The little curly top turned 11 months old last Sunday. 11 months! In a month he'll be celebrating his first birthday. Gah, too fast, too fast! It literally feels like yesterday that I was stressing about giving birth, that I was stressing about breastfeeding and keeping up my milk supply.
We are still mixed feeding. My supply has really dwindled but he shows no signs of self-weaning. He prefers to direct latch at night. Sometimes he'd take a bottle at night but if he senses I'm nearby, he'd outright refuse the bottle and cry until I give him the boob. Hence, I'm still pumping at work despite the pitiful amount just to keep my supply.
I was away from for one night last November 9 because I had to attend the (free) MCLE in Tagaytay. Yaya Dub was MIA that time so my MIL took over. This crazy baby doesn't like both of his grandmas so they told me he cried his head off that night when he woke up at night and it was just him and his lola. Poor baby.
Another milestone, if I dare call it that, more like a nightmare, is that he fell from the bed the dawn of November 18. There were just two of us in the bed, I was still asleep and he was surrounded with pillows. I woke up to his loud cries and I scrambled off the bed to see him face-down on the floor. The blurry image, as I was not wearing my eyeglasses, will forever be seared into my memory. The pillow on the side where he fell was still on the bed so we believe he dove over it as he likes to wake up at ungodly hours and play. We brought him to the ER where we were told to observe for vomiting or losing of consciousness. Thankfully, he was okay so we were still able to go home for the rest of the APEC vacation. Ay, caramba.
Ack, he grows more and more magulo. He can stand up and hold on to his crib railings and he likes to shake the entire thing. I'm worried that one day he can tip it over because he's not even one year old yet and he can shake that thing. We need to get on to the childproofing of the entire house.
On the solids front, this kid has gobbled everything so far. I'm still preparing his food via the food cube method but he's tried table food with no or little salt for a few times already. I've decided to wait until he turns 1 (which is just in a month anyway) until I totally give him table food. Besides, he only has two lower teeth so far so I doubt if he can chew meat already. I'm also thinking if we can ditch the expensive formula and give him fresh milk. I dunno.
So... that's it so far. I am such a bad mommy blogger. I hope I can set more time aside to blog to put all these memories and milestones on a tangible record.
