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Baby diary: 2 months
Feb. 13th, 2019 12:16 pmWell-baby visit at the family clinic, and 2-month vaccination at the CLSC. For reasons best known to the Quebec government, these were two separate appointments at two separate locations that could not be combined. I was lucky enough to get them morning/afternoon on the same day, and luckier that the snowstorm started no earlier than 5pm. A solid foot of heavy snow overnight.
Upstairs neighbours re-gifted Alan a gorgeous (and expensive) snowsuit that's largely useless, to them because their son was born in July, to me because in this weather you have to go by car and snowsuits don't fit in the car seat. We put him in a pink-and-white boucle flannel hoodie, vintage '88, wherein he charmed several older ladies in waiting rooms. I suspect there's a fairly narrow window during which strangers coo at babies, just as there's a narrow window in which people comment on your pregnancy -- too early, and no one says anything for fear of getting it wrong, but then in the last 2 months everyone has something to say.
Both Alan and the little one upstairs are in the 98th percentile for length. Lanky half-Asian babies o_o Alan is just under 14 lbs.
The 2-month vaccines are currently 6-in-1 (shark band-aid), pneumococcus conjugate (dolphin band-aid), and rotavirus (drops, which didn't seem to taste good). He spiked a low-grade fever overnight, which went down after a dose of baby Tylenol but has crept back (it's now 3pm). Being put down seems to give him bad dreams so he's been sleeping on my mom or me alternately. I brought him in bed with me; where we sleep side by side on our backs with legs straight and arms touching, which seems to be enough to reassure him.
Upstairs neighbours re-gifted Alan a gorgeous (and expensive) snowsuit that's largely useless, to them because their son was born in July, to me because in this weather you have to go by car and snowsuits don't fit in the car seat. We put him in a pink-and-white boucle flannel hoodie, vintage '88, wherein he charmed several older ladies in waiting rooms. I suspect there's a fairly narrow window during which strangers coo at babies, just as there's a narrow window in which people comment on your pregnancy -- too early, and no one says anything for fear of getting it wrong, but then in the last 2 months everyone has something to say.
Both Alan and the little one upstairs are in the 98th percentile for length. Lanky half-Asian babies o_o Alan is just under 14 lbs.
The 2-month vaccines are currently 6-in-1 (shark band-aid), pneumococcus conjugate (dolphin band-aid), and rotavirus (drops, which didn't seem to taste good). He spiked a low-grade fever overnight, which went down after a dose of baby Tylenol but has crept back (it's now 3pm). Being put down seems to give him bad dreams so he's been sleeping on my mom or me alternately. I brought him in bed with me; where we sleep side by side on our backs with legs straight and arms touching, which seems to be enough to reassure him.
