The Eberhard Family

* 1st Feb 2008 – almost 7 months *

Tonight, the little one seemed so tired quite early on in the evening. After finishing the full 210ml bottle (which she doesn’t always do, especially in the last few days or a 1week or so!), and a bit more playing, still showing very tired signs. We put her to bed.

Then comes the crying… which stopped after 2-3 mins, I thought, wow that’s good. But it started again…. so we waited.

After 15 mins, we went into check, she had the blanket over her face. Poor little thing, so that’s why she’s been screaming for ages!
So we picked her up, cuddles and more cuddles, finally calmed her down, stayed in there with her for a long time, waiting for her to go back to sleep. Instead, she crawl around the cot and keep checking if we are still there.

Eventually, she was pulling herself up and holding onto the side of the cot, and holding onto one of my arm… then both hands on the cot… standing on an angle for about a min or so, until she tried to stand up straighter and lean towards the side, didn’t stand properly and fell back to the cot… started crying again.

^^;;; After some cuddle and put back to bed. We left her.

Then the crying begins again. *sigh* One of those nights… last night she was extra grizzly as well, not sure if it is because of her blocked nose (now runny nose)…

10 mins later, we wondered… maybe she’s hungry again? Even though she just had 210ml less than 1.5 hours ago. So we made her another 100ml…. (Well was 50 but too hot, so we made it into 100 with more powder). She finished all that and then seem hungry still. So… another bottle was made, which took a bit of an effort to get her to start drinking, even though she was crying still. So another 30 mls… seemed okay and went to bed.

Boy… then she started crying again but this time, settled down very quickly.

30-40 mins later, woke up again. We gave her some pamol at that point. Because she seems to be more grizzly than normal, wonder if she’s in pain somehow? Oh well… we will see.

I don’t know, each day that goes by, the day she will sleep through seems further and further away… *sigh*

Sally

People always say…. sleeping like a baby… not too sure why, because babies don’t actually sleep all that well. Adults or kids can sleep 8-10 hours without waking up in between, babies…. don’t. If you think they have, I’ve been told, most likely they woke up, then put themselves back to sleep.

So… when they are sleeping… ahhh… it’s like heaven!

So I love taking photos of her sleeping…
Now, I don’t have all the photos of Emma, but here’s a selection of what’s on my computer… (I used to take a lot more in the first month I think, but I don’t have the photos, will add them on later)

1 Month old…
the surrender style sleeping

sleeping next to daddy, holding his finger

Sleeping in the capsule (almost 3 months)

Almost 4 months – this is on the mattress of the portable cot on the floor

sleeping with daddy
in the capsule… dummy fell out.

Almost 5 months – finally not being wrapped up… stretched out

In the carseat (5 months old)

sleeping on daddy (almost 6 months)

This is 5 months, in the sling (frontpack) while daddy is carrying her… well he’s sitting down…. (in Bunnings)

Now we get into funnier sleeping positions:

First time sleeping on the back, one leg outside the bar.. a little stuck

sleeping on the back again

6 months

sleeping on the side…holding onto the cot

sleeping with the legs up!

See the leg outside the cot??

Well we’ve since put some bumpers around

But hey, hope this makes up for the lack of photos in other posts

* 6 months 3 weeks *

Last few days, we’ve noticed that Emma likes to try and crawl over things… I guess maybe she doesn’t have the concept of crawl around it???

So she’s been trying to crawl over both of my legs…. or just my thigh and she persists until she gets through. You can watch her to it, she will have both arms over, then push the legs, eventually getting the top half of the body over, then a few more pushes to get her tummy over and often you see this little frog leap action… she’s climbed over you.

Or what she likes to do is, while you are sitting up with your legs folded on the floor… she likes to crawl towards you, then eventually crawling or climbing onto you as if she’s climbing over a little hill??

Not too sure what she’s trying to do, but sure seems fun to her

Sally

Sunday, 27th Jan – 6 months & 3 weeks (29 weeks +4 days)

Today, I was playing with her and then watch her crawl all over the place and starting to come into the kitchen more… she’d also roll over back and forth… as long as she’s moving around, she’s happy.

