I have spent the last 10 months thinking that I had a difficult baby, or at least a very different baby. And I was right about the last part. My son IS different. I've yet to meet another baby like him. A few nights ago, when I couldn't sleep, I decided to read some threads on the May 2010 Birth Boards on Babycenter.com. I had made it a rule to stay away from Babycenter last summer, but I was curious as to how the other 10 month old babies were faring.
I saw countless threads about babies STILL not sleeping through the night. I saw moms distraught over Crying It Out, whether to use it or not. Moms discussing the fact their baby wasn't crawling yet. Some babies who were refusing to eat and needed to see a specialist. Some that just weren't gaining weight yet. Some babies that weren't clapping, pointing OR waving yet (Henry does all three and has been clapping for 3 months).
We have our moments, don't get me wrong. Henry is different in that he has been on the move since before he was born. He has the most active genes from his father and the most active genes from his mother (surprising I had any). I see the pictures of these other 10 month olds, meet babies only a few months younger than him, and there is a HUGE difference. Not only does Henry walk, he walks very well. He knows how to get over door framings, and he can get down from the porch to the ground without falling. He can even push his own wagon that weighs more than he does. He has pushed 40 lb boxes around his grandparents' living room!
When we brought him home from the hospital, it was rough at night. He wouldn't sleep in his pack n play. We tried putting him on his Boppy lounge pillow between us, and it worked for awhile, but we neither got any sleep too worried that Henry would roll off. So Henry slept in his swing from 2 weeks of age to 2 months. I am okay with this. Why? Because in that time frame he went from an hour or so of sleep at a time to EIGHT hours of sleep. And I was told by a family member "Oh you're going to regret that big time. You'll never get him out of there." At 2 months he woke up in the middle of the night, fussed, we put him in his packnplay, ON HIS TUMMY, and guess what? Sound asleep.
Same thing with the pacifer. He was DONE with it by 3 months. We brought it to Alaska, just in case, but all he'd do was chew on it. People told us not to put him in a walker, it would make him walk on his toes, teaching him not to walk properly, or retard his desire to walk. NONE of this was true with Henry. He started walking early, just before 9 months old, and I've only once caught him on his tip toes and the only reason was that he had just tripped over something and was trying to catch his balance. He walks just like he is supposed to.
So in this first year, I've learned a few things. One, don't listen to anyone but yourself and your own instincts about your baby. Well I shouldn't say it like that. I should say TRUST yourself. You will get so much advice as a new parent, a lot of times it is hard to weed through what you need to know and what you don't. I had so many people telling me what I should and shouldn't do that I didn't have a clue what was right anymore. We finally found our rhythm and Henry has grown into a beautiful, healthy little boy with more ambition and drive to learn than I've ever seen from another baby. Now this is probably because I've not been around a lot of babies, but still. :)
It amazes me how I already knew him in the womb. He came out exactly the way he was inside. Moving all day long, active and happy.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Friday, October 22, 2010
Long time, no update!
Two months since my last update, so many things have happened! I really need to start updating this thing more often. Don't I always say that?
Well we survived our Alaska trip quite well! Henry was a pro. The plane ride there was a little difficult at first but he adjusted and several people commented as they were getting off that he was the best behaved baby. He went all over the place with us. We left August 26th and came back September 4th (overnight flight, leaving the 3rd out of Anchorage). We came home with Grandma and left Daddy and Grandpa behind. Henry and I spent 19 days home without Jason. It was challenging, I won't deny that. Having to deal with every feeding, every dirty diaper, every fit, it made me a stronger person. Now really I cannot say I dealt with every single one. My mother in law, Connie, was wonderful. She watched Henry in the mornings for me as I was getting very, very little sleep. Some nights I didn't sleep more than an hour. I worried all night. There was no one else there to hear anything in case Henry was in trouble.
