But, with that, I am sad as he will make the move back to Calgary to forgo his career.
That's all for now.
xo
A
Here's what we've been up to this last month...
First things first, Beckham pooped! Finally. But, not on his own. He hadn't pooped in 19 days. After multiple suppository's, pears, prunes, peaches, prune juice, corn syrup in water...you name it, we tried it! The poor guy would push his little brains out multiple times a day...and nothing! No gas, no poop, no nothing...for 19 days. I was in correspondence with our pediatrician for the past couple weeks. We finally went into see him on day 14. He felt the hard mass of stool in his tummy, prescribed him lax-a-day, sent us for an X-ray, and sent us on our way...5 days of lax-a-day increasing the dosage, and still no poop had this mama annoyed that though the pediatrician said 'he should be pooping one - two times a day' that it was 'fine' that he hadn't pooped in 19 days. Yesterday we decided that we wanted a second opinion and took him into the Stollery Children's Hospital. They ended up giving him an enema. It worked pretty well instantly but me oh my did he ever cry. A cry I had never heard before. I guess you get severely painful stomach cramps when given an enema. Poor guy. But we were SO excited to see poop! The things that excite us these days...
Last month Beckham attended his first concert. Selena Gomez. I know, right? I had never even heard of her. Brendon won the tickets through work, and for whatever reason really wanted to go. She lip synced the entire show. And is not in the least talented, in my opinion.
Last month we also went to Calgary for 4 nights. Brendon had work meetings there, so we decided to tag along. It was Beckham's first time away from home. He did okay, at best. He was great during the day, but did not sleep well at night, being in playpen and sharing a room with us. I ended up getting to catch up with 4 of my girl friends while there. It was SO nice to catch up with them individually and introduce Beckham to them!
Now onto September.
Earlier this month we attended one of my very first friends wedding, in Saskatchewan. Yep, we packed Beckham up and drove 9 hours each way to share in this special day, with a special friend! Surprisingly, Beckham did SO well the entire weekend!
This past week we drove to Calgary to get Beckham's 6 month/our family pictures done! We had them done by Myrtle & Moss Photography. Angie and I went to Junior High and High School together. She is an incredibly talented photographer. We are so happy with our photos.
And last but certainly not least...we celebrated my brothers 28 Birthday this month. My brother is one of thee most important people in my life. He is genuine, smart, caring, passionate...really he's the full meal deal! He will graduate from University in January, after 8 years, we are so darn proud of him! He deserves all the success in the world. But, with that, I am sad as he will make the move back to Calgary to forgo his career.
That's all for now.
xo
A
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Oh hey!
It's been a while.
We've been busy enjoying our summer with our sweet baby boy!
I have some catching up to do...
A few weeks ago I decided enough was enough and it was time to get back to the gym. I started going to the gym when Beckham was 7 weeks old, but, when him and I fell sick with a cold when he was 3 months old, we took time to recover and poof! It (the gym) quickly worked it's way out of our routine. I'm happy to be back at it again.
Our high chair was delivered last week and I was SO excited to start Beckham on solids, though he was a couple weeks shy of being 6 months old. My gut feeling was that he wouldn't like solids, because let's face it, this babe is a boob man and will not take a bottle. I was right. He hates solids. He quivers and gags and refuses to even swallow anything. We've tried rice cereal, prunes and pears (the last two because he hadn't pooped in 12 days and we were desperately trying to get him too! To much information? I apologize). It's been 6 days of trying. I hear this is normal and sometimes it takes up to 15 days before they actually swallow food. Well lets hope, because he will be cut off from nursing when he's one year old.
He started rolling from his back to his tummy last week and now he is a rolling machine! As soon as you place him on his back, he rolls to his tummy. Changing him is becoming more and more difficult to do because he just wants to roll onto his tummy, constantly. Sleeping is another thing. Oh how I long for the day of an 8 hour uninterrupted night of sleep. I used to be able to brag at how well he slept, well those days are long gone. He is a terrible sleeper most nights. He seems to be waking up at 3am and thinking its time to get up for the day. So some nights I'm up with him from 3am - 4:30am and then he'll fall asleep until 6am. 6 is his new number. It used to be 9 and then 830 and now 6. 6 is way too early to be starting my day! I don't go to bed until 11:30 and I can be up anywhere from 5 - 15 times a night with him. He also needs to eat every 3 hours, and this is why he needs to start liking food, maybe he will stay full for longer than 3 hours. Luckily my husband's home on weekends who is more than willing to get up frequently throughout the night with him and then get up with him at 6, to let this mama get some rest!
