Wow, it's been about 3 weeks since my last post. That's really beacuase so much has been happening recently. We started weaning the baby, she started rolling over, we've been to see my Nephew and introduced the babies.
So a couple of weeks ago mummy spoke to the nurse when taking the baby to be immunised. They agreed that we could start weaning as the baby has been looking very interested in what we're eating most of the time. So Mummy went out and got a few books on weaning and started to make the purees from the books. The baby didn't take too kindly to this change in her feeding. She likes her bottle and that's the end of it. After a bit of perseverance we managed to get her to start eating. The first day she started to cry when being fed, the second day she discovered that she could push it out with her tongue and then on the third day, Saturday, I had a go at feeding her in bed. She got a big mouthful and sneezed splattering me with carrot puree. From there on though she started to get the hang of it. We stopped following the book more or less and just fed her one or maybe two purees a day. Eventually we've got the hang of it and now the baby can't wait to finish each bowlful, most of the time anyway.
A couple of days ago she started to roll over. She's been threatening to do it for a while now but a couple of days ago she managed to get all the way over. She did it twice just before I got home. Then she promptly decided that she wasn't doing it anymore. Today she rolled over before I got home again and now she's just done it to show me as well. She's still quite distressed when she gets onto her stomach. She can manage a couple of minutes now but she's still a little way from getting comfortable that way.
The weekend before last was a bank holiday so I took an extra day off and we went up to Nottingham to see my brother and his family and we reintroduced the babies to each other.They were a bit reluctant to start with but after a day or so they started to be happy on the playmat together although our baby did start to assert her authority on the playmat occasionally hitting her cousin in the head. We bought them some rattles and the baby was getting to grips with them. I'm not convinced she really associated the noise with her actions but she got a good grip and managed to shake a bit. Sadly sometimes she managed to hit her cousin in the head so we had to separate them for a bit. Generally the weekend went well. We drove up early on Saturday morning, waking the baby up and feeding her so she slept all the way up. On the way back we hit rush hour on the M25 and the baby woke up wanting to be fed just as we hit the traffic jam. Sadly there's no where to stop on that stretch of road so mummy had to keep climbing into the back whever we were going slowly enough to stick her dummy in. That kept her going until we hit the next services.
Generally though the hot weather has been upon us and the baby isn't terribly keen. We can't keep her room at a sensible temperature so it tends to be baking hot when we put her down and then cld by 4 or 5am which then wakes her up because we haven't covered her up enough. Then we have to have a fan in her room as well to keep it cool enough when we put her down but that can sometimes distract her. so I think it's going to be a long summer! We'll have to see what we can do to make it a bit easier for her to sleep.
Anyway, I hear a grizzly teething baby who wants a bath, bottle and bed.
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