My 9 month old absolutely loves it… gives me at the very least, the happy 15 minutes alone in her playpen that I need to take a shower and take out the garbage before work, before my wife gets home.
But seriously, holy cow, that channel just mesmerizes her.
Even now, I have that Bonnie Bear, Let’s All Play song stuck in my head.
This channel is a godsend… and Katie perks up the second I switch to it.
Oh yeah, unrelated, but while I’m here: Katie has always been an absolute angel, sleeping through the night at six weeks, etc…
But now that she’s nine months old I’m a little worried about us letting her sleep from 8 until 8… Is that right? Is that cool? Is that good parenting?
She’ll be walking any day now… she can do the “hold on to the couch and move down it” thing. When should she start talking?
Ok, that is too freaking adorable. Awww! Wazza widdle cutie! Yes her is!
Ahem.
I wouldn’t worry about the sleeping thing; babies sleep when they’re tired and wake up when they’re done. According to this chart a 9 month old needs about 14 hours of sleep a day, with 11 hours coming at night and the other 3 in the form of a nap. So she’s doing exactly what the experts say she should.
Talking is liable to start anytime in the next 3 months, really, depending on the kid. My daughter said “Kitty!” at about 11 months, IIRC, and my son shouted out his first word when he was a year old (my grandmother had just died and we were at the visitation surrounded by elderly relatives, and it would have been cute if he hadn’t chosen a particularly colorful four letter word rhyming with “duck” for his speaking debut).
I’ve never seen this channel that you speak of, but my son was mesmerized by “Wheel of Fortune” when he was a baby. I still have no idea why.
I’ve seen the previews they run sometimes on Dish Network and my main thought was that I bet the stoners would find it even more entertaining than Teletubbies.
I wouldn’t worry about the sleeping through the night, our little one has been doing that for months now. Except right around 11 months she started waking up once or twice a night, every night.
As for the talking, I don’t know what to say. Sabina says all sorts of different stuff, from DaDa, baby, MaMa, and a few other things. I just don’t think she knows what they mean. I’m thinking for now that’s a good thing since if she takes after her mother both my ears will fall off!
Absolutely on target, as already said. We all need more sleep than we think, especially babies and teenagers (who should BOTH be getting about 12 hours a night! Problem with teens is their bodies don’t make the “feel sleepy” hormone until about 11 at night - if we were smart, we’d start high school at 1 in the afternoon and have school suppers instead of school lunches.)
Awww…that’s called “cruising”, by the way. It’s so cute, isn’t it?
There’s a huge range of normal talking ages. Most kids have a word or three by 12 months, but some of 'em save it. My son, for example, is and always has been a “wait until I can do it perfect” kid - he didn’t make a peep until he was 2, and then starting talking in complete sentences with multisyllabic words. My daughter is a much more “try it out” girl, and she’s been speaking in “babblespeak” since about 10 months - you have to sort of detach and listen to the cadence to know what she’s saying, as she’s pretty uninterested in forming the actual sounds of English correctly. Then every once in a while, she’ll come out with something clear as day.
Thanks for posting that chart, Marlitharn. Shayla has been putting in a good 11-12 hours a night for a few months now, plus two to three hours of naps during the day. I had been wondering if she was sleeping too much – that helps answer that question.
And that’s an exceptionally cute tyke you’ve got there, Eleusis.
My daughter is like WhyNot’s son…she started talking late, and then practically overnight started in with long sentences. She also likes to think about words before she says them, and she will repeat a sentence she hears slowly, to try to get each syllable, and repeating the syllable if she doesn’t get it right. Then once she gets through the whole thing once, she will say it again, quite clearly! It’s pretty funny to listen to, because she is trying so hard to get it right.
