Rolling!

My little frog is rolling! She's been able to get herself onto her side almost since birth but since Friday she's been able to flip herself right over from her back to her tummy.....and then squawks as she's stuck with her arm underneath her.

I can't believe she's doing it already. It's probably not that early at 17wks but Noah was 21wks when he rolled and in most other ways he's been more ahead of her in their development.

She also scoots along on her back although unintentionally! She'll be in her cot or on her gym and all of a sudden she has her head pressed against the bars or rubbing on the carpet!!

Bumbo time...

Freya's such a beast, she really is. She won't sit in her bouncy chair anymore as it lays too far back. Whenever she's in it she's pulling herself up and leaning forwards! She gets so cranky that she's not sitting up! She doesn't mind laying back in the swing chair but can't at the moment as the batteries have run out and I've stupidly packed the screwdrivers already so can't replace them!

We got the Bumbo out of the shed yesterday but some plank (*cough*SIMON*cough*) put a load of stuff on top of it and it's all squashed and out of shape. I'm really cross as I'd planned on selling it on eventually as they fetch a pretty good price on ebay still. Luckily a friend has said we can borrow hers.

I don't think she'll be able to spend long in it though as although she's very good at holding her head up she still gets tired and wobbly after a while!! And she's still so diddy......

Freya's day without boobies!

The girly survived on bottles of expressed milk all day (just!) while her big brother was in hospital having an operation!

I gave her a last feed at 11.30 am before we left for the hospital. She drank 3oz straight from the bottle a couple of hours later and cried for more so had another oz. She had 3oz another couple of hours later and cried with hunger again later on but refused the bottle, lol. Luckily this was just as we arrived to collect her so I was able to feed her! She did really well seeing as I was gone 6 hours!

She didn't miss her Mummy at all apart from that. She's not really old enough to really although I did get lots of smiles and coos when she saw me.

I took my breast-pump with me but didn't use it...I think my boobs are ok, lol. The only time they actually leaked all day was when I was cuddling Noah after his op! He must smell like Freya, lol! Funny old things, bodies!

Weight update

I took Freya to get weighed just now as we haven't been for over a month. Her weight has slowed down a bit now. Last time I took her she'd almost jumped up a centile line in a fortnight! She's now back down to the 25th centile where she always was weighing in at a healthy 12lb 8oz. I expected it to be more - she seems so porky with her cheeks and her thighs (as can be seen in the picture below taken of Freya and big brother Noah at our Toddler group a couple of weeks ago!)!!

Two down, one to go!

Freya eventually had her 2nd lot of jabs today. 2 weeks later than they were due. Cried lots again but only after the 2nd one although doesn't seem so miserable in herself afterwards this time round.One more lot to go and then she'll get a rest for a few months!

Breakthrough!

Freya has successfully taken 2oz of expressed breast milk from a bottle!!!!!! Yaaaaayyy!!

She fed CONSTANTLY yesterday evening - literally every half an hour and I was getting really tired and stroppy, lol, so I thawed some milk out and let Simon take over the next time she cried!

There was 3oz in the bottle at the start and the first oz was wasted with her chomping on the teat and spitting it out etc. I took her off Sy as he was getting frustrated that he wasn't being the King of making her be able to do it, lol, and as soon as I got the teat back in her mouth she suddenly got a good suck on and guzzled the rest!! As a reward, she was allowed some more boob, lol!!

Such a big step! Think I'll try her every evening now (especially now I have a lovely electric pump and am getting lots of extra milk out!!) and hopefully Freya will be much more confident by next Friday when she's away from me for the first time while Noah has his operation!