Mummy's pride

A mother's pride in the simple things that Sophie does

- Being a brave girl when she took her jabs at 3 months plus a jab for pneumococcal both on the same day on both thighs. She cried after the first one and stopped in less then a minute and when the 2nd one came down she cried and stopped after a while. Even the nurse was surprised by her. Mummy comforted her by nursing her and she was even okay to go shopping after that.

- Being able to sleep thru the night by week 12. Maybe other babies learnt this earlier but my dear baby Sophie is also sleeping through the night sooner than most other babies. Sure there are days when she wakes up in the middle of the night. But usually she's able to go straight to bed after feeding her too. Cant say how thankful this mummy is for more beauty sleep.

- Being able to sleep on her own .... most of the time. I used to complain that she sleeps too much, then too little (no thanks to the renovation works going on in my block). And now she can go to sleep pretty much unassisted. Of course there are days when she still needs a pat or a hug on a bad day. But thankfully these days are not so common now.

- Sophie's also a good girl when she's out with Daddy and Mummy. Well most of the time she's sleeping in her pram so save us from being too pre-occupied when mummy zips from shop to shop enjoying her retail therapy. If she cries, it's usually coz she's hungry. But when she's out,she can easily last for 4 to 5 hours! Like last Friday when she took almost 5 hours of nap in the day! Well we knew it will be a long night and she only slept at 1plus am.

- Sophie is getting more and more responsive now at 3 months. This little one is charming everyone with her smiles and her coos. She loves it when she's the centre of attraction and people are talking or playing with her. Today at church she got so excited that she started to "talk" quite loudly when a little girl was playing with her. The little girl was a little shy at first then later told me that baby's cute! Cant wait for Sophie to learn to crawl and walk and talk.

Sophie turns 3 months

It's fast how baby Sophie is growing. Hubby and I were reminiscing the times when she was still a new born. And almost a blink of an eye she has turned 3 months this week. How I will miss her development when I return to work next month.

New things that she's doing now

1. Talking- Well not exactly in the language that we speak but in her own baby language. In her Ohhs and Ahhs and Urrss... She loves to talk especially to her cot mobile friends. You can see how excited she gets too. I never get bored listening to her though I don't understand a word she says. She likes to be involved in our conversations now and will respond when we speak animatedly to her. And she also has different voices when she whines and complains too.

2. Pulling her shirt/ shorts- her sense of touch is improving and can hold things in her hands. Not sure if this is done consciously or just by fluke. But sometimes she catches her soiled diaper when I change her and will kena scolding from mummy.

3. Learning to sleep on her own for day and night-When she was about 6 weeks, she started to get very colicky and would cry for hours on end especially during the evenings. Now that she's turned 3 months, or the magical month, that has improved a lot and so has her sleeping. She used to sleep for as little as 10-15 mins for a nap, but this has slowly lengthened now. So hopefully as she grows older, it will length to the ideal 1 and a half hour. That would be no doubt useful especially when I get back to work and have to do the housework on my own next time.

Not much flipping going on yet, so perhaps she's developing in areas that women are better at, communication skills aka talking! Haha.