I joined a moms group in the spring and absolutely loved it!! Four of us from the group decided to join a summer moms group too, which has been great. I have a hard time staying at home. I have always had to be on the go and that has not changed with having a baby, though it will have to once he starts napping for longer than a half an hour at a time. Three of us from the group have become really close and try to get together once a week aside from attending our moms group once a week. We have really bonded and I love these sweet ladies and their sweet babes! Our babes are only a couple weeks apart so Beckham will have a great time with their children in the years to come!
We are headed to Calgary next week. My husband has to be there for meetings with work, so we decided it would be a good opportunity for me to go visit friends and to see how Beckham does away from home. I'm so darn nervous. He is in such a routine/schedule and I'm terrified to throw him off of it, by having him sleep in a hotel, and not in his crib. We are going to Maui in September so this will be a good test for us.
That's is all for now.
Oh and I must add how stinken much I love our sweet boy! Though he is such a terrible night sleeper, he is such a great baby! We truly are so lucky and blessed. It is very rare to ever hear him cry, he has even significantly improved in the car and if he were to cry that is the only time he would cry in a day. He is the light of our lives!
xo
A
We've been busy enjoying our summer with our sweet baby boy!
I have some catching up to do...
A few weeks ago I decided enough was enough and it was time to get back to the gym. I started going to the gym when Beckham was 7 weeks old, but, when him and I fell sick with a cold when he was 3 months old, we took time to recover and poof! It (the gym) quickly worked it's way out of our routine. I'm happy to be back at it again.
Our high chair was delivered last week and I was SO excited to start Beckham on solids, though he was a couple weeks shy of being 6 months old. My gut feeling was that he wouldn't like solids, because let's face it, this babe is a boob man and will not take a bottle. I was right. He hates solids. He quivers and gags and refuses to even swallow anything. We've tried rice cereal, prunes and pears (the last two because he hadn't pooped in 12 days and we were desperately trying to get him too! To much information? I apologize). It's been 6 days of trying. I hear this is normal and sometimes it takes up to 15 days before they actually swallow food. Well lets hope, because he will be cut off from nursing when he's one year old.
He started rolling from his back to his tummy last week and now he is a rolling machine! As soon as you place him on his back, he rolls to his tummy. Changing him is becoming more and more difficult to do because he just wants to roll onto his tummy, constantly. Sleeping is another thing. Oh how I long for the day of an 8 hour uninterrupted night of sleep. I used to be able to brag at how well he slept, well those days are long gone. He is a terrible sleeper most nights. He seems to be waking up at 3am and thinking its time to get up for the day. So some nights I'm up with him from 3am - 4:30am and then he'll fall asleep until 6am. 6 is his new number. It used to be 9 and then 830 and now 6. 6 is way too early to be starting my day! I don't go to bed until 11:30 and I can be up anywhere from 5 - 15 times a night with him. He also needs to eat every 3 hours, and this is why he needs to start liking food, maybe he will stay full for longer than 3 hours. Luckily my husband's home on weekends who is more than willing to get up frequently throughout the night with him and then get up with him at 6, to let this mama get some rest!
I joined a moms group in the spring and absolutely loved it!! Four of us from the group decided to join a summer moms group too, which has been great. I have a hard time staying at home. I have always had to be on the go and that has not changed with having a baby, though it will have to once he starts napping for longer than a half an hour at a time. Three of us from the group have become really close and try to get together once a week aside from attending our moms group once a week. We have really bonded and I love these sweet ladies and their sweet babes! Our babes are only a couple weeks apart so Beckham will have a great time with their children in the years to come!
We are headed to Calgary next week. My husband has to be there for meetings with work, so we decided it would be a good opportunity for me to go visit friends and to see how Beckham does away from home. I'm so darn nervous. He is in such a routine/schedule and I'm terrified to throw him off of it, by having him sleep in a hotel, and not in his crib. We are going to Maui in September so this will be a good test for us.
That's is all for now.
Oh and I must add how stinken much I love our sweet boy! Though he is such a terrible night sleeper, he is such a great baby! We truly are so lucky and blessed. It is very rare to ever hear him cry, he has even significantly improved in the car and if he were to cry that is the only time he would cry in a day. He is the light of our lives!
xo
A
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Car training?
We've all heard about sleep training.
You know, when you let your babe cry it out, in hopes that he/she will learn to sleep through the night?
