Juliet update

Juliet continues to grow like a weed.  She has now doubled her birth weight (most of it seeming to be on her thighs) and is a cheerful little soul.  She's still waking once at night, but in quite a manageable way, as now that we have dropped the dream feed, she sleeps from 6.30pm - 1.30am, necks a bottle and then goes straight back to sleep by about 1.45am, then going through until 6.30 or 7am or sometimes until she is woken.  The small dream feed that she used to take saw her waking at least once a night, regardless, with either Stu or myself having to stay up to give the late bottle.  Now I can go to bed at 9.30pm and we're all happy.

I've dropped the 10.30am breastfeed now, so she has bottles at 10.30am, 6.15pm and 1.30am.  I'm planning to start solids in the next few days and have already excitedly brewed up the organic apples, pears and courgette cubes for the freezer.  The carrots come tomorrow.  Baby rice, quite literally the great white hope, has been purchased and I'm determined that food and moving her into her own room (this weekend, now that we are visitor-free) will see her sleep longer. 

She's still in a cactus suit for sleeps and I'm starting to transition her to a sleeping bag, as we are now on the largest size of wrap, so it's really time.   

This morning she managed 20 minutes with her arms free, so it wasn't a very successful start, but she'll get there.  It seems contradictory to say this, but she's too good a sleeper not to get used to it fairly quickly, I'd say.

In other news, she's starting to get into her toys in a big way, with a special love for her Miss Emily doll.  She's had a good run with all the grandparental attention in her life, so is needing to rediscover her love for her playmat, but again, we'll get there.  The new regime (stuck at home with Mum and needing to fit in with my gym and nail appointments!) starts now.  Sort of.