Misha: 18 weeks (4 months)

4 month well visit
   Not sure if I've mentioned this before but we have been doing all of her vaccinations (the compulsory ones) with the Klinik Kesihatan at Putrajaya. It's free and surprisingly very fast. I remember having to wait a few hours every time we took Meera to the Pediatrician at Columbia Asia. But here I'm usually done in 1 hour! Plus it's so near the house. And did I mention it's FREE!
   So this month I took her in just to get her weighed. 5.74kg. No injection this round.

Eating
   Still feeding with the MAM bottle.Looks like Avent is out the window.

Sleeping
   We have begun the bedtime ritual of reading a story book. Right now, Jing will give her a bottle and then read to here. I decided on this book... short and simple. We use to read 'Goodnight Moon' to Meera but I think it's a rather long book for a baby. :)
   Her nights are starting to extend. After dropping the dream-feed last week, I was expecting her to wake up in the middle of the night but seems like she can manage 11 hours without feeding! In fact, I think the dream-feed was actually interfering with her sleep cycle. I notice when I do give her a dream-feed she actually wakes up earlier in the morning!
   I am still putting her down for naps by patting her thigh and shushing. She gets quite worked up when I try to turn her to pat her bum so I don't do that now. She is still taking very shorts naps. Most times its 30 minutes. Once in a while she'll take a 1 hour plus nap (2 times this week). So this means she takes like 4-5 naps in a day.


Disruptions
   The day after she turned 4 months, was a really off day. Naps were 30 minutes at most. She cried after each nap and she was so fussy! I read about Wonder weeks and week 19 is supposed to be of of the worst ones so I 'm chalking it up to that. I watched her through the camera and I could see her really struggling to sleep. She kept startling and moving restlessly. I wondered if maybe I should have continued to swaddle...
   Thankfully by night time she was okay and slept as usual. She did cry out about 1 hour after sleeping but managed to put herself back to sleep. The following day she seemed okay. Even took 1.5 hour nap in the morning!

Developments
   She is starting to hold on to things when its near her. She doesn't reach out for them yet though. She can also hold her head up really well now. And during tummy time she will hold her head up for a really long time. She can roll to her side but not a complete roll over yet.
   I've started playing the 'Baby Can Read' DVDs for her. And I've finally put up the mobile. She is quite fascinated with it.