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It's been an eventful day for Drew and I.
He's been sitting up for a few days now. It's still new to him. He had been sitting up holding his hands in front of him and this weekend suddenly, no more hands. We were so excited.
Then yesterday, I'm out on the deck with him taking a break from work and I laid a blanket out on the floor to place him on and notice that Drew is doing a sort of centipede like maneuver. He is in crawling position then moves his hands forward, lays down to bring his legs forward then gets back up. He's kinda crawling instead of doing the army crawl. Another exciting moment.
But today, not so exciting.
That modified crawl, well he hasn't learned to stop yet when he sees objects like say, a book shelf. Yep, right into it, hitting the side of his head. He had that silent cry for a good 5 minutes before he wailed. I felt so bad.
Then today, I decided, he's 9 months, it's time to try a teething biscuit. He does, after all, have two teeth. He kinda demolishes two. I'm keeping a close eye and sitting right next to him cause I'm just thinking that he's going to choke. His third one (later in the day), I notice him gagging and his face turning red, I jump out of my seat and pull something out of his mouth with my finger then shove my finger back in to make sure nothing is there.
Now Drew is SCREAMING. He's scared and I'm panicking after the fact.
So we took a walk to calm us both down and it did. But no more teething biscuits.
I'm not sure I can handle them. And he has to learn to move so... I guess I'll just deal with that.
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Oh, I love the discription of Drew's 'crawl'. He's such a cute baby.
I don't know how those teething biscuits are still around. I've seen more babies semi-choke on those than I have any other food. Try the zwieback toast or Cheerios those don't seem to be as big of a choke hazard.
Bumps and bruises. They happen. It sucks, but they do. The hardest part of being a Mom is learning to let the baby learn by getting a little bump. If you are always there to redirect him, he won't learn to avoid book shelves. On the other hand you have to make sure that there isn't anything on his level that can seriously hurt him. Have you heard that in order to properly baby-proof you need to get down on his level to see all the 'hidden danger's that we don't see from our lofty heights? And---try try try not to over react when he falls down, bumps his little noggin, or any number of things that little ones manage to do to themselves throughout the day. He will look to you to help decide how to react. If you always react with an: "OMG! are you okay?!?" and run over to him to pick him up---then you are teaching him to cry or over react to a little bump. But, if you respond to him falling with a: "oops! You fell down! You're okay." Then he will have more confidence in himself and (hopefully) will not become a cry baby.
heh, now I can't decide if I should post this or not. I'd hate for you to think I'm givng unasked for advice....I mean I know I am....but I like to think of myself as helpful and not pushy or over-bearing.
Ah, good.
Calm during a storm and fall apart after it's passed.
Sounds like me! LOL!!