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OK so this may come out as a long rambled mess as my head is all over the place with Morgan at the minute. I have a few concerns and problems with her at the minute and so I'm just looking for some advice.
So she's 11 weeks old today and in a lot of areas is developing well... she smiles a lot (when she's in the right mood!) and we've even come close to a couple of proper giggles, she's babbles and tries "talking" to us well (again, when she's in the right mood), but then there's a few things I would have expected her to do now, which she isn't even close to trying to do.
She has absolutely NO interest whatsoever in any of the toys she's got. Every day I try and encourage her to try grabbing out for things, but she doesn't even move her arms even a bit when I hold stuff near her. Her hearing seems ok as she responds to us talking to her(and her newborn screening was normal) however, if we make a noise slightly out of her line of sight, she doesn't even acknowledge that she's heard anything, let alone attempt to try and look to where the sound's coming from??
She gets bored ridiculously quickly, and screams the place down most of the day, and th eonly thing that will really pacify her is to pick her up and walk around the house with her. As soon as you sit down with her, the screaming starts again! She's extremely fidgety in her sleep and her arms and legs are constantly on the move.... so much so that she's woken herself up the last few nights and so has completely broken her routine (she had been sleeping right through the night from 10pm-7am ish for almost the last 4 weeks!)
She's not having as much of her milk as she normally does the last week or so... she usually has 5 bottles of 6oz a day, although she didn't always finish them all. This last week, I've been lucky to get 3-4oz down her at a time, and she's still only having 5 bottles a day... she also sips about 1-2oz of water during the day too.
She's quite obviously getting frustrated and bored.... but how do you entertain a child who just doesn't want to be entertained???!!!! We even took her into the ELC at the weekend to let her have a look at all the toys to see if there was something that caught her eye, but she just wasn't interested in any of it!
The only thing that will occupy her is a programme called "Boo" on CBeebies that's on for 10 mins at 7.45am!! As soon as she hears the theme tune, she sits perfectly still and talks at the TV!!
So any ideas??? What do I do with her??? I feel like such a shite mum that I can't make her happy and entertained.
So she's 11 weeks old today and in a lot of areas is developing well... she smiles a lot (when she's in the right mood!) and we've even come close to a couple of proper giggles, she's babbles and tries "talking" to us well (again, when she's in the right mood), but then there's a few things I would have expected her to do now, which she isn't even close to trying to do.
She has absolutely NO interest whatsoever in any of the toys she's got. Every day I try and encourage her to try grabbing out for things, but she doesn't even move her arms even a bit when I hold stuff near her. Her hearing seems ok as she responds to us talking to her(and her newborn screening was normal) however, if we make a noise slightly out of her line of sight, she doesn't even acknowledge that she's heard anything, let alone attempt to try and look to where the sound's coming from??
She gets bored ridiculously quickly, and screams the place down most of the day, and th eonly thing that will really pacify her is to pick her up and walk around the house with her. As soon as you sit down with her, the screaming starts again! She's extremely fidgety in her sleep and her arms and legs are constantly on the move.... so much so that she's woken herself up the last few nights and so has completely broken her routine (she had been sleeping right through the night from 10pm-7am ish for almost the last 4 weeks!)
She's not having as much of her milk as she normally does the last week or so... she usually has 5 bottles of 6oz a day, although she didn't always finish them all. This last week, I've been lucky to get 3-4oz down her at a time, and she's still only having 5 bottles a day... she also sips about 1-2oz of water during the day too.
She's quite obviously getting frustrated and bored.... but how do you entertain a child who just doesn't want to be entertained???!!!! We even took her into the ELC at the weekend to let her have a look at all the toys to see if there was something that caught her eye, but she just wasn't interested in any of it!
The only thing that will occupy her is a programme called "Boo" on CBeebies that's on for 10 mins at 7.45am!! As soon as she hears the theme tune, she sits perfectly still and talks at the TV!!
So any ideas??? What do I do with her??? I feel like such a shite mum that I can't make her happy and entertained.