2 month check up and photo shoot

We had Lyla's two month check up yesterday. For the most part it went very well. She is growing beautifully. Lyla is up to 10 lbs 7 oz (in the 50%) and is 22.5 inches long (also in the 50%). Her head is measuring just about 15 inches (close to the 50%). Dr. Wood was very pleased with Lyla's growth. She said she is right on target. Everything checked out. We were a little concerned about the amount of drooling she's been doing. Could she be teething this early. Dr. Wood checked and said no, but babies could start drooling months before teeth start to come in.

Then the hard part. Nurse Allison came in to give Lyla 4 shots; two in each leg. Not surprisingly, Lyla was not happy. She screamed and cried crocodile tears. It took her some time to calm down. They gave her some Tylenol and told us to give her a dose of Tylenol every 4 hours for the rest of the day to help with the pain from the shots. We came home and Lyla slept for 4 hours! She woke up and I started to feed her when suddenly she started crying uncontrollably. I gave her more Tylenol but nothing helped. She cried for 45 minutes. She would stop crying long enough to catch her breath and then started up again. It was not fun. The rest of the day went much better.

Lyla slept a lot, including sleeping through the night. It was fabulous and scary. I woke up at 3:00AM to pump and figured Lyla would be waking up soon. Then I woke up at 7:00AM and freaked out. My sweet girl had not woken me up yet. I checked the monitor, it was turned on. But wouldn't I hear her anyways. I went into her room and rested my hand on her chest. Relief! She was sleeping soundly. An hour later she woke up. I would love to think that this is the beginning of sleeping through the night but I really think it was a combination of the exhausting day and several doses of Tylenol.

Below are some pictures from a little photo shoot my friend Yvonne did. She came up to school at the beginning of June and took some pictures of Lyla in my office. Her is a sampling. (The pictures are small because I pulled them off of her facebook. I haven't gotten my cd of them yet).