she's such a fluffy baby now. she smiles so so much, she babbles so so much, she eats so so much. amani loves eating, like totally loves everything i give her. i started with carrots and carried on with all sorts of veggies with carrots. she's taken apples with carrots, sweet potatoes with carrots, potatoes with carrots, butternut squash with carrots and her latest, broccoli with carrots. by the time she's had her solid for a good month and is ok with a few fruits and vegs, i took out the carrot and introduced her to a wider menu. i would make porridge as her basic but this time her porridge contains chicken (soon salmon) and spinach. and then the fruits and veggies as accompanies. the porridge can last about 5 days and the veggies for about 3. that way the basic would remain the same but i can experiment with the accompanies.
her food seem to fill up her tummy really well so i decreased her formula to just 2 bottles a day. both, before she sleeps...one before her afternoon nap and one before bedtime.
it worked initially. she'd be full and happy and slept well. then i don't know what happened. she started her 4.30am wake ups. i'm used to her changing her sleeping pattern slightly, every 2 weeks or so. she'd have night feeds once every 2 weeks when that happens. but this one went on. and on and on. it came up to 4 nights, then 5, then i was screaming in frustration. what happen???
so i upped her bottles again. but this time, i gave her half bottles at each feed. she's get 5oz after breakfast at 10ish, then 5oz at lunch at 2ish, and one more after her dinner at 7ish. then a full (sometimes she doesn't finish, though) at bedtime. its been 4 days and it seems to work. no more 4.30 morning feeds.
apart from her food intake, amani's been very relaxed. a bit too relaxed for me. i can't help but look at amira at the same age and going, why aren't you doing this amani? amira's already sitting and pulling her body forward at this age, while amani's content with just lying down. even during her tummy time she'd roll over so that she's on her back. she doesn't move much when she's sleeping and stays in place. she doesn't move much when she's lying down on my bed while asyraf made 2 rounds in his second month. she just stays put...except for her legs. those are constantly kicking and shoving but that's it.
having said that, amani is super alert. her eyes follow everyone everywhere, her mouth babbles non-stop, she calls out to everyone when she's awake...pick me up, pick me up. her hands and fingers are constantly moving, she grasping things, reaching for things, holding on to mummy's and kakak's fingers.
amani's settled her first batch of immunisation. she's up for her MMR and chicken pox at 9 and 12 months and her fourth pneumococcal around the same time. with all the virus around i'm very worried and keep doing a countdown until she's gotten most of her jabs. at her 6th month jab (triple antigen) she weighed a whopping 7.9kg. i read that by a baby's first year she should triple her birth weight. well, she's ticked that then and she's still got another half a year to go.
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