Somehow, in the last 2-3 weeks, we seem to have slipped into a regular feeding routine…! Breakfast time has varied a bit, depending on when/if Jessica has woken up and fed during the night, but has more often than not happened at 7am. Then the rest of the day’s meals have taken place at 10am, 1pm, 4pm and the last meal around 7pm at night (the latter depending on how soon Jessica gets tired in the evening – sometimes it’s more like 6.30pm).
As far as the weaning is concerned, I’ve now been giving her bigger portions of the pureed stuff twice a day for 3-4 days now: at her 10 and 4 o’clock meals. I don’t want to give her too much just yet and have estimated the amount is about half a meal’s worth. She gets formula milk straight after to satisfy any remaining hunger. She’s very keen on banana, which obviously is incredibly easy to prepare. Think I now need to move on to some other fruit, like apple and mango.
We think she might be teething – she likes chomping on our fingers and when she does we have felt something hard at the back on both sides of her bottom jaw. It’s apparently unusual that the molars break through first – more commonly the teeth at the front of the mouth are cut first – so perhaps they’re way off yet. But Jessica is dribbling a lot and seems obsessed with chomping on things; in fact, the first thing she’ll do now when she meets someone is to launch an attack against their hand, if she’s close enough, and start chewing away on their fingers.
Jessica doesn’t seem to mind being on the floor too much anymore, which is handy as she otherwise wouldn’t get much practice rolling or crawling… Her second favourite pastime (next after chomping fingers, please see above) at the mo seems to be touching her toes and trying to bring them up to her mouth. She’s not quite there yet but is dedicating so much time to the task that I’m sure it won’t be long.
Gabriella