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3.11.07

one month

and you have gained three pounds and an inch and a half, to 4.5kg/10lb and 55cm/22". You are smiling more often, and more pointedly; you are looking across the room; and you are holding up your head for longer and longer. You are not, unlike baby-me, a tiny extra from The Exorcist, being that you have so far had a total dearth of projectile vomiting. Not that you don't spit up, it just doesn't go anywhere. Also, not pea soup. Just baby-cheese. Sometimes we call you our little cheesehead. Someday you will go to Wisconsin and see why this is funny. Other times we, meaning me, call you our little frog, or our little rosebud, or just our little. Even though you are rapidly becoming Also Very Big.

Your clothes are really starting in on being too small. I have to sort through them! You are an above-average length, according to the growth charts, and so you aren't going to be wearing "zero to three" for much longer. And maybe you just have big feet, but it's been a close thing to not misplace any socks yet. I think you are in the middle of a growth spurt - since Tuesday or so you you have been eating what seems, even now, even after you have been eating nonstop all month, now, you are really eating nonstop. Your daddy's family is here visiting and they keep saying, you think she's hungry again? and then, you're hungry again. I'm right. Mostly it is my first guess because of the timing; but you do this head-bobbing thing too. You have a distinctive staccato cry, too, but I haven't figured out if there's a particular context for that yet. So we are starting to work on this thing called communication. I think it will take a while.

In a TMI moment, you have become a pretty reliable once-a-day, or sometimes-every-other-day, pooper. They say your baby's shit won't stink but they are wrong. Maybe it doesn't stink as much. I asked my mom if she thought yours did, to see if the your-baby's-doesn't, if it was somehow heritable, and she said she didn't think so. But she is in love with you, so she is biased. I haven't asked M's mum yet but she does call you my baby. My mom did too. Anyway. Worth a shot. It makes for less messy diapers most of the time, which means cloth diapering is going much easier than i thought. However that one, when it comes, is big. The other mamas in the vienna babies' club are always impressed.

And we bought you some new pacifiers, because you so clearly prefer our fingers to the old ones. The new ones are not symmetrical - they're ergonomic, or tooth-friendly, or promote good gum health, or something. Not symmetrical. Still super cute. Also now we have, with this one purchase of a two-pack, doubled our pacifier supply. Much more likely there'll be one in reach. See? Your parents are learning.

Twice, you have slept during the night for five consecutive hours. There is no clear pattern as to what we can do to encourage this. A friend swears by the foie-gras treatment, but we tried that, and you spat up. No dice.

Also, you have just begun to giggle in your sleep. Or that's what it sounds like to me. Giggling in your sleep is much better than the drowning, coughy, congested noises that are apparently normal for newborns but make M and i freak right on out. I think the pediatrician has to answer that question for every single new parent he gets, his response was so practiced.

And your hair is falling out, starting on the very top of your head. Also normal, along with your dry skin, along with your not being colicky, not really. So for a moment you were like a little bald man: but now i think you are getting M's white-blond hair. It's very light, and hard to see, but it's there.

Labels: baby, mamadom, milestones

scrawled @ 17:59