Mummylicious & Baby play with accessories 2

So Baby PP is sick with still undiagnosed rashes. Does it mean the end of getting bullied by her mean mean parents? Of course not! We are mean! Ok actually, its the Daddy that is mean. I just take photos.

First Daddylicious bullied Baby PP with the clinic's medicine plastic bag.

It was a hat that turned into one foot socks! She didn't even try to remove it.

Then Daddylicious's cap got onto her head.

Then it was Mummylicious's English paperboy hat replaced the cap because the cap was deemed not cute enough. Baby PP was not happy at the end.

And here is a couple of photos of Baby PP getting bullied by her Tok Mami and Aunty Wawa. (My MIL and SIL)

Ah..fun times.

Baby is sick, possible roseola but so active

Baby PP is sick with rashes all over her back, chest and face. But just to prove that it is most probably not chicken pox or an allergy, and possibly harmless Roseola Infantum. Other than extra clinginess and fussiness, theres the usual activity she would show she is well and not..."listless" as some other sickness would make her be.

Baby PP in a 2-3 minute time lapse. Relax-roll-lie down-face down hand stretch forward-look at daddy-annoy daddy with laptop-put face in pillow-roll-pushpushpush-look really bored

Baby tried egg yolks for first time!

Baby PP hit the lucky Chinese number 8 over the weekend! She is now 8 months old! How fast she has grown up...already I am thinking about kindergarten enrollment and..... her wedding. I know. Sad.

Considering she is now 8 months old, Baby PP is ready for something new in her diet. Something all parents introduce with caution and dread of the "what ifs". Baby PP tried egg yolks!

(Image from Photobucket)

And she loved it!

Why is it important?

The egg yolk contains the following:

• all of an egg’s vitamin A, D, and E;
• almost all the vitamin B12, choline, folic acid and vitamin B3;
• 76% of the biotin,
• 73% of the inositol,
• 50% of the niacin,
• 93% of the vitamin B6,
• 42% of the riboflavin,
• 90% of the thiamin
• 44% of the protein
  and substantial portions of the egg’s mineral content
  Source: The American Egg Board

Plus do not forget the all important Omega-3 impact!

"Research from Australia, published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,shows that omega-3 enriched egg yolks are suitable weaning foods for young children and make a useful contribution to their omega-3 and iron intakes.

Iron-rich weaning foods are important to avoid iron deficiency in young children. Iron stores in breast-fed infants become depleted after 6 months because breast milk is not a good source of iron.

Long chain omega-3s are vital components of the cells in the brain and nervous system. A regular supply in early life is important for the healthy development of a baby's brain, nervous system and retina. Although breast-fed babies are likely to get some omega-3s from breast milk, very few infant formulae are fortified with long chain omega-3s. Very few weaning foods contain omega-3s and experts are concerned that babies are not getting enough omega-3s for optimal brain development and function." 

-PRNewsLine, Fortified egg yolks boost omega-3 and iron intakes in infants during weaning

P.s: "There is no nutritional difference between eggs with brown shells and eggs with white shells. The nutrients come from the hen’s feed." MOMformation, BabyCenter

Experts advises parents to only introduce egg yolks at 8 months and egg whites at 1 year old mark. Eggs whites are never to be served before 1. Any early could result in an adverse reaction. Some other advise that baby can be introduced to egg yolks as early as 6 months old. But with eggs, i took my precautions. Even if Baby PP is fully breastfeeding baby, she have shown some skin reaction around her mouth to certain food. So i took my time.

A recent interview with Dr. Greer in Medscape Pediatrics notes that " "Now we can tell mothers: If you have exclusively breastfed for 4 months and your child is not at risk for allergy, you can introduce any food at 6 or 8 months or whatever." 

And as any introduction of new food, wait 3 days before introducing another new food to safely determine cause of allergy (if any occurs).

I was initially not sure how exactly to serve the egg yolks to her, other than...NOT RAW. I then contemplated aloud in the kitchen while preparing baby PP apple puree and rice porridge dinner and freezer stock. My maid answered, "bubuh butter, goreng telur, tambah nasik aja, pasti suka!" (add butter, add egg yolks and add rice! she (baby PP) will definitely love it). 