Is there such a thing as car training? Where you let them cry it out and maybe, just maybe, they won't hate the car anymore?
Well...this past weekend my husbands work had an annual golf tournament. I, of course, did not golf. However, Brendon of course did. He wanted Beckham and I to join him in the evening after golf to meet the guys he works with. He planned on having a few beverages during his round of golf and asked if we could drive him to the tournament, which was held in Camrose (about an hour and a half drive from our house). This meant that I would have to leave the house fairly early in the morning to drive to Camrose and drop him off, to turn around and drive back home to then later drive back to Camrose and then drive back home. So...that's about 6 hours in the vehicle total with an hour and a half driving stretch each time.
I was nervous.
I can't stand hearing my babe cry as I drive and not be able to help him. It is heart wrenching.
The drive out there he more so fussed then cried, for about 40 minutes, but eventually fell asleep, as it was his nap time. The ride back home he cried for about a half an hour and again fell asleep, but would periodically cry in his sleep. I prayed he wouldn't wake up once he fell asleep, because I knew if he were to wake up and realize he was in the car that he would cry, hard. He slept until we got home, phewf. On the way back out there he fussed/cried for 20 minutes and fell asleep for about 45 minutes and then woke up and bawled for 20 minutes and then fell back asleep. Once I picked Brendon up from the golf course we had to then drive a half an hour to get to the campground where the bbq/festivities were held. Everyone camped out there for the weekend, but I was not interested in sleeping in a tent, with a baby, and being eaten alive by mosquitos, since he can't wear bug spray. Certainly wasn't up my alley! Brendon and I have always 'made fun' of those people that you see where the wife sits in the back seat with the baby/child as the father taxis them around. Well...we were those people! I made Brendon jump in the back when I picked him up to see if this would prevent Beckham from crying. It certainly helped but he still fussed on and off on our way to the campground. Then it was time to drive home. Brendon jumped in the back with him again but this time he cried, and he cried and he cried. It did not matter that Brendon was sitting back there with him, he was not a happy camper. It didn't help that it was nearing his bedtime and he really didn't get any good naps in that day. I finally had to pull over off the road to try and calm him down. I nursed him to comfort him, and then back in the carseat he went. He would arch his back so that I struggled to buckle him back in and off we were, with a crying baby. Oh joy! Finally he fell asleep on the outskirts of Edmonton. Needless to say he slept amazingly well that night.
Today is Tuesday and Beckham has not cried or fussed in the car since. I, of course, have been out and about Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and he seems perfectly content in the car. I know it's only been 3 days but there has never been a time since he was 2 months old where I haven't heard a peep out of him as we drive. Today he fell asleep while at our moms group and when I put him in his carseat, I didn't even attach his toy bar to the carseat and when he woke up he didn't even make a peep! So...did we car train him by having him cry it out? Or is this just a coincidence and we'll be back to square one tomorrow?
Oh my gosh driving has become much less stressful! Although I have never let his crying be a reason not to go out, it has been SO nice not to listen to a baby cry as I drive.
Here's to hoping it stays this way.
xo
a
You know, when you let your babe cry it out, in hopes that he/she will learn to sleep through the night?
Is there such a thing as car training? Where you let them cry it out and maybe, just maybe, they won't hate the car anymore?
Well...this past weekend my husbands work had an annual golf tournament. I, of course, did not golf. However, Brendon of course did. He wanted Beckham and I to join him in the evening after golf to meet the guys he works with. He planned on having a few beverages during his round of golf and asked if we could drive him to the tournament, which was held in Camrose (about an hour and a half drive from our house). This meant that I would have to leave the house fairly early in the morning to drive to Camrose and drop him off, to turn around and drive back home to then later drive back to Camrose and then drive back home. So...that's about 6 hours in the vehicle total with an hour and a half driving stretch each time.
I was nervous.
I can't stand hearing my babe cry as I drive and not be able to help him. It is heart wrenching.
