Baby Moments

I am such a big boy now. I am 1 year old. I know my birthday was on the 2nd, but I waited for my visit to the doctor to tell you more news. I grew pretty well: 11.270kg and 80 cm. The doctor said I am on top with my height and a bit above average with weight. Mommy was worried that I drink too much milk during the night – about 22oz (650ml) – but she said that I should get a min of 18 oz and a max of 24 oz daily of milk. So, I’m good. She also said that I can eat almost anything, but shellfish and raw honey (if it is cooked like cereals, honey glazed chicken…). Apparently a can eat even nuts if they are grounded  so I won’t choke. Well… this is the nice part. The not so nice part is that I got 2 needles, one in each arm. I am truly wondering. What if I had 4-5 arms? Would they find enough needles to poke them all…? Hmmm. It was painful, but it was worth it. I got a big shiny happy face sticker. Yummm…

Because I am a grown up boy now, I had to prove that. So, as you know, I like to climb the stairs as often as I can. I get upstairs, I play as much as I want and when I want to come downstairs I yell and somebody comes and gets me. Well… starting today, I don’t need anybody to come after me, because I know how to come downstairs by myself. Yeap, you read it right. I can come back to mommy by myself. When she saw me she couldn’t believe it, But I proved it to her again and again.

The walking… it’s coming. I walk better and better with somebody holing my hands. Actually I improved my walking even when I am held by one hand. But still… The crawling is much faster than the walking and if I hold a teddy bear in my mouth by its nose I am ten times faster that walking. But I have to have the teddy.

A week ago, my right eye ( I always had problems with it due a blocked tear-duct) got really swollen and red. My beautiful lashes were all together, so mommy took me to the doctor. Turned out I had a pink eye. The doctor gave me some antibiotic drops to put twice a day into my eye for a week and I can tell you that I have now plenty of individual dry lashes.

The rest… I am a pretty lazy guy when comes for walking. What can I say? it is much, much faster to go on my knees. And I don’t need anybody to help me out with that. actually in the last few days I was brave enough to get mommy or daddy with one hand and walk slowly a few meters. It’s coming. Just wait for it. The stairs in the house….hmmm… not so lazy.  If I would know how to get down from upstairs I would be all day long on the steps. I already have an idea how to slide down, but I have to perfect my technique. I tried today and I fell a few steps and it wasn’t nice at all. Do you think I gave up? Ha! After I stopped crying I went back again. Didn’t try again to come down by myself though.

Daddy made me a surprise 2 weeks ago when he bought a bike chair for me. I have a helmet too. I loooove riding the bike with daddy. I am high enough to see everything around and the speed… beautiful. I can ride in that chair for hours without making any noise.

4 days ago  I finished the last box of formula and because I am almost 1 year, mommy gave me cow milk, 3.25% fat. I think it is pretty good. Although I didn’t sleep pretty well in those nights. We don’t know the reason. Maybe it didn’t fill me really well, maybe I loved too much, but I had about 27 oz – 650ml from going to bed till breakfast. Quite a lot. Last night I settled with the 7 oz at bed time and twice 5oz during the night. I drink a lot of water during the day and lately I love my food blended in a really fine paste. So I don’t have to chew too much and get bored before stuffed, I think.

As I told you, lately I didn’t sleep really well, but today…oh man. Mommy rocked me for my morning nap around 10 and I woke around 2pm. After that I wanted another nap around 4 and… it’ 6:30 and I am still sleeping We’ll see tonight. Bye for now.

I’ve got a lot of complains that I don’t write anymore. And a lot of new things happened in the meantime. So…maybe I should start sharing them with you:

17th of April- Saturday My first top tooth is out. It involved a lot of drooling and not that much crankiness. Now I can say that I can, if I want, to get chunkier things to chew like cucumbers or toast, which I looove. Sometimes I don’t want anything else to eat except some toast. Of course, mommy takes care to get my vitamins from the fruit juices. I get 3 of them daily : apples or pears for breakfast, carrots and celery or strained soup for lunch and grapefruit or orange for dinner. Today also I managed to climb on daddy from my bum to my  feet. Yeeeey!!!

19′th of April-Monday My second top tooth came out. Now, I think, I can be relaxed. No more teething for a while. But the problems are not over. We had Bubu sick with a very ugly ear infection. And in the past 2 nights I didn’t want to sleep at all, so mommy took my temperature and I had 38C. That’s not good. She presses my ear to see if I have the same infection, but I didn’t react at all. Maybe it is because of my new tooth… She took me to the doctor anyway. The doctor checked my everything and I looked fine. She said that there is roseola going around and it might be it. That means, after the fever is gone, a big rush will come out to end the suffering. Today I was really determined to see what is so attractive to those blinds beside my bed, so, I made sure that nobody watched and I got up from my bum to my feet. By myself. Well… nothing interesting about them, just some noise, but the thing that I did… far more interesting.