Hmmm not a bad idea. simple enough right? but since I was already making rice porridge with anchovies, carrots, peas and potatoes, i could just mix it in! Sure enough, i googled "egg yolk baby" and one of the search, Wholesome Baby Food (link below) have a recipe that basically said what my maid said. 

Veggie Eggs & Rice

1 or 2 hard boiled egg yolks
1 cup of cooked brown rice
1/4 cup of pureed or diced soft cooked veggies such as carrots, broccoli or even sweet potatoes

Combine all ingredients and mix well. If needed, puree or mash to your baby's preferred textures.

Variation: Warm a frying pan with a bit of olive oil, crack an egg and separate the white from the yolk. Scramble the yolk in a bowl with formula, breast milk, juice or whole milk and transfer to frying pan. Add the veggies and rice and scramble the mixture; cooking until the yolks are done.

My variation:

Since Baby PP hates brown rice. I never used that again. And it was scrambled eggs instead of hard boiled. and once egg yolks are truly scrambled and cooked, mixed with Baby PP's ready to be eaten and frozen rice porridge (half blended and half mashed). She loved it, finished the whole bowl ( a rare event for new recipes) and so far, no allergy signs! yay!

Then i had to research, how often do I feed Baby PP this all important egg yolks? Have you ever heard from your parents, not to eat eggs every day as it can be bad for your cholesterol level? Well I have. It is good to eat eggs but not everyday. So how about for babies? I found this website as a guide..simpy said "Egg Yolk: Every second day or 3-4 times per week" from Super Baby Food.

Tips for egg yolks/white separator challenged :

Place your eggs in the refrigerator before breaking them. The yolks will not break that easily this, easier to divide.

Use egg whites separator. I never used them before, i think it works but me knows how to separate eggs without them. Try them anyway, and if it works, let me know!

Useful links

Wholesome baby food "Eggs in baby food recipe" <--with useful recipes using egg yolks and more! Definitely going into my link sidebar.

BabyCenter "Age by age guide to feeding your baby"

MOMformation, BabyCenter "Eggs"
Super Baby Food "Feeding your super baby at 7 months (Sample chapter)"

Baby milestone : Importance of Pincer Grip

The smallest details attracts Baby PP at this stage. Like Miss Bunny's butt. Nice.

Baby's pincer grip in action.

Last post it was about Baby PP's development and one of it was the pincer grip. I never realised how important this one is until i read about it. I mean, what could be so important about my baby learning how to pinch her mummy's delicate skin until i have red marks all over my face and chest?

Apparently, a lot.

And it hurt a lot too! Jeez, this little gal really knows how to pinch (friends, i know, karma of the pinching mummylicious)

Little did i know that mastering this skill is one of the most important milestone for your baby. It basically means your baby have mastered coordinating her thumb and forefinger which means picking up tinytiny random things on the floor to eat, buttoning herself up, write "i love mummy" without daddy's help, stealing a cookie...that sort of thing your hands do on a daily basis you dont even compute them anymore.

"For early childhood experts, the pincer grasp marks a momentous developmental milestone, showing that a baby's brain, muscles, and nervous system are becoming highly synchronized and capable of increasingly sophisticated coordination." said an article by Wondertime.

Yay baby PP! you are capable of increasingly sophisticated coorinations that will make Mummylicious goes extra paranoid whenever you sit still with mouth in munching motion!

If based on certain articles that list what to expect from Baby PP at this stage, she fits nicely around average marks. some she have mastered by 5 months. some, just at the 'normal' stage, some...not there yet but getting there. I'm not worried because after reading so much about baby's development, you know that all babies develop at their own rate...these articles are merely guidelines and average development rate. (See development guides below) 

So what does my favourite reference, BabyCenter have to say about pincer grip?

"Once your baby perfects grasping, throwing isn't far behind, so watch out — many babies enjoy hurling their toys. By the time he's a year old, he'll enjoy playing ball, stacking towers, and banging things together."

