Jasmine is getting more active everyday. Yesterday she tried to roll over to one side when I was changing her nappy. She can also reach out for things and pick them up. And when you wave at her she waves back at you. Her Granddad Firth will be thrilled as he has been waving at her for weeks. His hard work has paid off.
Today she is lying on the floor listening to ‘La Traviata’ and is gurgling along and waving her legs about. We have decided that she needs more floor lying time so that she can learn to roll over and all the rest of it. We are holding her back as we hold her far too often (all the time) because a) we love her to hold her, and b) to stop her vomiting.
Her vomiting has calmed down a bit now we have left her feed at one spoonful of maxijul. She was only sick at 1.30am this morning and then at 6.30am. And then after her 9am feed.
Yesterday it was a similar story during the night and in the morning and then she wasn’t sick for the rest of the day – just a couple of posits/possets (?? little spoonfuls of sick). I have no idea how to spell this, it was what the nurses said on the ward. I googled for the right spelling and read that Samuel Pepys used to drink posset: a mixture of wine and hot milk and spices which would curdle before you drank it. So posset it is then because that is exactly how Jasmine’s possets look, especially after her morning medicines.
Hi Ruth, I just googled, I think it’s posit
http://www.e-radiography.net/radpath/v/vomiting1.htm
There, I am real nerd, no one beats me at googling
But this is just an excuse to mention the incredibly cute picture of Jasmine … she’s really heartbreaking material !!!!!!!!!
Lotsa Love!
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Leo and the troop (Clau Sofi and Santi
Being held so much is more likely to aid her physical (& social & intellectual) development, and she’ll soon let you know if she wants/needs to be put down.
My youngest, Iona (the bump at your wedding!), had severe reflux, and so we carried her pretty much constantly as a baby. The doom-mongers of unsought advice prophesised that she wouldn’t learn to walk, would be clingy, needy, etc, etc… She didn’t develop as the books said (presumably because she hadn’t bothered to read them). She hated to sit alone or crawl (I guess those positions made the reflux worse), but she decided to get up and walk at nine months, and has never looked back.
That turned into a long vague anecdote, but it’s something I researched at the time, and there’s plenty of evidence that parents holding babies and responding to their needs will promote development.