For those baby lovers among you who like pictures of smiling babies, even stranger's babies... (*groucho marx accent* "and there's nothing stranger than babies") here's a recent shot.
For the mess averse among my gentle readers, note that the baby's head is resting on a patterned piece of fabric that just happens to be a cloth diaper. Babies that are prone to spitting up will soak anything under their mouth, including your shoulder, your arm, the cat, the changing table, and their fancy bed linens... One solution is to keep a cloth diaper under their head, neck and shoulders -- let'em soak away!
My wife has been using small terry-cloth bibs to keep the car seat drool-free, but now that Amelia has gained a modicum of control over her hands, there's a small hole in that logic -- you see, bibs are conveniently located within hand's reach and easy to get to the mouth. Of course, once the edge is curled mouth-ward, the spitup is free to flow over that edge to the nice dry pajamas underneath.
The other thing that helps is not boiling the baby. Ok, perhaps I better explain that comment a little -- you don't actually boil the baby, but you can get them quite excited with very little effort this excitement appears to cause stomach contents to "boil over" and come dribbling, spilling, and shooting out of their mouth: "who's daddy's girl? oh what a pretty smile you have! can you hold my finger? that's a good grip you have! ... oh wow you can sure spit up a lot!" Of course, this varies by baby. My son rarely if ever spit up, but my daughter is a drool and spitup factory and she's still not 4 months yet.
We've hit that stage where she is now capable of grabbing some nearby object and steering it into her mouth, including the hand that is trying to dry her hair. ...and so, having masted the charmer smile, and started the period of initial dexterity, the first 3 months of "crying bread loaf" end and the real fun is just beginning. I can hardly wait for "peek-a-boo"!
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What a sweetie! I love her name--Amelia was on our short list for our daughter--it almost was her middle name. And if our little baby boy had been a baby girl, I'm certain Amelia would have been involved somehow. One of my favorite literary characters is Amelia. :o)
We also had a crazy puker--our first--so when the next one came, we thought that was normal and didn't realize that most babies don't puke their own body weight every day! The second one drooled so much that her nickname was Katrina for a while, because her drooling peaked at just about the time Katrina soaked the Gulf Coast.
Beautiful baby--and loved the pic of your muddy mountain climber, too!
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