It was very warm and stuffy last night and Jessica (and subsequently her Mum and Dad…) didn’t sleep very well for it. She was late to go to sleep, not wanting to settle for ages (mainly chatting and creaking), and stirred just before midnight, around 2am and after 3am. Every time she went back to sleep again fairly soon (at 3am after a feed) and finally woke up for the day about fifteen minutes before Ian’s alarm. I brought her over to our bed and we had her beam at us, chomp our fingers and pull our hair for a bit before we couldn’t delay getting up any longer.
Jessica and I had a good day still in spite of the broken night’s sleep. A group of mums from the post natal group Jessica and I went to has been meeting up regularly and, after our holiday and move, Jessica and I were finally able to join them for lunch at one of the mums’ house in Reigate. I spent a lovely afternoon chatting to the other mums, while Jessica giggled at and excitedly rolled around on a big playmat with a few of the other babies. She actually kept rolling back and forth so energetically, gradually working her way around clockwise, that I had to get up and shunt her back a few times, to save her from hitting another baby with her feet… At around 3pm she got tired and a bit cranky, so I took her out from the busy and noisy living room into the slightly calmer garden, where she fell asleep over my shoulder.
Breaking news!! Jessica has rolled, from her back to her tummy, and I got to see it! I’m sure it was purely accidental: she was rolling up on her side to touch her knees and shins and then back again a few times while I was taking pictures of her and then suddenly she was toppling over. Got a couple of pictures of how she landed, anyway – with her arms down her sides, making her a bit stuck. She didn’t seem to know what to do with herself and started to cry, but stopped soon after I eased her arms into a better position. I bet she won’t repeat the maneuver in a hurry – a lot of first-time things seem to happen early on, more or less coincidental, with any deliberate, regular behaviour coming much later…
Gabriella