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Time flies, Jake is already 4 months old now.

I can still remember the whole pregnancy time that I had been through. Much of it was spent in various states of nausea and was admitted to the hospital for dehydration. And I can still remember how difficult the delivery process which Jake was very slow to come out because of the umbilical cord wrapped partly around his neck.

Now, he is growing a lot. He is a big boy. His weight is 9.15kg (20.1 pounds). His length is 64 cm. He is very chubby, sometimes I am afraid that he is getting too fat but the doctor said that nothing to be worried as long as the baby is still exclusively breastfeeding.

Jerome calls him “GUMEH” which stands for “sumeh” (smile a lot, even with strangers) and “gumoh” (spits up). Yup, Jake likes to smile to other people and he likes to spit up after he drinks his breastmilk.

Jake already can do many things at this stage. He can roll over in one way, grasp a rattle or other things held to backs or tips of fingers, follow an object, turn in the direction of voice, and keep his head level with their body when he is pulled to a sitting position. The thing that he does not like the most is when we do not involve him in the conversation or leave him alone either in his car seat or crib. If we attend or have a party, he does not want to sleep or does not like to leave him alone in his car seat. He wants us to hold him and be part of the party and can be awake until in the middle of the night.

He likes to put a thing in his mouth. He likes to stand up. He likes to mumble and say ah goo, ah, or dad de (sounds like Daddy) and other similar words.

Until now, he does still not like a tummy time. Maybe because he is too fat.

Galuh