Baby diary: 19 months
Jul. 11th, 2020 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petronia Telehealth call with Alan's doctor (which was supposed to be an in-person appointment, but the Quebec government hasn't updated its automated reminder message that says only "the doctor will call you," so we didn't go to the CLSC). Asked about his shrimpy spine curvature, and relative lack of speaking. In the end, he's going in person in August so she can check all of that. Meanwhile, it was reiterated that babies under 2 should have no screen time, so that led to two days of sniping with my mom, who is of the generation of immigrants that is a true believer in educational television for language acquisition. =_=
It must be said that Alan's learnt a lot from the past 4 months of nursery rhyme videos, but he understands much, much more than he's willing or able to say, in both languages - and if there's a gesture that'll do the job (yes / no / bye-bye etc.) he'll go with that instead. I think he feels his tongue is clumsy, because if there was a delay it was early on: he hardly babbled until he was nearly 1. But for instance, this morning he had gone under the toddler slide in the neighbourhood park, and when I said "Alan, be careful of your head," he looked up to see where the "ceiling" was (he'd never been in that spot before). And he's now quite often able to point at the right picture in his 100 First Words book when one says, "Alan, where is the [object]?" Though he doesn't... always distinguish between the picture and the real thing? When one say, "Where are the socks?" he'll point at his (sockless) feet. And hilariously, "Where is the sleeping baby?" elicits lying down in "child's pose" and pretending to sleep.
Anyway, I think an hour of TV a day is not the end of the world, so we will probably slowly pursue our Ghibli regime. But I'm going to try to minimize the slumping-on-couch-watching-Youtube-because-grownups-have-to-work time, despite COVID. It could only improve his posture, for one thing.
(Today he ate fresh cherry tomatoes and strawberries very well, but refused cherries.)
It must be said that Alan's learnt a lot from the past 4 months of nursery rhyme videos, but he understands much, much more than he's willing or able to say, in both languages - and if there's a gesture that'll do the job (yes / no / bye-bye etc.) he'll go with that instead. I think he feels his tongue is clumsy, because if there was a delay it was early on: he hardly babbled until he was nearly 1. But for instance, this morning he had gone under the toddler slide in the neighbourhood park, and when I said "Alan, be careful of your head," he looked up to see where the "ceiling" was (he'd never been in that spot before). And he's now quite often able to point at the right picture in his 100 First Words book when one says, "Alan, where is the [object]?" Though he doesn't... always distinguish between the picture and the real thing? When one say, "Where are the socks?" he'll point at his (sockless) feet. And hilariously, "Where is the sleeping baby?" elicits lying down in "child's pose" and pretending to sleep.
Anyway, I think an hour of TV a day is not the end of the world, so we will probably slowly pursue our Ghibli regime. But I'm going to try to minimize the slumping-on-couch-watching-Youtube-because-grownups-have-to-work time, despite COVID. It could only improve his posture, for one thing.
(Today he ate fresh cherry tomatoes and strawberries very well, but refused cherries.)