Before we left for Alaska, we decided that we would put Henry in his room when Jason got back and we were back from Santa Fe (we left for NM the day Jason got home for my cousin's wedding). Well about a week into being home alone, a friend of mine, Kerri, recommended maybe if I put him in his own room I could get more sleep. Well I didn't really, but the transition was flawless. He slept just as well if not better in his own room than he did in our room. So he went into his room at right about 4 months.
Henry started his 4 month regression when we got home. He was sleeping through the night every night in Alaska and before. When we got home, he woke up at least twice to eat every single night. That was another huge part of my sleep deprivation. I was afraid that as soon as I would fall asleep, he would wake up and need me. Some nights he woke up 3 times screaming for food. I guess it was a regression as well as a growth spurt. He is getting so big! He was 26.5" and 15lbs 6 oz at his 4 month appointment on September 8th.
He started sitting up all on his own at about 4 and a half months. It was while Jason was gone, probably around September 15th or so. Every day it would get longer and longer. From there he decided he wanted to start attempting to crawl. He would get on his hands and knees and just stay in that position, trying to figure out how to move. He then eventually started thrusting himself forward, not understand that he needed to move his hands to make the crawling motion. He pretty much face dove into the carpet lol. We wanted him to wait until Jason got home to crawl anyway. I knew he wouldn't start crawling until after 5 months. Babies don't crawl until after 5 months!!
Well there is so much more to post, but this is good for now.
Well we survived our Alaska trip quite well! Henry was a pro. The plane ride there was a little difficult at first but he adjusted and several people commented as they were getting off that he was the best behaved baby. He went all over the place with us. We left August 26th and came back September 4th (overnight flight, leaving the 3rd out of Anchorage). We came home with Grandma and left Daddy and Grandpa behind. Henry and I spent 19 days home without Jason. It was challenging, I won't deny that. Having to deal with every feeding, every dirty diaper, every fit, it made me a stronger person. Now really I cannot say I dealt with every single one. My mother in law, Connie, was wonderful. She watched Henry in the mornings for me as I was getting very, very little sleep. Some nights I didn't sleep more than an hour. I worried all night. There was no one else there to hear anything in case Henry was in trouble.
Before we left for Alaska, we decided that we would put Henry in his room when Jason got back and we were back from Santa Fe (we left for NM the day Jason got home for my cousin's wedding). Well about a week into being home alone, a friend of mine, Kerri, recommended maybe if I put him in his own room I could get more sleep. Well I didn't really, but the transition was flawless. He slept just as well if not better in his own room than he did in our room. So he went into his room at right about 4 months.
Henry started his 4 month regression when we got home. He was sleeping through the night every night in Alaska and before. When we got home, he woke up at least twice to eat every single night. That was another huge part of my sleep deprivation. I was afraid that as soon as I would fall asleep, he would wake up and need me. Some nights he woke up 3 times screaming for food. I guess it was a regression as well as a growth spurt. He is getting so big! He was 26.5" and 15lbs 6 oz at his 4 month appointment on September 8th.
He started sitting up all on his own at about 4 and a half months. It was while Jason was gone, probably around September 15th or so. Every day it would get longer and longer. From there he decided he wanted to start attempting to crawl. He would get on his hands and knees and just stay in that position, trying to figure out how to move. He then eventually started thrusting himself forward, not understand that he needed to move his hands to make the crawling motion. He pretty much face dove into the carpet lol. We wanted him to wait until Jason got home to crawl anyway. I knew he wouldn't start crawling until after 5 months. Babies don't crawl until after 5 months!!
Well there is so much more to post, but this is good for now.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
3 months, or 13 weeks!
It has been far, far too long since I posted here. 2 months! I don't know how many times I've told Jason I HAVE to update this thing. I am going to start forgetting everything that Henry did and when. It has to be come more of a priority!
Well first things first, today (well much later today) Henry will turn 3 months old! Already a quarter of a year. Pretty amazing to see how much he has grown and changed in the past 3 months. It seems every single day something new happens.
