The Many Faces of Vivian - 7 Months

Dear Vivian,

Today you're 7 months old! I have to say that with every month, your little life goes faster. You are getting so long that you don't fit into my lap while you nurse (your little legs dangle off the chair) and you are finally putting on weight again!

Speaking of growing, we figured out why you WEREN'T growing this month.
After several days of crying and episodes of what I could only imagine was pain, we took you into the doctor. When they read your belly Xray it all made sense! You were so constipated! I won't go into too much detail, but there was a reason you hadn't had a normal poop, or gained weight in 4 months.

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After about a week and a half of suppositories, laxatives and poop being the bane of my existence, you FINALLY had the biggest blowout of not only YOUR life, but of ANY BABY'S life.
Since then, as long as we keep you on laxatives you eat and poop like a champ.

During the whole 'mess' (ha-see what I did there? Poop and mess? Get it?)
we introduced solid foods in order to get the laxatives down. You REFUSE WITH YOUR WHOLE BEING to take a bottle, so we couldn't put the medicine in there. We started mixing it with breast milk mixed baby food and you gobbled it up. You're now eating 12-14 oz of baby food a day and I can't feed it to you fast enough.

You like the little puffs and baby mum mums as well. Although, you haven't quite mastered the puffs yet. You can pick them up in your hand, but then can't open your hand to get them into your mouth. So, you settle with grabbing them, and then sucking your thumb. Like, "Maybe if I suck my thumb hard enough, I can suck the puff out of my fist!"
You are a much, MUCH happier baby since we've figured out your pooping problem. Thank you. I appreciate your new outlook on life!

You are starting to sit up and can do it for about 10 seconds without assistance. Your biggest obstacle is that you can't stop kicking your legs long enough to stay balanced.

Nana and Pop came and visited you this month and you warmed up to Nana right away. She even says that you took a bottle from her (the last day they were here) although, you've yet to confess. You started out the week, screaming your eyes out when Pop would look at you and don't DARE let that man hold you! But by the end of the week, you let him hold you for a minute or two. Progress!

You're doing wonderful, and are still just lovely. Your hair is FINALLY starting to come in as soft blonde fuzz. I can't wait to see what you look like with a whole head of it! (But don't take that as a hint to grow any faster)

I love you,

Mama