Bigger stronger faster more

So after being quite excited initially about the standing up, we realised Ollie could only do it from sitting, so it's been a bit frustrating for him to be able to crawl somewhere and then not be able to stand up. That's all over now though, as he's got the hang of it and is very happily beetling off places and standing up all on his own! He's still going down on his tummy in the middle of the crawl (that caterpillar thing again) but he's so much faster now, we just can't leave him alone for more than about 30 seconds...



He seems not to be making too much use of his knees in the crawling thing either, preferring to push up with his feet and do it that way. So we're not sure how much proper crawling he'll actually end up doing, particularly since he seems to be getting lots better with his balance on his feet, and his preference for standing up anyway.

We're getting more sleep these days too, which has been really good. We've managed to get him to stop the 3.30am wake-and-demand-a-feed routine, and aside from the odd night-time wakeup (more recently because he's had a really stuffy nose) he's in bed from 7pm til around 6-7am. Bliss, after so long!

And finally, now that he's on solids he doesn't have as much of a problem with the reflux, so we've downgraded from losec to just using a bit of Gaviscon a couple of times a day in his bottles. As far as food, we still haven't found anything he won't eat, so he's following in his Dad's footsteps!

On the move

Forward progress has been achieved! Ollie’s now doing the caterpillar crawl thing, and going after things he wants that are around him. Which is very exciting, but also a little bit worrying – I’m definitely going to have to baby-proof the house now! He also has a bit of a tendency at this stage to get himself somewhere and get stuck, which doesn’t make him very happy at all.

It looks like we’ll be into proper crawling before too long, so the days of putting him down and coming back to find him exactly where you left him are well and truly over.

All we need now is a consistent sleep through the night, and we'll be all go!

Up, up, and away!

Well, Ollie's now been doing the hands-and-knees thing for a week or so, with the rocking etc, but no forward progress. But after seeing him this morning, I'm not sure he need bother with crawling anyway.

I went in to get him up(at the ungodly hour of 6.10am) this morning and while I sorted out a couple of things in his room, sat him up in the cot. At which point he leaned forward, grabbed hold of the side of the cot, and pulled himself up onto his feet! Quite exciting stuff really, and he was certainly rather pleased with his efforts.

I suspect rampant mobility is not far away.