Backing up some, Henry started sleeping through the night, for the most part, at around 3-4 weeks. He has stayed fairly consistent with the number of hours he sleeps, however, he wants to go to bed earlier now. This means he wakes up earlier. He will adjust eventually, but it is nice he sleeps about 8 hours a night at the moment, usually 8 or 9 to 4 or 5.
He went to his first wedding (my cousin Paul and his wife Delaney). They got married June 26th in Houston. Unfortunately I got VERY sick with a stomach virus. One of the sickest times of my life if not THE sickest. Luckily Jason did not get sick with it until we got home and then it wasn't as severe as mine. His parents both ended up sick and my mom fought it off for a week afterwards herself. Amazingly, Henry was perfectly fine. That is why I pump, even though breastfeeding did not work for us. It keeps my son healthy, it is better for him, and it makes him happy. He has unfortuantely had to have a little formula because he has been eating more than I can produce. Like today, he ate 36 oz! Luckily I had enough for him, but geez kiddo, slow down! I can only get like 30 a day. Anyway, I know it was the breastmilk that kept him from getting sick. I am 100 percent positive of this.
Moving on, on July 8th Henry had his 2 month appointment. He weighed 11 lbs 12 oz (exactly 4 lbs more than his birth weight) and was 24 inches long (he grew 2.5 inches). He is such a long boy! He is finally starting to get a bit chubbier, but for the most part he is fairly lean. The last time Jason weighed him on the postage scale they have for the business (yes, we've done that a few times!), he was 13.5 and that was about a week ago. He goes for his 4 month appointment September 7th I think it is. He took the shots relatively well, however, he started screaming about 3 hours after the shots were done. We gave him some baby Tylenol and he seemed to calm down. He spent a few days just really tired after that. Oddly enough, and this is just for my own personal reference, he also had really green poos for like 9 days afterwards. Gross, yeah, but I want to remember that for future reference if it shows up again.
Another huge step for us: he is no longer sleeping in the swing! I want to say this happened on about July 21st or so. He had already started taking naps in his pack n play, so he was getting accustomed to sleeping there. We had just gotten home from a visit to my mom's and grandparents. I want to say the next night after getting home, he woke up at 2am, very grumpy, we put him in his pack n play and he fell right back to sleep. Now I will go ahead and admit that he sleeps on his stomach. I know many will crucify me for this, but it is the only way he will sleep. He fussies and carries on if he is on his back and he always hated being swaddled. He is an anomoly apparently. He would spend all his time trying to kick the swaddle off of himself instead of getting any rest. Really this isn't exactly surprising since he spent 9 months kicking the heck out of me. Well ok, more like 6, but he enjoyed all 6 of those months lol.
We really feel he is safe this way since he has excellent head control and has since he was like 8 weeks old. Maybe longer actually because the doctor was very impressed at his 2 month appointment. I really think Henry is a bit advanced in that area. I mean it will eventually even out with all the rest of the kids, but for now he seems to have more head control and strength than the average baby his age. He also has a new game he loves called Standing Up While Someone Supports My Arms. He loves, loves, loves standing up. He gets those legs straight as he can and just stands there for a minute or two. He went from maybe doing it a few seconds to being about to do it for a full minute or more now. And that was within a matter of a week or so. He's been doing this now for about a week or two. His dad and grandfather work with him every day, so he has a leg up on the competition. :) Literally!
He absolutely abhors laying down unless he has to, like sleepy time and time to change his diaper. Well still he fusses sometiems when he gets it changed, but once it is changed he might lay on his changing table and coo at us for a while. Then he gets bored and wants up. He has also decided he doesn't really care for our living room anymore. He gets in these fits when we try to sit on the couch sometimes. He wants to be up moving around. He is a peculiar baby in that regard. He has no desire to sit still. There is far too much to see!
