2 months old

Georgie is 2 months old today! And she got her first vaccinations. Boo. We think her legs are probably a little sore today (shots in legs); she's been a little fussy. I was a little fussy, too, when they were giving her the shots. We were going to do a delayed vaccination schedule, so that she'd get almost all of the shots on the CDC schedule by one year old, just on a different timeline. We still partially are (for instance, splitting some shots rather than getting several at once), but because of travels this fall, we had to start some vaccinations now. Our ped. office is very delayed-vacc friendly, even told us to do the vaccines as slowly and as spread out as possible, and the nurse practitioner is aware of our concerns about (and knowledgable herself about) aluminum and etc. in vaccines. This was very different from the first ped. we visited, who treated us like uninformed extremists for even bringing up not giving Georgie a Hep B shot in the hospital. It's nice to be going to an office we trust, and who we feel respects our wishes and understands that we've researched vacc. issues and are making informed decisions. Not only that, they seem to share our concerns.

Today at the doctor's office, the nurse practitioner declared her "Queen Georgine." Georgie was very particular in the office -- didn't want to do tummy time, looked at the NP's face, made a sour face, and then turned to the wall so she didn't have to look at her. The NP said usually babies can't recognize faces at that age, but Georgie seemed to, and didn't like what she saw!

I don't know whether I'll be able to post a picture today, except maybe of a sleeping 2-month-old Georgie.

She's been giving us lots of eye contact, followed by lots of smiles. It's so heartwarming. This morning when we got her ready, she was all smiles on the changing table.