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\nSix months.\n<\/p>\n
\nIngrid grows and develops so fast that sometimes I feel like she changes overnight. During the last month she has become so much more of a person, with character and habits and quirks of her own. Every day she seems to become more alert and aware of what is going on around her.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn less than a month she has learned to sit without support, although I do keep a pillow behind her so she doesn’t hit the floor when she falls. She can even twist and look over her shoulder without falling, and lean forward to pick up a toy and then straighten herself again. Very impressive, considering that she could barely sit at all a month ago.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd now that she has seen how nice it is to sit – how easy it is to reach for toys and what a great view one gets – she no longer accepts lying down. (Would you prefer to lie down all day, or to sit up and see what’s going on around you?) Now she rarely spends more than a minute lying down before she not-so-discreetly requests to be lifted up to sitting again.\n<\/p>\n
\nHer hands can now not just pick things up but also pass them from one hand to the other, turn them around and drop them. And they can splash water in the bathtub. (Speaking of baths, we have definitely abandoned the bath support and she now sits up in the bath. Wobbly and scary, but it works.) The hands still have a life of her own, wandering around and gripping whatever they touch, even if she is busy with something else and not even looking at her hands. And they grip VERY HARD, so hard it hurts, because her grip is still all-or-nothing.\n<\/p>\n
\nShe is still very physically and visually oriented. She is strong and likes to move and be active. She also likes to see things happen – when she gets grumpy, my first move is to put her in a sling and let her watch me hang laundry or empty the dishwasher. She isn’t particularly interested in sounds or talking, however: apparently most children babble quite a lot at this age but I haven’t heard her babbling much at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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