24th of April- Saturday After Monday I was OK with my fever and my moods, but for the last 2 nights… again I didn’t sleep. I just cried, and cried, and cried. So they took me to the doctor to learn that I have the same wonderful ear infection that Bubu had (he is much better now). I’m taking now Amoxicillin for 10 days, 5ml twice a day an I HATE it with every part of my body. You should see how my mouth is perfectly sealed only at the sight of the antibiotic syringe.. At least they found out what I have and they are doing something to ease my suffering. I’ll be in perfect shape until Tuesday when my grandparents (Lidia and Mitica) will come. I can’t wait to show them all my new tricks.

27th of April-Tuesday Today I’ll have visitors and I am still sick I didn’t sleep…again, I cried and cried and cried… again and I went to the doctor… again. I found out that my body and my immune system are really strong and I became resistant to the antibiotic so she switched to Cepfrozil (the same as Bubu) 3,5ml twice a day for another 10 days. Maybe this time it will work. This one taste muuuch better than the first one. And we got mommy sick too. With the same thing. This is the perfect moment for my grandparents to come and take care of us

4th of May-Tuesday My doctor’s day! With my lack of eating and sleeping, mommy was worried that I lost all my fluffiness, but I managed to grow somehow. I am 10.2 kg and 74.5 cm. My antibiotic works well. I am much better now. The eating… not so much. I like bread. No. I love bread. Toasted or just like that I never say no. And I also love any other food than mine. It is tasty; mine is… bleah.

In the mean time I am glad that my food is starting slowly to taste better and stronger and I am happy. I am doing a lot of things. I like to take mommy’s glasses off and give them back to her to put them on and I do it again and again and again. I was doing the same thing with Bubu with a bath sticker. He put it on his chest, I got it off and give it back to him to put it on his chest… I love those things. I also like when people take turns in making sounds. One of these days this happened between Lidia and Mitica. I didn’t let either one of them to get twice in a row with the same sound. Every time one made the sound I would turn to the other one to get the sound. Smart

My assisted walking is already pretty good and fast. A few days ago, mommy took me for a walk around the house (apparently outside is winter again ) and I walked happily back and forth until I realized that is music coming to my ears from somewhere. When I discovered the source (daddy was listening at the basement) I froze on top of the stairs, cause I couldn’t see nothing from that spot. But I looked at mommy and her smile told me that I could go there (with her). I started slow and I got faster when I recognized the place where I love to sit with daddy and just listen to music together. This time it was Tchaikovsky. I showed him a face… I don’t think he will go soon without me in this spot.

Around 9th of May I started… crawling. Well… more like a caterpillar, but, as daddy said, I started functioning pretty well and fast. And I am so happy. Now I can get wherever I want. Especially at that place with a lot of buttons called TV, computer and other stuff. I looooove it. But they won’t let me go there and I don’t get why. Aren’t the buttons made to be pushed? Or turned? Because I got moving so fast, they put up a gate so I can’t go down too fast to the basement and hurt myself. I didn’t discover it yet. We’ll see.

Today I discovered the door stop. It is like a string and if you hit it slowly it vibrates and makes a really funny sound. I’ll try to go around to find out what other goodies they hid from me till now.

Today was my monthly visit to Dr. Kamalia. I slowed down a bit and mommy was scared that I am loosing weight but I am in graphic on the perfect curve. I am 9.67kg and 71 cm. I eat a lot but I move even more. I have to be independent so if I don’t move I won’t have the muscles to do whatever I want. My eye needs more massage, otherwise she said that it looks fine. Of course it looked fine. Because I was at the doctor. At home it didn’t look that fine. But they will massage it so hopefully I won’t need a surgical intervention to clear that stubborn tear duct.

When we left the doctor’s office it was so warm and sunny outside that I fell asleep instantly. I slept for about 2 hours in that beautiful sun and I got such a nice tan that a lot of people would spend money to get. Well… except the part where I’ve got the hat shape on my forehead. But after 2 hours I wanted my juice. And it came: celery stalks juice. She used about 4 stalks. It was so good… Oh! I drank the whole bottle really fast and I still wanted some. Luckily she had some leftover and I was happy after that. She didn’t believe that it was so good and she tasted it too. She agreed Yum, Yum, Yum!!!

