Kyra - 3rd Month

By 3rd month you are mostly out of baby blues, if any. I have become more comfortable with the baby as her routine has become quite predictable. I sometime think about old days (before baby was born) and want to get back to normalcy.

Dear Kyra,

Now you are completely familiar with both daddy's and mine voice. Our voice seems to sooth you even when we are not around. You can make steady eye contact and smiles at us like anything. You like the way my lips move and try to imitate what I am talking. In fact, you have turned out one talkative little one. You can make sound like 'aaahooo...aaaghoooooooo...aayyyyyyyyyy...memmeeeeee'.

Doctors advised to start poly-vi-sol iron drops but you lost your appetite due to bitter taste of these drops. So after a week I stopped them. Anyway, I give you Ayurvedic drops (Amrutyog) so I do not need to supplement you.

Also, I started giving you Somva-34 and that seems to help you as now there is less spitting and regular pooping.

You got dry skin and rashes all over the body. I tried Hydrocortizone cream and Aveeno body cream. They help a little though. So I am gonna share my concern with the doctor during next appointment. I tried olive oil and patrolium jelly and both of them helped a lot. Even doctors said you would outgrow this by age of 1 year.

You can follow sound/object with tilting your head. You can very well follow both of us moving around the house.

You have found your fist. You like sucking them even when you are not hungry. Sometimes you start sucking right after meal and eventually spit up. I applied lemon juice/bitter melon juice on your fist and fingers. But to my disappointment, you liked bitter taste and started sucking even harder :(

You were a spitter baby, but now situation seems to be improved. Even without burp, you can sleep well. And when you are about to burp, you want to be held in upright position than throwing up.

I got couple of picture books from the library. Bedtime story session does not work considering your cranky nature at night. So we read books in the afternoon or evening.

You can now grab objects firmly. However, you do not know how to release them yet. So you pulled your hair with all the force and could not open your fist.

During last visit, doctors advised to start tummy time i.e. put you on your stomach. Obviously, that is not a very comfortable situation. So I put you on your stomach on my belly so we can see each other's faces. You love being held like that!

From face to face situation, I have also started holding you in upright position. If I am sitting on floor, you will climb on my lap and then all the way to belly. You always smile and talk in this position as our faces are very close to each other.

Now we can differentiate your crying - for hunger, sleep or wet diaper. Sometimes you just scream out of nothing . Some other times you make pity face with lower lip quivering and watery eyes. And we call you 'Chinku Bagdyu'.

On your 3rd month birthday Daddy and I decorated your crib. We bought gold bar to commemorate this day; first time we bought something precious with our own money.

See you next month :)