I have been pleased to discover some of the cause of Elena's difficult behaviour lately. I almost made a post with something like "Who stole my sweet child and replaced her with this hellion??" but refrained because I hate to call names. But she had been being VERY difficult. Turns out she was probably hungry. We'd been waiting to hear from her that she wanted to eat, but, unfortunately, this is often too late for her. She doesn't want to stop and eat (or go to the bathroom) if she's doing things she enjoys. Her behaviour has been MUCH improved since we've been more proactively trying to feed her more frequently. We've been trying to feed her BEFORE her behaviour deteriorates (like we try to get her to sleep before she's gone wild in her tiredness) and it's been very helpful. It is still difficult to get her to sit down and eat. And it sometimes tries my patience because she eats so much more slowly than all the adults in the house. But it's worth it.
31 May 2010
Developmental Milestones
My mother reminds me that I should note some of these things: Dmitri started rolling over back to front at about 3mos; he now does it frequently and comfortably. He CAN roll front to back, but he's not as comfortable with it. He also started laughing (not just squealing) about a week ago (he's almost four months old now).
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Maybe if I fed myself more frequently my behavior would improve. I'll have to try that :
HALT works for all ages ;)
Interesting about Elena. We have the same issues with Daniel--hating to take the time to eat, and then taking FOREVER to do it when we force him to. Since I personally never have trouble knowing when I'm hungry (quite the opposite, in fact), I find myself waiting for him to tell me he's hungry. But he doesn't.
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