Eight months Three weeks

The horror continues........Its almost a week now that my lil one's not eating well.

I had heard from a lot of people that babies health gets affected while they are teething and I think I am experiencing just the same :(
I feel that his weight has reduced, have not checked yet.But surely he's going leaner day by day.

My lil one was born on his 37th week weighing only 2.41 kgs only , so I guess I am always going to worry about his weight...I find myself surfing on tips about how to increase his weight, improve his appetite and health.

Some useful tips that I found and am experimenting with are:

Giving him high calorie food like dried apricots , raisins , banana , avocados, egg yolk.
Adding butter , cheese or ghee to his meals along with some follow on milk.
Avoiding low calorie fruits and veggies.
Also considering giving him some multivitamins.

Last week was also a gathering of old friends where all the 3 Dec born kids met each other..shall illustrate more on the Dec babies in a later post.

It was much fun except for the part that I was a bit worked up with my baby not eating :(

I also came to know of teething gels there and even got an extra one that my friend had,used it but am not able to make out if it helps my baby or not.He keeps biting and nibbling on any and everything, infact he bit me hard while I was feeding him today :(:(
I did try to explain him that he shouldn't be biting mumma...the week ahead will tell how much he understood!!!

My lil one's has started with brushing his teeth and the credit goes to his Dad, please read it as this daily chore has been smartly delegated to his father :D:D:D

A tiny toothbrush for his tiny teeth..I love holding his toothbrush... infact it looks so cute kept next to ours:)

Cherished moment of the week : My sweetie pie gave me a kiss for the first time on my cheeks.

Eight months two weeks

completed....trying to think over the last week!

Instead of landing down with a thud my naughty baby has learnt how to sit back slowly.He's still on his way to perfecting it, but at least he's stop wailing once he gets bored of his standing position.

Midweek was also worrisome as my baby would hardly eat.He would refuse all solid food.The moment I would bring the spoon near his mouth ,he would just not open his mouth ..he starts nodding his head and refuses to eat.And I must say when he nods his head like that he looks super cute:) At times he would even push my hand and splatter the spoon making everything messy..patiently I wipe it off and try to offer him some food again....I tried all that I could...meal times have stretched from 20 minutes to an hour but not much would go down his throat :(

After a day ,I researched a lot....and found some possibilities:

Teething...yes my sweeties has two tiny ones, his gums may be sore and hurting..but that also means my baby is in pain :(

Bored of the flavour...not quite likely as I keep introducing new taste every now and then and try to make the food tasty:)

Wants to feed himself...possible as he tries to hold on to the spoon and keeps putting it in his mouth.I offer him another spoon to play with while I feed him.

Time for finger foods...This ones what I would be trying over as my baby also needs to switch from pureed food to mashed food now. Temporary solid strike phase...most likely reason , as I read that around 8 months , babies refuse to eat sold foods and would just like to go on with milk. I was worried about the nutrition but seems like milk is the major part of the diet till babies are a year old...

Hope he gets back on solids fast when I write back next week!

Paradigm Shift...

As I mentioned in my first post , I was the type who dread motherhood.Being with children needs a lot of patient and I was always the impatient type....

I kept pushing having one till I was comfortable with the idea ..as a matter of fact I took so much time that everyone else in my family became restless about it and started cribbing.Everytime I used to speak to my mom over the phone she would bring this topic up and would put me off.Soon she realized that she was rubbing me the wrong way and gradually let me alone :)

Moreover most of my friends and colleagues didnot have kids or is it that birds of the same feathers flock together?The first pregnant lady with whom I daily interacted was one of my colleague ,also  a sweet friend .I saw her baby when she was 10 days old and was happy to hold the baby in my arms.
That day I heard a hushed voice from within...alas the biological clock is ticking away...to which I quickly responded..yet there is time !!!

A year later I moved to London.I had quit my job in India and decided to take a break for a while..but with the recession the break got stretch more than I had wanted it to.
Many advised me that perhaps this was the best time and I should start thinking...I shooed them off.
Are they crazy??? I am looking for a job...who will hire a pregnant woman?

I didn't have any friends yet in the new locality ..often I would wonder who stays next door???After a month I did get to know the next door neighbours and guess what...my next door neighbor was expecting!She had just completed her first trimester.

