6 months on Earth!

My little darling is a very sociable little human being. When strangers play with her, she'll respond by stretching out her hands. Hmm.. the downside is she's unwary of dangers.

She enjoys looking at me playing with her JieJie and seems very interested to join in. She would laugh out loud, giggle, says 'ah goo'.. a chatty little baby. JieJie also loves to enterain her by singing songs or funny faces or just making up silly noises. It's really a joy to see both of them playing happily together :-)

At 6 months, Caryn weighs 6.2kg (at 20th percentile) and measures 65 cm in length (at 50th percentile). She still hasn't catch up much on weight gain.

The amazing thing about her is that she didn't cry when the needle poked her during the last of the 5-in-1 jab. The wonder of the pacifier again!

She starts to sit for a short while.. 1 minute or so.. unassisted and if she doesn't move her body much.

Target to Meet

There're targets to meet at work, and that by itself is stressful enough. Now, there's yet another target to meet, set by the PD, that is, Caryn have to gain at least 500g per month.

My tiny, little Caryn weighs 5.2kg at 4 months and is still at the 15 percentile. Hmm... is the pink weighing scale at the hospital inaccurate? Maybe I'd put her on the blue weighing scale during the next visit.. hehe.

Length-wise, she's ok as she's at the 50 percentile.

But her arms & legs looked quite chubby, although not very chubby, I mean she doesn't look as though she's underweight. Anyway, PD suggested we start her on semi-solid, ie cereal.

When it's time for the jab, I knew exactly what to do. Judging from the previous experience that she would stopped yelling with the pacifier on, I stuffed the pacifier into her mouth even before the needle poked her this time.

Guess what? I was right! When the needle went through, she was shocked for a spilt second and recovered almost immediately by sucking the pacifier. No cries. No sound at all, except perhaps the sound of sucking.

Wow! PD says she's a brave girl.

Wow! The wonders of a pacifier, thank goodness! I thought to myself.

Tiny, little baby

Caryn is still a small, small baby at 3 months, weighing only 4.7kg. PD commented that she has consistently put on 600g per month for the past 3 months, although she is expected to gain more weight. My 2 other friends' babies born in Dec 08 are around 7+kg now! So you see the difference?

2 months old

Little Caryn is now 4.2kg at 2 months old.

Phew. She exceeded the target weight gain set by the PD. We took up the 5-in-1 vaccination package & so there's no jab on the 2nd month. We only need to bring her to the Hospital to record her weight.

Btw her temperament is still much the same... ie she'll yell at the top of her voice if she doesn't get milk soon enough. Imagine a tiny bod with the loudest voice! I bet our neighbours can hear her too. We pretty much put up with her impatience as we reckon a hungry baby is an angry baby... hee. I'm actually quite glad that she drinks milk more readily than her JieJie. Hopefully she's not a fussy eater as she grows up *fingers crossed*