Much better
Jan. 8th, 2007 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Last night, it took her less than fifteen minutes to fall asleep. It would have been less, if she'd laid down before dropping off. Instead, she fell asleep sitting up, and flopped over, with the result that she was bent totally in half. So I fixed her - and she woke up and cried for two more minutes. Meanwhile, I sat on my bed and did the first three rounds of a baby hat.
There was an hour-long stint around midnight. Those ones are harder, actually, because it's easy to drift off if the crying is medium- or low-intensity, and lose track of what's happening. At five o'clock, I nursed her, and she was asleep in about five minutes.
In other baby news, we think we may have a first word. We're not really sure, because "aadaa" is such a common sound, but in addition to the random usage, she says it consistently at the end of a meal, with the same intonation I use for "all done." Normal development has babies saying a first word that is recognizable as such sometime after eight months, so this is a bit too early to be sure. But I'm paying attention now.
There was an hour-long stint around midnight. Those ones are harder, actually, because it's easy to drift off if the crying is medium- or low-intensity, and lose track of what's happening. At five o'clock, I nursed her, and she was asleep in about five minutes.
In other baby news, we think we may have a first word. We're not really sure, because "aadaa" is such a common sound, but in addition to the random usage, she says it consistently at the end of a meal, with the same intonation I use for "all done." Normal development has babies saying a first word that is recognizable as such sometime after eight months, so this is a bit too early to be sure. But I'm paying attention now.
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Date: 2007-01-11 02:27 am (UTC)That said, the happier you get when she says a real word that you recognize, the better. If it's a close approximation, repeat it for her and reward her for it. "Caca" when pointing to the cookie jar? "You want a cookie? Here's a cookie. Good girl for using your words!" etc, etc. She's not behind - most fourteen-month-olds have maybe two or three words that they use consistently. It's just practice at this point.