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[lollardfish]

My son has a stuffed toy he loves to cuddle and sleep with. This just happened yesterday, and it makes me very happy.

We've learned a lot about Nico over the weekend. The most interesting moment, for me, was Saturday night. We were all tired and he started to fuss, fuss, fuss. We thought he might need to eat or be changed, but the minute that Shannon and I took him into a private room (we were at a hotel, a gathering of many friends), he relaxed and started to giggle and be happy. So we went back out again to the party and the fussing returned. He just was tired of the stimulae, I guess. We went home, gave him a bottle (of formula), and he slept for 7-8 hours.

Yesterday, it was clear that his gross motor skills and cognitive connections between his hands, objects, and mouth have nade a big leap (or many small unnoticed leaps). Our friend, dreamshark, noted that she was convinced that whenever her children had been exceptionally fussy as infants, some big developmental leap followed. Well, maybe she's right! Nico is so much more object-focused, especially with his "doggie." The Doggie (I'll get pictures up soon, maybe in Nico's buttonfish journal) is a combination soft silky blanket and stuffed animal. We got a couple of these during the baby shower and, frankly, had no idea what to make of them. But he loves to sink his hands into the soft blanket, he can, and does, squeeze it against his body, and then he likes to mouth the doggie head a lot. He's currently sleeping with his arms wrapped around the doggie right now.

It's a happy morning.

I require coffee.

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I suspect that his obvious ability to detect differences in the (for want of a better word) social environment bodes well.

Kids vary hugely in their responses to stimulation. You get parent-points for being so sensitive to Nico's; I think we've all seen the sad results of parents who pay no attention to the fact that their kid (even some much older than Nico) has HAD ENOUGH.

Did you ever see the movie Short Circuit, with the robot Johnny V? He constantly said, "Need input." Well, we had one like that; even when very young, this kid was IMpossible to overstimulate, wanting constant new visual and auditory stimuli. The other three had lesser, and different, tolerances for stimuli. (Of course, multiple kids make handling the different needs a bit tricky!)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah ....

Nico loves stimulation, until he doesn't, then he wants quiet.

Of course, now he wants his doggie ...

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Every baby needs a "lovey" and I'm glad he's got one.

K.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I loved meeting Nico this weekend. I still get pangs of baby hunger periodically (Good lord, Fiona is 14 and Delia is 10, and you'd think I'd be over it by now) and it warms my heart to get to oogle a darling baby like Nico and stroke that soft head and give him a forefinger to curl his hand around. What fun!

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

I remember taking small Jamie on a trip; after we came home we found him the next morning sleeping wrapped around and on top of his brown bear, which was as big as he was . . .