8 months old 4/20

 You are 8 months old and bursting with smiles and a fun personality.

*Wearing mostly 12 month clothes, you can squeeze into some 9m.  Moved up to size 5 diapers. 

*Eating--every 3 hours usually.  Most days youll drink 3 5ish oz bottles at school and take two naps there. At home youll nap a little longer.

*Go to bed its usually a struggle to make it till 7pm... Im still nursing you to sleep which we prob should stop but enjoying the cuddles.

*Still nursing and pumping.. my slacker boob is making like nothing so its getting harder to keep pumping I keep wanting to stop and then have guilt and sadness..well see how much longer Ill last.

*Sleep-  Good nights you wake up like once... some nights its like twice.. like around 10pm and ill feed you and then you may wake up again and dad will rock you back to sleep.. I have just not wanted to feed you more than once a night. We prob need to cut you off completely.  When nursing its just easier to just feed you quick and back to sleep you go.

*Eating purees and yogurt.  You do like raspberries, banana.. puffs and yogurt melts.  Weve given you random bites of some things.  Eggs you dont really like the texture.  You like peanut butter alot.

*Still rolling all over to get where you want to go and you can go from sitting to your tummy..no crawling yet.  Weve had you stand up holding on to stuff for a bit.

*You started waving which is super cute.

*Still only babbling and saying dada but not sure you get it.

*Love grabbing on to things and chewing on everything.. still just two teeth but I think more are on their way.

*Love your jumping toys and spinning around.

*Getting better at sitting longer but will still occ topple over esp when grabbing for things.

*Almost a month with your helmet and doing great with it..doesn't bother you and we have seen great improvements...hopefully it continues and we wont need it too much longer. 

Helmet

We made the hard decision to get a helmet to fix your head shape.   Every since about 2 months your head was You had a little flat in the upper part of your head in the back.  We brought you in and they said we were doing all the right things by keeping you off your head and tummy time etc.  Id even hold you for naps so you werent on your head.  You also preferred to sleep straight back on your head even when wed try and turn your head.  

Once you started to roll youd sleep on your side or tummy...it was getting slightly better but still not great.  We decided to have your head scanned.  Your 4 numbers were all 1,1,1, and 2. 3 and 4s are considered severe.  Your numbers were considered mild.  The one measurement of a 2 qualified you for a helmet.  

We decided to move forward in case it did not round out more on its own.  We went and and got your light pink helmet and they cut some things off to fit to your head.   You were really unphased by it and even fell asleep while we were there.  We gradually eased you into wearing it 1 hour 1 hour off working up our way to 23 hours a day and sleeping with it as well.  You did so good. You never really fussed and continued to sleep really well wiht it.

We have had some slight rashes on the one side..hopefully that clears up. We are trying to dress you cooler so you dont over heat.  

We didnt make it to the first appointment a week later..you got red spots on both sides of your head.. so we went in for an adjustment early...they shaved off those areas to give your head more room. The only time weve really seen your head get super sweaty..was on a two hour car ride..you got pretty sweating. 

Hopefully we see good results and this goes by fast.