Hooray, it's my birthday!

For those of you paying attention to dates, yesterday was Cameron's one month birthday!

But, today is a special day, too. (Besides Turkey Day). Today Cameron is 37 weeks.

How can he be one month old and 37 weeks at the same time? Welcome to the language of preemies.

In a technical sense, these first few weeks of Cameron's life don't really "count." Sure, they count to us- we have had some great time to bond with him. But, they don't count from a developmental standpoint. So, at the hospital, they counted his age not by date of birth, but by week's gestation, according to when he was supposed to be born. So, today, he is 37 weeks. So, he has now hit his "ground zero" for his developmental milestones, somewhere between 37 and 42 weeks- when he would have been full term.

That means he won't be hitting his 3 month developmental milestones until about 3 months from now, not 2. But that's okay; we still think he is an overachiever. After all, his peers are still floating around in the womb getting everything provided for them. He's already been eating on his own for weeks :)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!