We've been passing around a cold virus in our family lately and Julia's been fighting it over the last couple of days. It's been mostly chest congestion (thankfully?) so she still is able to nurse and soothe without too much difficulty. She does however break into coughing fits and her breathing sounds pretty raspy most of the day. Today's development is that she is completely without a voice, not even when she cries. It is completely heartbreaking and also makes it difficult to know when she wakes up or needs something and I'm not in the room with her. Hopefully her voice will be back tomorrow!
I was concerned that her immunizations would be delayed because of her cold, but the pediatrician said we were fine to go ahead with them today. Phew. Dr. Horowitz also reassured us that despite her umbilical hernia looking huge, it actually is a fairly small opening in her abdominal wall and it will most likely heal on it's own without any need for intervention. It may take until she's 2 or 3, but eventually her very big outie belly button will transform itself into an innie.
We're getting a little more sleep these days, I'm happy to report. About 4 days a week, Julia will sleep from midnight/one-ish to five/six-ish. We're getting there!
Julia refused to look at the camera todaylength/height = 23 in (50th percentile)
weight = 11lbs 9.5oz (50th percentile)
