Green Family Footprints: 12 weeks

Hollie is now 12 weeks old, I really don't know where the last few weeks have gone.

Hollie is so alert, always smiling and looking around, she is growing so much that I've started to put more and more of her clothes away. I'm thinking of trying to do a patchwork quilt with her clothes over the next year, just a lovely way to remember those early days.

Hollie recently discovered her hands, she chomps away on the poor things so much I'm surprised her fingers haven't fallen off. I think it could be very early signs of teething as her gums are a little lumpy so I personally don't think it will be too much longer till we see more signs.

For a couple of weeks now Hollie has started to sleep through the night, She tends to have a bottle around 7/8pm and sleeps next to us on her poddle pod until we go up to bed between 10/11pm, she will then take a few oz's sometimes the whole bottle of milk before sleeping through until anywhere between 5am to 7am. Not sure how much longer this will last so I'm trying to enjoy the sleep as much as possible.

I find during the day Hollie won't always self settle and if she does will only sleep for 15/20 mins here and there between feeds, but will sleep for quite a while in my arms and on very rare occasions I can put her down so I can go off and do things. I'm hoping in the next few weeks to try and put her in her cot for afternoon naps as I tried this before but Hollie didn't settle after a few times.

Hollie has been doing a number of things recently, she has discovered herself in the mirror and loves looking at herself and smiling.

She has also been trying to turn over, just about gets on her side then rolls back on to her back often with a surprised look on her face. Blowing bubbles is another favourite thing that Hollie like to do, I promise it has nothing to do with me always singing 'I'm forever Blowing bubbles' to her.

Hollie has gone up to drinking 6oz's of milk every 3/4ish Hours.

Smile Hollie!