Month: 6 - August 26, 2017
Height: 25in
Weight: 12lbs 11oz -- He didn't gain much this time since we were having supply issues and transitioning to bottles. We have a weight check next month to make sure he bumps back up like the doctor thinks he will now that we are switching to formula.
Diaper Size: 2
Clothes Size: still 6mo here
Sleep: He is normally asleep anywhere between 6:30-7p and then most nights sleeps until the 5am hour, eats, and back down until maybe 8ish? His naps have gotten A LOT better and he only sleeps in his crib! I do rock him to sleep for naps because that is just what little man wants. For awhile he would wake at 40min on the DOT every time. We are slowly getting past that and most mornings he will do a good hour and a half. Then the other ones vary from 40 min to around an hour and a half. Sometimes even 2 hours, but that is rare! He still is only awake around an hour or hour an a half at a time if we are home before he is ready to go back down. It seems he knows we are at home and just wants to go back to sleep. He'll manage a lot longer if we're out and about, though he does look like a half asleep little zombie. We haven't gotten on a nap schedule of certain times.. just more when he is sleepy. Total second kid!
Eat: As I mentioned above we are now transitioned to bottles. He slowly started refusing nursing at certain times about a week before his 6mo appointment. Once we saw his weight wasn't picking up this time at the doctor, she concluded I must've been slowly losing my supply and it finally dipped enough for him to want to stop nursing. We made it 6 months and 4 days BF. I am shocked! I honestly didn't think we would do it at all so that was a huge success for me. Now I am just trying to figure out how much and how often he wants to eat with the bottle. Right now we are doing 4-5oz every 3 hours or so. We'll see how it goes!
Dislikes: Coughing.. His poor cold is pitiful.. more below. Oh, and he HATES if he wakes up on his belly. My goodness, he goes nuts!
Extra Updates: Poor little guy picked up Tilly's cold earlier this week and he is so, so pitiful. He is sneezing and coughing like crazy with a nasty runny nose. It's so hard when babies are sick since there isn't much you can do. He coughs and gets so upset! In other news he can roll over both ways now, he just still doesn't show much interest in it. He is still pretty lazy and hasn't done much else ha. We are traveling home to MS next Saturday and I am curious and terrified of how this trip will go with 2 kids. We are stopping half way on the way there and home.. so that makes 4 days of travel. Yikes! Hopefully it all goes ok and we don't have 2 cranky kids. Not too many updates this month.. just getting our sleeping down and trying to adjust to new feedings. He is still a super mommy's boy and loves to be held and entertained. I can not believe he is already 6 months old. Time is flying by!! He is still pretty small and is hard to fit in all the baby gadgets, so we have to stick towels around him like we did with Tilly! lol Also, he is his daddy's TWIN! You'll see in some of the pictures below!!
We love you little man, Happy 6 Months!!
