This month was pretty typical for the first month of an infant's life. Mikaela was getting days and nights mixed up, having some burping and spit up issues, but otherwise all seemed to be going very well.
We spent Thanksgiving with Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop Giuliante at their house. It was great! Of course it is always a challenge traveling with an infant - even if it is only 50 minutes away!
More spit up...in fact almost every time I laid her flat, (like changing her diaper) she would spit up. I couldn't do that nurse while laying on your side thing - threw up all in the bed! Changing sheets at 3 in the morning doesn't make for a happy mommy or daddy.
Kurt slept a lot in Juliana's room - just an attempt at getting enough sleep to function and go to work. I am certain every other new daddy goes through pretty much the same detail.
As we awaited our hearing screening scheduled for December 10th, we just were doing all the things parents and siblings do with a new member of the family. Pacing the floor all hours of the night, rocking her, laughing with her and loving her!
This hearing test was called an ABR which stands for Auditory Brainstem Response. The test was to last two hours and Mikaela was to be asleep for the entire thing! We live about 45 minutes from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) with traffic so how was I going to make this work?? My plan was to arrive at the hospital an hour before the test, nurse Mikaela then and she should fall asleep and stay asleep for the entire test....let's see if we could make this work!
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