Five Month Milestones

This week Grace turned 5 months old. Probably the most important development this month was that she now sleeps all night. Dr. Ferber is wonderful. Grace goes to bed at 8:00 p.m. and sleeps until 6:30 a.m. It's given me my sanity back. We also started solids this month. She eats cereal in the mornings and does very well with that. In the evenings we have been trying out a variety of jar baby foods. Some she likes better than others. At this point she does very well if she eats a half of a jar of any item, usually it isn't that much. I think we're getting closer on sitting too. She loves to "sit" on your lap, but on the floor (without support) she stills falls forward. I keep catching her trying to pull herself forward to sitting in her carseat and bouncy seat though. I also think we may see a tooth this month. She hasn't been especially fussy, but she drools constantly (lots of drool) and everything goes in her mouth. She especially likes harder items which she rubs on her gums.

Here are the items the book says are 5 month milestones. I've bolded the items we've hit.

By the end of this month, your baby
...should be able to:
- hold head steady when upright
- on stomach, raise chest, supported by arms
- roll over (one way) (we can do both ways!)
- pay attention to a very small object
- squeal in delight
- reach for an object
- smile spontaneously
- grasp a rattle held to backs or tips of fingers

...will probably be able to:
- bear some weight on legs
- keep head level with body when pulled to sitting
- say ah-goo or similar vowel-consonant combinations
- razz (make a wet razzing sound)

...may possible be able to:
- sit without support
- turn in the direction of a voice

...may even be able to:
- pull to standing position from sitting
- stand holding on to someone or something
- feed himself or herself a cracker
- object if you try to take a toy away
- work to get a toy out of reach
- pass a cube or other object from one hand to the other
- look for dropped object
- take a raisn and pick it up in fist
- babble, combining vowels and consonants such as ga-ga-ga-ga, ba-ba-ba-ba, ma-ma-ma-ma, da-da-da-da