The Eberhard Family

Tummy time… Emma can lift her heads up quite nicely.

This morning, she was put down for tummy time… and she was playing around and then she rolled herself over.

I rolled her back and started taking more photos of her on tummy time…

Oops this one is a bit blurry but it’s kept because this is the first step of her rolling over…

Missed the rolling over part!

But here, she’s rolled over!

So gutted that I didn’t have it on video mode.

So I rolled her back and turn the video on.. but by then she was too tired and started getting annoyed…

Sally

Well.. it has to happen someday… and it happened today.
While I was busy cutting her nails… while she’s happily feeding…I cut a little too deep? or whatever happened… out come the blood. I was like ouch! Oops.. sorry!!

Hmm…wait, there’s no reactions from her.. *confused*
So there was some blood on her thumb… and she was still happily feeding away as if nothing has happened…

Well… err… I will be more careful next time…^^;;;;

Sally

Emma was not too happy earlier, was crying and crying, so I had to hold her and walk around.

As I walked to the mirror and stayed in front of it, she started staring at the people in the mirror. Seemed a little confused and curious… she started talking to the baby in the mirror…

But before long, she remembered that she was crying earlier… so she carried on… eventually mum worked out.. she wants to be fed again, yes, even though she just been fed like less than 2.5 hours ago!!

Sally

I think it’s been a few days since she started doing this… only that I’ve just noticed and clicked…

Part of her morning (or unwrapping from being wrapped up for sleeping) routine is a big stretch.

With the stretch she actually pushes on her feet and lift up the tummy. She did that a few times when we had some struggling sessions of nappy change.

This morning, I put my hand under her, on her back and I realised that she’s actually not resting her whole body on my hand. She’s lifting her own tummy up.

It’s quite funny… but yeah I think that’s something new.. well at least I’ve just sort of realised that’s what she’s doing now

She doesn’t do it all the time but she can lift her tummy up now.

Sally

Just a quick note…

Noticed that these two days, she’s been trying to talk more, and making even more new noises… seems quite enjoying talking to different people.. well baby talk

Sally

Well, after monitoring 10 nights, she’s been sleeping between 7-9 hours. So I think that she is sleeping through the night…. well sort of.
Depends on how “early” or “late” the last feed is, but the last 2 nights, she’s been wanting her last feed earlier than later, like 7pm!

Of course, there’s still the cry after 5-6 hours of sleep for her dummy… so I’m not quite sleeping through the night just yet. But it’s an improvement.

Having said that, I’d really love to be able to sleep 8 hours uninterrupted someday… I guess I will be looking forward to the new years… apparently by 6 months, they do sleep 10-12 hours. So fingers crossed that she will start doing that earlier!

Why? Because apparently 50% of the babies sleep through the night by 3 months, by that, they meant, a 6-8 hour gap between the last feed and the first feed in the next day. Most people do the last feed around 10pm.
But she started doing this 6-8 hour gap thing after 7 weeks (not quite consistently but most of the time it was more 6-7 hours… Then the night before she was 10 weeks old, this 7-9 hour gap pattern started, with some help of dummy runs from mum.

(Why? Because I found out if I just fed her when she cried at night, sometimes she’s so sleepy, 5 mins later she’s passed out. So she didn’t really wanted the feed, just needed her dummy to go back to sleep)

Anyways… so I hope this is the pattern to stay. Hopefully soon it’d be at least 8 hours then 9…. but most importantly… she will have one very long sleep without waking up for the dummy!! Now that would actually make the biggest difference I think!

So maybe when that happens, my brain will finally function properly again. Fingers crossed.

Sally

Yesterday while Emma was on the play gym happily entertaining herself, I was watching TV…
She was all excited and waving her arms and kicking her legs, making funny noises at the same time.

Then I turned back to the TV for a while and checked on her again… hey, there’s a little toy somehow ended up through her arms…up her shoulder on the left.

It’s a ring looking toy and I think she must had caught it while she’s waving her arms around and the toy slide up her arm.

I will find the photo and add it on sometime.

Sally

Well, most people say that she looks more like dad; some say mum… so I put our photos onto a website for a test…

Result #1 – 50/50

Result # 2 – 16% more like dad…

Then I remembered that she looks more like me when I was a baby… so.. I put in my baby photo..

Result # 3 – 3% more like mum… (hmm…)

Oh well Here we have it

Sally

Yesterday we were picking out some photos of Emma for printing… came across her photos when she was less than 2 weeks old. We thought, wow, almost forgotten how small she was compare to now.

She’s still small but you know… she’s grown so quickly. It’s quite amazing!

Now she smiles, talks and tries different ways of expressing her feelings, other than crying. She also seems to understand what you are trying to tell her sometimes. Especially when I’m battling with her for bed time during the day. She’d protest when I put her down in the cot and if I insist she stays in there, she would give you that look of “fine, I will stay here” and then turn away from you. Of course a while later she will cry and I have to go back to put the dummy in or sit there with her etc.

Sometimes when she wants a bit of attention and you were there attending to her, she’s very happy to see you and gives you a big smile.

I’m sure there will be more and more exciting new discoveries with her to come.