Time Flies When You Have a Baby
Written by The Lassie
Our little Munchkin is almost nine months old now! I cannot believe how extremely fast she’s developing. She’s been semi-crawling (moving across the floor on her belly, dragging one leg like a wounded soldier) for a while now and continuously practices getting up on all fours. She’s ‘talking’ so cutely with us, too. We still have no teeth to report, but I am told not to worry about that until she turns one year old.
When she was seven months old, we started our girl on solid food and by now she really likes the pumpkin-potato combo (sometimes mixed with chicken) that I am cooking for her. Apart from these foods, she now eats and likes apples, bananas, cereal and rice cakes (unsalted, of course). We’ll be starting her on the next meal (lunch) next week. I am still nursing my Munchkin, of course, but she also likes to drink water. Unfortunately she can’t seem to figure out the Avent Magic Cup. She does drink out of a regular cup, but that’s a really messy thing and she always ends up totally wet, so I am hoping to find some sort of a better solution for that eventually.
Our baby girl by now has also gotten over her first mildly serious illness – she suffered a really high fever between 39.6 and 40 degrees Celsius over a period of six days! Most of this time she spent snuggled into the crook of my arm, too weak to even crawl or play, alternating between nursing and sleeping. It was really heart-wrenching to see her that way. Unfortunately I’d passed my flu on to her, so we were both doing less than stellar for a while. This period was also where I realized again just how much it sucks to be completely alone here – there’s noone I could turn to when things get a bit rough. When you’re too ill to take care of your own child properly and have to spend most of the day seated on the floor for fear of your circulation failing, it does not exactly make you feel great. Nothing I can do about that, though, so henceforth I’ll just hope not to get sick anymore.
In July or August, if everything pans out, my baby will start daycare. I can’t even begin to tell you how much that bothers me. She’s so tiny yet, it just breaks my heart. Alas, I need to finish my uni studies somehow and in order to do that (and to eventually make money) I need time to study.
On a lighter note, I will busy myself with the gift list for our Munchkin’s birthday over the next few weeks. There are so many things I want to get her, I need to prioritize. For today, I will leave you with a monster load of pictures.