Thanks BabyCenter. Duly noted. already happened. Baby PP is one of those baby that enjoy hurling toys..food...bibs...sippy cup...

But how else to encourage baby to use their pincer grip if yours havent? Easily by play. Secondly, by food. Or combine both!

1. Baby is hungry. baby sees food...or something resembling food. Baby will try all their might to pick up food to put in mouth.

2. If baby is bored. baby will play with food. at least it is safe if it ends in the mouth.

Therefore, finger food = play = developing motor development

BabyCenter noted "To stimulate your baby's grasping reflex, try putting a toy or colorful object slightly out of his reach and encouraging him to grab it. (Don't frustrate him by putting it so far away that he can't get it, though.) Give him lots of objects he can easily grasp, too, such as soft blocks, plastic rings, and board books. Later, when he's working on his pincer grasp, encourage him to pick up soft finger foods such as peas and cooked carrots — perfectly good manners until he masters that spoon. To guard against choking, it's a good idea to keep foods like nuts or raw carrots, and other foods that don't dissolve in water, away from him."

I say giving baby finger food is one of the best way to stimulate pincer grip to a baby. This definitely worked with Baby PP especially with her wholemeal bread breakfasts and something soft steamed cube of apples or carrots since she was 6 and half months old.

And toys with different textures and shapes intrigues Baby PP too. She loves her G-Na's meticulously small beaded pillow. She would try to pick the beads out one by one. Must observe this exploration obviously. I will end up paying the bald pillow.

So i shall leave you with Baby PP's favourite things to test her little fingers by pointing, touching, going through the chain etc of..jewellery. She is holding strong to her Kelantanese root this baby is. (and no, that is NOT Mummylicious side. Biaq pi la dia.

Baby PP testing if the sapphires and diamonds on G-Na's bracelet are real.

Useful links:

Wondertime "Get a grip"

The New Parents Guide "Baby Development from 7 to 9 months"

Baby Medical Question and Answers "Baby Development from 6-12 months"

Baby Center "Development Milestones: Grasping"

Milestones of PP for the past 2 weeks, right before she hits her 8 months old birthday! in point forms and no photos cause I PROMISE! that will be tomorrow post. An edited post if you will.

1. Baby PP mastered her pincher grip. Mummylicious got pinch marks everywhere.

2. Baby PP ate nasi goreng cina, unblended. She loved it to bits. It was at a mamak while waiting for someone with office keys to come. and PP's lunch was still hot. Gave her a morsel or two of my fried rice, and then she asked for more! Seriously, vocally asked for more. Had to add some fried rice in her blended rice and vege puree i've pre-made. 

3. Baby PP know how to ask for more. Her words "Ah! AHHH!!!"

4. Baby PP know how to say hello to people in her life.  Her words "Uh!" (with a short tilt of her little chinchin when she sees someone passing by)

5. Baby PP clapped her hands!

6. Baby PP discovered how to cluck. Loudly. "Cluck cluck cluck" goes her tongue

7. Baby PP re-discovering the joy of spurttering her drool all over. She goes "PPfffhhtttttt!"

8. Baby PP copycatting people when they say "byebye", she would wave too!!! except most likely happen after the person have turn their back and walk away. Sigh...

9.  Baby PP knows how to kiss people. Ok this is not new but i just wanted to add it. It has been 2 months plus since she knows how to kiss. She gives you this wet sloppy kiss alllll over your face whenever you ask for "Kisskiss".

and last but not least.

10. Baby PP is earning her first paycheck! RM 1 per month!....but only 50cents if caught sleeping in the office, which is often. Sigh. 

Mummylicious & Baby play with accessories

Baby PP loves playing Peek-A-Boo. It is all part of baby's development. One of the things she likes to do is hide underneath a bath towel, blanket or just about anything. Baby toys are not the only thing that can help brain development. Everyday items gives equal fascination to them. Of course, they all end up in their mouth. Sigh

For the past two days, baby PP was bullied into wearing a hijab, a kopiah (headdress for men) and a hat. She played peek-a-boo with them all! and ate them all!

 "I am a lady! Peek-a-boo! Now how do i take this off?"

