1 Month

Griffin is now 1 month old. He is quite the big boy now too. I took him to the pediatrician yesterday and his stats are:

weight: 11 lbs 7 oz (80th percentile)
length: 23 1/4 inches (90th percentile)
head circumference: 15.4 inches (60th percentile)

They actually had to recheck his length and head circumference because they were so different from birth. (birth stats...length-20 1/2 inches, hc-13 1/2 inches) Judging by this, I firmly believe he will be a tall boy. He is already long and lean, no rolls on this little guy. (At least not yet!)

When I was in the room with the nurse practitioner, I pulled out my long list of questions. One major question I had was about his neck. Tanner and I have noticed pretty much from day one that he prefers to tilt his head to one side all of the time. Over the last couple of weeks, he has really been favoring his right side. I have been working with him to stretch out his neck so that he will turn more to his left; however, he wasn't showing a lot of progress. When the nurse practitioner looked at it, she agreed and said that he has torticollis (stiff neck) and to continue to stretch it. (It totally breaks my heart to work on his stretches because he does not like them at all and just screams and screams!) Then she looked in his ears and found that he has an ear infection in BOTH ears! As his mom, my heart completely broke. I started thinking that I caused it and that it was all my fault! The practitioner informed me that it is possibly due to the torticollis or else he has acid reflux. Therefore he is on an antibiotic and hopefully it will clear up soon. I know Tanner and I noticed Sunday that he was very fussy, which is totally not like him. Then Tuesday night, he was up twice with a scream that would not stop. We knew something had to be wrong since he is typically so happy go lucky. Other than that, Griffin is doing well. Hopefully the ear infections will clear up and we will get our happy healthy little guy back.

As far as everything else goes, we are starting to get on a schedule. Since our second night home, Griffin has been sleeping in his crib, in his own room and now that I'm starting to figure out his schedule, he takes his naps in his crib too. While he's napping, I find myself carrying on like normal-kind of; cleaning bottles, picking up the house (mainly after the crazy dog), checking emails, doing Grif's laundry, and anything else that needs to get done. I actually told Tanner the other day that I felt like a "real wife" because I was so busy! Now, don't get me wrong or anything, occasionally I do nap with him. I'm definitely not a super mom!


Working on neck stretches during tummy time!


Progress...he turned his head all by himself to his non preferred side!