19 Weeks and Flat Head Update..

Caroline is 19 weeks old today. She has officially moved on from the Soothie pacifiers. She uses the clear Avent ones now and she's learned how to grab the handle and pull it out of her mouth. She tries to put it back in but usually ends up sucking on the side or back of it..it's cute. She has been drooling so much and there is always something in her mouth..either fingers or toys. She's really been going to town on Sophie lately. Her pedi said it could be teething or it could just be that she's exploring things with her mouth.

As you saw last week, she started solids. We did rice cereal for a few days and she was waking up screaming 1-2 times a night. I think she had bad gas. She just spits out gas drops so those don't help us. I called her pedi and she said to stop the solids for a week then start back and see how it goes. Yesterday was her second day without the cereal and she still woke up once. I know I shouldn't complain but it's really not like her to wake up in the middle of the night. Maybe she's going through the infamous 4 month wakeful.

We had Caroline's appointment with the craniofacial surgeon today. They said her case is purely a cosmetic issue and she doesn't have any facial assymetry. They said they want us to contine keeping her off of the back of her head as much as possible. We were basically told to pack away the swing (which she hasn't used in over a month anyway) and to leave the car seat in the car when we go places and just wear her (which we've also been doing). They don't recommend even doing a helmet (when it is needed) until 6 months. They said that Cranial Tech pushes so hard because they are making money off of the helmets and if they can get babies in helmets earlier there is a chance that they could get people to pay for more than one helmet treatment to get "even better" results. They said that Caroline's head can definitely correct itsself without a helmet and they want us to go back in 2 months to measure the progress. We feel much more comfortable in our decision to not do the helmet right now.

Now for some pictures from the week.

She likes to stick her hands out of the holes in the swaddle blanet. When she has been waking up at night I hear her grunting and struggling to get her arms out of the swaddle blanket...I wonder if we're nearing the end of swaddling.

Here she is attempting to put the pacifier back in her mouth.
You can see the flatness of her head in this picture.

Trying to figure out what the things on her feet are.

Sporting her shades.

My birthday gift. I have a feeling you're going to start seeing a lot of movies here now.