"Don't i look cute with this hat on? let's take it off and put it on again. Hei i can hide behind this too! and eat it! nom nom nom"

"today i shall look like a really cute little boy with a kopiah on me and my blue outfit. but its ok. im cute. can pass"

Mummylicious also loves new toys to play with. Here is my last birthday present received :)

 

 New Dior bag that looks like Lady Dior but without the hard structure and weight. 

I can't find the actual name for it, its part of the new collection but I shall call it my Lady Dior-esque bag. Anybody knows the actual name for it?  Baby PP was NOT allowed to play peek-a-boo with this!

"Cry it out" sleeping method, the final summary

I have been going out at nights nowadays. For hours. And all while Baby PP is fast asleep. 

Last night my little brother, PP's Pak Su asked Tiyah if watching Shrek at 11.30 pm would be okay. I was busy feeding Baby PP her dinner at around 8 pm and I immediately said "I want to follow!" 

The thing is, ever since I started Ferber's "Cry-it-out" sleeping method, I can go out after 10.30 or 11 pm without worrying Baby PP waking up for a feeding. Being a breastfeeding mummy, to go out on an impulse is a no-no unless you have a good stock of pumped breastmilk in the freezer. 

But since it was after 10 pm. I could. and this was not possible when Baby PP was less than 6 months old. And i dont think it would be possible if we never tried out "Cry-It-Out" method. Therefore, here is the much delayed summary of my experience with Ferber's "Cry-It-Out" method. It will be long post, bear with me.

It has been nearly 2 months since we tried the "Cry-it-out" sleeping method.

Short crying period. After less than 10 minutes. Baby PP is fast asleep

This was a week after we started "Cry-it-out"

Baby's sleeping pattern before:

Playing with Mummylicious before bedtime. Winding down period

Baby PP was around 6 months old and was sleeping at around 2 - 3 am. Yes. AM. and waking up at 8 am. Many elders blame us because Mummylicious and Daddylicious are natural night owls, staying awake until 2-3 am and the baby naturally follows the parent's sleeping pattern.

First 2 months, you can't do "cry-it-out" for newborns because they want milk every 2-3 hours. If you get 4 hours of sleep the first 2 months. You are lucky. 

But after 2 months, Baby PP started to sleep for more than 8 hours at one stretch. We could just pick her up from our bed to her cot easily. 

At around 4-5 months old she started to wake up again every 4 hours. Was it teething? was it a growth period and she needs feeding? Was it she just wanted Mummylicious comfort? Whatver it was, it was draining on me. And we concluded she just wanted comfort because she would immediately fall back asleep after sucking but then wakes up again when we move her back to her cot. 

 

Baby's sleeping pattern after "cry-it-out":

Baby PP have a set sleeping hour. After dinner, night wash-up, a little playtime that includes bedtime stories, I would give her the last feeding and  she would be sleepy by around 9-10 pm. the latest she would stay awake is 10.50pm. After that, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz till morning. Bliss! Sometimes she wakes up at 7. sometimes 9. sometimes even 10. But it's morning with the sun shining! and I would give her feeding considering she slept through the night. 

Even if she doesn't fall asleep while the last feeding, we would put her in her cot and however awake she was, she would soon fall asleep. On her own! hurrah!

Yes, there were crying. But if there were, it only last 5 minutes. And nothing like the howling and sobbing like the first time. 

Yes, she would occasionally wakes up in the middle of the night. Sometimes a minute of cries. Sometimes you can just hear her yawning. And her kicking her cot's mobile. But she would fall back asleep by herself. 

Why we finally decided:

1. I was not a happy mummy. An unhappy mummy = unhappy baby. that is not good at all. Honestly, how long was i supposed to feed her? I did 2 hours once!

2. we tried every other methods that experts have advised before trying "cry-it-out".

There were rocking, swaddling (worked til 4 months only), singing, humming, playing,  reading, total darkness, pretend sleep, straight 2 hours feeding, let other people rock her to sleep, bedtime massage, just about everything. 

