June 18 Part 2

This week has been slightly hectic.
There were noticeable changes in Ananya. These changes began last monday. I can recollect:
1. Lot of fidgeting. She was very uncomfortable not matter how much we tried to comfort her.
2. She wanted us to hold her and rock her all time.
3. Her cries were far more shrill.
4. She hardly slept till 12.30- 1AM.. and very light during the day.
5. she wanted to feed every hour or so (atleast that is what we felt)
6. We again failed this week trying to teach her to use the pacifier. We are scared that if a need arisies, then it would be very difficult to bottle feed her :-(. God willing .. such a need should never arise.
7. She tries to suck her closed fist vigorously. No matter how hard you try to defeat her intentions.

On the positive side, some rashes which had developed on her face almost vanished and she is back to her charming self. :-) ( we used olive oil and johnson's baby lotion to treat her condition)
She also enjoys her bath time.. and she is all smiles.

Lalitha was scared of this development, though i was slightly more confident that nothing was wrong. But i was not too sure.
Ananya has her six week check up tomorrow and we wanted to defer our inferences till such time. Some how it never struck us that we might get answers referring to the internet. When we did try, our first answer was worrying . It was about pin worms which gives those symptoms.
(scary stuff, i would rather not talk about it)
Our second hit was better. Something to do with Ananya's six week growth spurt.
more on growth spurts in a later mail.
right now the little one is slowly falling asleep. i need to go and help her sleep well.
~Murali