Look who's two months old!

Aviva at two months!

Okay, as per usual I'm a little behind. I'm going to stop apologizing for such things and hope that my audience realizes that I'm a new mom and I blog when I can. Even now someone is supposed to be down for a nap and isn't quite asleep just yet, here's hoping she falls asleep on her own (she did).

Now that we've got that out of the way, look who is already two months old (plus a week...)! Last week we took Aviva in for her two month appointment, and before they attacked her with needles we had a laundry list of questions.

For example, is green poop normal? Is it weird that she gets the hiccups on a daily basis, what about all that sneezing? Turns out pretty much every question I had the response was "that's normal." So no need to worry about the fact that my baby snores.

My biggest fear at this visit was what the pediatrician would say about her weight. I was proud to see that Aviva surpassed the 9-pound mark, but that isn't a huge gain from her birth weight of 7 pounds 2 ounces. Nine pounds placed Aviva squarely in the 3rd percentile, but at least she was on the chart!

Her head circumference (I can't remember what it was) put her in the 25th percentile and her length of 22 and 3/4 inches put her in the 50th. She is clearly growing, she just seems to be gaining weigh at a slow pace. My parents told me that I had a similar issue, and the pediatrician simply scheduled another appointment in a month to take a look at her progress. No need to worry yet, just something we'll keep an eye on. Dr. Sterrett repeatedly referred to her as being a "peanut."

After we attacked her with questions, the nurse entered with the dreaded vaccines. I'm happy that we've started the process of her immunizations, but it wasn't fun to hear the screams as she was poked and prodded. I'm a wimp and had to look away as the nurse stabbed her, but Jeff was a trooper and watched the whole thing up close. After it was all done we held her and hugged her and she calmed down rather quickly.

When we got home, both of us were worried about a fever, and were constantly pressing our hands onto her forehead. The only real side effect we noticed from the vaccines was that her legs were a bit sore at the site of the shots, but other than that no troubles.

We'll go back and see Dr. Sterrett in a month to check her weight, and in two months to get the next round of shots.