3. Her sleeping hours from 12.30am dragged to 1.30am to finally 3 am. She just wanted to play after feeding. 

4. She wakes up and cries when we move her from our bed.

5. When G-Na was away and Mummylicious was ready to let her baby PP cry and cry and cry her little heart out.

My advise if you decide to try "cry-it-out" sleeping method. Stick to it. It will be hard the first few days but it is all worth it. 

When NOT to try it:

1. Baby is sick

2. Baby is teething

3. Baby is having an obvious growth spurt and require lots of feeding 

(this is obvious when after weeks of sleeping through the night suddenly she starts to wake up again around 4 am and cries non-stop for more than 5 minutes. Something is wrong. Feed, change or sickness)

Tips:

By doing "Cry-it-out" sleeping method doesn't mean you leave the baby  crying alone for long stretches. You can comfort your baby while she or he is lying in her or his cot. Leave, come back after 5 minutes. Checking up at 5-10-15 minutes intervals are advised so your baby will know, she or he is not completely alone. The intervals can be stretch longer and longer after several days.

Never pick up baby unless there's vomit involved (yes, chances of vomiting is high when baby cries like there is no tomorrow. DO NOT PANIC. be calm. change the baby, clean up the mess, feed the baby and try again. If you make it into an issue, the baby can sense it). 

 Baby PP not crying while I hum and stroke her to sleep. 

See me hiding my face!Eye contacts were avoided

Comfort you crying baby with light strokes on her body.

Sing. Hum. Just don't make eye contact. (Sometimes only my singing would make her drift to sleep)


Sometimes, the mother can't be there cause baby will cry even more! so let the hubby do it. No eye contact! Sometimes only the mother can soothe the baby. Sometimes, even seeing the mother can start a new session of tears. There's no fool proof plan. Try everything. (i woud sometimes peek at Baby PP lying awake in her cot while Daddylicious soothe her, and when Baby PP looked at my way, i would DUCK!).

Set a good bedtime pattern. Wash-up, lullabies, dim the lights all helps. and when it is bedtime, put baby in her cot regardless if she still wants to play. So long she had her feeding and diaper change, she would be alright.

Living with extended family? in-laws or parents? 

Try it when they are away. Tell them what you, as the baby parents want to do. Ignore criticism when they come because it will come. trust me.  most important. LOCK THE DOOR! by that, lock yourself in with the baby lah. not lock the door and leave the baby by herself in the room. 

You must agree to do this with your other half. If not, it would only confuses the baby when the dad picks her up when she cries but the mom won't. or vice versa. 

Be strong and hug a pillow or your hubby when the baby cries and cries. If either of you can't stand it, get out of the room. and wait it out. First few nights, was long. You have to read my entries on that. But it gets shorter and shorter. Until only a whimper or two before sleeping.

Continue on days after days. Because if you stop one night and pick up the baby when she cries. It will only serve as a confusion and the method takes longer to work. It will work, but it takes time and lots of improvisions of the method. 

The rewards:

1. Baby is well rested with an established bedtime
2. Mummylicious and Daddylicious is well rested with more time for themselves.
3. Happy mummy = happy baby
4. Baby knows cot = sleep and hopefully helps to establish grown up bed = for grown up.
No co-sleeping required with us especially when she is bigger.



Want to try it?

Good luck and be strong!

Read my experience when trying "cry-it-out" sleeping method here

Useful links from experts (summary from all previous links)

The baby sleep site "How long to cry it out" 

The baby sleep site "will cry it out change my baby/child's personality?"

Berkeley parents "Cry it out worked but now i'm feeling guilty"

ParentDish "10 tips to soothe a crying baby"

Dr Greene "When baby won't go to sleep on her own" 

Dr Spock "Waking in the night"
BabyCenter "Baby sleep training, night weaning"
Kid'sHealth "Sleep and your 8-12 months old" 

BabyCenter "How can i get my baby to sleep through the night?" 1
BabyCenter "How can i get my baby to sleep through the night?" 2
BabyCenter "Baby Sleep Training"
Dr Spock "Resistance to sleep"
Dr Spock "Sleep refusal and vomiting"
Dr Spock "Waking in the night"
The Ferber Method by Professor's House
BBC News "Cry babies 'learn to sleep better'"

Mummylicious birthday recap: Baby first words!

