Gemma at 7 months

Gemma at 7 months

Here's what our sweet Gemma was up to between her six and seven month birthdays

• Still the biggest hair puller.
• Still really loves the stroller. She's never cried in there and has even fallen asleep a few times in there.
• Three times we've put Gemma in the crib awake and happy (after a period of screaming sleeping waking eating) and she falls asleep on her own happily. If only we could get her happy in the crib all the time.
• Got chicken pox but wasn't too upset about it. More on this later.
• Red eyebrows and temples when crying
• Cloth bibs won't stay in front. They move to the back and look like capes.
• Big loud gasp - she likes to do this while nursing.
• Still not a happy nurser.
• Excema on her face. I thought it was drool rash from the increased drooling from two teeth coming in, but it hasn't gone away.
• I started doing 3 weeks of dairy free to see if that helped her excema.
• Little lady like sneezes.
• LOVE her chubby little hand / wrist / arm resting on me while I nurse her.
• Great at sitting up alone.
• Still really into biting my chin.
• Back to napping in the carrier (for a while she wouldn't nap there, only in the rocking chair).
• Started legit sleep training.
• Buries her head in my shoulder with strangers talking to her (or me).
• Toward the end of six months Gemma rolls from back to front.
• Only nurses well at home in the rocking chair with the boppys - I use two one upside down and the other stacked on top of it right side up. (Two stacked this way is INCREDIBLY helpful for a newborn and it's just easier for me / my arms to keep doing it this way.)
• Gemma really likes to nurse when it's just me and her (no sisters or dad around). It's just that this doesn't happen very often!
• For a long time (since around 3 months?) Gemma does a big sigh when she's almost totally asleep.