We are finally nearly unpacked which is a good thing as it has been hard keeping the place safe for Jemima. I have bought her a play pen which is quite large to be safe in when I can't give her full attention but she is very curious and will only stay in it for relatively short periods. I have had to relearn her boundaries after twice turning back to look at her and realising that she had sharp objects in her hands! Once a small pair of sharp toe cutting scissors and once a sharp knife I had been using the night before to open boxes! Both times she was waving them in innocent abandon. I nearly lost my heart thru my throat both times!! Still she came to no harm and I am on a steep learning curve so I try to be kind to myself and not beat myself with guilt. Jemima is just soooo quick!! She is tall and her reach is impressive! Her latest habit is to crawl into the study and stand up against the bookshelves and pull down all the books. Mind you I am there and so she never gets too many down without my stopping her. but she is cheeky!! I say "no " and she turns and grins at me in the most cheeky way and then goes at it again! I try to be consistent cos I know it will help later but still it is hard to do it all at once. Mind you I think I am doing everything better and more thouroghly now because I have to she just gets into everything! I think she is starting to understand no now though. Today she went to put her hand up to touch the bin and I told her no and she stopped. Mind you she tried again about 30 secs later and when I told her no she stopped again plopped down on her bottom and crawled away. So who knows I may be getting somewhere.
We are progressing with the solids. Mostly doing the baby led thing with veggies. She gets excited when she sees her bowl coming now. I have been giving her roughly mashed pumpkin and mashed potatoes and brocolli whole. She is very good with the spoon and I hand it to her with food on it and she does the rest. The only thing is I am worried that her belly is struggling with it. She has been having quite disturbed sleep lately rolling onto her belly and crying at night. She pumps her little legs and has lots of gas! Last night I couldn't stand it any more and gave her pain stop which I haven't doen for ages. suffice to say she slept well but that is obviously not a solution although it gave us all a short reprieve for the night. Anyway I am not sure what to do about it all. Without the solids she had been waking all night anyway to feed and the exhaustion has been building.
Despite all of that her day sleeps have finally settled down and she is sleeping 1.5 hrs at a time, twice a day at roughly 9 and 1.30 it is giving me a respite and when I am really tired I just go to sleep with her. I can only hope after the upheaval of the last moth that her night sleeps may finally settle down too.
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