Baby PP started to coo when she was around 1 months plus. Like really..."cooooo" "coooo" or just "uuuuuu". Tres adorable! ...Can't find video of her cooing. maybe later

Then at around 3-4 months...the babbling begin. lots of "gagagagaga blabalablabla" and variations of more "ooooouuuuhHHHhh"s and "cooooOOoo"s.

The best birthday present? Was from my beloved baby, Princess Peanut started to say "Mama" over and over again. On. my. birthday! awwwwww

Video was after she shouted and screamed "MAMAMAMA" when i was away. this was after i came back and changing her diaper. ....and she's saying it much softer now. and with "Da" and "Pa" thrown in. Now she's really babbling. 

I know some people say that baby at this age are just babbling consonants and vowels because it sounds good to them.

Yeah BabyCenter said 

"The first "mama" or "dada" may slip out now and then. Though it's sure to melt your heart, your baby doesn't equate those words with you quite yet. That comes later, when he's almost a year old."

But how do you explain she started saying it when I went away from her?  I left her with her aunt and Baby PP started screaming saying "MA MA MA MA MA" and when i came back..she stopped. Happy i was back. (sidenote: Yes, Baby PP is quite attached to me and would cry out when I walk away from her)

I wanted to  test the theory and went from her sight again. and again she went "MA MA MA MA MA". When I went out with my friend for a birthday supper, baby PP would look around for me while saying "Mama mama mama" (according to my sis and mom). 

Maybe it really means me? Maybe thats the only thing she knows now? Maybe coincidentally, even though it's too early for her too "equate those words" with me yet, she somehow did? So based on when she said it, and how she said it. I concluded she said "Mama" in reference to me.

Plus baby PP does this more often now when I am around and she wants milk. IE: Me. the mother cow. So with the combination of her sign language for milk that she has been doing since 4 months old. I know for sure when she wants milk. 

So whatever. My baby PP just said Mama. and that means me. Best birthday present ever!

Useful links

Parenting "Baby's first words" (also have tips on encouraging your little babies to talk. Useful reminder)

BabyCenter  "Development Milestone: Talking"

Dr Spock "Key Language Milestones in Infancy"

Dr Spock "Early and Late Talking : 9-12 months"

Baby Rolling, Shuffling and Creeping and the 1st horror

Baby and rolling around.

Baby PP is approximately 7 months and 1 week old now and confirmed, she is not a rolling around baby. No rolly-polly actions for baby PP, nope. no siree. She roll-over. Yes. from her back to tummy..from tummy to back. Very often. but she always remained in the same spot and she rarely does it. Too rare that it's hard to remember when she started doing it often. But again. same spot. back and forth.

Amongst the rare times she self-roll. To peek at her Mummy and Daddy.

Was I as a worrywart mother worried? of course! i just said i'm a worrywart paranoid always think of the worst that could happen person. As a mother? Double, triple...fine..quadtriple that. 

Babies normally starts rolling around at 2 to 6 months. (See useful links below for reading marterials) That's what most caregivers would attest to. But then some babies are not bothered with rolling around. 

"The age when babies roll over, sit up, creep, stand up, or walk is more variable than the age when they get control of their head or arms. A lot depends on temperament and weight. A wiry, energetic baby is in a great rush to get moving. A plump, placid one may be willing to wait until later." Dr Spock.

Guess PP is a too plump and placid baby eh Dr Spock? 

We tried everything to get her to roll. First was to let her loads of belly time. Everyday for at least an hour since birth. The loads of helping hand to help her roll to encourage her to do herself.  Putting toys near her. Rattles. Fav soft toys. new shiny things. Diamonds and pearls. Loads.. of everything actually. 

But nothing works...except to give her, her own time. ...and to let her be angry :P

Trying....trying....gave up on rolling video. She gave up for a looong time after that. 

This was at 4 months and 2 week.

A week after that! 

yay, a captured rare among the first 3 self roll. Near 4 Months and 3 weeks?
Too tired to roll again? Or too lazy? Sad face hoping for help
Once. then nothing. then once more.

