Have forgotten to mention Jessica’s teeth! After a bit of a pause after her first tooth at Christmas, she cut her second tooth (in the top jaw, front left) on 19 January and her third (bottom jaw, front right) on 25 January, plus a fourth one is just under the surface in her top jaw, on the right hand side. Her cheek’s been hot and red and she has occasionally moaned with a hand in her mouth, in response to which I’ve given her Calpol and a bit of teething gel, but otherwise we haven’t really noticed anything particular from her teething. I’ve heard some babies get nappy rash and some cry a lot, but none of those have applied to Jessica.
She’s been dribbling a lot, but that’s been continuous and not necessarily more or less because of a certain stage of a tooth being cut, so I guess that’s just how some babies come – I’ve been told I used to dribble a lot as a baby, and Ian too, so she’s inherited it from both of us… Once she’s a bit older, her dribbling should hopefully stop. At the moment, we keep bibs on her pretty much all the time (apart from when she sleeps), so that her clothes won’t get wet and soak through. Her wearing bibs may not look the most flattering, but the alternative would be that she’d get a red, sore chest and we’d have to change her top regularly, and that doesn’t sound like fun to me.
Another thing I’ve intended to mention is the colour of Jeesica’s hair. It seems to change a little bit from week to week – sometimes day to day – being lighter or darker, redder or blonder. Overall, though, her hair seems to come out more red on photos when we are using flash, than we think it really is. Close up, Jessica’s hair looks blond with strawberry blond highlights. When I saw the film Lost In Translation I couldn’t help compare the colour of Jessica’s hair to that of the actress Scarlett Johansson’s (n.b. not the pink wig Scarlett wears in the bar…!).
Her eyes are still blue – perhaps slightly paler than the early days but still intense.
Gabriella