Conrad’s having a nap at the moment. He woke up early today (5.15am) and was acting tired during the morning, he did go to sleep in the pushchair coming back from Waitrose but only for 15 minutes. I think probably his farmor and farfar arriving at the same time, with several chatting voices as a result, made him stir. Hopefully he has a nice, long nap now. If he wakes up in time, the plan is to take him to be weighed at the health visitor clinic this afternoon, as he is 10 months tomorrow, but they close at 3pm and if he hasn’t woken up in time I won’t worry about going.
Yesterday we had another first: Conrad stood up in the bath all by himself! Jessica was standing in the bath and then suddenly Conrad was standing there next to her. This was also the first time he has pulled himself up to stand using an object rather than a person.
At the moment, they are understaffed at our surgery, and instead of inviting Conrad to the otherwise standard 10 month check, we had a letter, explaining that they didn’t have enough staff to undertake these checks at the moment but here was a questionnaire with some questions regarding development – would we mind filling this in and contact them if we had any concerns? One of the questions was whether the baby is pulling himself up on items of furniture, so I guess we can tick yes for that one now… Otherwise the questions were a bit rigid: “does the baby crawl yet?” but no box to write “no, actually, he’s at the verge of walking all by himself”…
Gabriella
PS Conrad slept for quite a while, so we didn’t make it to the clinic to weigh him. It was more important that he slept properly, though – I’ll take him next week instead.