Practice makes Perfect
As promised we’re posting another video of Hazel learning to push up. This video was taken over a period of three days and it’s really neat to watch how she slowly gets the hang of lifting up her head and looking around while she’s on her tummy. Tummy time was not always fun for Hazel, in fact, until just recently she hasn’t enjoyed it very much at all. She used to like to be on her tummy for about 2 minutes before she would begin to get fussy- now, she seems to be enjoying it much more, and will play on her tummy for 10-15 minutes at a time, often falling asleep on her stomach for a quick nap at the end!
Hazel is growing so fast! We can hardly believe how big she is getting already. She is still exclusively nursing and she seems to know just what to do to get me to make enough milk to satisfy her needs. This past week was a tough week- Hazel was very hungry all the time and would stay awake during her usual nap times, meaning she was also fussier than usual. This fussiness is nothing like the fussiness we experienced during the first 6 weeks of Hazel’s life, but it was definitely noticeable, as Jered and I have gotten used to our new “happy,” chatty baby. Luckily Hazel’s fussiness didn’t extend into the evenings too much and her nighttime sleep was not affected. As we started to notice Hazel’s increased hunger and irritability I was reading one of the child development books we have and was not one bit surprised to read that 12-13 weeks is a typical age for a growth spurt to occur in babies. It has become very easy for Jered and I to tell when Hazel is “growing.” It’s not that she stops growing and then magically starts up again, but we can definitely tell when she is going through a spurt of growth- one of our books said that when going through these growth spurts children can grow up to a centimeter over night!!! In addition to physical growth there seems to be quite a bit changing for her developmentally- every couple of days she is able to do something new, even if it’s something as simple as bringing her hands together or grasping a toy. I never knew watching a child grow could be so enthralling. I’m sure that the details I post on this site may at times seem so simple and mundane, but to us they are awe inspiring. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined how amazing parenthood can be.
Tummy Time from esther benoit on Vimeo.
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