Our daughter is seven months!

Important events

Due to strict corona-rules, we spent this month mainly at home and close to home. Even her swimming lessons have been cancelled for the last two weeks. We did visit our friends with their little baby and spent a nice day with them. M handled the six hours of driving surprisingly well.

Thankfully, M's grandparents are still with us and are taking care of her. She needs to go to daycare in two weeks.

M is still trying to learn to crawl, but she can do it only backwards. She spends most of her awake time on her hands and knees and practices. She can also plank for a minute or two!

Eating

M has been trying out this baby lead weaning strategy and gotten completely into finger food. We have offered her many things, starting from a carrot to a pancake. Her favourites are zucchini and kiwi, but she really doesn't like cauliflower or egg.

Currently, she has three meals: her breakfast is porridge (we give her a prefilled spoon which she uses herself), her early lunch is a piece of bread with peanut butter and some pieces of different fruits and vegetables) and her dinner is also some veggies and fruits and sometimes a piece of an omelette.

We find it important to not give her food with added sugar and salt and introduce egg and nut butter early to prevent allergies. She drinks water from a cup (loving it!) next to her meals.

I am also still breastfeeding about 3 times a day (!) and M gets about 600-650 ml of formula next to that per day.

Sleeping

Hooray! M sleeps through the night (mostly...), although she still wakes up sometimes, crying, wanting her pacifier. At times, she needs to be fed at night. This has occurred about 6 times last month. Then I breastfeed her and only give 30 ml of formula as otherwise, she would sleep too long. She gets woken up at 7:30, because it is good to keep her on schedule.

At the moment, she only has two naps for about 50-60% of the days. She refuses the third one or wakes up too late from the second nap to allow the third one to happen.

She sleeps about 15 hours a day, about 11-12 hours of this is during the night.

Favourite activities

She still loves to look at our cats and pet them with the help of her (grand)parents. She also enjoys going for walks. A couple of weeks ago, I made her a couple of toys myself, such as rattles from jars of spices with different substances in them. She likes to hold them and catch them on the floor when they roll away.

Schedule

At seven months, M's schedule is the following.

7:00 wake-up, breastmilk, change, getting ready for the day

7:45 breakfast (porridge), formula (90+3)

9:00 the first nap

10:30 wake-up, change, expressed breastmilk from the freezer (90 ml)

11:30 lunch (a piece of bread with peanut butter and some pieces of fruits and veggies), formula (60+2)

12:30/13:00 the second nap

15:00-15:30 wake-up (when she wakes up before 15:15, we try to get her to nap for the third time, that nap needs to end before 17:00), change, formula (120+4). When I'm at home then, I try to breastfeed her and she gets less formula in this case.

17:30 or 18:00 breastmilk, dinner (pieces of fruits and veggies), breastmilk and formula (120+4)

18:30/19:00 good night!

22:30 dreamfeed (breastmilk, formula 150+5/180+6)

Her schedule is subject to change when she goes to daycare.

Statistics

As her next well-visit is planned when she is a year old, we don't know how tall or heavy she is. She is, though, growing out of some of her rompers and playsuits. The upcoming weekend I´m planning to put some items in size 74 in her closet.