Robert and I took Garrett to the doctor on Tuesday afternoon for his 2 month check up. He was in such a good mood when we got there. He smiled and cooed and talked to the doctor. They weighed him and he weighs 13 pounds and 12 ounces. He was 23 1/2 inches long. She said he was a big boy and I could start cereal in his bottle at 3 months. From looking at him and talking to us, she felt he had met all the milestones he was suppose at this point and maybe was even a little advanced! Yeah! He is very much a talker! When you talk to him, he will coo and make noises back! Could this be because his mother talks to him all the time!?!
Of course, if you know anything about children you know that shots start at 2 months, which is why I made Robert go with me. As a first time mother I was terrified of how I would react to how Garrett reacted to the shots. The first thing they did was give him some drops that were some kind of vaccine. He sucked those up. The nurse said wow, I've never had a 2 month old do so well! Could it be that likes to eat...lol! Then she proceeded to give him two shots in one leg and one shot in the other. He was screaming after the first shot and continued to scream when she was done! I did not look because I can not even look when I have to have a shot! When she was done, Robert picked him up and tried to comfort him but he was devestated, so he handed him to me and I'd get him calm and he'd start again. We finally got him in his car seat, still upset! He calmed as we walked out with him and by the time we were in the car he was asleep and slept the rest of the afternoon!
I did not cry which was a surprise but it broke my hear to hear those screams! I knew he was in pain and there was nothing I could do for him and he will have to have shots at 4 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 18 months. Robert is going at 4 months as we are still out of school, but he says I can go by myself at 6 months. I told him and my mother that we would see! They both think I should suck it up and handle it, but if I don't have to I don't want to! I've heard from lots of mothers who didn't take their kids for shots because they couldn't take it. So what's the big deal of I make my husband go every time. He helped make this child too!
Wednesday after his shot was the hardest day yet for me. He did not nap after 10 am and was extremely fussy. I could not lay him down yet he cried when I held him. I gave him tylenol and did all I could to comfort him, but by the time Robert got home at 3:00 I wanted to pull my hair out. So, Robert took him and tried to comfort him. Didn't work either! We went for a walk hoping that would put him to sleep...no luck! So, we came back in and tried to get him to play on his mat. He was fine until Robert left to go take Corbin back to his mom at 5:00 and then he was cranky again. When Robert got back I handed him Garrett, knowing that I felt like I was going to have a nervous breakdown and needed a break. As any mother knows though, you never get a break. While we want our husbands to help and be a part, it is difficult to give up the control and let them try to help. I wish often that Robert would do more, but the truth is when he tries, I just get frustrated because I don't think he's doing it right or that he's comforting him enough and I just take him back! Thankfully there was church that night and he was of course wonderful in the nursery. He actually took a 20 minute nap!
All of this led to another first, he slept through the night Wednesday night! Of course, Thursday night he was up at 2:30, but he had worn himself out Wednesday and slept. Someone suggested I stop him from taking naps during the day all the time. I said after the day I spent with him Wednesday, I would rather him nap and get up once a night! I am sure as soon as I start cereal he will start to sleep through the night! He proved he could do it now!
I am having a hard time with being at home all the time. It is extremely hard to get out and do much with a newborn baby as you have to take so much stuff with you. Also, we have had so much rain that if I want to get out like I was going to today, I can't because I'm not getting him out in this horrible weather! Anyone who knows me knows I like to go. My dad use to call me the party planner because I was always coming up with something I wanted to do or somewhere I wanted him to take me! Don't get me wrong, I am totally in love with my son and enjoy getting to spend this time with him, but I have quickly realized I am not stay at home mom material. I might could take working 3 days a week if I had a career that allowed me to do that, but since I don't I will go back to work in August and Garrett will go to daycare. I know I will miss him horribly and even now when I leave him for small amounts of time I wonder how he is and feel lost without him, but for my sanity, I need to work!
Robert and Corbin will be out of school next week and I'm sure this will help my blues! Corbin will be with us next week, but instead of trading on Sunday, we will trade on Friday and he will spend 2 weeks with his mom as we prepare to take him for 2 weeks to Arkansas. Garrett and I are actually getting to leave on June 22 with Cyndi to get to Arkansas a week early and get some of our visiting out of the way before Corbin and Robert get there as they are boys and are easily bored with just sitting around and talking. Plus, everyone will get to see Garrett before Corbin gets there and then be able to focus on Corbin when he comes, so maybe he won't feel ignored. Corbin is doing better with Garrett now because Garrett has begun to recognize him and coo and smile at him when Corbin talks to him and at times if Corbin just walks by him. Pray for us as we prepare our 12 hour trek to Arkansas which will probably be much longer now that we have a baby that eats every 3 1/2 hours.
Have a blessed week and pray that this rain lets up as our basement flooded last week from the excess of rain! Plus with school getting out, it would be nice for the kids to be able to get out!