The drive out there he more so fussed then cried, for about 40 minutes, but eventually fell asleep, as it was his nap time. The ride back home he cried for about a half an hour and again fell asleep, but would periodically cry in his sleep. I prayed he wouldn't wake up once he fell asleep, because I knew if he were to wake up and realize he was in the car that he would cry, hard. He slept until we got home, phewf. On the way back out there he fussed/cried for 20 minutes and fell asleep for about 45 minutes and then woke up and bawled for 20 minutes and then fell back asleep. Once I picked Brendon up from the golf course we had to then drive a half an hour to get to the campground where the bbq/festivities were held. Everyone camped out there for the weekend, but I was not interested in sleeping in a tent, with a baby, and being eaten alive by mosquitos, since he can't wear bug spray. Certainly wasn't up my alley! Brendon and I have always 'made fun' of those people that you see where the wife sits in the back seat with the baby/child as the father taxis them around. Well...we were those people! I made Brendon jump in the back when I picked him up to see if this would prevent Beckham from crying. It certainly helped but he still fussed on and off on our way to the campground. Then it was time to drive home. Brendon jumped in the back with him again but this time he cried, and he cried and he cried. It did not matter that Brendon was sitting back there with him, he was not a happy camper. It didn't help that it was nearing his bedtime and he really didn't get any good naps in that day. I finally had to pull over off the road to try and calm him down. I nursed him to comfort him, and then back in the carseat he went. He would arch his back so that I struggled to buckle him back in and off we were, with a crying baby. Oh joy! Finally he fell asleep on the outskirts of Edmonton. Needless to say he slept amazingly well that night.
Today is Tuesday and Beckham has not cried or fussed in the car since. I, of course, have been out and about Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and he seems perfectly content in the car. I know it's only been 3 days but there has never been a time since he was 2 months old where I haven't heard a peep out of him as we drive. Today he fell asleep while at our moms group and when I put him in his carseat, I didn't even attach his toy bar to the carseat and when he woke up he didn't even make a peep! So...did we car train him by having him cry it out? Or is this just a coincidence and we'll be back to square one tomorrow?
Oh my gosh driving has become much less stressful! Although I have never let his crying be a reason not to go out, it has been SO nice not to listen to a baby cry as I drive.
Here's to hoping it stays this way.
xo
a
Friday, 19 July 2013
5 months old
I'm a couple days early on this post. Beckham will be 5 months old on the 21st.
Another month has flown by, and my sweet boy, you have developed so much this month.
I don't actually know how much you weigh or how long you are. I imagine you haven't gained too much, you are a slim boy. But lengthwise you seem to grow like a weed. You are wearing 9 month sleepers. Petit Lem are my fave fitting Jammie's for you. Your 3 - 6 month shirts and sweaters from The Gap are getting to short in the torso, but remain wide on you. You can wear 0 - 3 month shorts from The Gap because your waist is small. And you are wearing a 6 - 12 month sleeper from The Gap which is ridiculously wide on you! I feel they should have a 6 - 9 month and a 9 - 12 month size at The Gap, 6 - 12 months is a 6 month gap!
This month you starting giggling, it is by far thee sweetest sound my ears have ever heard! This month we put you in your Jolly Jumper, which you love! At first you pretty well just marched, but you're bouncing more and more which will eventually be a full on jump. We also put you in your exersaucer and have a book under your feet, and a blanket behind your back, because your feet don't quite touch the ground and the seat is massive. This 'toy' is so great for you because it has many different activities for you to play with. You love spinning your seat around to play with the many different things! We still put you in your Mamaroo to watch Baby Einstein, which you LOVE! I think watching tv might be your favorite thing to do, unfortunately! But we don't allow you to watch too much of it. It looks like you'll grow out of it soon as you are getting so long. Your Bumbo is your least favorite toy to sit in.
You are reaching and grabbing for everything! If I am talking on the phone you are always trying to get it, if a toy or anything is in front of you, you pick it up. You are certainly a Mama's boy. However, you do not like to cuddle or be held close, which makes me sad! If we're around people you know, you are constantly staring at me, if I'm not holding you. If a stranger talks to you, you will either pout which may turn into a cry, or you will just stare at them, and no matter how hard they try to make you smile, you won't. You are a serious baby! You still have your pacifier, but aren't as dependent of it as you were 4 months ago. You really only use it now when you are napping or going to bed. Your Daddy was putting you to bed when he was home, but now you will only let me put you to bed, and cry if anyone else tries too. Your Nana and Papa babysat you a couple weekends ago and you cried for an hour and a half straight when your Nana was trying to put you to bed. She finally got you to sleep after taking you for a walk in your stroller. You hate the car. You love your stroller and going for walks on hot summer days. You love watching your puppy, Ruff! You have to have your blanky (which is fuzzy) up against your face to fall asleep. You still love to be swaddled but are now swaddled in a woombie, since you can break out of a blanket. You are not a great sleeper and eat every 3 hours and wake up numerous times for your pacifier, but sleep for 12 hours a night total. You wear a size 2 diaper and I was actually putting you in a size 1 diaper at night until today (we use two different diapers swaddlers during the day and baby dry at night). You have one tooth bud visible, which has been for quite a while and had a second one, but it disappeared. You've discovered how to scream and for now it is SO stinken' cute! You still dislike tummy time and are still only rolling from tummy to back. You refuse to take a bottle now. And since being diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease at only a couple weeks old, I'm happy to say it has fixed itself like the pediatrician said it probably would between 4 - 5 months. :):). You were never one to spit up, you were just constantly very congested and cried while eating.