Only when she is angry.

But me, the worrywart, was still worried even after PP's Pead's saw her at her 5 months and 6 months appointment and told me she is developing normally. Baby PP can lift her head up more than 45 degree, her neck is strong, would roll with a little bit of hand...plus...whenever we lift her using only her hands, she would immediately straighten her legs and stand up! from 4 months on! She also started to "butt shuffling" (creeping on her back and bottom using hands and legs) in her sleep at around 4 months too. We would find her in many positions when she wakes up around here.

 In Phuket, we discovered she is starting to move butt shuffling while sleeping.
Put her in the middle. She ends somewhere at the side

The beginning of the cot being too big.

Around late 3 months to 4 month

So we knew, somewhere deep inside me, she is ok. She just doesn't see the point of rolling around. "Why should i? i just cry and someone is bound to pick me up!" Too lazy. (I wonder where she gets that from? *roll eyes)

More butt shuffling and creeping begins.

I finally stopped worrying...very recently when though she doesn't roll around to get to Point A to Point B. Baby PP does indeed roll-over once or twice when she wants to and then she started to creep backward, forward...sideways. And indeed, more butt shuffling. That came around 6 months plus. 

Baby PP chasing a ball. This was last week. We realise she have started doing some creeping around 6 months and 3 weeks. 

"Hallo! Hug me!"

"Just having my post lunch drink. Dont need help"

"I don't know how i ended up here from having a drink. Hmmmm was it a combination of creeping, rolling over once or twice (cause that is all i care to do) and butt shuffling? Hmmm"

"I think I'm stuck. or maybe I'm too lazy to creep anymore but i want my toys!"

"I know, i drag my toys and my playmat towards me!"

Yesterday, was the horror amongst all horror!!!!

We put baby PP at one end of our king sized bed  (where Daddylicious was) as we were busy packing things for our weekend trip to the in-laws. She scooted on her back, made her way backward to the other end (where I was, packing baby clothes). 

Suddenly, when she was 2 feet away from the edge, Baby PP made a MAJOR backward launch  with her legs that made her head and first half of her tiny body went south, towards the hard marble floor! I was...and still am in horror over what could have happened. 

Gravity is scary and I am very thankful, at THAT moment of self-launch, I was by that side of the bed and not in baby PP's closet looking for her clothes just a minute before. And I am very thankful i somehow saw my little baby going South instead of maintaining her Westward direction at the corner of my eye. Thankful my reflexes came into action. A split second decision and action. Thankful that i managed to hold down her sliding, SLIDING chubby thighs and quickly lifted her up. 

OOhhhh i gave Daddylicious an earful after that. 

"WHY DIDN'T YOU CREATE A BARRIER?!" "A FORTRESS!" "YOU KNOW SHE'S MOVING EVERYWHERE NOWADAYS!" "SHE COULD HAVE FALLEN HEAD FIRST! HEAD FIRST!!!!". 

When the shouting was over...i know it wasn't completely his fault. It was my fault too for not anticipating it. For assuming Daddylicious had added a pillow at the end. And that she is safe. Very safe. I was there. Thank God i was there. 

"It is amazing how fast such a baby can reach the edge, and many do fall from an adult bed to the floor, which makes a parent feel very guilty. " Dr Spock

Thanks Dr Spock. I think even a near fall makes a parent VERY guilty.

Nope. No video of that incident. Nor photos. Crazy ah?! But I have a photo from today wearing her new dress :)

"I'm so prettyyyy, so so pretty!"

No falling off the bed for you little missy. Not yet anyway. Lets wait until the crawling starts and Mummylicious can teach you how to get down from the bed safely.

And after the incident while we packed to stay over at the inlaws, we know we had to be EXTRA vigilant with Baby PP on the queen sized bed at the inlaws.

How Baby PP is protected from all sides. 

Daddylicious sleeping vertically. Mummylicious horizontally.

Baby PP. Safe.

Useful links:

BabyCenter "Development Milestone: Rolling over"

BabyCenter "Development Milestone: Crawling"

Dr Spock "Rolling Over"