Then I saw her from tummy time position then to her side, half sitting …. then sat up to the up right position all on her own!!

So I quickly brought out the video camera…. then of course, she’s too curious by it and crawling towards me filming, trying to grab it instead ^^;;;;;

It’s really amazing how quickly they change in the matter of days!! I think soon she will be sitting up a lot more by herself, which also means, daddy will have to take the cot apart and lower it to the proper cot level

Sally

Saturday, 26th Jan – 6 months & 3 weeks (29weeks + 3 days)

Today we took Emma to visit baby Taylor from our coffee group and to drop off something.

We were just telling Martine how Emma won’t sit still, Taylor is really nice and gentle, sitting up very well and would sit quietly… Then we sat Emma up to show her…. and of course, she had to prove us wrong. She sat there for over a minute I think, without wabbling off or launching off after some toys… ^^;;;; I guess it’s a good thing

Later that day, granddad also noticed that Emma can sit herself back up when she’s sitting up right but falling to the back… she can slowly pull herself up again back to the upright position.

Wow…. so she is getting stronger!

I think she’s waking up now

One more post to come…

Sally

Friday, 25th Jan – 6 months & 3 weeks (29weeks + 2days)

I remember I’ve been saying that Emma can’t sit up by herself and yet is learning to crawl first..

Slowly, we’ve been sitting her up a bit more and she can stay sitting up unsupported for just under a minute I think…

Friday afternoon, after work, we were playing with her and then I noticed that she went from tummy time position to on the side but half sitting in a way…

I thought, wooo looks like she’s learning to sit up by herself… finally!

Also noticed that she can sit herself up right when you put her down sitting up. Normally she will lean forward and go for her toes…. then can’t get up. But lately she can sit up from there. It’s a good sign!

Sally

Today, I’m reading the book about movements and learning… and in there, it talks about crawling.

Talks about how the baby may rock back and forth before start crawling. (Emma still does that every now and then)…

Also mentioned that they might start crawling on their stomach before they are on all fours…. that’s called “commando crawling”.
I think that’s how Emma moves forward to get what she wants now… she will still try to be on all fours, then falls on her tummy, then up again.

So I think she’s just started, still a while before she will be crawling well.

But this is quite fun

Sally

Sat, 18th Jan – 6 months + 2 weeks

Yesterday or the day before, I’ve noticed that the other tooth at the bottom (left) has a dent… looks like it will be cutting through soon but not yet.

Today, had a quick feel and it cut through!

So I think within another week or so, we will see two little teeth at the bottom! No longer toothless smiles from Emma!

Gotta take some photos and send to grandparents

And got her one of those teething biscuit thingy today, tried it during our dinner time. We found that we need to give Emma something to eat while we are eating, usually toast finger does the trick, otherwise she complains a lot! Today, she was happily chomping on that teething bikky… and banging it every now and then Still half left… can use it again for tomorrow (No, mum’s not being cheap…. it’s called not wasting food! )

Sally

Fri, 17th Jan 2008 (28wks + 2 days; 6 months + 2 weeks)

Today, Andrew decided to walk home in the afternoon, and I was picking up Emma alone.
After I picked up everything for her and picked her up, talking to the teacher about her.
She decided to have a wee talk…. she was like “da da”… a few times.
I was like hey! You should say “ma ma” first!!

After we got home, she said that a few more times, but not quite “da da”, sounded more like half “da” and half “la”…

Anyways, that was interesting!

Also, I’ve noticed that her other tooth would be coming out soon… so she’s been a bit more grizzyly today as well!

Sally

Wednesday, 16th Jan 2008 – 28 weeks. (6 months and almost 2 weeks)

I think we are declaring today as the day Emma started to crawl for real. Not very good at it yet mind you, but she can push herself forward rather rapidly with both legs and arms… well only when she sees something she wants to play with.

Other times, she just rocks back and forth. Or just turning around to play with different toys.

So I think it’s only the matter of a few more weeks before she can crawl more and more… wow… doh! better put the gates up now! And start buying some covers for the plugs etc.

Sally