Well, we've reached the 7 month mark now and Makeda is just blossoming with all the attention she's getting. We're still not on a really fixed schedule, but regardless of how the day goes, she manages to squeeze in 3 (homemade - I'm such a sucker for an appreciative audience) meals plus about 5 bottles. She's in bed between 7 and 8:30 and I wake her up at 11pm for a bottle. She usually wakes up once around 4, but she doesn't need a bottle anymore, and is usually able to put herself back to sleep. Then she sleeps til 7 or 7:30. Much of the time she now has one or two hands on the bottle, and for the first time last night she held her bottle all by herself for a few seconds. She's firm when she stands on her legs and is managing a nice tripod position, even getting her head up quite high sometimes. She's trying quite hard to crawl, and has assumed the position, but we still have a ways to go yet til we achieve mobility.
Tomorrow we're off to Children's for another bloody blood draw. All of her test results were great, but with the unexpected result that she is NOT immune to Hep A and B. So, either the vaccine batch was no good, or the Vancouver lab screwed up the test last week. Since Hep B vaccinations are done over a course of 3 shots, it's more likely the lab has screwed up. In any event, someone hasn't done their job properly, and Makeda gets to take the fall. If the lab results come back consistent a second time that she's not immue, I have to alert her agency, as many other little residents of the transition home will have received vaccinations from the same batch as hers, and they too will not be immune.
Here's a new pic, courtesy of Grandma!
4 comments:
Well, well, Betty Crocker. You're obviously doing something right. Makeda is going to grow into one heck of a kid.
I sure hope the ritual blood letting goes better today than last time. And yay, Grandma - thanks for the picture.
OMG how in the world are you finding time to cook her 3 meals a day? I can't even manage to take a shower. Gawd, I am impressed.
And, so great to see a photo of you two together - go Grandma!
OHMYGAWD.. are those white pants with ruffled hems?! I sooo want a pair of those.
Please define homemade. Just because it says it on the box, doesn't mean it's true.
ok ok, the morning cereal is not homemade. Even I am not crushing wheat by hand. But, ta da, in the freezer at the moment is: (1) chicken with leek, potato and parsnip (2) apple and squash (3) halibut with cheddar cheese, fresh squeezed orange, carrot and potato and (4) apple with strawberries and peach. She gets homemade which I feed her while i wait for my tinned tomato soup to finish heating in the microwave. And no, this will not continue once I return to work. And I don't shell peas. The peas will continue to come from the jar.
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