The Eberhard Family

Saturday, 29th Dec - 25 wk+ 3/7 I can't remember what we were doing but while daddy was busy distracting the little one.. I made her a bottle. Then as I was approaching with the bottle, she turned around and saw the bottle... There was this instant shock, with mouth wide open and a little "hoh" noise.... then immediately trying to grab the bottle... Yes she was hungry! :P Sally

26 Dec 2007 - 25 weeks Today is quite interesting. She's 25 weeks now. It's her uncle Bill's birthday, we will leave his age out :P It is also Boxing Day, mum and dad went to the Riccarton Mall to try and get some photos printed... but man there was A LOT of people! So she got to see the Boxing Day sale crowd. And most importantly, today is the first time she fell into the sink. What? :P Here's the story. Grandma had set up a nice changing station in the laundry, next to the sink. Emma has been rolling over a lot. Even when she's supposed to be changed. (I don't know, she used to be smarter and more cooperative when she was younger with nappy change. You think they grow smarter... but...) Mum's slack sometimes. So normally mum watches her and make sure she doesn't fall in. Occassionally she will turn around to do things but still keeping an eye on her. That day, mum decided, there's not enough nappies left on the stack, so time to get more out. Turne...

25 Dec 2007 - 24weeks + 6/7 Well, Christmas is probably just like another day for Emma. Doesn't quite know what's happening. But there's definitely enough people around to entertain her for sure. By the time for our Christmas lunch, she's ready for her nap, which was excellent timing. So we get to have our food quite they are still hot... :P And guess who got most of the gifts? Well I think it was a close competition between grandma and Emma! She likes her little soft toy cow a lot... before long, half of the cow's head was wet.... from a little exploring by Emma... (well more like eating it). And what else took her interest? The wrapping paper!! When granddad was trying to open his gifts, she's there trying to grab the wrapping paper! :P *hehe* So what did she get? From mum and dad: 1)a toy with some handles to press, makes different noises and words...for different colours. From grandparents: 1) Feeding bowl and spoon/fork set 2) A pretty doll 3) New clothes (...

19 Dec 2007 - 24 weeks This is the first time Emma is going to Christchurch to see the grandparents for Christmas. Also the first time she'd be on the airplane. We've got all the necessary stuff for her in the plane. We've been praying that she'd sit still and not scream.. well at least not too much. Also hoping that the feeding time will work out okay for the flight, so we get to feed her just before descending. GP has also given her some nose spray as she has a bit of blocked nose, which won't help. Surprisingly, she was quite calm and fell asleep soon after we got onto the plane. Had a little nap and woke up just before we start to descend. But not quite the time to feed her yet. The nose spray was in already... and she started to cry. Dad had already finished his muffin and mum was half way through her apple. So I passed the apple over to Emma for her to suck on to distract her a bit. Boy, she was keen. Both of her little hands came forward and grabbedf the whol...

Friday, 7th Dec (22wks + 2/7 ; 5 months + 3 days) The plunket nurse checked her out and checked the development. Very happy with it. Checking if she can roll over and back; if she knows how to pass toys from one hand to another. ...etc etc. We've also told the nurse that she started on solids from 5 months and is now fully bottle fed. The nurse was fine with that and suggested if we can, read the book on solids or go for the solids talk in the family centre. Also suggested we read to her; take her to the library and join the library there to get some books out for her. Then we got the nurse to recheck her weight etc measurements.... there was quite a difference :P Weight: 7.31kg Height: 66.5cm Head circ. : 41cm But the nurse said we should try to get her to feed 3-4 hourly rather than 2-3 hourly. Also try to eliminate the night feed if we can.... and we should think about when to get rid of the dummy! They recommend 6 months. We weren't too sure about that :P We've also got...

22wks + 4/7 This morning we woke up and found the little one sleeping on her tummy stuck on one side of the cot... with her feet almost gone out of the rails. Just in the last few days or a week or so, she started rolling over very often. Even trying to dry her and dress her after shower, rolls over.. turn her back and she rolls over again. She started doing this in her cot as well.... But she can't roll back at will yet, so sometimes she gets tired to be on her tummy but can't roll back and gets all upset about it... :P Sally

5 months - 4th Dec Yesterday at the 5 months check up, we've talked to the GP about starting solids. She reckons if Emma is waking up at night for food, then sure, start her on solids. Of course, this is a graduate process and she only starts from 1 teaspoon at a time. After visiting the supermarket, we couldn't find the baby rice that we were after, so it was the fruity apple from Watties. We've been told to get the video camera ready, so we did. Emma has been sitting on the high chair fine and likes it. We sat her there and then out come the spoon and a little bit of food. First bite, I think she wasn't too sure... some of the food went down fine, others came out under the lower lip. Then we got another bit of food on the tip of the spoon and hold the spoon near her mouth. Then you watch her lean forward with her mouth wide open... she seems to like it. Well maybe a little unsure but she sure is keen to eat this new food! It was quite fun to watch, too! Eventually I t...

5 month This morning Emma had her 5 months check by the GP. Plunket appointment is on Friday morning. The GP did a good check on her, everything is normal and good. She tried to measure her length as well but without proper equipment, this is a rough measure. She's around 68cm now. Head is 42cm. Then there was the weighing.... well the uni health centre doesn't normally do babies, so they don't have a baby scale. So it's the case of mum stands on the scale, then hold the baby... then work out the difference... roughly 8kgs. I guess we will have the plunket nurse double check all these. I think it just means she's grown quite a bit and almost 8kgs :) Then there was the injection time... I was a bit worried about how to settle her afterwards, because the last two times, I breastfed her afterwards to calm her down. Although, last two times, it also happened to be feed time, so part of her crying was actually for food as well as not happy with the needles. She normally ...

21wk+ 4/7 2nd night in a row that Emma has been sleeping better. She wakes mainly for feeds. Last night she only woke up 3 times. 11:30pm for the dummy (or maybe she was a little hungry); 12:50am feed. Then again 4am feed. + twice around 5ish but I think she wanted a nappy change... (as the last time she was changed was around 7pm after the shower...) but was very sleepy... so I put the dummy back in twice and she was still sleeping by the time we left the house at 7:40am. Hopefully she will start sleeping better from now :) *mum hopes* Sally

21wk + 4/7 I think it's a natural progression in the baby's development.. Eventually they can start holding onto their feet... I remember mum was saying that I used to eat my feet when I was a baby... I've seen Emma tried a few times.. Today is the first time I've seen her finally... got one of her foot in her mouth.... :P Well done little girl! :) Sally

21wk + 3/7 Last night we were hoping that Emma would sleep longer... well because she was out with us for a work xmas party and didn't sleep much during the day... She only woke up 4 times before finally woke up for the day.. First time at 10ish, wanted a feed and was screaming for a bit... must be some sort of tummy pain.. coz after some gas (farts) then she was fine. Then around midnight, she woke up crying again and was screaming and screaming... didn't want food, gripe water and bonjela didn't work, then we brought out the panmol... still screaming. Tried to change her, too.. no... not nappy change either. Just as we were getting ready to take her to the doctors, she finally passed some gas and then was happy again. Both time when she went back to bed, she was turning onto her side, with the head tilted back... arms free.. grabbing the cloth under her head.. little scratch... then off to sleep. I think she's found a new way of putting herself back to sleep... when h...