Abby Update at 24 Weeks

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Abby’s on a roll! Yep, she rolls and rolls now, and if I leave her for a wee while I find that she’s migrated across the rug and trying to eat something like her baby bouncer. We have to be careful now about leaving things within her reach. So far I’ve caught her sucking on the laptop cord and playing with the baby wipes.

Abby loves solids. We’ve been making frozen cubes of puree for her, and she has had apple, pear, kumara, courgette, avocado, banana and carrot. Kumara and carrot together tastes a bit like pumpkin soup – I quite like it myself. She has 3-4 meals a day. At the moment they’re small meals (2-3 tablespoons) but we’re going to try bigger meals and cut down to three a day, as Plunket suggested.

Today was her five-month Plunket visit and we found out that she’s a really tall baby. She’s 71.5cm which is way above the 97th percentile. What’s crazier is that she’s almost half my height!

She also got her first toothbrush today, so now just to get some teeth.

Other developments over the last four weeks:

She’s drooling a lot more and the bumps on her gums look like teeth are going to come through soon
She finally found her feet a few weeks ago, and loves sucking on her toes
She babbles and ‘talks’ lots making sounds liks ‘bababa’ and ‘wawawa’
She’s starting to push up when she’s on her tummy
She has three naps a day, sometimes two hours long, sometimes only one, but at least we get some freedom at regular periods
She’s interested in Fez and tries to grab him whenever he’s close by
She loves playing with toys (and watching TV but shhh), and new things excite her