Thursday, October 06, 2005
Back home again
Managed to get home by 1330, and spent lots of time with (a very sleepy) Jo, allowing Moo to get some good sleep herself. Yesterday, Kate and Mac stepped into the breach, and we're hugely grateful to them. Dorothy, Keith's wife, held the fort until they arrived, taking Jo out first thing yesterday morning, and allowing Moo just to feel that she wasn't completely failing to look after either herself or Jo. We're very much in their debt: all of them.Although Moo was sick again in the night, she's felt much better this morning. Jo was also ill a few times, and her stomach was quite upset, but she's stuck to breast milk today, apart from a small piece of banana. She's been very clingy, and very sleepy, which is fair enough: she actually slept for about an hour and half uninterrupted, which is almost unheard of.
The other thing that she's started to do - and I know that this is ridiculous, given that she's only 7 and a half months - is to try to stand unsupported. I don't mean get herself up to standing position without help - which she's been doing for over a month - but to stand up, and balance, on her own. She's not really managed it for more than about a second so far, and given that she's not very well, it's not surprising that she's been falling on her bum quite a lot. But we're just amazed that she's trying it at all. We're very proud, obviously, but also rather scared about what this means for her mobility. She's crawling everywhere already, and will walk her way round furniture, or walk forward if you're holding her, but if she starts to walk in the next few weeks, it's all a bit concerning...
Enjoy your daughter's limited mobility while you can; soon, you'll be wearing yourself out chasing her all over the place (but it's great exercise)!
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