It's been a jam-packed month full of new discoveries and as you can see new milestones! Nate and I are just loving each day that we have with this little babe. Here are a few of the latest and greatest updates...
Scarlet has discovered her 'sharp' heads, which is actually a dance term used when you want the dancer to whip their melon from left to right as fast as they can in as little time as possible. Scar constantly does it when I'm holding her. She is so curious about her surroundings.
We're still working on sitting her upright all by herself. I notice little changes everyday - more strength, more confidence, less wobbles.
We don't do too much tummy time anymore. She is sitting up in her exersaucer, jolly jumper and on the floor so often that I sort of skip it. Occasionally, she will roll over onto her stomach to play with toys. Neck strength is stellar.
She's sleeping on her side A LOT! She even turns over onto her tummy and sleeps in that position which had me really nervous for a while until I was told (by my girlfriend who happens to be an ER doctor) that it's a really good thing at this point. I guess it was drilled into my head over and over that 'Back is Best' - so I just have that notion that nothing else is good. But Scarlet actually prefers her side and stomach now.
We're thankfully still at three naps a day - 10:30, 1:30 and 5:30. They're about 45 minutes, 1 hour and 1/2 and hour.
Breast feeding has decreased to 4-5 times a day but we've introduced solids for the first time three days ago! It was really adorable. She took the food with fervor but didn't really know how to swallow it. She would lean forward and open her mouth - she even reached for the spoon almost every time it came near her face. But she is getting the hang of moving the food to the back of her mouth and swallowing. A large majority just ended up on her face. We started her out on Organic Rice Cereal which was iron-fortified since they begin to lose their iron stores at this point. We understand that rice pablum may make a little one constipated but Nate had so many allergies as a baby that we were encouraged to start off with this. Scarlet hasn't had any issues as of yet.
Finally, the best and most wonderful update in a while - Scarlet has been sleeping soundly through the night!!! Nate and I agreed that it was time to try her in her own room purely to see if we were all keeping each other up. Turns out it's better for everyone this way. Scarlet sleeps so well in her own bed (which is much bigger than the bassinet) and without our heavy breathing and moving around to keep her up. It has been such a wonderful blessing and I have to say the days are easier because of the sleep I'm getting at night. Monitor still watches her like a hawk and I wake up once in a while to check on her. But we don't have the long 45 minute breast feeding wake-ups to deal with anymore. Last night I didn't even wake once. SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!
New little update: Just got back from the doctor's office and Scarlet is weighing in at 15.5 pounds or 7.04 kg. This is a little under the 'average' for baby girls of her age - approximately 45th percentile. I'm totally ok with this since she was in the higher percentile for the first 4-5 months...we're talking like 75% - 90% so it's good that she's growing into herself - if that makes any sense. Also her head circumference is above average (because she's a genius) and her height is above average cause she's just perfect like that.
MOMMY GOGGLES!!!
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