6 Month Stats

Well my baby is 6 months old and it's been a tough age for me. She's not the tiny little baby who loved to cuddle in my arms for hours and hours. Instead she arches her back and wants to be put back down on the floor with all of her toys and explore using her NEW abilities. :( Sad day indeed.
Today (November 22, 2010) I took her to get her 6 month immunizations and luckily there was only one needle and she didn't even make a peep. I was very impressed with her. She's such a trooper and I love my baby girl with all my heart. I cry when I get needles so ya, that makes me worse than a baby? Ha ha
We also weighed and measured her and here are her stats:

Weight: 17 lbs 9 oz
Height: 27 inches

Things that she can do:
1. Gets into crawling position and rocks forward and backward
2. Grabs toys with both hands, waves it around to see if it makes noise and sticks them in her mouth.
3. When she drops toys she will look for it and try and get it back
4. When on her tummy she can scoot herself backwards (if I leave the room she has moved all the way across the room)
5. When she's in front of a mirror she smiles, coos and reaches out to pat the mirror
6. She grabs her feet and chews on them all the time (wish I were that flexible)
7. She's very vocal and blows raspberries, and she speaks veloceraptor (not really, but she sure sounds like one)


Things that she eats:
1. Rice Cereal, Oatmeal Cereal, and Barley Cereal.
2. Apples, Pears (she doesn't like the fruits as much as veggies)
3. Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Peas, Potatoes
4. Turkey
5. Rice Crackers in all shapes and flavors
6. Apple Juice, Prune Juice

We've also FINALLY gotten her out of our room and into her crib. I think it was harder on me than it was for her. I feel so alone when she's not in my room (and my husband is working nights). It's like I miss her and I feel a lot of anxiety when I don't have her near me. I wake up and still look in her bassinet to make sure she's breathing to find her missing and I remember she's not in my room. And she's also sleeping through the night without any nighttime feeds, which is excellent but I wake up full and in a lot of pain. GRRRRR!! Should have done this a long time ago, but I wasn't able to sleep without her in my room.
She has done most excellent with this routine and I'm glad I spent $47 dollars on an ebook to help me figure this out. I wish babies came with instructions on how they work so I didn't have to fork out money on these things. But I did and it was money well spent. I wasn't for letting my baby CRY IT OUT because I thought that she would grow up with abandonment issues but this book says it's ok to let her cry because the crying isn't going to be as long as you think it will, and it's all for a good cause. The first night she cried for 45 minutes before she went to sleep without a soother, Miracle Blanket, or any other sleep prop I had been using to get her to sleep. They also say to put your baby to bed early. 7-8pm is an ideal time for kids to go to sleep, which is amazing. My husband and I can finally watch movies together and reconnect and it's been great for our marriage because having a cranky baby all day and then a baby that doesn't sleep well at night was taking a toll on our moods which had an affect on our marriage. I went to sleep that night thinking that she would wake up but when I heard her cry at 4 am and then put herself back to sleep and sleep 3 more hours I was AMAZED!! I could not believe it. She now goes through her bedtime routine and while I'm reading her a story she looks at her crib and gets excited to get in it. She has learned to fall asleep on her own and this is an exciting feat. It's awesome to watch them the first couple of nights as they learn of ways to soothe themselves back to sleep. I don't know why I didn't think of setting a routine for her to go to bed, because I know I can't go to sleep if I don't go through my routine, so why wouldn't babies be any different. HANDS DOWN BEST THING EVER!! I should send the lady that wrote this book my testimonial because it works and I don't think most overtired parents think about this stuff because they're, well, overtired. Anywho. That's all for now. Wish us luck!! Hopefully next month I have pictures of my baby crawling!!