Lilia is almost five months old now! I have tried and tried to keep her off solids until six months, however I think she is ready now. I am planning on getting advice off my health visitor when I see her on Thursday for her jabs (3 weeks late, I know - but she was two weeks behind anyway). Of course I will consider her advice and keep it in mind, but I am almost definitely going to give Lilia her first spoonfuls of baby rice on Monday.
In other news, I spent all day doing her cot today. It is now assembled and ready for her to sleep in. This is the first night I will be trying to get her into her own bed - I was co-sleeping before (unplanned, of course!). So far it is 10:23pm and she has been up in her cot TWICE and she is now wide awake downstairs kicking away on her changing mat. I am planning on doing controlled crying, but she made herself sick and I just can't deal with her acting that way. She's ill anyway so I'm just going to ease her into her cot in a slower, more gentle, way. I think I'll allow her to chill downstairs until her last feed. Then it's time for bed. If she doesn't go to sleep, then I will leave her. If she starts crying too much and acting like she was acting before... I'll put her in my bed next to me but won't touch her, talk to her, or make any eye contact. It's going to be so hard but she needs to sleep in her own bed now it's a cot.
My little girl is just growing up too fast. WAY too fast. I can't believe she is so grown up - laughing, smiling, in a cot (sort of!), having solids (or will be next week!). It's just completely crazy and I don't know where time is going!
I do have a major update post to do - where I will explain things in full detail - since I haven't written a proper post in SO long. I want to get back into blogging, I've just had a hectic life! I'll try and write my update post telling you all about my life and Lilia's too when I have time. Which hopefully won't be that far into the future!
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