so anyway.  today was abby's ultrasound for her heart murmur.  maria came w/ me to help me out - i probably would have been ok by myself but it was nice to have an extra set of hands.  plus i didn't really know how it was going to go, so i'm glad she came with.

we get the results hopefully this afternoon or tomorrow.

abby did SO good! this baby is so easygoing.  i'm lucky that it took about twenty minutes for the tech to get in, so we had a waiting period...she normally eats around 8am so i was stressing a bit about how to feed her. so she ended up eating during that waiting period which meant she was in a good mood for the ultrasound.  she just lay there while the tech did her thing. the tech was great, btw! she was good at talking to the baby & abby was totally transfixed by her voice and the new environment. she didn't even mind so much the doppler thing on her chest - except during the last little bit where they needed to do it on her neck to see the arteries.  but by then, it had been 30 mins so who can blame her for starting to get fussy??

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so i think abby might have cradle cap!! i know!!! it's so gross.  she doesn't have the oily kind (thank god) but she has these dry flakes on her head and around her eyes and brows.  i thought it was just dry skin and was putting lotion on but it seemed to be getting worse. and even wiping her face all the time with a washcloth wasn't helping.  so when i googled 'dry flaky skin on baby's head' - cradle cap popped up.  boo-urns.

so now i am going to try washing her hair every night and then brushing it. hopefully that will do the trick, otherwise i will need to try putting olive oil on her head. i'll ask our pediatrician about it too to be safe.  i hope it goes away - it looks awful. LOL.