Exciting news from the baby T front:
- I gave Tabby some fried egg this morning, and she ate it (gutsed it, really) with no red rash or reaction this time! The egg was completely cooked, I will try again with some soft-cooked egg again this week.
- Tabitha can do all sorts of grown-up things now that she is a Big Girl of more than 7 1/2 months! She can sit up and clap her hands, bang two blocks together, she can also pull herself up to stand against the sofa/walls/doorframes/human legs. Once up, she can get down again (often even without bonking her noggin!), and she can slooooowly creep along, getting about a metre by shuffling along holding onto the sofa/wall etc.
- When I leave the room, she can generally crawl and come find me. This is a grand improvement - it used to be that if I left the room for just a second (to get a glass of water, say) she would burst into tears and sit crying until I returned to scoop her up.
My favourite new development? She loves to crawl across the room and then, panting and grunting with excitement and exertion, clamber into my lap and stand up so that she can wrap her little arms tightly around my neck, and burrow her face deeply into my hair/neck/jumper. She will stay like that for minutes, just breathing in her 'mummy smell'. Makes my day every time!
Here is a photo of my baby on the day she was born. Note - my little sister added the stuffed mouse just for the photo while she slept. It's not the done thing to leave a stuffed toy in with a sleeping baby, generally!
Around 8 hours after Tabitha was born, The Daddy and I were completely exhausted (my active labour was nearly 45 hours long!), so my mother sent us off to bed for a nap and she sat with Tabitha in the living room (new babies pretty much just sleep for the first day or so) - this is when the above photo was taken.
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2 comments:
Did you have a home birth ? How was it ? I find your blog very interesting. From B
Hi B, thanks for dropping by.
We planned a homebirth, but unfortunately after 25 hours sand little progress (I was already a couple of weeks over, too - Tabby didn't want to come out!) we decided to transfer to hospital. We still got our vaginal birth (after another 23 hours in hospital) with my 'team' of The Daddy, our two independent midwives, my doula and my mother. And we left to go home a few hours after the birth. So overall I was still really happy with the experience - hopefully next baby we'll be able to stay home!
Planning a homebirth was Tops though - all my prenatal appointments at home on my sofa! - and we will certainly be planning the same again next time.
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