Rowena turns 3 months!

Princess Rowena turned 3 months, yesterday on 25 July 2006. How time flies – which means I have been back to work for a month now!

Have not taken her for her 3 months check up and jab, so I don’t really know her weight at this point but she feels much heavier. She can fill out her 3-6 month clothes now. This morning I saw her holding her ‘beanie kid’ which was given to her by her cousins Saskia and Jackson, looking very contented. She tends to hold things now like her shirt, her seat belt and also my hair!!

Tried putting her on her tummy a few times, but she seems to hate it and whimpers, turning her head from left to right, pressing her face on the floor. I put her on a play mat and tried dangling a toy in front of her but she just got angrier.

She recognizes faces well now especially mummy, daddy’s and Harvynna’s. Still a smiley baby and coos even more now. Hubby says because she craves for the attention, so whenever anyone talks to her, she gets very excited. She also talks to herself a lot. Hmmm, he’s probably right. It’s hard to give Rowena 100% attention when Harvynna demands for a lot of attention now.

In bringing up Rowena, I adopted the ‘Cry it out’ policy. After the one month confinement, once she has been fed and changed, I left her in the cot to put herself to sleep. She cried for ½ hour the first day, 15 minutes the next day, and from then on, she cried a little and went to sleep on her own. This method is cruel, but it works. I guess sometimes, you have to be cruel to be kind. Now, she is quite independent.
For Harvynna, I used to pick her up at the slightest noise, and until today, she needs to be soothed to sleep.

She loves to look around esp when we take her to new places. Due to her sensitive skin, she prefers to be in air conditioned and is very happy then. Just a little bit of heat sends her skin into rashes – at her neck and armpits.

Poor Rowena is losing a lot of hair on the top of her head due to her cradle cap.

Rowena still drinks 5 ozs of milk every 3-4 hours.

Happy 3 months Rowena!