Let me start off by saying that I envy moms who get to change poopy diapers. Now you might be wondering what I mean by that considering I have a 2 month old and she must have poopy diapers, right? Wrong!! My daughter never has poopy diapers. She can't poop on her own. Since I stopped breastfeeding, Faith has only pooped on her own 3 days and she is now almost 11 weeks old!!!
Now before you freak out... she goes to the bathroom every day but I have to stimulate her colon by sticking a very lubricated Q-tip up there. Gross! Yeah, that's what I was thinking especially considering how much I am fascinated by it! Now this brings me to a second envious thing of women who have long fingernails. Oh, I used to have them but have now been reduced to having to purposefully cut them off short. Why, you might ask? Well I will be happy to tell you.
My beautiful little girl who can't poop on her own likes to shoot liquefied poop out of her bum like a fire hose every day that I stimulate her colon. It takes 5 diapers a day to do this. I have to let a little bit out and then clean up my arms which sometimes are covered with dripping poop all the way up to my elbows. Oh and did I mention that I have to lay a towel on my lap so my pants are soaked in it! Yep... sure sounds like fun huh! So I now trim my nails short because I am disgusted by having to clean out the liquid poop that gets stuck underneath every morning! Are you nauseated yet? I would be if this wasn't part of my daily life.
Now you might be wondering if my daughter will ever poop on her own again? Well I would be too except that I finally found a new doctor for her. The first doctor we had kept telling me she would figure it out. He couldn't give me an explanation as to what was happening, not to mention he wanted to argue with me about my wishes in not vaccinating her. So my good friend Mary recommended her doctor who has been a pediatrician for 30+ years.
I was amazed that when I took her in he wanted me to give him all the facts about her poop history. He then told me that some babies are born and have a J shaped colon at the end so when they lay down they have a hard time pushing even watery poop out. He told me he has never had a baby not outgrow it. I can't tell you the relief I felt after talking with him. He advised me to help her out at least every 2 days whereas my other doctor kept telling me to let her go 5 days and then help her!!! What!?!? That stuff is toxic and should be let out every day!!! I loved him! Not to mention that he didn't even argue about my not vaccinating and even asked if I wanted them as opposed to telling me that we would be getting them like other docs! Hooray for Dr. Paul Swensen!
Enough about the nasty stuff... now onto the great stuff. The Doc as well as most of my family told me that Faith has really good control of her head at her age. She weighed 13lbs at 10 weeks and was 27 inches long! Shes in the 95th percentile for both height and weight!
Faith doesn't sleep as much as I would like. She loves to give her Mommy a hard time and torture her to the point of tears as we spend more time in a rocking chair attempting to get her to sleep than anything else.
We spent Christmas with my family (Wilcox/Meservy). This is where I gave up trying to put her down at my mom's house without a rocking chair or a laptop in which I could keep my sanity. So after hours of bouncing her and swinging her in the dark, I gave into a swaddle. I never wanted to do this because I didn't want her to get used to having it and only sleep when she was in it... but when she does sleep.. she sleeps longer. This is most likely due to her not being able to wake up from her startle reflexes since she is basically placed in a baby straight jacket. I hate the swaddle but she does sleep better with it. I just miss her cuddling up to me like she did before.
My niece Natalie was so cute. Faith was sleeping and my nephew, Gavin (on my side of the family) was a little fussy while Jeni was helping to make dinner. I went over to pick him up and Natalie yelled, "That's not your baby!." She then ran into the kitchen screaming, "Somebody Help!!!" It was so cute!
Denise loved that the family finally got her a Wii and Mom of course got her Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls. Hooray for me!
But the best gift of all came from Charles who actually participated in Christmas this year and bought Mom a TV. I missed it as I was trying to put my daughter to sleep. But she was blindfolded and then cried after she laughed.
Why is it that every holiday I find a picture of Denise and Natalie on the computer?
Hooray for Daddy time!
So every baby loves to watch Baby Einstein and Faith is no exception but what she loves to watch even more is Call of Duty Black Ops and Rockband. She will watch for nearly 45 minutes as opposed to the 20 minutes of Einstein!
Christmas morning and doesn't Faith look adorable in her Christmas outfit?
On Christmas Eve, we bundled her in her snowsuit and took her to see the Temple lights. She might have enjoyed it more if she hadn't have fallen asleep through most of it.
Hopefully soon we will be sealed as an Eternal family. Because this makes me cry!
Jeff calls this double Tummy Time! Ha ha... Tummy to Tummy!
