The grabber

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This is the stage where baby grabs every and any thing and puts it in her mouth. Prior to this she starting sucking her finger and if she's hungry she'll put her entire fist in her mouth. So we did away with the mittens, partly because of hygeine and partly to promote her gross motor development. One less thing to wash. Some people tell us that we should never give the kid a pacifier, others say sucking the fingers will disfigure them, our PD told us that I shouldn't let the baby suck for comfort as it's a bad habit and that we should give the pacifier. Who are we to listen? And what would baby do to get some comfort to help her fall asleep? I figured we give her all the soothing methods in moderation so that she won't get used to one. In the day, my mother in law will give her the pacifier and sarong if it's difficult to get her to sleep as it's the fastest way to comfort a kid and she has other house chores to do. At night and during the weekends, hubby and I will take turns petting and cradling her to sleep, at the same time holding her arm down to prevent her from sucking her fingers. Since she starting grabbing , she has been pulling out her pacifier out of her mouth at times, grabbing and pulling my shirt while nursing, grabbing the side of her blanket while sleeping and pulling her shirt up. Shame shame.

- Mummy