Baby Sheri is one week old!

We brought baby Sheri to her pediatrician, Dr Toff, for her first check up on the day after she was discharged from the hospital. She has her first vaccination for hepatitis B. Her physical examination results are normal. What amazes me is some of the reflexes that newborn baby has. One of them is called 'stepping'. With the help of Dr Toff, baby Sheri is able to place one foot in front of the other and'walk'. According to Dr Toff, this reflex will disappear after 2 months and then it will recur as the learned voluntary behaviour of walking towards the end of the first year.




Time passes very quickly. Baby Sheri has been home for a week. She has very good appettite, drinking about 2 to 3 oz of breast milk at each feeding. Mummy has difficulties trying to keep up with her demand for breast milk. She seems to sleep better in the daytime, but she can be quite fussy at night. Fortunately, the grandmother is around to deal with this little terror so that mummy and daddy can get some sleep.