Mini Milestone!

Today my little Bradester had a little milestone -- he was sitting up holding that heavy little head of his up all by himself!! And he looked very old while doing so. Tear. :(

Now, this is not all new news for us -- just a step up!  I may have shared his very first "head holding" milestone but I'll recap.  The day after Brade was born, Scott and I took him to a sort of "infant care" class in the nursery.  Remember how we wanted to take a new baby class at the hospital pre-baby but then all the drama happened and we never got around to it?  So when our nurse told us they were having a mini version of one in the nursery that day and that we could go, we decided - how perfect! We were still kinda nervous about having to bathe our own baby at home. alone.  And it forced me to get out of bed and walk down the hallway, which was a huge milestone for me post-labor! haha. So we went to the little baby care class and sidenote, it was the best first decision we made as parents.  We walked in with a very fragile baby -- and after Nurse Rita used him as an example and forced us to throw him around a little bit -- we walked out not feeling like we were going to break him with every touch -- and thus became real parents :). 

But anywho, the main point here is while we were in the class, we had to put the baby on tummy time for a minute.  Well Brady, like the other newborns, was lying on his tummy with his head cocked to one side.  Then, unlike the other (non-advanced obvio) newborns, Brady picked his little head up and turned it to the other side! Nurse Rita was very impressed with our little over achiever! As were we! (Clearly, the kid is destined for great things! hehe) But even though he picked his head up on his own and moved it, it did not mean he had total neck control.

But since we've been home, his neck control has been pretty impressive for a newborn.  When he's on our shoulder getting burped or lying on our tummy, he's always picking his head up and swinging it around in a total big baby way.  But if you put him in a sitting position, he acts like a little bobblehead. (A super cute one though!) But then this morning, voila!  Just sitting pretty, head holding up high! Scott was still in bed (rain day!) but I was like "Scott come here quick!" Naturally, he ran in thinking I killed the baby, but was happily surprised to see his big boy just chilling!  My little man is growing up quickly!

I will give him this one milestone because we both really want him to have good neck control (bobblehead babies are scary!).  But that's it. No more growing up quickly!

Oh and remember, if you ever deliver at Prentice and are offered by your nurse to take the baby to the infant care class, do not think you are too good for it -- you might just learn something. (And they're gonna charge you 20 grand either way so you might as well get all you can out of your stay!)