Just been catching up. I'm sorry again that it's been so long since I posted. I've had a tough time with mood and everything and just haven't been able to keep up, or I would catch up but forget to post. I think if it was a Facebook group or WhatsApp with it's notifications and things I might have more chance... hoping things are improving though and I can read and post more regularly.
Charlotte is 11 months old tomorrow. We had her 10 month check last week and are having a review in 3 months as we scored very low on the gross motor skills. Of course, that afternoon she stood for the first time so I'm sure she'll have caught up soon enough. We got a home visit but I think that's because she was being weighed regularly and they wanted to double check all is fine there still.
For milk and food, she's still breastfed and doesn't have bottles - so no milk at nursery (can't remember which mum was worried about that), but it can vary a lot. At 8m she decided to drop a lot of her daytime feeds in one go, so she ended up on 3 meals plus 2 snacks quite early on, and then she started adding a few of them back in. She'll sometimes go on for like 30-60 seconds and then decide she wants solids instead. Meals can be hit and miss. We're doing a lot more blw style now but she doesn't always want what we give her. Sometimes she only eats a little and sometimes she eats a lot more. She likes to drop food, sometimes just for fun and often when she's finished. I'm not worried too much because she's getting lots of what she needs from my milk while still trialling lots of different foods etc.
@UKtoSK if Jia has a dairy allergy, wouldn't she be reacting already to the dairy in your breastmilk? DS2's face reacts a lot to mayonnaise and salad cream, different brands of ketchup etc and we haven't figured out why yet but he has no other symptoms.
Sleep wise, we're still all over the place. She was self-settling really well in Dec, Jan she cut her first two teeth and she would fight going to sleep and push out of my arms etc, then Feb was good and she started sleeping through/ only have one or 2 wakes with a really long stretch, and then March hit and two more teeth cut and I'm guessing leap 7 and I've had fun with longer bedtimes, which are a mix of cluster feeding and alternating feeding and rocking until she gives in, and more wake-ups. Last weekend was really tough with multiple transfers and bedtime lasting more like 2 or more hours rather rhan 30-60 minutes, but then the last few nights we've gone to barely waking during the night again and not quite as bad at bedtime. I really need to do something about the rocking because I'm having issues with my back and it's not helping. Daytime naps are fine though unless she's at nursery. I too thought sleep would be much better by now @Smiffette. It was with both my boys. With this fun with sleep and lockdown/ covid restrictions, I am struggling often with mood or patience.