Here is my baby 8 months old!!! The picture in the bottom corner is from today (I didn't have very much luck getting a smile out of her), the rest are from yesterday (the 13th). Purple is probably my favorite color and she looks adorable in it!
This is one of my favorite so I separated it out from the others to make it bigger! Love her sweet smile!
Eden started sweet potatoes 7/15/12. (not a huge fan but did ok). I kind of feel like they were sour for her tummy...she spit up a lot after.
We tried green beans next and she seemed to love them.
Next we tried bananas, again not a huge fan.
Next we tried sweet peas and she didn't seem to mind them.
We did apples at the same time and she loves apples.
Then we tried carrots with a little oats mixed in and she loves them!
We have also tried putting apple in the mesh bag thing that they chew on and she doesn't like that. I then tried bananas and she didn't like that either. She just sat there and squished it in her hand! I think it's the texture of the mesh bag that she doesn't like. Oh well, she will just eat them mashed.
Eden started sleeping in her crib all night on Friday 7/27/12. Prior to this she was napping in her crib but sleeping next to me in the pack-n-play in my room. And even now that she is sleeping in her crib upstairs I have been putting her to bed in my room after her 7:00 feeding and then when I wake her for a dream feed before I go to bed I take her upstairs and nurse her in the recliner before laying her in her crib. This will soon end as I am sure she is ready to do without the dream feed.
At 7.5 months here is Eden's schedule:
Between 6:30/7 Eden wakes and nurses
Eden goes down for a nap at 9ish and sleeps until 10/10:30
Eden nurses around 10:30/11
Eden sits at the table while the girls and I eat lunch and she eats a half of a container of #1 veggies.
Eden nurses around 1/1:30 and usually almost falls asleep on me.
I have started swaddling just her arms as doing no swaddling was causing her to wake often. So I swaddle her arms and lay her in her crib. When I wasn't swaddling her for a few days I would always lay her in one spot in the crib and she would wiggle herself to another. So now I just lay her in the spot I know she likes. She is pretty particular about this as she will use her legs to adjust herself perfectly if I don't do it just right. She loves to have her head shoved in the far left corner of the crib and the rest of her body coming out at a 45 degree angle! She is sleeping so much better since I started swaddling her arms. I think for the week that we weren't doing any swaddling she was up 3 times in the night and always woke at least once during a nap or would take a much shorter nap. One thing I have noticed about Eden is she doesn't quite have the sense of something dropping and where she might be able to find it. When her paci would fall out she wouldn't think to just grab it from beside her head. It's like she just thinks it disappears. And with her arms out she would grab onto her paci when she was upset and then drop it and not be able to find it. It is just easier to have her arms contained so she doesn't get a hold of her paci.
Eden wakes around 4/4:30 and nurses.
She will sit at the supper table with us and have the other half of her veggie jar around 5:30.
Eden nurses again around 7/7:30.
And then nurses again around 10/10:30 before I go to bed.
And then nurses again around 10/10:30 before I go to bed.
Here is a video of her in her exersaucer. We just recently discovered that she loves it in there! But this video is mostly of her interacting with the girls...they make a burp noise and she just laughs hysterically!!
Here is another physical therapy photo. "The Ladies" brought these rice bags this month to help support Eden while she is strengthening her core for sitting up. They have been a tremendous help. I now feel like I can put these around her and leave the room for a couple minutes at a time...and she is getting a work out in the process!
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