Dillo nine months
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fleaI am grumpy as hell about the various excitements of nine months old, but let's try and keep this both accurate and positive, shall we?
Looks: Dillo has reddish brown hair that's getting a little long by the ears - I've even thought of cutting it, already. Kind of widow's peak-y, with a few looong wisps on top. He has lovely blue eyes. His face is round and in general I don't think he looks much like Casper, who had a distinctively square forehead even at this roly-poly age. He's still roly-poly - we've just moved into size 4 diapers in a (successful) attempt to stop the night leakage, and he's wearing Carter's size 12 (which is their old 12-18 months size). We'll see the doctor for the 9 month appointment and weight and measurement on April 24. Here is is having fun with avocado: http://www.flickr.com/photos/casperflea/453047267/
Food: He takes two 4-oz bottles at day care, and eats a fairly healthy dose of solids at lunch, usually half a thing of baby food plus oatmeal. At home he eats cheerios for breakfast, and has dinner usually consisting of cheerios plus another finger food (frozen peas, blueberries, avocado, mashed potato lumps) and almost a whole box of baby food. He nurses at least twice between the time we get home (4:30) and bedtime (7ish), and then nurses a lot in the night - more than he used to. Last night he nursed seriously every 3 hours (6:30, 9:30, 12:00, 3:00, 5:30), but part of that is the stuffy nose of the moment (I hope!) You can see why diaper leakage was a problem.
Teeth: the bottom center two are fully in, and his fang (lateral incisor on the top right) is pretty visible, too. The top center ones are still just barely through the skin, and I think they are giving him a decent amount of grief at the moment. We've been wrestling with some phases of biting which I think are connected to the teething - the weekend we were in Boston was really bad, and there was a fair amount the week after that, right before the top teeth broke through. Casper was never a biter like this, so I've had to learn what works for Dillo, which is to watch carefully before he gets onto the nipple, since if he's given the nipple and doesn't want to nurse he'll bite (and GRIN, little fucker). Casper did a little testing-biting at the end of a nursing session when she was lazy and basically done, and that was easy to nip in the bud (so to speak). Dillo I have to keep keep my eye on, but mostly now I can tell when it's about to happen and intervene. It rarely happens at night, which is maybe part of the reason I am nursing him so much in the night.
Development: Crawling is progressing fairly fast. Yesterday I left him in the living room when we got home and went to put something away in the kitchen and by the time I came back he was halfway across the dining room and making good progress on the wood floor, which had been daunting him. (Baby in fleece pajamas trying to crawl on slippery wood floors? More funny than monkeys on ice skates.) He's really into the whole clinging to mom/fear of strangers thing at the moment - was not really well pleased with his grandparents this weekend, and freaked out when he was in the other infant classroom one day last week, and wouldn't take a bottle from one of the substitute teachers yesterday. This is all normal, but tiring, and a little sad since he had been such a happy boy, loving everybody. Need to work on object permanence games (peek a boo, etc.)
Sleep: Today we are again afflicted with a small cold (me too), and with the teeth and the snot and coughing and the night nursing and the developmental stuff about crawling and stranger apprehension - yeah, not so much. In our bed all night at the moment - it's not easy to get him down at all in the pack n play. And when he wakes up he's cranky and pissy, not quietly fussing. I am pretty over this. I went back and looked at this journal for Casper at the same age, and this was basically the worst phase of sleep we had from her, the phase that led us to desperation and attempts at crying it out that didn't work, and a lot of incredible misery on everybody's part. So, that was cheering. But at his worst (like last night, up every 2.5-3 hours) Dillo is not as bad as Casper at her worst (up every 1 hour). Maybe if we hang on it will get better soon. I'm trying (to hang on), anyway.
