What Simon is doing
Teeth:1 bottom tooth!
- Can sit up!
- drools and chews on everything
- always kicking his legs
- laughs, smiles all the time
The paci is a toy not an actual pacifier.
Eats:
Nursing: Nurses every 3 hours. Still super fast
Solid food: Simon loves to eat solid food and would much rather do that than nurse.
Sleeps: Babies and sleeping really shouldn't be so difficult, but it is. 8 months later we are still trying to figure out Simon and his sleep but there is light at the end of the tunnel. I have played around with bed times, nap times.....you say it and we have tried it. I hit rock bottom last week because Simon was waking up 6-8 times a night. It was terrible. On Thursday (5 days ago) Brad decided that sleep training would start that night and he would be in charge. Although Simon cried a lot that night, I actually slept more than I had the whole week prior I think.
Tonight will be night 5 of no feeding Simon during the night. Brad goes in and consoles him at various intervals depending on the night (we followed this website). Simon's last feed is at 6pm and bedtime is now at 6:15 or 6:30 depending on the time of the last nap. Last night (night 4) was amazingly good. Simon woke and cried briefly at 3am and then woke up or the day at 6. It is kind of an early day but I will take an early day over 8 times waking up anytime! What we have learned from the process: 1) Simon needed all his night feeds eliminated, trying to just reduce them confused him. 2) it has to be Brad who goes in to console him, if I go in he gets MAD! 3) if he is just slightly crying we don't go in or it wakes him more up and he gets more mad.
Naps: He is taking 2-3 naps a day. He naps at 8:15(for 1-1.5 hours), 12 (for 1-1.5 hours) and 3 (for 30 min). He is staying awake for 2:30 hour chunks during the day.
Weighs: 16 lbs
Likes: loves the swings, loves splashing at bath time, sitting, playing with the wheels of Joy's stroller, watching Rudy fetch balls, green blankie, riding in the stroller or ergo, being out and about
Dislikes: is no longer sucking his fingers (which is when our night time sleep got really bad!)
Favorite event this month: First Easter egg hunt (although he just watched Joy :-)
Nursing: Nurses every 3 hours. Still super fast
Solid food: Simon loves to eat solid food and would much rather do that than nurse.
- Loves: pumpkin, green beans, rice, oatmeal, rice, plain yogurt, pears, apples, egg yolk, avocado, potato, zucchini,
- Verdict is still out on:
- Introducing this week: Lentils!
- Need to try again: avocado seems to be ok now
Tonight will be night 5 of no feeding Simon during the night. Brad goes in and consoles him at various intervals depending on the night (we followed this website). Simon's last feed is at 6pm and bedtime is now at 6:15 or 6:30 depending on the time of the last nap. Last night (night 4) was amazingly good. Simon woke and cried briefly at 3am and then woke up or the day at 6. It is kind of an early day but I will take an early day over 8 times waking up anytime! What we have learned from the process: 1) Simon needed all his night feeds eliminated, trying to just reduce them confused him. 2) it has to be Brad who goes in to console him, if I go in he gets MAD! 3) if he is just slightly crying we don't go in or it wakes him more up and he gets more mad.
Naps: He is taking 2-3 naps a day. He naps at 8:15(for 1-1.5 hours), 12 (for 1-1.5 hours) and 3 (for 30 min). He is staying awake for 2:30 hour chunks during the day.
Favorite event this month: First Easter egg hunt (although he just watched Joy :-)
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