At lunch time I’ve got the tomato in my puree. I am Bubu’s brother Tomato soup is his favourite food. I think it will be mine, too!

Around 5:15 I drank my orange juice without even breathing and, of course it wasn’t enough so I asked and got some more. She put in my rice/cheese another half and I ate it really fast. Good. Are tired already of so much yummy food? I told you it’s food paradise at Kati’s. It will be more, so be prepared.

Yesterday I was so excited that I forgot to tell you some little things from our visit to my doctor. I have a little white spot on my leg and the Dr said that it will stay there It will be very small, but there. Well… that will be my charm.

We also asked if I can get the formula for 6-18 months and the answer was no, because it doesn’t have enough calcium and Iron and everything else I need. So I’ll still have the first formula.

If my poo is a little hard I can get some prune puree, either from jars or homemade from dried prunes (soak or boil them and puree).

And last…we can stop sterilizing the bottles.

Today I was really fussy. My thighs were really tender and sore after yesterday’s needles. Mommy gave me twice Tempra to make me feel better.

But the eating part… was there. I ate really well. I can’t tell you how good is the chicken in my puree. And the breakfast was amazing. Mommy forgot the apple in the fridge and I was more that happy to eat it like that. She wanted to warm it up but I didn’t let her.

I am 6 months old!!!

I woke up again a few times during the night, actually every 2 hours to eat. And mom thought I am almost done with waking up. Well… she has to wait a little more for that.

I went to the doctor today. I am exactly on the top of the chart. So: 9.27kg, 70cm and 45cm around my head. Do I have o tell you again that I am a big boy…? I also got my 6 months needles. They hurt I know they are good and protect me, but I didn’t like them. One in each leg. The good thing is that they hurt for 5 minutes. Mommy gave me 1ml of Tempra baby drops.

Yesterday I went to visit Kati and she put a blanket on the floor and I was so happy that I could roll over and over and over and I was very happy. Mommy took the example and did it at home. Now I have so much space to roll without worrying that I can fall.

Today I went with mommy at the breastfeeding clinic to figure it out how can I have only her milk instead of formula. It seems that there are solutions for that, but what is interesting is that the nurse weighed me and… 3.880kg. I am a chubby guy . Anyway from her I get only 50 ml which is not enough so I need to add max 30 ml formula. With the methods that the nurse taught mommy, in about 2 weeks I shouldn’t need the formula.

Thant means that she will rent a professional pump. We’ll see, even though I really like the formula.

I am 3 days old and I am supposed to go to the doctor. My doctor is Dr. Stuart Gordner and he seems very nice. His office is veeeeeeerrrrrry busy. Everything is perfect. I gained back around 150g, which is great. The hospital doctors told mommy that I have a tongue-tie and we asked Dr. Gordner and he said that my tongue looks fine and he doesn’t believe in that. I also have a very sticky eye. The doctor said that it’s nothing, just a blocked tear duct. All we need to do is to massage it in circle and it should go. Mommy can put a drop of her breast milk into my eye and/or wash it with chamomile tea. We’ll see and keep you posted about those.

On the way home I felt so exhausted that I fell asleep so deep that I didn’t want to wake up, so daddy took me outside in the backyard and I slept and slept and slept for about 6 hours. The fresh air was very relaxing, what can I say?

After that I started my night routine. I took the bath that I don’t like, and after I was clean, moisturized and massaged well I thought that it will be the perfect moment for… a big poo spray. I sprayed on daddy and the carpet and everybody was very amused of my stinky trick.

Well, I’ll be back tomorrow. Nighty night.

It’s me, Lucas. I came in my family to round it up. I have a big brother, Bogdan, who is crazy about me and since I came he’s jumping around of happiness.

I was born at 5.34 early in the morning after torturing my mommy for 14 full hours, but with my dad’s and Bogdan’s help it was a lot easier for her.

So, here I am at 53 cm long, 33cm head circumference and 3,57kg. I think it was too comfy in mommy’s tummy because I didn’t really want to breathe at the beginning, but somebody came and gave me some oxygen for about 30 sec and everything was perfect. Right after they put some antibiotic cream into my eyes and gave me a vitamin K needle in my thigh. Auch. And after that, the lovely nurse, Meghan, put me skin-on-skin into my mommy’s arms, then daddy’s and back mommy’s. So many activities. I was so exhausted that I ate something and fell in a very deep sleep. During my sleep I showed mommy my very long sharp nails which I like to use to scratch everything, especially my little cheeks.

I am soooooooooo tired. I’ll leave you for now and see you tomorrow.