Mommy and Eden: December

Cousins

Eden met her cousin Matthew today!  Matthew is Eden's only cousin so far - almost three months older than her.

This picture was taken by several different cameras, each of which had someone else's camera in the picture.
And by "camera," I of course mean "cell phone".

Possible hip dysplasia

One of the possible complications of breech presentation in babies is developmental hip dysplasia (DDH).  Any breech baby gets signed up for an ultrasound at about 6 weeks of age to rule it out.

Eden got her ultrasound today, and though she has an impressive number of risk factors (breech throughout the pregnancy, firstborn, female) I was more or less expecting it to be fine.  The results were ambiguous.  It took me a lot of googling to make any sense of it, and I'm still not sure I completely understand - basically, one of her hip sockets (not even sure which one) is shallow, and although the hip is stable, they want to follow up with another ultrasound in 4-6 weeks and we were referred to a pediatric orthopedist.

The treatment is a Pavlik harness, which she'd have to wear 24/7 for six weeks and then 12/7 for another six weeks.  We are very nervous about this prospect - Eden doesn't like to be restrained!  Not to mention the laundry fiasco given how frequently she spits and poops.  But it is pretty common, and the harness is better than surgery.  She won't even remember it if we have to do it.

Daddy and Eden (and guitar)

Tongue tie release

Another backdated post about breastfeeding - I am writing this on 4/30/14.  This is the story of a major turning point in breastfeeding, when Eden was diagnosed and treated for posterior tongue tie.

Grammy and Eden

Trip to Virginia

We took Eden to Virginia when she was only five weeks old!  There was a very small window when we could make this trip, and we were on the fence about whether to drive or fly.  Ultimately we decided to drive because (a) we didn't want to expose her to germs in the airport; and probably more so, (b) we had a bunch of crap and we were not at all used to lugging it around yet.  So we ended up driving.

The original plan was to leave after my Octave gig and spend the night somewhere on the road, leaving again the next morning and arriving in Virginia Sunday morning.  But I had lots of energy and we felt like stopping at a hotel with all our stuff would only add 6 hours of scrambling around incompetently.  So we drove straight through and arrived in Virginia just after 2 AM Saturday night (making great time, if I do say so myself).  Eden slept pretty much the whole time.  It was glorious!!  We definitely made the right not call flying on that one!

I posted separately about meeting her maternal great-grandparents on this trip.  Here are some other pictures from the trip:

First, a couple of peaceful sleeping pictures - nowadays (age 5.5 months) when we try to bring her into bed with us she mostly head butts us and grabs our faces.  We have been able to grab a snuggly Shabbos nap with her every now and then.

Aunt Sarah showing her the piano

Uncle Andy

Her quilt from Great-Grandma Puckett

First Puckett family pic

Eden meets her great-grandparents

We took a trip to Virginia for Eden to see her great-grandparents (that word has a hyphen, right?  that just FEELS wrong somehow).  Below are some pictures of our visit to my mom's parents in their home in Westminster Canterbury.  Eden also met my dad's parents during a family dinner, which I don't have pictures of and someone else will have to post!

Newborn crying

Ah, memories (posted on 7/14/14).

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