A Day of Milestones

Rolling Over
Originally uploaded by sundae1888

This morning, I decided to try bottle once again. This is after declaring bottlefeeding a failure and stopped trying for at least two weeks. (I did try it on Tuesday and he nibbled with it for a while, but didn't drink any.) I put about 80mL of breastmilk in the bottle and started feeding him while he was on his "throne" (a.k.a. his reclining chair). To my surprise, he was actually sucking from it! Seeing the success, and since there was some spillage from his mouth, I changed position and held him in the typical bottlefeeding position instead. He actually finished the full 80mL and demanded more!

This was the first actually successful bottlefeeding since I decided to go bottle-free when he was about 6 weeks old in the hope of improving breastfeeding. Maybe I should do it more often now, since he's pre-teething and started to bite me (which HURTS!) when I nurse him.

After I fed him, I put him on the floor while I checked out some flyers online. We have been putting him on the floor more often now to encourage him to practice rolling -- he had been successfully rolling from his back onto his side for almost two weeks now. To my surprise, when I looked back (he was behind me), he was on his tummy! The first rollover and no one saw it!

I immediately IM-ed Daniel about it, who claimed to see Isaac rolled so far onto his side last night that he would roll onto his tummy with the slightest poke. Then I hopefully tried to capture his second rollover on camera, but nothing happened during the 10-minute recording session.

After we came back from shopping in early afternoon, I left him on the floor again while I consulted a baby book whether he was having ear infection--he had been tugging his ear very often lately, fortunately the book said it's probably a teething sign. I was just sitting next to him, reading the book, and found him rolled so far onto his side (see attached picture). Then I witnessed it: he turned from his side to his tummy! Too bad I couldn't capture it in video.

That's a day with two milestones!