Weaning

I'm all prepared to start as of 14th September or after when we're back from Devon.

I've got some baby rice in and another box of baby cereal stuff. I've steamed and pureed a load of veg this morning and it's sat in ice cube trays cooling ready to go in the freezer (anybody remember how long I can keep it in the freezer for? I still want to do some fruit but don't want to go overboard and end up wasting it if it won't keep!). Just need to pump some milk and freeze it now for the rice and cereal.

I'm traumatised at how fast the time has gone and that Freya is nearly ready for solids!

Mrs Busy Body!

4months 4weeks 2days old

My daughter is so nosey!! It's really hard trying to feed her sometimes at the moment as she'll have a suck, stop to smile at me, have a suck, crank her head backwards to see what that noise was, have a suck, crank her head backwards to giggle at Noah etc. etc. etc.!!! Half the time when she pulls her head away and turns it round, she forgets to let go of me - ouch! I'm dreading the restart of the toddler groups after the holidays as when she does my nipple is in full view!!

Just looked it up online and it seems it's quite common at this age for babies to get distracted whilst feeding...hope it passes soon..my poor nipples!

Nearly 5 months and a proper little person

Freya's growing so much!

She has recently found her feet and likes nothing better than staring wide-eyed at her socks and having a good suck!

She can now roll completely over and get her arm out from underneath her at last - and isn't so grumpy when she lands on her tummy these days!

She's a bit of a 'flinger' and when sitting on your lap will sunddenly stiffen her legs and throw herself backwards...I think she just really wants to be able to play with Noah. He's her absolute world! Freya chuckles at everything he does and often tries to copies his actions and noises!

She's still exclusively breast-fed and is a pro. If I'm holding her and she decides she's hungry now, she'll just dive-bomb down towards my boob and start clawing and bashing at my top! I wanted to wait until she was 6 months to wean her (for my sake more than hers!!) but just recently she's been getting really stroppy while we've been eating - insisting on sitting on one of our laps while we eat and watching every mouthful we take! We go on holiday from 6th-13th september so once we're back I'm going to start her on the baby rice as she'll be 5 and a half months by then anyway.

Freya now sleeps in her own room too. Again I wanted to wait until she was 6 months but we have really narrow doorways in the house and I really couldn't be bothered to put the cot up in our room in the new house only to have to completely dismantle and move it again in a few weeks time so she's in her room already. She got into a bit of a habit of falling to sleep in her swing chair or on the boob for the fortnight we were staying with my Dad before the new hosue was ready so we had a few evenings of tears and screams as I trained her back into falling asleep alone but it didn't take long.

She's a really gorgeous little girly and I'm loving having a baby and a pink person in the house so much!

Suck, suck!

She's been after it for weeks and weeks and, a few nights ago, found it good and proper while waiting for me to dress Noah before I then dressed her after her bath. In it popped and off to sleep she instantly dropped...it's hardly left her mouth since either! And she'll now settle herself back to sleep when she wakes at 5am instead of grumbling until she's fed!

Freya has found her thumb!

Awwwwww!!