Ben's Blog

On 7th April, Ben had his health and developmental check with the health visitor.  Everything was absolutely fine, his weight was back up on the centile line and he is developing as he should be and reaching all the right milestones at the right time.  We now only have to see the health visitor every couple of months.

Ben eats 3 meals and 3 milk feeds a day, so he must be gaining weight well now!  He is certainly getting heavy!  He pretty much eats everything and so far we haven’t really found anything that he doesn’t like.  He really enjoys Petit Filous, but then who doesn’t?

Ben can now sit up for over 5 minutes all on his own, it won’t be long and he will be crawling around and pulling himself up to stand against the furniture!

Ben was weighed last Tuesday, his weight was 17lb 7 oz.  He was actually a bit underweight and below his centile line.  We were told it was nothing too much to worry about but we were to feed him up!  So we have now increased his solid meals in quantity, he has 2 a day now as well as his milk.  Another week or so and he can pretty much eat anything that we do.

Ben’s height is also a little under the centile line, but this is quite common as he is growing and developing in other ways and he will catch with his next growth spurt!

Ben can now roll right over from his back onto his front and back again, he even does it in his sleep now and tends to sleep on his tummy!

Here is Ben in his Everton clothes that he had from Santa at Christmas.

Ben was weighed again last Friday and he is now 16 lb 15 1/2 oz, so he is getting bigger all the time!

Also last Friday, we decided to go up to Dartmoor and seek out any remains of the snow that was around from the previous week.  We were amazed that there was so much left, especially at Postbridge, which is a fare way into the Moor.  We had a walk around in it as this was the first time Ben has been out in any snow.  It was having a good look around and found it all very interesting.

Here are some photographs that were taken.