Which brings me to another thing we've been doing. We found a Moms group here in Weatherford! I was so hesitant to go, mostly nervous that I would not fit in, but finally decided I am doing this. I RSVP'd for a playdate at the local splash park even though Henry is way too young for it really, but at this age it isn't really about Henry anyway. Stay at home moms need to get out, they need to interact with other adults. It is so important! Especially to interact with other moms going through the same things you are going through. Well that was over 2 weeks ago and we had a great time! There were a few other moms there that were new and we have sorta gotten to know each other a little better. All the moms I've met so far have been super nice, very friendly and ladies I could see myself becoming good friends with. And most importantly, even though Henry is only 3 months old, he LOVES IT! He is so intruigued by the older kids. We went to Storytime at the Weatherford Library this last week and he was the happiest I'd seen him in a while. Not that he isn't normally happy, but he gets bored. Well there wasn't a dull moment that day. Once he was out of his carseat, he never once fussed. He just say there watching all the other kids, eyes wide open, taking it all in. I love that little guy to death.
He is starting to drool like crazy - not my favorite thing ever. That has been going on for 2-3 weeks now. It seems to be getting worse. Some days we have to put a bib on him just to keep his clothes dry! Not sure when he will start teething, but I am really hoping it is after Jason gets back from Alaska. That is one last thing - we are leaving for Alaska in less than 3 weeks now. We leave August 26th and come back September 4th. Jason won't be back until September 22nd. You do the math. Ugh. Not looking forward to this at all. I will be starting a new semester and I am so worried about how I will get it done with just us. I know my mother in law will be around, but I worry so much about taking advantage of her. I already worry about that as it is. I guess for now I need to enjoy the fact Jason is here and just deal with him being gone when the time comes.
We also leave the day after Jason gets back from Alaska for Santa Fe, New Mexico. My cousin Phillip is getting married! Wooo it is going to be quite a month. Traveling with an infant to Alaska then NM (driving at that) should be interesting. I look forward to the trips, just not so much the traveling part of it. At least my mom will be there for both trips and my MIL will be in Alaska as well. There will be tons of help for Henry while we are there. My brothers are going as well. I cannot wait to have a family vacation! We have not gone anywhere as a family since 2001. Almost 10 years! Wowza. This needs to change - more family vacations for us!
I need to wrap this up and get some sleep since I have to wake up in 3 hours and it takes me 30 minutes just to fall asleep. Hopefully I can find time to update this thing again. I know no one reads it but me, but it is really for my records anyway. Well maybe my mom will read it. She's usually interested in this stuff.
Well first things first, today (well much later today) Henry will turn 3 months old! Already a quarter of a year. Pretty amazing to see how much he has grown and changed in the past 3 months. It seems every single day something new happens.
Backing up some, Henry started sleeping through the night, for the most part, at around 3-4 weeks. He has stayed fairly consistent with the number of hours he sleeps, however, he wants to go to bed earlier now. This means he wakes up earlier. He will adjust eventually, but it is nice he sleeps about 8 hours a night at the moment, usually 8 or 9 to 4 or 5.
He went to his first wedding (my cousin Paul and his wife Delaney). They got married June 26th in Houston. Unfortunately I got VERY sick with a stomach virus. One of the sickest times of my life if not THE sickest. Luckily Jason did not get sick with it until we got home and then it wasn't as severe as mine. His parents both ended up sick and my mom fought it off for a week afterwards herself. Amazingly, Henry was perfectly fine. That is why I pump, even though breastfeeding did not work for us. It keeps my son healthy, it is better for him, and it makes him happy. He has unfortuantely had to have a little formula because he has been eating more than I can produce. Like today, he ate 36 oz! Luckily I had enough for him, but geez kiddo, slow down! I can only get like 30 a day. Anyway, I know it was the breastmilk that kept him from getting sick. I am 100 percent positive of this.