You continue to be the light of our lives and have developed so much this past month.
I love you to the moon and back my sweet baby!
xo
A
Thursday, 18 July 2013
A little bit of everything
Immediately after posting my last blog post, I happened to turn on the tv (which rarely happens, I have never been a tv watcher and 99.9% of the time I don't turn the tv on at all throughout the day!). Anyways, what do you think comes on, on the news at noon? Non other than babies head shape and how 46% of babies have flat spots on their noggins. I immediately picked up the phone and called over to the health centre to have them send in a referral to the head shape clinic here in Edmonton. I could not wait for our pediatrician to assess his head at the end of August. They sent a referral over, and checked off 'urgent' and you won't believe it...I still haven't got a call from them. But good news! His head seems to actually really be improving! We spend most of our days out of the house, whether that be walking the dog, grocery shopping, just plain old shopping, running errands, visiting friends and family, going to the gym, attending our 'Mommy Connections' class...you get the idea we're out a lot. I picked up a 'BENBAT - TRAVEL FRIENDS TOTAL SUPPORT HEADREST' from West Coast Kids and have been using it every time he is in his car seat. It makes it so not the entire back of his head rests against the back of the car seat. Now I know you shouldn't add anything to your child's carseat such as these but hey! Anything, well I guess not anything, but this seems safe enough (to me) to use in his carseat especially if its helping round out the little gaffer's head! I'm happy!!
Beckham is almost 5 months now and I already miss the newborn stage of cuddling, the sound of a newborns cry, the sleep, I miss it all! He's growing up way to fast and this boy likes to be busy! If he's awake he needs to constantly be entertained, which I love but he also has a very short attention span. So everything and anything is only good for 2 minutes. Sure he likes his jolly jumper, his exersaucer, having books read to him, his bumbo, his play mat, sitting on your lap and interacting with you...he certainly loves all of those things but for 2 - 5 minutes. And then he's done and bored and onto the next thing. I wish he could enjoy something long enough for me to put on a face and get dressed, tidy up, make dinner, you know anything that takes longer than 2 minutes! We thought we wanted to start trying to get pregnant again in the next couple months but now I wonder how the heck I could possibly manage two? Especially since my husband works out of town generally Monday - Friday. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm complaining, because I truly LOVE being a mama, every single bit of it! I should add two things he does LOVE for an unlimited amount of time are going for a walk in his stroller (using the stroller seat, not the carseat!) and his nightly bath. He has never cried or fussed EVER during either of those activities! I ensure to do both daily because I love doing things with him that he loves!
Most mothers that I've spoke to say their babes love the car and fall asleep within a few blocks from their house. Well, I can only wish Beckham did. There's nothing more heart wrenching then listening to your baby cry as you drive and you not being able to do anything about it. This is us, most days. I think it must be due to the fact that he needs to be doing something different every 2 minutes, and in the car he only as one toy bar, that has to entertain him the entire ride. I really want to take a trip down to Calgary to visit friends but I would hate to put him, or I, through that. Maybe since I would keep a consistent speed and not stop, he'd do better? Because I can tell you that red lights, definitely make matters worse!
In the next couple days I will be blogging about what Beckham's been up to in his 4 month of life!
I love this babe more than words can say. He is perfect!
xo
A
Beckham is almost 5 months now and I already miss the newborn stage of cuddling, the sound of a newborns cry, the sleep, I miss it all! He's growing up way to fast and this boy likes to be busy! If he's awake he needs to constantly be entertained, which I love but he also has a very short attention span. So everything and anything is only good for 2 minutes. Sure he likes his jolly jumper, his exersaucer, having books read to him, his bumbo, his play mat, sitting on your lap and interacting with you...he certainly loves all of those things but for 2 - 5 minutes. And then he's done and bored and onto the next thing. I wish he could enjoy something long enough for me to put on a face and get dressed, tidy up, make dinner, you know anything that takes longer than 2 minutes! We thought we wanted to start trying to get pregnant again in the next couple months but now I wonder how the heck I could possibly manage two? Especially since my husband works out of town generally Monday - Friday. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm complaining, because I truly LOVE being a mama, every single bit of it! I should add two things he does LOVE for an unlimited amount of time are going for a walk in his stroller (using the stroller seat, not the carseat!) and his nightly bath. He has never cried or fussed EVER during either of those activities! I ensure to do both daily because I love doing things with him that he loves!
