Daddee Yah!

I didn’t start something like this with Caitlin. So I have actually forgotten when she achieved the following milestones:

• Sleep through the night
• When she understood our “cue” to pee; we used to pull down her pants and make “shhhhh shhhh” noise to get her to pee, to reduce the risk of her wetting herself;
• Toilet trained;

etc etc.. I do have a video clip of her first steps though, but I gotta dig up that clip itself buried in my home movies collection to work out her age from the date of footage…

So here, I am gonna start with Caleb. Since the little man is still under 2 months old, this makes this exercise a lot easier from the start.

This is obviously not going to be anything medical, nor supported / contradicted by any pediatric expertise. He may be more advanced / slower than average: It’s just a record on him. I will also be putting these under a new blog category of Infant Developement.

Heh…

Turning his head
When he was at around 2+ weeks, I came home one day from work and went to check on him. He was sleeping on his front, head to one side. Later I came to check on him again, his head was facing the other way!

I am aware of SIDS, but not enough to know how to be safe about it. That’s why I went to check the 2nd time, ‘cos I have always thought letting baby sleep on his front was a risk. I also later spoke to my mum about this, and she was sharing that kids have an inbuilt survival instinct that, as long as there are no “foreign” objects around to potentially smother him, babies can find a way to (continue) breathing.

Eye-tracking
I guess from the age of around 4+ weeks he was already able to eye-track movements. Not quite as smooth as a continuous scan, but even at left-middle-right-middle (when Daddee was swaying like a silly Humpty Dumpty doll) I thought it was something worth noting; given that my understanding of infants is that they can’t focus their eyes till they are much older… like at 3 months?

“Verbally” responding
If it were just one opinion it may not be considered as accurate. But given that the other ladies are also saying the same thing, then I guess we can’t all be wrong.

At “idle” times (ie, not like-pulling-my-nasal-hair cry-scream crying sessions) when we are making typical baby noises at him, Caleb actually does seem to respond with a different-toned “oowwww oww ow wow”…. Maybe like older sister Caitlin this one is also a vocal one.

Hmm, it’s just occurred to me that, if that last point was true, I am going to be overwhelmed by a family of outspoken people who will also always out-talk me… Hope Mummee doesn’t read this.