Sorry, this is just going to be random ramblings....
Well Danielle sucked baby rice off her cracker today, so we're making progress! Yay. No longer the face and tongue saying that she doesn't want it. Still nothing much actually making into her stomach though. LOL
I feel a bit sorry for Danielle that she won't have her own playgroup like Nathan did/does. She just tags along and we just wing it for that day. Fortunately ours is 10am and since she only does her 45min nap in the morning and is awake 2.5hrs it actually works in perfect for us. I've even managed to transfer her out of the carseat into her bed a couple of times if she's fallen asleep before we get home and has still gone on to sleep another 2hrs.
I also feed Danielle right before bedtime which is 7pm, have with both my kids and it's never been a problem. But, I do wonder sometimes if it could be why she wakes in the night still? Dunno, she goes down awake most of the time but in a very heavy drowsy state. But I would have thought if it was a problem she'd be waking more regularly "needing" me to help her back to sleep. She always goes down for naps without a feed, so that probably keeps her on track.
I fully clock watch now and Danielle is on set nap times and bedtime regardless. I think it mostly works because of her personality and she never seems to lose it or melt down. She wakes pretty much always at 6.30am and 1st nap is 9am, 2nd nap 12.30pm and bedtime 7pm.
I can't believe Cole is crawling! Wow, what a mover, Nathan was on the go too by this age, but Danielle is content just hanging out on her tummy and still stays put in the one spot. Loves her jolly jumper though and when I ask her if she wants to go in it, she looks at the ceiling where it hangs from and her body leaps towards it with a huge grin on her face!
Micky - Danielle also for ages wouldn't put her arms out the front of her when doing tummy time and would just "fly" (in fact until about 2wks ago). Well I started working with her to train her muscles that they could actually go out the front, within a few days she was propping her body up and was much happier. I'd just gently show her where her needed to go. How is he if he's lying on his tummy across your lap or on top of you when you're lying down? Those are still considered versions of tummy time. Hope your meds kick in soon and you start feeling better, hang in there - sleep deprivation sure does make me cranky and short tempered. :oops:
Naomi, those rice things look great, shame we don't have a lot of the cool things. Not even Cherios that you all seem to have (well we have cheerios, but they're little cocktail sausages! :lol: ).
Right, maybe I'll check into the chat and see who's there, I remember Friday night chats and they were great fun.
