I wrote previously that Emery seems to be doing much, much better. Here on her 2 month birthday, I can happily report that it looks like this change is here to stay! It really is as if someone has flipped a switch! Something has changed in her and I have no idea what caused it - and it literally happened overnight. Our trip to Alexandria truely was a turning point for us. I feel like someone came in during the middle of the night and replaced the sleeping fussy baby with this smiley, content happy Emery! Every day that goes by I am more shocked at the change in her. We can do things with her now that we would have never dreamed of doing before (or if we did, it was very stressful). For example, last night we met Mandy for dinner and went grocery shopping. I would never have taken Emery to a restaurant, even a noisy one, without being on pins & needles and probably spending most of my time walking/bouncing her to try and ward off a meltdown. Last night, however, she took a snooze in her carseat and then woke up to look around, drool all over herself, and let Mandy hold her. I had her in the Bjorn carrier at the grocery store and she was totally content with sucking her paci and taking it all in. She didn't even fuss in her carseat on the way home, which surprised me because she should have been pretty hungry (she was, but I guess she didn't think she needed to scream about it!).
All this is to say that people told me it would get better, whatever "it" was - colic, the reflux, gas, who really knows. I knew they were right, but it seemed like it would be a lifetime away. That magical 3-month mark where everything is supposed to just fall into place was totally unobtainable at three weeks. Now, it's just four weeks away! I feel like we're definitely on the upswing!
Other updates - she is not consistently sleeping through the night, but she pretty much goes down between 9pm-10pm (sometimes earlier) and wakes up to eat between 2am-4am. At least a few times a week she'll sleep until 5am or 6am. This morning - in honor of her 2 month birthday no doubt - she didn't wake up until 6am and then after eating immediately went down again until 8:30am! That was a present for me, I think :) She is also reaching for things but can't grasp them yet. She can definitely see a lot better now, and focuses on objects and tracks them. She smiles and laughes at her mobiles - her favorite is the giraffe on her swing mobile. She will squeal and wave her arms around when she sees it! Every day she does something new and it's amazing now to see how fast she is learning and growing.
Emery has her 2-month doctor appointment this Friday, and she gets her first round of vaccinations. I am really dreading it. I can't stand to see her in pain, so I am sure it will hurt me even more than it hurts her. However, I am looking forward to seeing how much she has grown since her last appointment four weeks ago!
I go back to work 2 weeks from today. I have very mixed feelings about it - I am looking forward to adult interaction on a daily basis, having a schedule, and feeling productive. On the other hand, I am understandably very sad. It is even more upsetting that now Emery is really starting to interact with me and know me, she will start spending the majority of her time with Adam's mom. I am having fears of being replaced or not knowing my daughter anymore...I am so in tune with her right now, it scares me so much that I might lose that connection. I know that these fears are normal and I am sure that it won't be as bad, but logically I know that things are going to change in my relationship with her...and it just kills me.
That's it for now - below are a couple of pictures I took on my Blackberry this morning. I had put her in her crib to play for a few minutes while I put away her laundry, and she was giggling at her mobile and loving her crib mirror.
Happy 2 months, my big girl!!!
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