Saturday, August 1, 2009

9 Months Old

Now Lynnea is nine months old. She weighs 15 pounds. She rolls side to side, but she doesn't roll over. She's starting to sit up with support, but she can't do it on her own yet. She's starting to tolerate being picked up from under her arms (rather than scooping her up like a newborn), and she tolerates being held up over my shoulder, which is a step towards her being more tolerant of "tummy time." She coos, and is starting to try to make a few different sounds, but she's not quite babbling yet. She's making progress.

We've been approved for private duty nursing, and since we decided to wait to have surgery, our nursing services began on Thursday. We have two nurses assigned to Lynnea's case, and they both seem to be really good with her. We will have a nurse here to help out with Lynnea ten hours a day, Monday through Friday. Ashlyn loves this, and is very happy that we have a nurse here all the time to play with her. Yes, even though we've tried to explain to Ashlyn that it's Lynnea's nurse, Ashlyn really seems to think that the nurse is her own personal playmate. Ashlyn especially enjoys playing "doctor" with the nurses, which is really funny to watch. Until the novelty of having someone around all the time wears off, I'm sure the nurses will spend a lot of time playing with Ashlyn, which is fine because it seems to make Lynnea more comfortable to see Ashlyn interacting with unfamiliar people; Lynnea is more likely to accept a new person if Ashlyn approves of them first.

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