Azra is 3 months old!

Azra is 3 months old. Where has that time gone? Have I done my best to enjoy her babyhood before it passes? This is what I ask myself. Everybody says that I will miss this period so I am trying to take advantage of it. We go to the park, take walks along the seaside, go shopping, friends come over to see her. We spend time with Ali (5 weeks older than Azra) and his mum. We play at home with toys. Now she is starting to pick things up and look at them and hold them. Here you can see her with her monkey. Actuallly she used to be scared of him as he was pretty much the same size, in the past month I have put some of her animals at the top of the chair so the when she lays down she can see and speak to them. She has very animated conversations consisting of 'oooh' and 'agoo' with both me and the animals!
When we go to the park I take her on the swing. She loves it! Because she loves this movement so much we decided to buy a rocking chair to help us in our struggle to get her to sleep. What used to be not such a problem has become quite difficult. It is very rare that we can get her to sleep before 10.30. Actually we start the process at 8.30-9pm with a bath and then I feed her. She goes to sleep I try to put her to bed but she wakes up immediately, so then the process starts again. Sometimes the process can go up to 2 hours. Fortunately not more than that though. The rocking chair has helped us a bit at least. We even play music for her now to help her. Some nights nothing helps though. And to make it worse the hours that she sleeps have become less. She used to sleep at least 5 hours but often 6 or 7 without waking up. Now we are lucky if she sleeps 5 hours. She often wakes up 2 hours after we have put her to sleep as well! I thought I had found a way to keep her asleep. We started putting a hot water bottle in her bed so that as we took her out of our warm arms she wouldn't notice so much as her bed would also be warm. Then I found that if I held her arms close to her chest and put my other hand on her stomach, shushed her to sleep and rocked her cradle that when she woke she would go immediately back to sleep when I would do this. When I found this I thought that I had the secrets cracked. However, it works for a while and then you try to do it a few nights later and it doesn't work. Everything changes as does her sleeping habits. The difficult thing is when you have been in control of your life, and then a baby comes along and you have no control whatsoever. If she is is pain, or is tired but can't sleep, hungry but refuses to feed, cries and won't stop whatever you do, there is nothing that you can do. This is difficult, especially for a person who like to be in control! That's when you focus on her smiles and the great things you see in front of you. I guess one has to learn to deal with not being in control!
She has started consciously touching things as she shows with the activity gym. That started about 2 weeks ago. She holds a toy up to look at it and examine it. She has also started smiling at herself in the mirror. She used to cry now however usually she smiles broadly. When we do baby yoga sometimes she even giggles. This is a rare occurrence though.
We took her for her 3 month check up last weekend. She was 5.75kg and 62 cm. So now she must be 6 kg. She is becoming noticeably heavier and chubbier. In fact for her passport photo she has a double chin! To think that she has to live with that photo for at least 5 years! I am even able sometimes to understand the meaning of her cries. It has taken me a while! I remember reading that around 3 weeks a mother can tell the meaning of her baby's cry....
I thought that we had found the reason for her acid reflux. For 10 days I ate no tomatoes, kiwi fruit, and such acidic foods and no chocolate. One weekend I ate tomatoes and chocolate and Azra was much worse after a week of being much better. I stopped eating them and after a few days she was measurably better, spitting up and crying much less. Now however, the spitting up has increased and returned to what it used to be but she is not crying like she used to. So have I found the reason???