Babies, Babies Everywhere!

We had a nice weekend. Sunday we had friends over for dinner, including ourselves there were 2 Mom's, 3 Dad's, 1 Mom-to-be, 1 Dad-to-be and 3 babies!

Sunday we went to the park and Megan got to feel sand for the first time

This one is from today, it's just such a cute photo I had to post it!

And this video is from today also, I don't think we've posted a video of her in her jumperoo before, she's still likes jumping in it!

Megan loves her baths!

First off, we got the MRI results back on Thursday and everything is good! Yay!

Here's a video of Megan taking a bath in her duck. It's so cute because she's laughing and the shower spray hitting her! She LOVES baths! She likes water on her face, loves splashing - it's one of her favorite things!

I tried pretty much all weekend to get a video of Megan clapping and this was the best I got. It's of her playing with her new laptop from Grandma and Grandpa! She loves to close the laptop, which is so cute. In the middle she does one clap - it's usually so fast like that it's hard to catch on it's own.

Megan is doing more and more every week. She's cruising on the coffee table now. And we got her a leapfrog activity table off craigslist that she can stand and play on - which she loves! It seems like it's something new everyweek - it's crazy! But we're loving every minute of it!!!

MRI

Today Megan had an MRI to look at a dimple she's had since birth. Her pediatrician wanted an MRI to make sure it's not connected to anything. She did great and is home sleeping (fell asleep on the ride home).

Background
We found out about the dimple not long after Megan was born. Her first pediatrician showed us it in the initial exam. That pediatrician wanted to do an ultrasound to rule out a possible tethering to the spinal cord. So at 4 weeks Megan had an ultrasound. That was tough, she had to lay on her stomach and be very still, which as any parent knows, was quite difficult. Sucking on my finger proved to be the answer though and after that she was still and they got their pictures. Everything came back negative - yay! So we put it out of our mind. Fast forward to Megan's 6 month well check with a new pediatrician (ended up not liking the first one). He wanted to do an MRI on the dimple; said that the ultrasound can only see the spinal connection but can't rule out a sinus connection (which could lead to an infection). After getting an additional opinion from a pediatric neurosurgeon, and friends that are doctors / pediatricians we scheduled the MRI.

Back to today / last night
Since she has to be still for the MRI for almost an hour, she needed to be sedated. So last night she had to stop breastfeeding at 2am, could have water / pedilyte from 2am - 4am and then nothing after 4am. We had to be at the hospital at 6am, which meant leaving the house at 5:30am. I woke her up at 1:40am to feed her so she had something in her stomach in the morning. After that she slept until 5am. Russ rocked her while I got ready. She cried awhile when she realised there was no milk coming, but really she was pretty good. She babbled most of way to the hospital, falling asleep just as we got there! And then waking up when I took her out of her carseat of course!

They used a gas to sedate her and I held her as they gave her the gas. That was pretty hard since she got pretty upset, turning bright red while she was crying. It took about a minute, slightly longer than normal *I think* because she was crying too hard and not breathing in as much. I sang to her and talked to her and once she was asleep they escorted me out to the waiting room. It took a little over an hour and then I was called back to recovery where she was awake and fussing a bit. She nursed and nursed so more. They wheeled us to a room, all the while Megan was nursing :-) When we got to our room we had to stay another 30min while they monitored her vital signals; she kept nursing :-)

Then we were free to go. There was some crying while they removed her IV (they put it in after she was asleep) but once I picked her up she was good. Then she wanted to nurse again! Finally she was ready to go. She babbled the whole way home until we were about 5 minutes away when she finally fell asleep and she's still sleeping 40 min later :-)

Yay for the MRI being done, I'm so relieved! We should hear from our pediatrician by the end of the week.

These Days...

These days Megan is:

• Standing with one hand!



• Sometimes letting go and standing independently for a second or two before falling to a sit
  
• Crawling and pulling-up on everything!


• Pulling up in her pack-n-play



• Has one tooth (bottom center) that has broken through


• Eats 2-3 pureed foods a day including: brown rice cereal, bananas, peaches, sweet potatoes, green beans, zuchini, chicken and applesauce (all homemade except the rice cereal and applesauce)


• Is still nursing, although very easily distracted!
  
• Goes to bed around 7:30 / 8pm each night and wakes up around 6/7am (although she still wakes up 1-2 times a night)


• Laughs when we're silly - she's especially likes raspberries on the tummy, when Mommy jumps around and peak-a-boo


• Loves the cats; she gets very excited when she sees them and tries to grab them (so far so good and the cats get away, although Killian has sat there and let her pull on his ear and tail before without flinching!)


• Babbles - ba ba ba, da da da, ma ma ma


• Sleeps on her tummy (although we still put her to sleep on her back)


• Puts EVERYTHING in her mouth!


• Claps her hands together!


• Wears jeans (I couldn't resist adding this photo they're so cute!)

Megan is no longer a vegetarian

It's official, after 7 months of being a vegetarian + all the time in the womb, Megan has had her first bite of meat! And she liked it! :-) Homemade baked organic chicken breast pureed with some water. Here's a picture to mark the occasion. We thought it was only fit that Russ feed it to her, since he (unlike me) eats meat. But all your non-vegetarians would be proud because I actually made the chicken myself; I touched the raw meat, rinsed it, baked it, broke it into chunks to puree it (with my hands!). Crazy huh?

She's Crawling!

Thursday night (9/4/08) Megan crawled!!! But it was just a short distance. Then Friday at daycare her teachers said she was moving! And this weekend she's definitly crawling all around, here's a video from this morning: