2 Week Check Up

We have had a successful two week check up.  Emma has grown an inch and is now at 8lbs 14 oz.  When we left the hospital she was 8.2 and the doctors like to see that new born babies get back to their birth weight by their two week check up.  Emma is an over achiever already surpassing her birth weight.  We had to go down to the lab and complete Emma's second PKU test (this entails poking her heal and filling a card with five circles with blood).  She was a trooper.  She fell asleep while we were in the waiting room and fussed a bit when they poked her heal then seemed to decide that she wasn't going to make the nurse stop and calmed down.  All in all it went very well.  Next appointment will be her 6 week check up complete with shots.  Our doctor made sure to mention the shots so we could be emotionally prepared for the trauma.  

Emma is still a big sleeper however she is starting to have more alert time between sleeps.  Here is a photo of her waking up process.  We have to unwrap her from her blankets and then she starts her stretchy dance and then wakes up.  We are pretty amused by it.  Enjoy!

~ Momma H