Happy squealing!

This past week at Adah's 3 month check up we mentioned to the pediatrician that we had noticed spots of blood in her stool a few times and just wanted to let her know. We were told back when she was first born that that can happen to newborns every now and then. Well evidently that is not the case for 3 month olds. The doctor checked her bottom to see if she noticed an outer irritation but since we keep so much desitin on her butt b/c she has sensitive skin it was hard for her to tell and she didn't want to upset Adah so she told us to look later when we were home and had her cleaned off. She also sent us home with 3 stool sample cards to collect 3 different samples of her stool and bring back in. The stool samples are to check and see if there are any traces of blood in the stool that can not be seen by the eye. Josh and I finished collecting the stool and took it up to the office yesterday and they tested it right then. Just so happens that 2 of 3 came back positive for blood. So what now.....the doctors don't seem too concerned at this point. Josh and I are keeping a "diary" of her diapers and I have been put on a "diet"...the GI specialist at the office has me eliminating all dairy, soy and peanuts from my diet since all three can cause irritation to an infants intestines/bowels! On the plus side Adah is acting completely normal. She is as vocal as normal if not more so....she still smiles ALL the time! She is sleeping and eating great and her diapers are normal...minus the occasional spots of blood! I on the other hand am going to have a hard time not eating any of the restricted foods! Oh well...its that or switch to formula and we are NOT doing that! I will be sure to update when we know more in about 10 days or so.

I'll leave you with this video of Adah that we took today so you can tell she is perfectly happy!

(she may not look happy but she is I promise....she started smiling at us right after....she loves to hear herself...what can I say)

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Adah and her BFF!

My friend Amanda and I decided that we would never let the other stay at home all day long with just the baby! Yesterday Amanda and Parker came over to our place and we all had lunch...the babies "played" and then we all went on a walk down to get some froyo from our new favorite place Myo...they had a new flavor....cupcake batter so we had to try it!

Adah's thoughts....

While changing Adah this morning she insisted that I take another video of her....she had a few more things to say to everyone! Enjoy

(if you look close you can see a few times she gets a purple-ish line on the left side of her forehead....that happens when she is working something up for us...which is what was going on in this video...haha...maybe that is TMI...but I hate that purple line...it is from where they put the internal monitor on her during delivery!)

3 1/2 month Checkup with some shots on the side...

Today was Adah's 3 1/2 month well baby check up. She got all dressed up and ready to see her sweet Dr. Ruckle!

Stats--

Head: 40 1/2 cm -- 40th percentile

Height: 24 3/4 inch -- 80th percentile

Weight: 13 lbs 14 oz -- 65th percentile

After getting measured and weighed it was time for the dreaded shots. She got one oral and 3 in her chunky little thighs. This was our second time around for shots....the first time at 6 weeks was pretty sad...she screamed and cried horribly. This time she was a little champ. She got red faced and cried for about a minute but calmed right down and took a nap the whole way home!

Here is a before the shots and after the shots picture taken with Josh's phone....I asked him to get a picture of her crying immediately after her shots and he thought that was mean but took it anyway.

Adah all wrapped up in mommy's arms and her warm little blanket waiting on the doctor...not too excited!

This was taken right after all her shots.....poor thing....her face had already faded from the bright red shade!
Here is a short little video for your viewing pleasure....I was updating the blog sitting on the floor by Adah while Josh was playing with her. He got this video on his new handy dandy Iphone! She sure doesn't act like she just got shots today!