Sunday, April 24, 2016

comidinhas e dentinhos

O abacate não fez sucesso na quinta-feira. Na sexta-feira de banana macho cadinho e ela amou. Ontem, sábado, ela fez seis meses. Dei uma sopinha de verdura batida em forma de papinha. Sucesso absoluto. E eu fiquei com medo que ela não gostasse porque não tinha sal. 

Infelizmente o cocô também já começou a mudar. Agora vai dar muito mais trabalho lavar as fraldas. O meu medo é que ela tenha prisão de ventre. Agora também estou dando suquinho de ameixa seca para evitar prisão de ventre. Ela gosta de suco de ameixa. Ela também ainda pede muito pelo leite materno.
 Estou preocupada que a produção de leite está muito menor. Acho que é por causa da gravidez. Mas a pediatra dela acha que é porque eu não estou conseguindo líquidos. Vou tentar consumir mais líquidos. Infelizmente suprimento que tem no freezer está quase acabando. Vamos ter que economizar com eles. E vou tirar o máximo que eu puder.
Outra coisa que ela tem feito nas últimas semanas, descer da cama engatinhando de costas. Logo se vê que essa criança não tem noção do perigo. Se não tiver alguém pra pegar, ela vai levar um tombaço. Mas ela não está nem aí.
Na quarta-feira Dean descobriu um Dentinho nascendo na parte de baixo da boca. Foi quando eu levei ela no trabalho dele pra os colegas do trabalho conhecerem. Graças a Deus, até agora ela não chorou nem teve febre. O Dentinho está nascendo é o da frente a parte de baixo do lado direito.
É meio nostálgico pensar que em breve não teremos mais aquele sorriso banguela.

Friday, April 22, 2016

hold her

Poor baby can only move backwards. It must be so frustrating. She tries to reach something and only gets farther from it. She ends up under couches and cribs and beds. Yesterday she tried to squirm her way out from under the couch and things went awry. Mom had to come to the rescue - with grandma watching everything on FaceTime. 
Two days ago she tried to go from sitting to crawling and couldn't unstuck her front leg. I wasn't planning on helping, bc I want to see her getting out of her troubles and working out her issues on her own. But the desperate little face looking at me was what did it. She had had it with trying. She just needed mom for a few minutes. I figured "you know what - she won't want me for too many years. I better enjoy it while I can."

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

backwards

Alexandra is really trying to move, but she only managed to move backwards. I think that frustrates her a bit. She keeps getting under things and can't get back out. 
Since Saturday she's been trying out new foods. Rice cereal to start. Monday we have her strawberries in a net. Yesterday she had them puréed. 
Monday I gave her a bath in the kitchen sink without the supporting flower in it. Bad idea. It's very slippery and I had to hold her all the time. 
Yesterday while fussing for milk she got her earring stuck on a pillow. Scary. 

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

sitting up et al

In the past couple of weeks Alexandra learned to keep her balance while sitting up. She still falls back sometimes, so it's good to keep her on soft surfaces.  Today 
In the past week she learned she can hold herself to prevent free fall, and push herded back up when she leans too far down. 
She takes EVERYTHING to her mouth. 
She now has her own iPhone.
She loves to make fart noises. 
I the past few days she decided to wake up at 3 to nurse. :-(

Friday, March 25, 2016

Alexandra before 5 months

At 4 months old Alexandra started giggling, double rolling. 
Just before she turned 5 mo she started to reach for toys. 
Also, she's been putting her bum up in the air as if trying to crawl. 
She hates being wet. Loves being diaperless.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Alexandra at 3 months

At exactly 3 months Alexandra turned from tummy to back. A couple of weeks later, at three and 1/2 months, she turned from back to tummy. Now she likes to sit. She pulls her body up in holds onto our hands. We have started letting her use the walker. We just added a whole bunch of blankets on her back.
She talks a lot. Seems like she believe she's actually communicating. I wonder if she understands that we use words, if she thinks we just communicate by random sounds, therefore she think she's really communicating.
She doesn't take up as much anymore. Choose to do it on a daily basis, several times a day. Now she can go for a week without hick ups.
She still has a lot of rashes on her body. I mean, not rashes. They're more like dry spots. She has a lot of dry spots.
People keep telling me that she looks like Dean. I'm still trying to figure out who she looks like. To me she just looks like a baby.
She sleeps through the night mostly. We usually put her to bed around 1030 between 1030 and midnight. She can sleep from then to anywhere between six and eight. In the morning that is.
We don't have much a routine for anything. I've been trying to be better about bathing her. Yeah. She has taken showers, baths in the sink, invests in the tub. I've been trying to bathe her or give her a shower at least once every other day. But things don't always happen the way I intend. I'm not really sure how any parent can keep any sort of routine. I don't deer to any parent movement but my own.  I'm not a follower of free demand or strict routine I can't have routines. I'm not a strict cloth diaper person or a strict disposable person. I just do what's convenient. I just do what works for us.

 I still don't know if I'm going to be a crappy parent.for now, I'm just having fun.
I'm having fun wondering why she makes all those funny noises and she looks like she's really talking. I'm having fun thinking about the fact that every single thing we do is just gonna be part of her past. I'm having fun watching her develop. I find it so amazing the baby comes out of mo i'm having fun wondering why she mean so those when you noises and she looks at us like she's really talking. I'm having fun thinking about the fact that every single thing we do it's just gonna be part of her past. I'm having fun watching her develop. I find it so amazing that a baby comes into this world knowing absolutely nothing other than sucking, in little by little they develop in the lane so many things each day, and eventually they become fully functioning adults, knowing so much about the world and being able to wonder about things I don't know. I'm having a lot of fun thinking about these things.
There's one thing I would really like to know, is what do babies thing right after they come out of their mother's tummy. Do they remember where they were? Do they understand where they are? Are they scared? Do they understand that they will never be able to go back to th that place ever again? Do they miss it? I would really like to be able to talk to a newborn baby, and understand what's in their minds.
Alexander's now making sounds with the back of her throat. No one taught her to do that. She just learned it. It's amazing no one teaches a baby how to speak. They learn it on their own. Just by observing people talk. Baby how to walk. No went to the baby how to sit. They just learn it. They do it just by observing other people doing it. And they figure they want to do it too.I mean, who taught Alexandra she should sit?

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Alexandra's 2 -3 month updates

It was somewhere between 2 and 3 months old that Alexandra started grunting less and making more vowel noises. 
She also began to smile more intently and sometimes even a draft of laughter. 
She's now very fussy when it comes to nursing. She smiles and looks away a lot. 
But she's also drinking a lot more. 
She spits up like crazy, so I'm trying to limit her milk intake. And be good about burping her.