Declan at 2 Months

Declan: Two months

• Weigh 11 lbs (30th percentile) and are in a size 1 diaper and 0-3 month clothes. 

• You are 22.5 inches long (25th percentile)!

• Your head is 15.25 inches (40 percentile)

• You take a 4oz bottle every 3-5 hours. 

• It takes you anywhere from 15-45 mins to finish a bottle.

• We have started to give you gas medicine once to twice a day. It seems to help you not have a tummy ache. 

• Your last feeding is usually around midnight and then will wake up usually around 5:30-6 for your morning feeding falling asleep around 2-3 ounces and wake back up around 9 am.

• You are starting to hold your head up and only bobble a little bit.

• You started to coo and smiling at 6 weeks

• Your cooing is so much fun, we love to hear you "talk" and you want to talk so bad. You want to make the nosies we are making but you can't just yet.

• You still love to sleep but you are starting to stay awake a little bit longer than you did last month.

• You still don't mind being in your car seat as long as the car is in motion or your someone is rocking the seat like its a swing.

• You still love your paci! 

• You got a new toy last week, a tummy mat and it has a mirror on it so when you're on your tummy you can look at yourself. You don't hate tummy time as much you used to.

• You kick your arms and legs when you want food and you scream if we don't get a bottle or paci to you as fast as you want!

• You have found your hands/fingers and if your paci isn't in your month you suck on your thumbs/fists.

• We celebrated your first Christmas and New Years Eve in the past month. You did great and everyone still loves you!

• You went to Missouri for the first time December 17 and to Oklahoma on December 19.

• You got your first cold/runny nose on January 9th. You were still cooing and smiling even though I know you didn't feel great. You hate having your nose messed with.

• You got your first set of shots today, you started crying before the nurse came in the room to give you your shots, and cried for about 10 seconds after the shots were done and haven't cried since! 

States visited as of January 2015:
Arkansas 
Missouri
Oklahoma

{TWO MONTHS}

{early christmas with your nana and papaw's family in little rock}

 

{first time in benton getting to meet the rest of your family. 

your aunts and uncles are crazy about you}

{your first birthday party and got a sweet kiss from the birthday girl}

{you got to meet your first princess}

{first time at lights of the ozarks - 2014}

{christmas eve at mimi's and poppi's}

{ugly sweater theme - christmas in benton}

Happy 2 Month Birthday Baby Boy!

I'll love you forever

I'll like you for always,

As long as I'm living

My baby you'll be.

xoxo

ac

I miss you K

2014 was the most exciting yet saddest year at the same time.

When I was about 3 months pregnant I got the call that my cousin had taken her own life. She left her parents, brother, sister, 4 beautiful children, and other family members behind. She was 38 years old.

When I was little I looked up to her as a big sister. She was my favorite. When I got older we slowly started to grow apart. She started her family and I was going to college and never had time to go visit. In 2009 she had her last baby, a beautiful little girl, but she couldn't take care of her. She started taking pills and doing drugs. She went to get help a few times that year and the years following but that didn't work. I stopped talking to her at that point, wouldn't even look at her if we were in the same room when I went to visit my aunt and uncle. Looking back now I think she had postpartum depression and it was never taken care of and went in to depression. I wish I could have done something. I could have asked her how she was doing and not just left her. I wish could have saved her. But I didn't do anything. I will never forgive myself for not telling her that I loved her and that I was there for her, even though she wasn't the same person I used to know.

K, I pray for you in heaven and I pray for your children. I pray for your almost 16 year old daughter that won't get to have you there to help her get ready for prom or won't be there to help her pick out a college or decide on what degree to pursue, nor help her get ready at her wedding. I pray for your 10 year old son that didn't get to have you as a mom and won't get to have a mother-son dance at his wedding. I pray for your 9 year old daughter who probably won't remember you when she grows up. I pray for your 5 year old daughter that is being raised by her grandparents, my aunt and uncle, while she remembers you coming around, you weren't there like you should have been. I pray that one day these children will forgive you and understand that it wasn't you that did this, it was the depression that took you away from us, not just in May of 2014 but years ago.

K, when I look up in the sky and I see a star brighter than the others, I believe its you looking down on us and watching us, wishing you where still here with us.

{love you and miss you k}

{christmas 2007}


xoxo
ac

If you know someone that you think may have postpartum please take time out of your day and talk to them about it and see that they get some help. 

http://www.postpartumprogress.com/the-symptoms-of-postpartum-depression-anxiety-in-plain-mama-english