Claire @ 3 months

From BabyCenter

How’s your baby growing

Babies love to be touched. In fact, they thrive on it – it's a critical part of growth and development. Skin-to-skin contact not only helps you and your baby bond, but is comforting when she's upset and soothing when she's irritable.

Develop your baby's sense of touch with a variety of materials – such as fake fur, felt and terrycloth. Your baby will probably try to eat the fabric, so choose carefully. Don't leave her alone with anything that could come apart in her mouth. And look for books that make reading a tactile experience.

Claire still doesn’t like tummy time. Perhaps, she finds it difficult to carry her body. She lifts her head 45 degrees. She can hold her head when carried upright position. She loves to coos and smiles a lot – her smile is contagious. She sleeps through the night, and feeds twice or thrice.

She bites me too. Often times, I would tell her it hurts. And she would smile her sweetest smile. I read from somewhere that when the baby bites, you have to show her that what she did is wrong. The instant reaction of babies when she hears her mom saying ouch if bitten is to repeat it to know where did her mom’s reaction came from.

Bubble thought: Is she teething now? Ain’t it too early for her to have teeth?

Sibling love

I haven’t had time to blog how Joshua accepted his sister Claire’s arrival.

When we arrived in my in-laws house after we were discharged from the hospital (he has to stay there while the husband and I are away since it’s near to his school), my SIL carried Claire as I am still having hard time walking – talk about learning to walk again. When she entered the house, Joshua got confused. He got more confused when I enter without carrying a baby. He even asked me “Mommy, baby natin yun?” while he pulls my top up to exposed my belly. When he realized that the baby he saw was indeed our baby, he cried, “Baby namin yan, ibalik mo na.”

At present, he loves to kiss his little sister. He even hugs her every now and then. What we avoid most of the time is his gigil moments as he has the tendency to squeeze Claire’s arms (it already happened twice). He fears of losing his sister so he doesn’t make kulit when the baby is asleep. He throws tantrums when a relative or a friend would carry his sister and joke him of taking her away from us. I have to assure him that they won’t and can’t take the baby as they won’t be able to feed them, they don’t have milk for Claire.

He would also puts his toys beside Claire and would repeatedly tell her to play as he will share his toys to her. He would tell us whenever we put small clothes on him, “Maliit na to, kay baby na.”  He always plead to allow him to carry his sister and we obliged twice.

On the side note, he refused to wean from the bottle. He wants to drink milk whenever he sees his sister feeding. He even tells his sister to stop first as they would do contest of who feeds the fastest, LOL!

I hope his love for his sister will continue and grew stronger. Ah, sibling love…

Pedia visit #3

Vaccine: Infanrix Hexa (Hib-DTaP-IPV-HepB) and Rotarix

Weight: 5.4 kgs
Lenght: 56 cm

The immunization is supposedly scheduled last Oct 24 but was moved to Oct 31 as her pedia was in the States then. Last Saturday though, typhoon Santi had finally made it's landfall in Manila and there was a strong gush of wind (plus no electricity for more than 12 hours for us) so we opt to move the her vaccine again. I don't want to brave the storm with a baby in tow. Luckily, her pedia had schedule during Sundays so when everyone was in the cementery visiting their passed loved ones, we, on the other hand were at St. Margareth for her vaccine.

She was first given Rotarix (oral medicine) then Infanrix Hexa. She didn't cry at all. Her pedia prescribed Biogesic for her and we had her take it for 24 hours.

Next vaccine, IPD on December.