Salma now 4 weeks old

Well, Salma is 4 weeks old now. Here are a couple "views from a shoulder"...



People say she looks more like me these days, but I'm not sure I see it.


We introduced a few new items into our repetoire. First, we got the Infantino sling going. I don't have a pic, but it works great most of the time. We also introduced the Bjorn, which my friend Daniel refers to as a "burping machine".


Here the Bjorn is modeled by Javaneh. Salma also features in Javaneh's blog.



We've also discovered the bouncing ball is just the ticket for calming Salma down if you don't feel like dancing all over the house.



Jaleh-joon has also discovered the magic of the bouncing ball.


But sometimes Jaleh-joon and Kholeh Ameneh prefer the bounce-on-the-bed technique.




Another exciting development is that we were able to introduce a bottle, so now I can feed her. It seems we were very lucky that she was willing to take the first bottle/nipple we tried (Advent).

She's not so excited about the pacifier at this point. Though she has taken it a couple times.

Zahra has also been practicing the sideways-football-hold-with-jiggling-head technique which has been working well for me.



And when all else fails, it's great to have more family come over and take over while you eat dinner. Wendy and Bendad seem to have remembered all the tricks.

Salma is 3 weeks old

Well so far so good. Salma got her first diaper rash (I don't have any pictures, don't worry). Thankfully auntie Debbie and Jaleh-joon both had excellent advice and it cleared up quickly.

She's been sleeping quite well and her temper is good... as long as you're paying attention to her. She seems to like the vibrating chair for a while and also enjoys "playing" on her tummy on the "surf board".

This last week I was working mostly from home. This meant doing some meetings with Salma.

It really seems like she is starting to see the world around her now. And she does more seemingly deliberate things with her hands... like grabbing your clothes. And a cool thing is that when you rock her, she seems to participate by moving her head to counter balance the rock... in a way that seems to anticipate the motion. Very cool.

Zahra's figured out that when the doctors and nurses say that it doesn't matter what she eats while breast feeding, they're full of shit. It matters. So far we know that broccoli and probably cauliflower are really no good for Salma. Hopefully we'll be safe with zucchini and green beans.

Last weekend we had friends come visit, here's a picture of their little one Alexia.

Amu Bahram works his magic

Cutie Pie

Photos by Mina Javid & Targol Mesbah