Harris' daydream 1

one milestone up

Harris has started mouthing! since last night.

 if before this he would only suck things that touched his cheeks or mouth, now he is able to bring his hands to his mouth and suck them! congratulation Harris dear. that's quite a start :D  Another milestone achieved at the age of 3 months and 4 days :) Alhamdulillah

oh btw! Harris weighed 6.4 kg, and is about 59 cm in length  by 3 months old ;)

shopping again

while the metropolitan resident went back to their hometown during the recent eiduladha celebration, we decided to do vise versa. we spent the eid in KL :-)

 mama and abah bought a few things for Harris

Ergonomic Bath Support by Mothercare. Harris loves this so much!

Bumble Bee Latex pillow

Bumble Bee nursing pillow

I'll try to give the best I can for my baby's comfort :-) seronok tgk barang baby niyh !

Places that Harris has gone to

1. Airports
1. KLIA 
2. Dubai
3. Queen Alia  inernational airport, Amman
2. Irbid
3. Jerash, the Roman ruins site
4. The Dead Sea
5. The Golan Height 
6. Himma - Palestinian border
7. Amman
8. Ummul Qays
9. Dubai city including
1. Atlantis hotel
2. the palm island
3. Emirates hotel

Harris is less than 3 months old. my little ibnu battuta =)

little ibnu battuta

Harris has crossed the continent. He is currently in Irbid Jordan ! :)

growth and development

i forgot to mention in earlier entry : we brought Harris to the clinic too yesterday ( in between the two photo shop visits). he was supposed to get his two months old vaccination jab but the nurse refused to do so as he is 3 days younger than 2 months old. what pissed me off was the fact that THEY were the ones who gave the appointment date and said it was ok. nurses... sigh. anyway , let's put that aside. 
You Harris, however, was still weighed and measured. 5.3 Kg and 54 cm in length. I am amazed and honoured.me being a paediatrician in the making ( uhuk uhuk) absolutely will chart up your growth even when the nurses didn't ( n i tell you they should!) so here they are :

Growth chart taken from About.Paediatric . click on the picture to enlarge.

 

 

you started off at a 5th centile ( which means 5 % of babies your age weigh similarly or below) and now at two months old you have catched up to 50th centile! that's ma boy :)

i also, just now,  incidentally elicited that you have bilateral ankle clonus sustaining about 3 to 4 beats. made my heart skip a couple of beats before i could think properly again. how could i not be when clonus might indicate a high motor neuron abnormality ( like cerebral palsy for instant)!however,  i believe it is normal to have clonus at this age provided it was not too prolonged and no other signs of neurological deficit. Harris, you are growing well in all aspect - gross motor, socially, vision and hearing - therefore this finding is likely to be part of your normal development eventhough not all infants have it.it'd better be so... we'll see in a few months.

you see mothers, this is the reason why clinic follow up is vital - to ensure that babies grow up well and free from any condition that might not be apparent at birth or early neonatal period and thats why you need to plot the chart so that you know that your child is still within the majority wagon.

Harris' first Passport

Harris made his debut passport and pic yesterday! My God he was so sleepy that we had to go to the photo shop twice coz Harris didn't want to wake up the first time despite vigorous attempts to make him so. My dear Harris:D

That was the best snap the photographer managed to take as he was still very sleepy and did not look at the camera most of the time ( i think this was the only time he did so).

Anyway, well done mon petit. you made it:D now set yourself for grand voyage around this little planet :)