NatureForce is 10 weeks old - maybe 11 weeks old? Yeah, just looked. She's 11 weeks old tonight. Happy birthday, baby!
Lately, she's been getting very strong. She always has preferred to push away from your shoulder when you're holding her, but until she gained neck control you'd always need to hold the back of her neck. Now she's gaining more neck control and she can hold her head up for sustained periods.
The thing is, she has a tendency to jerk around quite a bit. That can be dangerous at times. She's holding her head up, looking around, steady as can be and then jerk, she pitches to the left, right into your nose. Again, she's got her eyes set on something in the distance and then jerk, she pitches forward, right into your shoulder blade. It can be downright dangerous to hold this kid.
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Another developmental milestone: NatureForce has discovered her hands. Most of the time, especially when she's active and flailing her arms and legs about, her hands are clenched into little tight fists. Every once in a while, she'll become very still and bring her little fist up to the side of her head and stare at it like it's the most fascinating thing in the world.
She can now content herself by sucking on her fists when her pacifier has fallen out of her mouth. Sometimes I check on her after she's been asleep for a while, only to find her sucking madly on one of her fists. I wonder how long she's been awake and obviously hungry, wishing that she'd at least cry a little bit before setting
about to sucking.
We've also been playing with little Roll-A-Rounds, colorful and texture-ful balls by Fisher-Price. I'll hold it in front of her and shake it a bit or move it from side to side so she can track with her eyes. Well, this past week, she brought her little hand up and made contact with the ball. And not a fist, mind you, an open hand that actually grasped at it. As a parent, you get excited about the small developmental milestones that would not be very impressive to others. This was truly marvelous.
Another developmental milestone: NatureForce has discovered her hands. Most of the time, especially when she's active and flailing her arms and legs about, her hands are clenched into little tight fists. Every once in a while, she'll become very still and bring her little fist up to the side of her head and stare at it like it's the most fascinating thing in the world.
She can now content herself by sucking on her fists when her pacifier has fallen out of her mouth. Sometimes I check on her after she's been asleep for a while, only to find her sucking madly on one of her fists. I wonder how long she's been awake and obviously hungry, wishing that she'd at least cry a little bit before setting
about to sucking.We've also been playing with little Roll-A-Rounds, colorful and texture-ful balls by Fisher-Price. I'll hold it in front of her and shake it a bit or move it from side to side so she can track with her eyes. Well, this past week, she brought her little hand up and made contact with the ball. And not a fist, mind you, an open hand that actually grasped at it. As a parent, you get excited about the small developmental milestones that would not be very impressive to others. This was truly marvelous.
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11 weeks already? I need to see this child...
Yeah, you do... give us a shout when you're up here!
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