Last Thursday (27 November), while he was lying on the floor as I was dressing him to go out, Conrad rolled over to his front for the first time. And then he just kept rolling over the rest of the day. He rolls to his left side, so left to his own devices he would probably roll around and around in a circle – once when I had put him on the doubled-up mats in the bathroom while I was changing Jessica’s nappy (sometimes I change the kids ‘conveyor belt’ style, feels pretty efficient: ‘okay, that’s you done – next!’) and I had to keep shifting him back because he kept rolling over to his front, then to his back, then his front, etc., but all in the same direction towards the laundry basket.
It’s really exciting that Conrad’s ‘achieved’ another little ‘milestone’ and that I was there to see it happen – I’m so afraid sometimes that I’ll be too busy with the both of them, or too tired, to notice when important little things like that happen.
He’s stronger sitting up now, but not quite steady yet – left on his own, he slowly leans further and further over, mostly forward, and then would topple. I try to give him a bit of practice every day, especially since he seems to enjoy it (although not quite as well as standing up).
This morning I took Conrad to the doctor’s again. We’ve all been suffering from a cold, including a bit of a cough, but Conrad’s cough seems to have got worse over the last few days and his breathing quite noisy, especially yesterday and last night, so I wanted a professional to listen to his chest to make sure his lungs and airways were okay. I worry doubly, as I’ve got a bit of asthma myself since childhood and because of the problems of damp and mould that we’ve had in our house… (Although I’ve been told that asthma ‘can’t be diagnosed’ until the age of 2 in children, though I’m not sure why that is…?)
But a medical student (a different one to last time) and then Dr Greengrass again (I have to mention her name now, since I seem to be seeing her constantly, and she’s now started saying: ‘hello again, haven’t you grown?’ to both kids even if she just walks past us in the waiting room) said that although Conrad’s breathing sounded noisy, it wasn’t down in his chest and there was nothing to worry about – it tends to sound more noisy with infants anyway, apparently.
Gabriella