My beautiful girl is 8 months old. She now weighs 16lb 10oz (between 50th and 25th centile), is still in size 3 nappies and mostly 3-6 month clothing, although we have had to pack away a few of the smaller sized bits and get out some 6-9 month clothes.
Over the past few weeks Izzy has had a verbal explosion. She frequently babbles ra-ra-ra and ba-ba-ba and on Christmas Day began saying Ma-ma (this is normally kept for when she is upset and is wailed at me, which really tugs at the heart strings!).
She still dislikes being on her tummy, but has begun launching herself forward from a sitting position to grab for toys or items that have taken get fancy. After reaching them she invariably flips straight back over on to her back. I know that big things are about to happen though as on the day Izzy turned 8 months she rolled back to front for the first time, and in the few days since has started pulling up and walking when you hold on to her hands!
This month has been one filled with illness, suffering with 2 colds and a nasty chest infection which required antibiotics to treat. Unfortunately this has meant that sleep and Izzy have not been the best of friends and Izzy has spent a lot of time in Mummy’s bed, something which really does need to be knocked on the head ASAP.
Izzy is still not a big eater. She will try most foods and rarely spits anything back our, however the quantity of food that she has is still very small. Breakfast is the hardest meal and often she will not have anything at all. Lunch is hit and miss, sometimes she will have some, other times nothing at all. Dinner is always her best meal. We try to do a mix of purées and finger foods and this seems to work pretty well. I am not really too concerned about her eating at the moment as she is still breastfeeding fairly often and will receive a lot of calories and nutrients from this, once she starts nursery (in 8 weeks, eeeek!) I am sure that we will see an improvement as she will hardly have any breastmilk at all.
It’s hard to believe that on 4 short months she will turn a whole year old, it seems like yesterday that she was a tiny helpless newborn…
