Our little lady is 3 months old today!!
She's the best little baby girl around too. She's a pretty happy baby, unless she's tired or hungry. She must get that from her mama.
She's
sooooo sweet!
She's sleeping pretty good at night. In fact, the last 2 nights, she put herself to sleep after we put her to bed 'drowsy, but awake' (a term all of the sleep books use). So, that's HUGE! She wakes up at 2 and 5 a.m. to eat and sometimes, like last night, she'll add a midnight feeding to the routine.
She's a people watcher and loves to smile and watch her big brother playing and running around. She enjoys tummy time and although she was rolling over previously, she hasn't really done it again in about a month.
Here are her photos for this month. Compare her looks to Boo,
here.
I think I've told you before about her torticollis and plagiocephaly (flat head). She has a tight muscle on the left side of her neck that causes her to prefer to turn her head to the right and tilt to the left. It is her left sternocleidomastoid muscle. We started physical therapy a couple of weeks ago but have been waiting for the doctor to approve the therapist's plan to continue. The therapist measured her cranial vault which was 2 diagonal measurements across the top of Bit's head. The difference in the two lengths was 12 mm. The PT said that if the difference is 8mm or more, she recommends that the child see a neurosurgeon to determine if she needs to wear a helmet to reshape her head. Bit's doc called Thursday and said she didn't want to go that route just yet. She wanted to give the therapy a chance. I can understand that, but I think I'm going to push to get the referral started so that if at her 4month checkup the measurements haven't changed or if they've gotten worse, we can go ahead and get into the nuero docs asap.
Luckily my background in PT had me alert to the situation immediately from her birth and I had already been employing most of the strategies the therapist prescribed. So, I'm hopeful that it's a mild case of torticollis, but the amount of plagiocephaly does concern me. I'll keep you posted.Here are some pics to help explain.
You can clearly see the asymmetry here.
The difference in the length of these two lines is 12 mm.
So as not to leave on a serious note, here's a video to make your day.
Lil Bit has started to laugh some. It's a cute little nerdy kind of laugh and I absolutely LOVE IT!
Come back next week when we celebrate another big three.
Boo turns 3 on Wednesday!
