shake that rattle
Bao had her well baby check-up and a bunch of vaccinations yesterday. She took it all in stride, including the actual needle poke. She smiled one of her rare smiles at the nurse just before the needle approached, poor kid, and then scrunched up her face to cry for a long LOUD minute. Otherwise she enjoyed looking around her new surroundings and the change in her routine.
She weighs 5.8kg now and measures about 59cm. Her neck is pretty strong and she can lift her head and shoulders right off the surface when she's on her tummy. We also got some hydrocortisone cream for the patches of dermatitis on her arms.
What is of slight concern, though, is that the doctor noted that Bao didn't turn her head towards the sounds when he shook rattles on either side of her. He said that she may have been distracted, or perhaps she is just good at tuning out random sounds, given she lives with a noisy older brother who is chattering all the time and dropping toys everywhere. We'll review this in a month's time to see if she will respond then.
Of course, even though rationally I know I shouldn't get too worried yet, this meant that the moment I got home I put her in the bouncer and tried shaking a variety of toys behind her. When J got home from work, he tried the same thing, but she still didn't turn her head or otherwise show any response. Maybe she was distracted then, but after her midnight feed when the entire flat was quiet, I deliberately dropped a board book on the floor directly behind her and she didn't even startle. J, who was holding her, did; she didn't.
I'm going to resist riding the waves of worry and just stay calm for now. A part of me feels that this is just part of Bao's emerging personality. For now, she belongs in the calm and collected camp, unless she's tired, hungry, or in her carseat. She's not easy to impress, even when you sit and sing to her, and I am guessing she is simply indifferent to our home-crafted hearing experiments. She looks back at us with a 'what's the point of all this' expression and is otherwise happy and responsive when spoken directly to. I do recall her turning towards her brother's voice on a couple of occasions, or looking for J and I if we're in another part of the room and talking. She's probably just hard to impress and can't be bothered to turn. Anyway, as I told J, if there are issues with her hearing, at least there are a fair number of solutions for dealing with them, especially if the problem is identified early. We'll see how she is in a month's time, and in the meantime I'll try not to shake rattles at her quite so often.
She weighs 5.8kg now and measures about 59cm. Her neck is pretty strong and she can lift her head and shoulders right off the surface when she's on her tummy. We also got some hydrocortisone cream for the patches of dermatitis on her arms.
What is of slight concern, though, is that the doctor noted that Bao didn't turn her head towards the sounds when he shook rattles on either side of her. He said that she may have been distracted, or perhaps she is just good at tuning out random sounds, given she lives with a noisy older brother who is chattering all the time and dropping toys everywhere. We'll review this in a month's time to see if she will respond then.
Of course, even though rationally I know I shouldn't get too worried yet, this meant that the moment I got home I put her in the bouncer and tried shaking a variety of toys behind her. When J got home from work, he tried the same thing, but she still didn't turn her head or otherwise show any response. Maybe she was distracted then, but after her midnight feed when the entire flat was quiet, I deliberately dropped a board book on the floor directly behind her and she didn't even startle. J, who was holding her, did; she didn't.
I'm going to resist riding the waves of worry and just stay calm for now. A part of me feels that this is just part of Bao's emerging personality. For now, she belongs in the calm and collected camp, unless she's tired, hungry, or in her carseat. She's not easy to impress, even when you sit and sing to her, and I am guessing she is simply indifferent to our home-crafted hearing experiments. She looks back at us with a 'what's the point of all this' expression and is otherwise happy and responsive when spoken directly to. I do recall her turning towards her brother's voice on a couple of occasions, or looking for J and I if we're in another part of the room and talking. She's probably just hard to impress and can't be bothered to turn. Anyway, as I told J, if there are issues with her hearing, at least there are a fair number of solutions for dealing with them, especially if the problem is identified early. We'll see how she is in a month's time, and in the meantime I'll try not to shake rattles at her quite so often.