Fingers

My wee baby is 4 and a half months old now. She already seems huge to me! I have a bin bag full of 'newborn' clothes and another full of '0-3 month' clothes. She's just started to fit the 3-6 month clothes.

She has giggled a few times already and is using her hands a lot, mostly to suck on! I bought her a couple of rattles from a music shop. She likes to try to put them in her mouth. She loves being tossed around and swung on her door bouncer. She can't roll over herself yet, but she loves it when we help her to roll over and she's a bit happier on her tummy than she used to be, it often makes her fart...

We're still going to lots of baby groups (music, signing, sensory) during the week and on Fridays or Saturdays we are going swimming. She's not interested in splashing in the water yet, she just likes to float with her fingers in her mouth watching everything that's going on around her. It's breastfeeding awareness week next week, so we're getting cake at the support group on Monday. :)

At the moment Elizabeth is very vocal. She went through a phase of squawking at 5am for a few days, thankfully she's over that at the moment. She's sleeping in her own bed now from about 8pm, and comes into bed with us when she wakes for a morning feed between 5am to 7am and most of the time she goes back to sleep for a couple more hours. She no longer sleeps through the night, she usually has a feed at some time between 1am and 3am.

She is also going through a phase of wanting her mummy and only her mummy when she's tired and grumpy. She will scream with her grandparents and sometimes even Jeff, and then completely stop when I take her. It's lovely for me, but not so nice for everyone else. Plus it means that bed time can be difficult if Jeff is taking a turn and she's not cooperating.

I'm starting to get myself mentally prepared for weaning, which we'll do at 6 months. It all seems quite daunting to me. I'm quite glad that I'll be up in Scotland at that time and can get some help from my mum and sister. It's only daunting to me because breastfeeding is the easiest thing in the world (although I wouldn't have said that at about 2 weeks!)