Moving on, on July 8th Henry had his 2 month appointment. He weighed 11 lbs 12 oz (exactly 4 lbs more than his birth weight) and was 24 inches long (he grew 2.5 inches). He is such a long boy! He is finally starting to get a bit chubbier, but for the most part he is fairly lean. The last time Jason weighed him on the postage scale they have for the business (yes, we've done that a few times!), he was 13.5 and that was about a week ago. He goes for his 4 month appointment September 7th I think it is. He took the shots relatively well, however, he started screaming about 3 hours after the shots were done. We gave him some baby Tylenol and he seemed to calm down. He spent a few days just really tired after that. Oddly enough, and this is just for my own personal reference, he also had really green poos for like 9 days afterwards. Gross, yeah, but I want to remember that for future reference if it shows up again.
Another huge step for us: he is no longer sleeping in the swing! I want to say this happened on about July 21st or so. He had already started taking naps in his pack n play, so he was getting accustomed to sleeping there. We had just gotten home from a visit to my mom's and grandparents. I want to say the next night after getting home, he woke up at 2am, very grumpy, we put him in his pack n play and he fell right back to sleep. Now I will go ahead and admit that he sleeps on his stomach. I know many will crucify me for this, but it is the only way he will sleep. He fussies and carries on if he is on his back and he always hated being swaddled. He is an anomoly apparently. He would spend all his time trying to kick the swaddle off of himself instead of getting any rest. Really this isn't exactly surprising since he spent 9 months kicking the heck out of me. Well ok, more like 6, but he enjoyed all 6 of those months lol.
We really feel he is safe this way since he has excellent head control and has since he was like 8 weeks old. Maybe longer actually because the doctor was very impressed at his 2 month appointment. I really think Henry is a bit advanced in that area. I mean it will eventually even out with all the rest of the kids, but for now he seems to have more head control and strength than the average baby his age. He also has a new game he loves called Standing Up While Someone Supports My Arms. He loves, loves, loves standing up. He gets those legs straight as he can and just stands there for a minute or two. He went from maybe doing it a few seconds to being about to do it for a full minute or more now. And that was within a matter of a week or so. He's been doing this now for about a week or two. His dad and grandfather work with him every day, so he has a leg up on the competition. :) Literally!
He absolutely abhors laying down unless he has to, like sleepy time and time to change his diaper. Well still he fusses sometiems when he gets it changed, but once it is changed he might lay on his changing table and coo at us for a while. Then he gets bored and wants up. He has also decided he doesn't really care for our living room anymore. He gets in these fits when we try to sit on the couch sometimes. He wants to be up moving around. He is a peculiar baby in that regard. He has no desire to sit still. There is far too much to see!
Which brings me to another thing we've been doing. We found a Moms group here in Weatherford! I was so hesitant to go, mostly nervous that I would not fit in, but finally decided I am doing this. I RSVP'd for a playdate at the local splash park even though Henry is way too young for it really, but at this age it isn't really about Henry anyway. Stay at home moms need to get out, they need to interact with other adults. It is so important! Especially to interact with other moms going through the same things you are going through. Well that was over 2 weeks ago and we had a great time! There were a few other moms there that were new and we have sorta gotten to know each other a little better. All the moms I've met so far have been super nice, very friendly and ladies I could see myself becoming good friends with. And most importantly, even though Henry is only 3 months old, he LOVES IT! He is so intruigued by the older kids. We went to Storytime at the Weatherford Library this last week and he was the happiest I'd seen him in a while. Not that he isn't normally happy, but he gets bored. Well there wasn't a dull moment that day. Once he was out of his carseat, he never once fussed. He just say there watching all the other kids, eyes wide open, taking it all in. I love that little guy to death.
He is starting to drool like crazy - not my favorite thing ever. That has been going on for 2-3 weeks now. It seems to be getting worse. Some days we have to put a bib on him just to keep his clothes dry! Not sure when he will start teething, but I am really hoping it is after Jason gets back from Alaska. That is one last thing - we are leaving for Alaska in less than 3 weeks now. We leave August 26th and come back September 4th. Jason won't be back until September 22nd. You do the math. Ugh. Not looking forward to this at all. I will be starting a new semester and I am so worried about how I will get it done with just us. I know my mother in law will be around, but I worry so much about taking advantage of her. I already worry about that as it is. I guess for now I need to enjoy the fact Jason is here and just deal with him being gone when the time comes.
