Seven Month Update

3 December 2013… Sam spent a lot of time today practising her crawling. She has figured out how to push herself along with her legs and pull herself along with her arms, alternating as she goes. It’s getting really exciting watching her figure out the crawling thing. We can really see her deciding that she wants to get to certain places and then working on getting there. She was constantly going up to things today and patting them and scratching them to see what noise they made.

10 December 2013… Since yesterday, Sam has been really practising getting up on her hands and knees and holding this position. She had an appointment with the family nurse, and the nurse wanted to see how she went on her tummy, and she held that position instead, and the nurse said that it probably wouldn’t be long until she is crawling.

So, the stats from yesterday’s appointment are:
Weight: 7.5kg (250g increase from the weigh-in two weeks ago, 53rd percentile)
Height: 66cm (1.5cm increase, 44th percentile)
Head Circumference: 44.2cm (0.7cm increase, 91st percentile)

So, she’s growing well, and her head is slowly becoming more proportional to the rest of her body. She did start in the 98.7th percentile!

We had a little trouble feeding chicken. I made a chicken casserole as my book suggests and put it through the food processor so that it was mashed. The first day she was to have it, I was going to a birthday party. The food came out of the fridge and one hour later I heated it to serve. She LOVED it, but her body didn’t. Two hours later she was violently ill, and again another hour after that. It looks like I gave her food poisoning . Normally with a reaction like that, I’d wait a month to try again, but my gut said that it wasn’t a reaction to the food itself. I tried again the next day, and while she seriously resisted eating any, she ate enough to confirm my theory. I have since bought a bag to keep her food hot/cold when I go out to hopefully avoid a reoccurrence. I also managed to get her to finish her chicken today, diluting it well with other foods she does like. Onwards and upwards from here.

She does LOVE her banana, possibly even more than she loves her breast milk. I put it in the mesh feeder and she sucks it out through the holes. She has gone to sleep on more than one occasion sucking on this.

No teeth yet. That tooth made a liar of me and disappeared.

15 December 2013… We have an almost crawler on our hands. She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks, and she also does push ups that go all the way to her feet. She is scooting quite effectively now, and can cover metres of distance in a short time frame. She is having a sleep regression and would rather practice crawling than sleep. I think she will be crawling in the next couple of weeks, because she has the same type of focus that she had when she was learning to roll, and she just has to figure it out, like NOW!!!!! LOL

Sam loves being tipped upside down. It makes her giggle, smile and squeal.

28 December 2013… Sam has a hole in her gum and hubby has reported that there is something hard in there if she bites down on his finger. This hole appeared two days ago, and we eagerly await the arrival of its occupant, which will hopefully reduce the grouchiness of its owner.

Sam is practising getting up on her hands and feet now. It’s like she’s trying to learn to crawl, sit up and pull herself up all at once.

29 December 2013… So, we’ve cut our first tooth, and Sam is much happier about that situation. Unfortunately, earlier today it peaked at 35 degrees, and she was definitely NOT happy about that situation.