Big girl
Today, Miss Miranda ate a cookie all by herself, she sat up in the childseat part of a shopping trolley for the entire shopping trip, and she held a jar of parmesean cheese for almost all of the shopping trip.
Later, she fed herself most of a fruit finger, but she's still not so good at that because she hasn't got any teeth yet...
Unhappy Little Girl
Miranda is very unhappy lately. Last night she cried and cried off and on all night. Might be teething, but I don't know. All I know is she wouldn't sleep and kept sobbing as if she was in pain. I did give her some pain reliever, but it didn't seem to help.
I spent all day today holding her. I couldn't put her down for more than about ten minutes at a time, even if she was asleep (she woke up and started crying almost immediately).
Well, she's going to the doctor. She needs her immunizations, anyway (didn't schedule last month because she had a cold). If she doesn't get the immunization, we'll talk to the doctor anyway, just to rule out anything serious that might be going on with our usually happy baby.
Clingy baby
Miranda is unusually clingy lately. When she lets me put her down at all, she insists that I be within eyesight at ALL times. If I go to use the bathroom, to cook dinner, to attend to Zoë, anything where I move out of Miranda's direct line of vision, the baby goes to pieces.
So I spend a lot of time with Miranda in the sling, and my shoulders are pretty sore. Normally, I can keep her in the sling for long periods and it's fine, but her "cuddle time" has about doubled. It's pretty tiring, to say the least.
I do know, though, that this is a normal development stage. I seem to recall that it happens right before the become mobile. It's almost like they have the need to really establish that their primary caregiver will still be there if they crawl or wiggle somewhere else.
Whoops!
In the wee hours of the morning, Miranda woke up and whimpered to be fed. Normally, I just pull her into bed with me and doze while she has her milk, and eventually I put her back in her own bed, which is a baby basket that sits on the floor right next to our bed.
On one or two occasions, she's fallen out of my bed by turning over suddenly. Generally, she falls into her own bed, which is soft. She gets a little startle, but doesn't hurt herself.
Last night, she rolled over suddenly and fell out of the bed, but her basket wasn't in the usual place and she actually hit the floor, poor little kid. She has a little bruise on the outer edge of one eyebrow now, and when it happened she cried and cried and finally ended up going to sleep in our bed, nestled up between us because it was the only way to effectively comfort her.
Thankfully, Miranda's not a rough sleeper like Zoë (who fell out of the bed more times than I can recall; I had to make sure her bed was well padded and close to our bed so she'd roll into that if she fell). Zoë outgrew the basket by about four months because she tossed and turned so much we had to put her in the cradle (which isn't on its stand, so it sits on the floor by the bed) fairly early on. Miranda, though, is a peaceful sleeper and seems perfectly content in the basket in her little baby sleeping bag (which is great because she can't kick or pull the covers off). I think we'll just leave her there until she really seems to need the bigger bed.
I do think, though, that I need to remember to keep the basket close to the bed so that the next time she does a "roll out of bed" trick, she won't hurt herself.
Grabby babe
Miranda has discovered the tremendous fun of grabbing things. This includes (but isn't limited to) hair, glasses, jewelry, silverware, dishes, toys, cats, curtains, and pretty much anything she can reach. She's also managed to consistently put her hand/object into her mouth. It won't be long before she can feed herself finger foods, but as she has no teeth, it might be a while before she's ready for that.
Speaking of teeth, though, Miranda's been unusually cranky lately. I strongly suspect it's her teeth giving her trouble. However, Zoë was eleven months old before she got any teeth, so Miranda might not actually get any teeth for months to come.
The baby is also very clingy lately. I noticed with Zoë that she'd get irritable and clingy right before a big developmental jump, and I think perhaps Miranda's the same way. She appears to be on the verge of sitting, or at least getting up on all fours. Whatever it is, she wants me to hold her practically all the time, and while she'll still allow herself to be held by others (Daddy, Nanna, etc.), she seems to be Mama's baby most of the time right now.
We'll just have to see how it progresses and where it goes.
Posted on Tuesday, 06 August 2002
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