How far has she progressed?

Congratulations!
Your baby's birth date was
Friday, October 02, 2009

Your conception date was most likely 1/9/2009
And your baby is 65 days old!

 

New things I found out today from one of the parenting websites (and quite impressive how they projected the baby's future) are :

Your baby's half birthday is April 2 Your baby's birthstone is Opal (Hope) Your baby's Astrological Sign is Libra Your baby's Flower is Calendula or Cosmos (White, Yellow and Varied) Your baby was born in the Chinese Year of The Brown Earth Cow Your baby will start kindergarten in 2014, be old enough to drive a car in 2025, finish high school in 2027, and will graduate from college with the class of 2031, give or take a year. Can you imagine? This time last year you weren't even pregnant yet! Here are list of progress for her :

1. By the end of month one a baby typically:

• Lifts head for short periods of time (checked!)
• Moves head from side to side (checked!)
• Prefers the human face to other shapes (checked!)
• Makes jerky, arm movements (checked!)
• Brings hands to face (checked!)
• Has strong reflex movements (checked!)
• Can focus on items 8 to 12 inches away (checked!)
• May turn towards familiar sounds or voices (checked!)
• Responds to loud sounds (checked!)
• Blinks at bright lights (checked!)

2. By the end of month two a baby typically:

• Smiles (checked! – A LOT!!)
• Tracks objects with his eyes (checked! – especially when her mama walks by)
• Makes noises other than crying (checked! – not usually cries, most of the time merengek-type of sound)
• May repeat vowel noises, such as "ah" or "ooh" (checked!)

3. By the end of month three a baby typically:

• Raises head and chest when put on tummy (checked! – by first month. She does have a strong bone – noticed by her grandma, her babysitter n by a lot of people)
• Lifts head up 45 degrees (checked!)
• Kicks and straightens legs when on back (checked!- she can even do the exercise, moving her whole body during the legs pushing exercise)
• Open and shuts hands (checked! – esp when I massage her fingers)
• Pushes down with legs when placed on a hard surface (checked!- yup, esp during bathing. She doesn't want to lie on her back)
• Reaches for dangling objects
• Grasps and shakes hand toys
• Tracks moving objects(checked!)
• Begins to imitate sounds (checked!)
• Recognizes familiar objects and people, even at a distance (checked!)
• Begins to develop a social smile (checked! Usually early in the morning n before sleep – she wants to hear some bedtime stories or storytell by herself to her mom before dozes off)
• Begins to develop hand-eye coordination
• Brings both hands together (checked!)
• Interested in circular and spiral patterns
• Kicks legs energetically (checked!)
• Holds head up with control

What we can do:

§                  Hold and cuddle your baby as much as you can

§                  Keep up the talking in a sing-song fashion

§                  Massage his body regularly

§                  Hold out toys to him so that he tries to hold them (because his hand-eye-coordination is poor he will not be able to judge the distance between an abject and his hand and will be unable to hold something you offer him)

§                  Place your baby on a bouncer or hold her against your shoulder so as to exercise her neck muscles