Jen Paxton

I swear it wasn’t me who honked the horn!

Ben’s aunt had their yearly bonfire today. Last year we announced our pregnancy to the family, and this year we got to bring Noe! It was a good time, but Noe was really fussy whenever anyone else held her.

We had a small health scare today. Noe projectile vomited everything she ate in a 12 hour period, so I decided to call the doctor. They had me come in right away to check her out. They were worried it might be some stomach growth condition that requires surgery. They had me feed her some formula and then wait to see if she threw up while I was there. It was a boring half hour sitting in a little room, but luckily Noe didn’t puke again. She has eaten one time since getting back. Its been an hour since she ate, and still no puke, so I think we are okay.

On another note, its been 10 days since her check up and today she weighed in at 11 pounds. Gained 1 pound in 10 days. My baby is a healthy eater

I just finished scanning in 1598 pictures from up at camp!

Its early easter morning and I’m attempting to make dirt very unsuccessfully. I’m pretty excited about today. I’ve got a really cute outfit for Noe. We are going over his aunt’s house for Easter lunch and then probably stopping by my parents’ house afterwards to visit with them. My Aunt Donna is supposed to becoming down from Wellsboro and will get to meet Noe for the first time.

I’ll post afterwards about how it went.

On another note, I can’t believe Noe is almost 6 weeks old! She is doing really well. Today she followed me with her eyes as I swayed from side to side. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but its a pretty big developmental milestone. I can’t wait until she starts interacting with us more. She does smile pretty often, but it doesn’t seem as if its the result of anything we do. It seems pretty random, which probably means its just gas. It shouldn’t be too much longer before she starts to social smile. I’m sitting here trying to think of things I’ll want to remember later on. Last night she didn’t cry during her bath for the first time. She wimpered a little and came close to full out cry when I was washing her hair, but overall she was pretty good. This is a big change from before when she would just scream the entire time. We are getting close to the end of the Pampers N diapers. We’ll be trying out the 1’s soon. She has grown out of her newborn outfits, but hasn’t grown into all of her 0-3 outfits yet. She has started to be awake a lot more often now. I try to have her be awake from about 7:30-10 each night, and it really isn’t too hard. Then at 10 or whenever she’s done nursing after that, I put her to bed. She hates that part and usually cries for about 7 minutes before falling asleep.

Okay, I need to keep scanning camp pictures and hope to god the dirt turns out.

It’s strange how we change so much as we get older. The birth of Noe has marked the end of an era for me.

All through high school I really wanted to get body piercings. I started when I was 17 with an eyebrow ring in Toronto, Canada. I learned that day that it was best to get pierced somewhere I could trust instead of a head shop. Then as soon as I turned 18 I started to get my ears pierced and managed to get 5 holes in each ear. Then later that same year I got my tongue pierced. I’m pretty sure it was the following year that I got my labret pierced. Eventually I took out the labret, the eyebrow ring, and accidentally had most of my ear holes close. I’ve kept my tongue ring because most people don’t notice it and it wasn’t doing me any harm. Most of the time I forgot I had it at all.

But that has changed. The day my daughter was born (technically the day before because she was born at 12:05am) I took out my tongue ring and have decided not to put it back in. I had to take it out in case there was an emergency and they needed to put an endotracheal tube in. I knew before I went into labor that I would need to take it out and didn’t know whether or not I would put it in afterwards. About a week after Noe was born I decided not to.

I’m not exactly sure why I decided not to put it back in. I think part of the reason is that it’s a bit of a pain to get in and screw the bottom on. It usually takes me a few tries to do it. Also, I occasionally bite down on it, and that hurts. Not to mention the tons of spaghettio’s I’ve gotten stuck around it. There isn’t much to say about the benefit of keeping it in. I won’t mention the only good thing about tongue rings, other than to say, its not me who benefits from it.

So, Ben loses and I guess that means I win. Hoorah.

I can’t believe its already been a month. It has gone by so fast! On Tuesday Noe went in for her 1 month check up.

To refresh: at birth she was 7 lbs 12 oz and 18 1/2 inches long.

Today she is 10 lbs and 21 3/4 inches long. She is in the 75th percentile for both. Oh, and her head is 37 cm around and that puts her in the 50th percentile. Not really sure why her head size matters, but I’m happy she doesn’t have a big head.

The doctor wrote on her paper “well baby” and so I’m really happy. I feel really fortunate to have such a healthy baby. All the doctors have told me she’s perfect. Oh, and she screamed the ENTIRE time we were at the doctors. Dr. Garcia was really funny and said “No one will ever push her around!”. I thought that was a great way to think of it. He’s a cool doctor.

I can’t wait to see how much she weighs at her 2 month appointment!