Babies Born July 2006 #7

[Dustmite]

Dustmite- you poor thing, I hope your toe gets better soon. What are you studying?

If all goes well I will graduate this May with a 2 year degree (AAS). I am studying IT stuff, Networking Management.

[kmh]

Thanks fee I worked it out through photobucket.

I just had a photograher here taking some pics of my girls, she took about 100 pics and it cost me $150, i get 4 blown up and the rest on to a CD. I carn't wait to get them back.

Em- i love the new pic, Charli has the same widows peak the same as Charlotte

[Cassie]

Hi girls

Just a quick one to let you know I am still around but have been a slacker and not been posting though have been reading. Dylan is almost crawling and has worked out how to get from sitting to his tummy. He has started trying to get up on all fours but not wuite made it there but I reckon it will be any day now. Apart from that no real news here. Still renovating the house we are looking at kitchens this arvo and we are probably inspecting two houses early evening to buy so that's about it. I will be back to do personals soon.

Byeee

[RoyaUK]

Hi everyone,

Big catch up email here…..

Regarding Sarina’s lack of baby noises, we had her hearing checked by an audiologist which showed no problems there. I spoke with a Speech Pathologist yesterday who said they start treating lack of babbling etc only from about 10 – 12 months so it’s still too early to tell if there really is a problem. I should be exaggerating my voice still though. Lots of ‘ooooo’ and ‘aaaahh’ sounds from me and talking face to face with her even if there is no feedback. She said lots of music is important and singing nursery rhymes. I do all this anyway so just a case of keep on doing it, I guess. She’s actually started making little noises in the last few days (just after she has mastered crawling) so something’s happening! I reckon her mind was busy focusing on moving and now she’s kind of figured it out, she’s ready to talk!

She’s also started to sleep on her front the last couple of days so I keep turning her over – should I or should I just let her sleep like that?

Bubs – has Danielle’s second lot of teeth come through? Sarina doesn’t look like she’s got any coming anytime soon! Such a gummy baby. I’m taking her for a free trial swimming lesson on Monday – what do you do in your baby swimming lessons? I can’t believe Danielle got up on her feet! Woohoo!! To answer your query re: lack of baby noise from Danielle, I reckon she’s been so busy mastering motor skills that she’ll soon start trying ‘talking’ too. I was reassured that it’s pretty common for some babies to be quiet when they’re going through this stage and especially if they’re the first baby. No need to worry – just keep on talking.

Carlys – Congratulations on getting married! I bet you had a great day.

Fee – I’m still doing 3 hrly feeds too. It used to be 3.5 – 4 hrly a couple of months ago, but she now just seems to want more milk than food. Sarina’s tried lots of veggies, fruit and chicken too but just doesn’t seem to want a lot. Sometimes she’ll have a tablespoon & a half, sometimes just a tip of a spoon amount. I offer after milk too. I made up a beef casserole for Sarina but left the top off by accident and it all dried up and stuck to the bottom of the pan – made a nice lunch for me though! Have to try again. Cooper’s crawling is great! Sarina’s started doing raspberries again (she did it around 5 months too for a while). I was told that they are developing mouth muscles when they do so it helps with ‘talking’!

Kmh – Sarina likes putting her hands into her bowl of food a squishing it so I gave her some peach to hold and she wasn’t interested. Not squishy enough! I can guarantee she’ll eat apple but anything else is hit and miss.

Fraser – thanks for the message. I’m not worried anymore – just spend my time singing all day which makes Sarina giggle. Sorry you’ve had it tough recently. Charlie sounds like he’s doing well though.

Dustmite – Sarina’s also discovered the remote controls this week. Don’t know what it is about them – we don’t have the TV on in the day so can’t see why she likes them apart from the feel of the buttons. Loves my mobile phone too. Ouch for your toe – hope the swelling’s going down.

Hi to everyone else I’ve missed.