Thursday, January 22, 2015

Sleeping and Eating! (Developmental updates for later reference) 6-7months and MSO 2.5yrs

Well I absolutely do not want to jinx it.... But Christopher slept thru the night last night!!!!!!!  He had slept thru the night from 7pm-6am ish in Disney World a few times (no nursing, no waking, etc) so we knew he was capable of it; however he hadn't really done it at home. To give him credit he had been sleeping from 7pm - 4am/5am nursing and then going back to sleep til 8am for about 3 months..... So it wasn't awful and most people consider that sleeping thru the night. But we have been hopping to cut out the nursing at 4am. We hadn't done sleep training due to Mikaels busy season (OCT/NOV), sick (Dec) and teething (Dec/beginning of Jan) so we finally started 1/20 bc he was healthy and wasn't cutting any teeth.

It totally worked!!!! The 1st night he did wake up around 3am. Mikael went in at the timed intervals of 3 minutes, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 10, 10, 10..,,, for 30 seconds to reassure c he was ok and to offer a paci. After about 30 minutes he stopped crying/fussing and went back to bed. The sleep nurse reccomends doing this for 3 nights and having the dad do it due to the fact that te baby associates the mom with milk/nursing. The 2nd night Christopher slept from 7pm-6am.... No peeps! Imagine how excited we are!!!

On a side note, I have also tried "dream feeding" and maybe that has helped. I literally go into his room before I go to sleep and feed him and put him back into his crib.

Eating..... At 6.5ish months Christopher eats baby food 3x/day. He has baby yogurt for breakfast, 2 baby foods, puffs and yogurt bites for lunch (2nd foods 7oz total) and then eats dinner with us (2nd foods 7oz). We just switched to 3rd foods the last few days and he loves those too! So he is eating about 5 containers/jars of food a day! He likes eating when we are eating and he will let you know he isn't happy if he isn't being fed while a group eats in front of him.

We have offered non-puréed fruits, but he keeps spitting those out... So may keep trying later on.

Christopher has 4 teeth on the top and 2 on the bottom all through the actual gum! Poor guy is happy now but has been teething for about a month since they all came in around the same time!

And he is army crawling and rocking! He started back in December. But he officially can get anywhere on a flat surface pretty quickly!

He is still nursing every 3-4.5hrs and takes a bottle great too.

Finally, he is a great napper finally. I put him down fully awake for at least 2 naps a day. He will put himself to sleep. He loves his pacis and small lovie. He usually sleeps from 10-12 (2hr nap in the am) and then again for a 2hr nap in the afternoon. He has been napping like this for about a month consistently.



Mason is still an awesome sleeper! He goes to bed between 7-8pm and sleeps til 7-8:30am.  He takes 1 nap a day. Usually from 1-3/3:30. We are at the point where we can push it back a bit, but he will ask to go to sleep if he's tired ;) and I would say he is totally potty trained! We started at 27 months (September) and he was wearing big boy undies all day without accidents by November 29 months. He only wears a pull up at nap and bedtime. He is typically dry after nap time. He even asks for "privacy" now which is just hilarious!

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