We went in for our 4 month check up a couple of weeks ago. Prior to this, I was having a lot of trouble deciding whether or not I wanted to continue with getting Olivia's immunizations. I was/still kind of am, so torn between not getting them, dividing them out, or just getting them all at once. Now, the reason why I was having mixed feelings were my mom works at a center called ABT- Advanced Brain Technologies, where they basically study children with neuro disorders such as ADD, ADHD, Autism, etc. They have created a program to stimulate these children with music therapy. Anyway, her and all her coworkers firmly believe in not vaccinating because most the people they work with are parents with Autistic children and claim before they were vaccinated, their child was completely normal. So, I had been contemplating because of all these voices whispering in my ears and contemplating that if I did get her shots done and she developed Autism then I couldn't live with myself but on the other hand if she got some gross virus or something that could be prevented with a simple vacc then I wouldn't be able to live myself either. At the doctor's appt I expressed my concern to Olivia's doctor. He was certainly surprised but was actually impressed that I wanted to know more about them. He told me his stand point as a doc as well as a parent, which claimed that he wouldn't want to chance a baby getting some nasty disease that a vaccination could have prevented. I told him I still needed some time to make a decision, but would call back early the next week. The next couple of days, I asked around to people at work, friends, family, and I got so many mixed reviews still. I decided that I am Olivia's mom after all and I need to act like it. I need to do what I feel is best for my daughter, and what Ian would want to do as well. I decided to get them done after all. Her day was great, and the night turned into an utter nightmare haha.. I know babies pull all nighters and I am not the only parent that it has happened too, but a lot of people don't have to be doing this alone either. It is much harder to say the least, she had slept maybe a combined total of 2 hours the entire night, lets just say good thing I had the next day off of work. Now, we are back to our normal good sleeping schedule and things are looking great.
Stats at about 4 months and 2 weeks:
14.9 pounds (chunky monkey) haha
24 inch long
and I can't remember the circumference of her head but i know it is growing too lol
She has started to eat cereal and gulps it down like it's going out of style.
She has rolled a couple of times from front to back but not from back to front yet. She has started to attempt to hold her own bottle, which is pretty dang cute and she grabs for things and holds on to them. Her favorite is her rattle. So far, I guess i'm doing a pretty good job, but who knows! I've never been a mom before :p




Sleepy girl

She can stand tummy time for about 10 seconds then she screams haha

Attempting to roll over, but got tired and just laid on her side haha

She is so cute!! I can't believe how much she has changed in a month. We miss you both!!!! love you
ReplyDeleteYeah she changes everyday!!
ReplyDeleteYour a great mom!
ReplyDeleteThanks Amber :]
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