Looks: Dillo has reddish brown hair that's getting a little long by the ears - I've even thought of cutting it, already. Kind of widow's peak-y, with a few looong wisps on top. He has lovely blue eyes. His face is round and in general I don't think he looks much like Casper, who had a distinctively square forehead even at this roly-poly age. He's still roly-poly - we've just moved into size 4 diapers in a (successful) attempt to stop the night leakage, and he's wearing Carter's size 12 (which is their old 12-18 months size). We'll see the doctor for the 9 month appointment and weight and measurement on April 24. Here is is having fun with avocado: http://www.flickr.com/photos/casperflea/453047267/
Food: He takes two 4-oz bottles at day care, and eats a fairly healthy dose of solids at lunch, usually half a thing of baby food plus oatmeal. At home he eats cheerios for breakfast, and has dinner usually consisting of cheerios plus another finger food (frozen peas, blueberries, avocado, mashed potato lumps) and almost a whole box of baby food. He nurses at least twice between the time we get home (4:30) and bedtime (7ish), and then nurses a lot in the night - more than he used to. Last night he nursed seriously every 3 hours (6:30, 9:30, 12:00, 3:00, 5:30), but part of that is the stuffy nose of the moment (I hope!) You can see why diaper leakage was a problem.
Teeth: the bottom center two are fully in, and his fang (lateral incisor on the top right) is pretty visible, too. The top center ones are still just barely through the skin, and I think they are giving him a decent amount of grief at the moment. We've been wrestling with some phases of biting which I think are connected to the teething - the weekend we were in Boston was really bad, and there was a fair amount the week after that, right before the top teeth broke through. Casper was never a biter like this, so I've had to learn what works for Dillo, which is to watch carefully before he gets onto the nipple, since if he's given the nipple and doesn't want to nurse he'll bite (and GRIN, little fucker). Casper did a little testing-biting at the end of a nursing session when she was lazy and basically done, and that was easy to nip in the bud (so to speak). Dillo I have to keep keep my eye on, but mostly now I can tell when it's about to happen and intervene. It rarely happens at night, which is maybe part of the reason I am nursing him so much in the night.
Development: Crawling is progressing fairly fast. Yesterday I left him in the living room when we got home and went to put something away in the kitchen and by the time I came back he was halfway across the dining room and making good progress on the wood floor, which had been daunting him. (Baby in fleece pajamas trying to crawl on slippery wood floors? More funny than monkeys on ice skates.) He's really into the whole clinging to mom/fear of strangers thing at the moment - was not really well pleased with his grandparents this weekend, and freaked out when he was in the other infant classroom one day last week, and wouldn't take a bottle from one of the substitute teachers yesterday. This is all normal, but tiring, and a little sad since he had been such a happy boy, loving everybody. Need to work on object permanence games (peek a boo, etc.)
Sleep: Today we are again afflicted with a small cold (me too), and with the teeth and the snot and coughing and the night nursing and the developmental stuff about crawling and stranger apprehension - yeah, not so much. In our bed all night at the moment - it's not easy to get him down at all in the pack n play. And when he wakes up he's cranky and pissy, not quietly fussing. I am pretty over this. I went back and looked at this journal for Casper at the same age, and this was basically the worst phase of sleep we had from her, the phase that led us to desperation and attempts at crying it out that didn't work, and a lot of incredible misery on everybody's part. So, that was cheering. But at his worst (like last night, up every 2.5-3 hours) Dillo is not as bad as Casper at her worst (up every 1 hour). Maybe if we hang on it will get better soon. I'm trying (to hang on), anyway.
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Date: 2007-04-11 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-11 05:08 pm (UTC)Which, unfortunately, is the feed I'm dying to eliminate because of Hec's and my sleep dep -- and, really, she doesn't need it; when she wakes at 1 a.m. whimpering, she's just as happy to be held and cuddled back to sleep as to be fed. She just won't do it in the bassinet, and I selfishly want it all: sleeping through the night and sharing a grown-up bed with my husband. Gotta pick one or the other. And if I pick the first, there goes the only 100% bite-free feed of the day. Bleah.
Poor teething, snotty, achy, stranger-wary boy, and poor sleep-deprived you. That's so much going on developmentally to contend with. I've got less than no advice to offer, just empathy and nodding and Oh, thank God it's not just us.