We’ve
had a few very interesting weeks. To begin, about two months ago Mike
and I noticed that Max’s head shape was a little off. We realized that
when he was sleeping, he would suck
on his right fist or thumb and that he wouldn’t turn his head to the
other side very often. Long story short, he was diagnosed with
plagiocephaly, meaning that he has a flat spot on the back right side of
his head. After consulting with his pediatrician,
she referred us to a place called Cranial Technologies. They
specialize in making bands (or helmets as most people call them) that
help babies’ head shapes form properly. He has now been wearing his
band for a week. All in all, it’s gone pretty well. Unfortunately,
he started teething about a week ago too, and that has definitely made
his fussier than usual. He has to wear his band 23 hours a day; they
say that since we noticed it when he was so little, he should only have
to wear it for six to eight weeks.
Aside
from that, I’ve been having pretty severe stomach pain. I thought it
was just an ulcer, because I have had four in the past and it was a very
similar feeling. I always associate
them with stress . . . between moving, Max’s band, and tying up all the
loose ends with our last house, I thought for sure it was another
ulcer. I went to a GI specialist, and he said I needed to have a scope
and he would also take a biopsy of my small intestines.
He said it could be a bunch of different things, and that the best way
to figure it out would be a scope. After the scope, he was able to rule
out an ulcer and said I had gastritis and also possibly an intolerance
to gluten. SO, I’ve been eating a gluten-free
diet for a week now, and I can say that I am really a lot better!
We
also had a whooping cough (pertussis) scare this past week. Noah’s
school has sent home several notices stating that they have had multiple
cases in his school. One of those was a
girl in his class with whom he sits at his table. He had a bad cold
early last week, and it turned into a really bad cough. We took him to
his pediatrician, and he got tested as well as Amelia, since she was
starting to show the same signs. Apparently,
you can still get whooping cough even if you’ve been vaccinated,
although the symptoms won’t be as severe. Max has had his first tdap
vaccine (of the three given) when he was two months old, but I was
really worried about him getting it from Noah. Poor Noah
missed his entire last week of school; however, we got his pertussis
test back, and it was negative!
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| The upside of being confined to his room was that he got to play a lot of legos! |
Other
than that, life has been great! We are loving the pool, poor Amelia
has been in it so much that the bottom of her toes started bleeding.
She recently got a medal from her swim coach
for completing her first semester of lessons. I have never seen a
child love water as much as she does; she’s been that way since her
first bath. Mike has either smoked or grilled something on his new
grill/smoker for two weeks straight, I have consumed
more meat in the last two weeks than I usually do in a three-month
period.
We
leave for Utah in one week, and I am so excited to see all my family
out there! It will be the first time I’ve seen my brother Jared in
almost a year and a half (he and my dad got
back from Afghanistan a few months ago).
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| I can't believe she will be three in three weeks! |
