Love, bubs and life on our little farm

Wow finding it a little hard to believe that I now have a 5 month old! But she is!

Bronte has had a big few weeks - she is eating solids and ADORES food. She screams and grunts and grabs if you don't feed her fast enough and heaven help you if you run out of food before she is satisfied! She is eating rice cereal, pumpkin, sweet potato, potato, zucchini, peas, apples, pears, bananas, prunes and rusks so far. She has 3 meals a day and they are huge meals.

She is very content and has started sleeping through the night again - hurrah! In fact she is sleeping from 7pm until 6-6.30am - brilliant! She also does lovely big 2 hour day sleeps, typically two. She doesn't cry at all about going to bed - she smiles when she gets put in the cot, grabs her bunny comforter and rolls to her side and drops off silently to sleep. Bliss. When she wakes she turns a 90 degree turn so that she can put her feet up on the side of the cot and kicks away squealing and chatting to herself until someone gets up her up. Very cute.

She is starting to try to sit up alone but is pretty wobbly and has a way to go yet. She is a big giggler and loves being gently thrown up and down. She cracks huge endless open mouthed grins at the sight of her Dad or Elka. She still loves her bath and starts wiggling excitedly when she hears the water get turned on.

She loves her activity centre and will sit in it for ages banging her toys and playing the little piano and shrieking with excitement. She loves her soft red ball and also prefers eating the books I read to her rather than listening.

Her two lower front teeth are sitting up as prominant ridges under the gum and are driving her mad.. She chews frantically on anything and we have had a few episodes of pain and screaming that some Bonjella and panadol have sorted out. Seems she might be like her sister and cut her two lower teeth at the same time at around 6 months old.

She has also been fitted with her hearing aids. She has been a trooper with them and seems to quite like getting them on and hearing me ask if she can hear me better - she cracks up. She seems a little more responsive with them in but its still early days to be able to tell much.
They are quite unobtrusive but she does cop a lot of stares and sympathetic glances out at the shops with them in. I understand as it does look a little strange on such a young baby. I thought I would hate the look of them but I don't mind because I love that she smiles when they are put on. SHe is seeing a speech therapist next week and will continue to be monitored. We have discussed genetic testing and I was pleased to see that the geneticist agreed with my stance that there is no need for testing at this stage (we are not planning more children).

And finally - my update. 5 months post bub and I am increasingly getting my body back. I still have a tendency to bloat and get a pot belly by the end of the day as my stomach muscles are not as strong and tight as they used to be - but I am working on them! Other than that I am 2kgs off my lightest ever weight (which was my pre-Bronte pregnancy weight), so in other words I am more than happy with my body's recovery and not fussed about loosing any more weight - more just continueing with the toning thanks to pilates and horseriding (and the non stop physical work on our house extension and gardens!)