Everytime I saw her she would be beaming with joy about having a baby.She would  keep saying stuff that I couldn't relate to...but it was all getting registered in some corner.

Through them we made more friends,a couple with a baby and another couple without a baby.Now this  girl  was sailing on the same boat as me...running away from motherhood.Quickly we became friends!Not to mention I made great friends with the other couple too!!

Together we watched our pregnant friend closely all through her pregnancy however when she delivered we were holidaying in Switzerland.We returned to London just in time to welcome home the new mom and baby  ...infact we saw them sooner than we had expected.
It so happened that they had forgotten the take the baby car seat and needed someone to bring it to the hospital .I was asked to do the honor.I and my friend rushed to the hospital.

That was the first time I visited a maternity ward..and saw the first time a 2 day old baby.I was awed....I saw a creature that was so tiny and fragile .. I was scared to touch it let alone pick the baby....the next few days were frequent visits to their place.It was fun playing with  the newborn.One month quickly flew by...the next month they shifted out of that locality into their own house.

They moved home and along with them had also moved my rigidity.....the idea of having a baby was not such a dread any longer...a paradigm shift !

Eight months One week!

One week back was when my sweetie first stood holding on to the sofa...the week he was about to turn 8.

In a weeks time, seems like he mastered it,now he manages to go and stand holding on to almost each and everything that he finds and is enjoying that a lot!!!

Trying to do any work while he's awake is in-vain. All household chores have to wait till he's dad comes or must be done while hes asleep.

The only work I do is make his meals, mostly of fruit and vegetables purees.While I do that he comes and clings to my feet.And I am absolutely loving it....

But with the joy also comes the risks..hes prone to hurting himself more now as he's in the land of slips and bumps now.Often he looses his balance and hurts himself!So now all I do is keep following wherever he goes and sit behind him.Guess practically all mothers do that?

His favorite place in sneaking into the balcony and standing there holding onto the rails.Once there he keeps yelling on top of his voice to express his happiness :) After a while when he gets bored, he doesn't know how to get back on the floor..and starts wailing!Sometimes I just sit back and watch him trying to land safely on the floor..I help him only when hes just too tired of trying or is about to slip.

Cherished Moment : My sweetie stood for the first time holding on to his pram.

Eight Months!

My Baby's Eight months!

And I can see a shiny tiny white pearl erupting!Actually I heard his teeth before I saw it...when I put the spoon in his mouth I hear a different noise now, a noise of something sharp and hard grazing against the plastic spoon.
Then when I manged to run a finger around his mouth I felt his tooth.

And how strange things are ..its quite expected, nothing unusual that baby would have teeth but when actually the moment comes you feel a strange kind of happiness. Everything seems so special when it happens to your baby :)

Actually I have been waiting for his tooth to erupt quite long back.Yes..yes I know that all babies are different and have different growth stats.

The reason I was waiting is cause when I went to see the midwife when he was around 5 months old, she saw him and said that he will be teething soon as he was drooling and seemed a bit irritated to her , which were quite the symptoms she stated.

So I came back and from that day would religiously examine his gums with my finger.Kept doing it for a while and even mistook something else for a tooth ... then eventually gave up after a month!

But now he actually has one...I am happy ..very happy!!

But also a thought crosses my mind is he gonna bite when I breastfeed him??

I want them to stay afresh always.....

I am 8 months and 2 weeks old today....I mean as a Mum! 



Can't recall what made my think of it but somehow I found myself wandering in memory lanes today.The first few weeks of pregnancy ,I remember most of it , but not all and then suddenly it hit me that a day will come when I will forget all the minute details and remember just the crucial ones.And I don't want that to happen ...I want to keep the memories of the best phase of my life...pregnancy and motherhood afresh . 

It's a cliche that "Only when a woman becomes a mother, the circle is complete." And its so true.Surprisingly this comes from someone like me who kept running away from it as much as possible.Everyone changes and when the time is right it all falls in line.That's a different story , shall come back to it later! 

The thought occurred to me that I can fill in all the details in a blog and perhaps share it with others too. So here I go... Happy blogging to me !!