Eight month check

Freya had her developmental check yesterday. Was quite exciting as Noah never had a proper one!

She now weighs 17lb 4oz and is 46cm long. Her length is around the 75th centile which is surprising as she's still quite a dinky dot to look at - chubby yet slight all at the same time too and is still comfortable in her 6-9m clothes.

It was nice to be able she can sit and crawl when only a couple of weeks ago she wasn't quite there with either! And of course she can roll both ways and stands supported (although isn't very interested on being on her feet!).

She's sussed out 'object permanence' and looks for things when they go out of sight and has a good go at picking up tiny objects with her developing fine motor skills. She can hold a brick and transfer it from hand to the other. There's no sign of a squint - she follows objects and turns to sounds.

Big ticks all round. The only thing the HV did say is that as I'm still breastfeeding as her main source of milk, to give her vitamin drops with her meals as other babies get extra from formula as it's put in. I'd not heard this before and it was a different HV so I might speak to my normal one first. She has two cartons of Aptamil a week and has three proper meals so I would've thought she'd be ok but it's definitely something I'll look into - don't want Freya going without essential vitamins!

Oh and we got our first Bookstart pack - different books to Noah's which is nice!

Crawling!

She's been wanting to and nearly able to for ages and at last Freya is crawling!!

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From about 5 months she was up on all fours rocking back and forth and she's been succesfully crawling backwards for about a month now....she just couldn't work out how to go forwards! She'd get really cross and I was forever finding her under tables and chairs where she'd reversed in and gotten her bottom stuck!

BUT today she saw a toy she reeeaaally wanted and managed the two little paces it took to get to it. So, of course, since then, I've been setting her challenges, lol, putting things further and further away from her to make her come and get them and she's been doing it! Gets a bit cross, mind,a s it's very new and hard, lol. It's so cute - like those nappy adverts with an unsteady crawler on them! She has bright red knees from being on them all day though.

Noah caterpillar crawled for a few weeks before he crawled but Freya missed that stage out comletely. They really have been sooo different in the way and when they do things.

In other news, she's practically there with the sitting at long last. She's about 90% stable (still occasionally topples when she reaches for something too far away and flings herself backwards when she gets too excited!!) although still prefers to be on the floor and on the move!

She's also getting her first tooth. There's a very obvious bump below the surface of her bottom right-hand A.

So much going on with her right now....she's growing up far too fast!