2 month Well Baby Visit

Today was very hard for me, Annabelle had her first set of shots and it hit me that I only have one more month home with her. My heart is going to break when I return to work. I so hope that I will eventually be able to stay home with her, if it were not for student loans I would be able to do so. Sometimes I feel like I wasted my time even going to school, all I needed was my baby and I would have been fine. She is the most precious thing in the world and I never imagined that I could love something as much as I love her. I actually do not mind going to work, its just the fact that I have to leave her. I don't want her to feel like mommy abandoned her. She is very attached to me. I am still breastfeeding her and I hope that I will be able to continue doing so once I do go back to work. It was very hard the first couple of weeks and I kept thinking it would be so easy just to give her a bottle. I adjusted and it is much easier this way. It feels like ages ago that either Jason or I had to get up and walk her around the room before she would fall asleep or when we would go to Manchester, mom would stay up with her and get her to sleep much easier than we did. Now she sleeps 6 or more hours a night, she is making up for the weeks that she would barely sleep 10 hours a day.

Her shots did not really phase her very much, I think it hurt me worse than it did her. She only cried for a few seconds and then she was smiling and laughing. She is in the 99th percentile for length at 25 inches and 85.5th percentile for weight. She is now 12 lbs 9 ounces. She has gained 4 lbs since the first doctors visit the Monday after she was born. She was born 9lbs 9 ounces but dropped to 8lbs 8 ounces in the hospital. She has an umbilical hernia but the doctor said it isn't a concern, it doesn't hurt her and should heal on its own by the time she is two. Her gassiness is also normal and we can start her on cereal in March (mom will be happy, she wanted to start it in December haha) and baby food in April.