BC sends a weekly email, if you want it, that is specific to the age of the child--you enter in your due date, and from then on they send along an update about mom and baby's development. When the baby is born, you enter in the birthday, and then you receive a weekly update about mom, baby, and family developments general to that age.
Subscribing to weekly emails, in my experience, is usually not a good thing, but with babycenter you can control the dose. Another advantage of the Internet: read their headline/teaser and stop, or click for more, or head off to the margins for any number of related hyperlinks when you're feeling really curious. During the pregnancy, the updates were especially helpful at making tangible the fact that a baby was actually cooking (his mother did not need any extra evidence). For several months, they compared the size of the fetus to an everyday object--from a lime to a sack of sugar and a couple gourds in between. Niece Anna really enjoyed that.
This week BabyCenter is talking about things the Prince has already mastered--sleeping through the night and interacting with smiles and laughs, for example. Pssssshhhh! We're already onto bigger things. Namely our hands, feet and mouth--the mouth is the primary sense organ, apparently. The Pooh Bear, your shoulder, your chin, you name it, he will suck on your knuckle if you give it to him (stay clean people). This morning when we were still lying down in bed we took turns holding him at a 45 degree angle on our knees--a position he loves because he can look at us, suck on his hands, and catch a glimpse of the ceiling fan, all at the same time. But this morning, he didn't want to look around, he wanted to bend over far enough so that he could try to suck on his feet. I heard the baby next door already does that.
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Can Stanley please give Joshua a call about sleeping through the night. Momma Tex would surely appreciate it :).
....I should clarify about PC's sleeping habits! He sleeps a large chunk of each night, maybe for six hours. But he still needs to eat at 4 or 4:30 a lot of times, and again at 6:30. And even this is not a hard and fast rule. We think he's a pretty good sleeper for his age....so much growing going on!
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