Stepping out with my baby

Jessica is getting increasingly confident with cruising around the furniture and walking with the baby walker or holding Mummy or Daddy’s hands.  She prefers walking whilst holding both hands as she is still quite wobbly but she has managed to walk holding one hand only and was very proud of herself.  She has also learnt how to crawl upstairs so is really starting to get around now.

Jessica has enjoyed being a little social butterfly over the last couple of weeks.  She enjoyed catching up with the family at cousin Craig & Charlie’s wedding a few days ago – her seventh wedding so far which is pretty good going for not quite eighteen months old!  She also helped Grandma celebrate her birthday recently.

Jessica has had a bit of a cold recently but is much better now although sleeping has been a bit disrupted again recently.  In the last couple of weeks, she has also stopped breastfeeding and having Infatrini - just on to cow’s milk now.

As always though, Jessica continues to be very smiley and happy.  She has another check-up with the ophthalmology department at Windsor next week for her squint and is also due to see the paediatrician at Wexham Park next week too.

17 months - check-up at Oxford

Jessica had another check-up at Oxford this afternoon and the echo has shown that her heart function is good at present.  Her sats have been stable in the low 80s and thankfully we have not had any more trips to Wexham Park with various winter bugs!  She is gaining weight brilliantly at the moment – her latest weigh-in showed that she is now 9.56kg (21lb) – a gain of more than a pound since she was last weighed a month ago!  

We seem to be finally having a break from teething and Jessica has managed a couple of nights of sleeping most of the night (Mummy and Daddy have so much more energy as a result!) – we had a grand total of nine teeth making their appearance over a seven-week period, five of which appeared in the space of ten days!  With teething as in many other things, Jessica likes to do things in her own way – the second top front tooth was the last to appear which is definitely not the ‘usual’ order suggested in the books.

 Jessica is getting very confident cruising around the furniture – she isn’t quite standing unsupported yet but is definitely getting much steadier on her feet.  She has started using the baby walker at Grandma’s house and has worked out how to get around quite quickly on that!  She is also starting to work out how to eat with a spoon – getting a pre-loaded spoon into her mouth is easy enough but she hasn’t quite worked out how to get food from bowl to spoon to mouth!

In the last few weeks, Jessica is becoming more and more chatty which is just delightful.  We have yet to be fluent in Jessica-speak but it is lovely to watch her chatting on the phone or ‘reading’ her books aloud.

We have also received a few more donations for Friends of PICU from people who were unable to come to our fundraising concert due to the snowy weather so the total raised as a result of the concert is now up to £740 which is absolutely amazing.  A huge thank you to everyone who supported this.