Health visitor check-up!

Jamie had his 9 month check today (a bit late, as he's 10 and a bit months!) and it went really well. She chatted about his feeding and sleeping, checked that he could pass things from hand to hand, hold things in both hands at the same time, pick up small things, bear weight on his legs, sit, etc.

She also weighed and measured him and he is now 21lb 1oz, so bang on the 50th centile for weight. He was born on the 25th centile but dropped down to the 9th until we started weaning, and has now crept up to the 50th. He is 76.5cm long, so between the 75th and 91st centiles for length. I was surprised as I thought he was quite short, but he seems to be growing longer now! I'm tall so maybe he takes after me.

She has written in the red book that he's a "delightful chap" so I am a very proud mummy today :D

I've got an early morning waker! He usually wakes at about 5.30-6, which is just too early in my opinion! Sometimes if I feed him, he'll go back to sleep til 7.30ish, but that's pretty rare and so we're usually up very early. If he'd just last til about 6.30, that would be fine.

We had issues with him not wanting to BF in the evening the other week, but fingers crossed, things seem to have gone back to normal now and I'm still doing 2 feeds a day. I'm hoping to continue til he's 12 months at least.

His crawling is getting really speedy now, and he's started pulling himself up to standing - we had to lower the base of his cot the other day as we were worried he might dive out head-first! His favourite sounds are dadada, bababa and rararara...oh and brrrrrrrrrr, especially with a mouthful of food! I keep trying to encourage mamama but it's not happening!

We took him to the beach on Saturday, and he had a nice time digging in the sand. Can't wait to get J a little wetsuit and get him on a board.

I can't believe he's 10 months old already! This time last year, I was on the countdown to finishing work. I saw that a new series of the Apprentice is starting this week, which really freaked me out because we watched an episode of that while waiting for me to fully dilate before I could start pushing!!