Most mothers that I've spoke to say their babes love the car and fall asleep within a few blocks from their house. Well, I can only wish Beckham did. There's nothing more heart wrenching then listening to your baby cry as you drive and you not being able to do anything about it. This is us, most days. I think it must be due to the fact that he needs to be doing something different every 2 minutes, and in the car he only as one toy bar, that has to entertain him the entire ride. I really want to take a trip down to Calgary to visit friends but I would hate to put him, or I, through that. Maybe since I would keep a consistent speed and not stop, he'd do better? Because I can tell you that red lights, definitely make matters worse!
In the next couple days I will be blogging about what Beckham's been up to in his 4 month of life!
I love this babe more than words can say. He is perfect!
xo
A
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
I wish I knew then what I know now
Helmet head?
Hope not.
At Beckham's 2 month shots, the nurse said Beckham had the most perfect round head, which I guess is very rare. However, at his 4 month shots I mentioned to the nurse that his head shape was of a concern to me. She looked at it, and though I know she isn't a doctor or head specialist, she mentioned that he may need a helmet to correct the shape of his head. A helmet that he wears for 23 hours a day.
You have got to be kidding me.
There are different types of a misshapen head. His is known as:
Brachycephaly
Something as simple as sleeping on the back can cause brachycephaly. The head flattens uniformly, causing a wider and shorter shape.
Increased head height is also common in children with brachycephaly.
Brachycephaly Quick Facts:
Here's a brief look at brachycephaly:
Head is wider than normal
Head has shorter length than width
Back of head is flat
Head is taller than normal
Extreme forehead incline
Bumps/bulging above ears
Face appears small in proportion to head
Since his 4 month shots, I have not stopped worrying, it pretty well consumes my every thought. Our pediatrician has been on vacation and remains on vacation until August 16. Our 6 month visit is on August 21. I have to wait until then to discuss his head shape and possibly look into him wearing a helmet. I know it's just a helmet. But honestly I don't want people to stare and think something other then just a flat head is wrong with my child. I try not to let him sleep on the back of his head but he always manages to. I guess it's the most comfortable for him.
Now, of course from day one my Nanny has said that he should be sleeping on his tummy. Back in the day when my mom was a baby and even when I were a baby that's how babies slept. They now say babies should sleep on their back, as SIDS has been reduced by 50% by having babies sleep on their back. I will do anything in hopes to reduce the chance of SIDS, so of course Beckham has always napped and slept on his back.
I wish I knew then what I know now....
Had I known that his head would become flat and that there was a chance he'd have to wear a helmet, I would have definitely had him napping (surprivised) on his tummy or side. However, at night I still would have had him sleeping on his back. Unfortunately now that he is 4 and a half months he will not sleep on his tummy or side. If I place him on his tummy he props himself up with his arms underneath of him and he can't relax to fall asleep. And if I place him on his side, even with a blanket rolled up and placed behind his back he manages to kick and squirm so that he's laying on his back. Speaking of things I wish I knew then what I know now...I would have kept up with bottle feeding him once a day because now I have a baby that refuses a bottle or formula. Beckham was born 3 weeks early and was jaundice so he was a very sleepy baby for a good 9 weeks of his life he really just slept. Those first few days in the hospital nursing was impossible, because he was so tired he never woke to latch. He left the hospital as a bottle/formula fed baby. When the homecare nurse came to visit, when he was 3 days old, she got him to latch on! He still would take a bottle and formula when my parents would watch him. But then I got away from ever giving him a bottle. This past weekend our dear friends got married and I had my parents watch Beckham because a 4 and a half month old, well him anyways, needs to be entertained if he's awake. So an outdoor wedding ceremony seemed very risky to bring him too. I tried to give him a bottle a few days before leaving him with my parents but he would not take it from Brendon or I. Needless to say I had to go feed him after the ceremony before the reception. That evening my parents tried to give him a bottle but he refused to take it from them too. My evening was cut short because I had to feed the baby. Had I known this was going to happen, I would have pumped and bottle fed him once a day. Oh how I wish I knew then what I know now...
xo
A
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