Miles’ milestones – 2 months
24 Nov
Yesterday was Miles’ 2 month appointment with his pediatrician. He got his first round of shots and hated them, poor little guy. He screamed for hours last night, and when he finally fell asleep on my lap, he whimpered in his sleep with a sad look on his little face. He seems to be doing better this morning, thank God. Here were his stats:
- Weight 12 lb., 8.5 oz. (50-75th percentile)
- Length 22.25″ (10-25th percentile)
- Head 16.25″ (75th percentile)
So now he’s a short, squat baby with a big head. 
Though to be fair, the nurse didn’t measure his length right. He was lying on a curved table and she measured in a straight line from his head to his foot, instead of following the curve. So I imagine it could add up to half an inch. His doctor said that the weight gain is probably a build up for a quick growth spurt and that he’ll probably get longer in the next month. We’ll see. We don’t exactly have a lot of height in our family, so he’s probably not going to be a tall guy.
In the last month, Miles has certainly developed a lot. He’s “talking” a lot more, saying ah-goo, goo-ah, gah, and just babbling. He loves to have conversations with you which can go on for minutes. If I leave the room he’ll shout for me to come back so he can talk to me. The first time he did that it was so loud I thought one of the cats had jumped on him or something, so I came rushing back in to find him just sitting there, watching for me.
He loves to lie on the floor and kick his legs and flail his arms. That way he can see everything and everyone in the room and chatter at them while he works out. He does this for hours every day, propped up with a pillow and on a comfy blanket. (I tried it once for a minute and let me tell you, it’s quite the ab workout. He must have abs of steel under that baby pudge.)
He can hold his head up almost completely now. Last weekend at church, he looked over my shoulder and had a starting contest with Justin nearly the entire time. (Miles won.) I’ve put him in his bumbo a few times, but he doesn’t seem to really like it. I think that’s because he can’t kick his legs while he’s in it. Once he’s more into toys, he’ll probably like it.
He’s not the most smiley of babies, though he’ll smile in the mornings (and the very, very early mornings). He likes to look at ceiling fans and the fish that spin over his head in his swing. He likes to look out windows at the trees and the sky. He likes his bath, kicking and splashing in the water. And he likes to eat.
At about week 7, he finally figured out breastfeeding. He’d had problems from the beginning, not able to latch on. I even visited a lactation consultant who said I was doing everything right, it was just Miles who was the problem. I kept pumping and using a nipple shield and then, just when I was about to give up, he finally figured it out. Let me tell you, 7 weeks doesn’t sound long, but when you’re experiencing it and spending so much time feeding (an hour per feeding some times), it seems like forever. I’m so glad that I persevered, though, because it’s just so much easier (feeding takes 10 minutes now) and a lot less dishes, especially since we don’t have a dishwasher.
He’s also started sleeping longer at night, up to 7 hours the first time he’s put down for the night. He’s also much better about getting his diaper changed. He used to hate it, but now it doesn’t seem to bother him at all. He also likes being naked or just in his diaper. (He gets really excited when he’s getting undressed in the bathroom because he knows he’s getting a bath.)
It’s so much fun to see how he learns something new every day. I’m really going to miss him when I go back to work next month. It’s going to be hard to be away from him when up to now, the longest we’ve been apart is 4 hours and he’s been with Greg. And our daycare situation is up in the air still. I thought it was all figured out months ago, but now the woman who was supposed to watch him doesn’t seem to want to do it anymore. I have no idea how this is going to work out, and I really hope it will get figured out soon!
Here are his two month pictures, including one with Percy the Penguin, though I just looked back at his one month and we never did add the one we took with Percy to that post. We’ll have to go back and do that.
