Nine Month Baby Update
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A lot has happened in the last month.
I've already written a lot about Laila's visits to the hospital, so I won't repeat any of that here. But I have some good news after her visit today to the pediatrician for her nine-month checkup (which is why I waited until today to post this)! There was a lot list of questions that![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee had to answer, about various things that Laila is or is not doing. Is she playing peek-a-boo with us and reacting appropriately to our actions (no, because we haven't really played it with her...), is she trying to pick up things with one hand (yes), is she responding to us using her name to address her (yes), is she transferring things from one hand to the other (sashagee wasn't quite sure, but the doctor gave Laila something to play with and she took it with one hand and transferred it to the other, so that answered that). In the end, the doctor said that Laila was meeting her milestones and even ahead on some of them. We're not out of the woods yet, but we have a lot of reasons to be hopeful!
Ending the long period of almost, almost, Laila finally has teeth! Two front teeth are poking through on her bottom gum, and there are two on either side that are slowly working their way out as well. She's progressed onto real food like cut-up strawberries and bananas and cheerios and bits of pita, though her primary food still comes from baby food. She's even helping to feed herself--it's not easy for her to pick things up and a lot of food still slips from her fingers onto her chair, but she's trying.
And most importantly, she's halfway to crawling! She's kind of wiggling along the ground, like the worm breakdancing move, but it gets her to where she wants to go. Of course, that means that nowhere is safe and now we have to keep an extremely close eye on her because if we turn our backs for too long she'll be somewhere completely different. We definitely need a gate for the internal stairway or she'll take a tumble.
This month's photo is a bit of a surprise to me. I was holding Laila while I made my morning matcha and she kept grabbing for the bowl, and againstsashagee's better judgement, I let her try it. Not too much--we certainly don't need a caffeinated baby on our hands--but just a couple sips. I expected her to hate it, since matcha is so bitter and babies and children are evolutionarily conditioned to dislike bitter things, probably to avoid poison.
She thought it was delicious and kept wanting more.
Laila keeps surprising us. We have to keep watching out for her and making sure that her brain troubles don't come back, but she's determined to be a healthy, happy baby.
I've already written a lot about Laila's visits to the hospital, so I won't repeat any of that here. But I have some good news after her visit today to the pediatrician for her nine-month checkup (which is why I waited until today to post this)! There was a lot list of questions that
sashagee had to answer, about various things that Laila is or is not doing. Is she playing peek-a-boo with us and reacting appropriately to our actions (no, because we haven't really played it with her...), is she trying to pick up things with one hand (yes), is she responding to us using her name to address her (yes), is she transferring things from one hand to the other (sashagee wasn't quite sure, but the doctor gave Laila something to play with and she took it with one hand and transferred it to the other, so that answered that). In the end, the doctor said that Laila was meeting her milestones and even ahead on some of them. We're not out of the woods yet, but we have a lot of reasons to be hopeful!Ending the long period of almost, almost, Laila finally has teeth! Two front teeth are poking through on her bottom gum, and there are two on either side that are slowly working their way out as well. She's progressed onto real food like cut-up strawberries and bananas and cheerios and bits of pita, though her primary food still comes from baby food. She's even helping to feed herself--it's not easy for her to pick things up and a lot of food still slips from her fingers onto her chair, but she's trying.
And most importantly, she's halfway to crawling! She's kind of wiggling along the ground, like the worm breakdancing move, but it gets her to where she wants to go. Of course, that means that nowhere is safe and now we have to keep an extremely close eye on her because if we turn our backs for too long she'll be somewhere completely different. We definitely need a gate for the internal stairway or she'll take a tumble.
This month's photo is a bit of a surprise to me. I was holding Laila while I made my morning matcha and she kept grabbing for the bowl, and against
sashagee's better judgement, I let her try it. Not too much--we certainly don't need a caffeinated baby on our hands--but just a couple sips. I expected her to hate it, since matcha is so bitter and babies and children are evolutionarily conditioned to dislike bitter things, probably to avoid poison. She thought it was delicious and kept wanting more.
Laila keeps surprising us. We have to keep watching out for her and making sure that her brain troubles don't come back, but she's determined to be a healthy, happy baby.
