More updates on Lexi’s development:
With Lexi moving so quickly in so many other ways in her development, a big question is when her first tooth will come in. It’s the biggest question on our minds, and everybody else is asking us too. Observations of her gums reveal no signs of a tooth. She’s not drooling or chewing her fingers any more than usual. I asked the pediatrician about it yesterday. He said not to worry if she has no teeth by this stage. So we will continue to wait.
We are also eager to have Lexi start sleeping through the night. The pattern for the past several months has been for her to wake up once at some point in the middle of the night (usually around 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.) to drink a bottle of milk. In the past couple of weeks, however, there have been hopeful signs that she is ready to give up this nighttime feeding. She has slept through the night on three nights in this period. I asked the doctor about this as well yesterday, and, based on how I described Lexi's behavior, he seemed to be saying that her waking up was largely psychological, that it is just how she has been conditioned, that her internal clock has been set to do this, not necessarily because she's hungry and can't sleep without being fed at that hour. So he suggested we try weaning her off this nighttime bottle, which we will try.
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