We also leave the day after Jason gets back from Alaska for Santa Fe, New Mexico. My cousin Phillip is getting married! Wooo it is going to be quite a month. Traveling with an infant to Alaska then NM (driving at that) should be interesting. I look forward to the trips, just not so much the traveling part of it. At least my mom will be there for both trips and my MIL will be in Alaska as well. There will be tons of help for Henry while we are there. My brothers are going as well. I cannot wait to have a family vacation! We have not gone anywhere as a family since 2001. Almost 10 years! Wowza. This needs to change - more family vacations for us!
I need to wrap this up and get some sleep since I have to wake up in 3 hours and it takes me 30 minutes just to fall asleep. Hopefully I can find time to update this thing again. I know no one reads it but me, but it is really for my records anyway. Well maybe my mom will read it. She's usually interested in this stuff.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
4 Weeks!
Sometimes, when Henry is sleeping, I want so badly to just go over, pick him up and cuddle with him for hours. Then I realize that would be ridiculous. NEVER WAKE A SLEEPING BABY!!! I have learned that quickly. He makes the cutest grunting noises when he is sleeping.
Speaking of sleeping, he refuses to sleep in his pack n play. For now he sleeps in his swing. I was completely opposed to it at first when Jason suggested it. Then I decided we could try it, see how it goes. And then when he slept "like a baby" (where the heck did this term come from anyway?), I thought maybe this isn't a bad idea. He HAS to be strapped in, and he is right by my side of the bed. And I check on him constantly. It's like he knows when it is night time now and when he goes in his swing, that means sleepy time. Whether or not he REALLY knows that, I have no idea, but it seems to be working for us right now. A few nights ago he actually slept 7 hours straight. Even when he doesn't sleep that many straight, he gets up, eats, goes back to bed until around 5:30. That's the magic wake up time it seems. Luckily Jason takes that shift. Henry will usually eat then fall asleep on Jason's chest until 7am. Then he's really up. No going back!
He's getting so big and strong now. He lifts his head up all the time, away from our chests and looks around. He really is taking notice of our faces too, and everything around him. He wants to see things and he gets frustrated sometimes when he cannot. He likes to be sat up, like on my knee, so he can look around. He still loves to be burped, especially now because it means he gets to look around. He'll sit up straight as a board for 20 seconds or so, really alert, looking around then crumble for 5 seconds or so and do it again.
He's taken to his paci. Now I know a lot of people say no pacifers are bad, bad, bad, but it really calms him down. He loves to suck and sometimes he'll be "eating" for an hour straight, 30 minutes each side, sometimes longer, but mostly just because he wants to suck. He'll be flipping out, give him the pacifer (which we do while still playing with him, or holding him, paying attention in general) and it calms him right down. He never figured out how to use his hands or his thumb, not yet that is. Maybe he still will
We went to JC Penney's on Friday, his 4 week birthday, and got his picture taken. He wasn't too thrilled about it, mostly the being jostled around, being made to change clothes, and the unfamiliar poses and people, but after he was done he sacked out for several hours. We got a chance to go to lunch while he slept the entire time, then Central Market, which he also completely slept through! We were so happy to get a chance to do some things without a screaming baby.
We've come to realize that he does not like to be left in his carseat when we're in a store. He is generally ok if we're moving, but as soon as we stop and look at something, he starts getting fussy. So I ordered a baby sling (ring sling to be exact). It's being made, so hopefully it will be done in the next week or so. I REALLY hope it works out because I think it will be perfect for us. He loves to be held and this way we can hold him, or at least I can, dunno if it will fit Jason or not, and move around. He quiets down in stores when he is being held, out of his carseat. Cross your fingers it works!
Tomorrow he will be a month old! Well Monday that is. I cannot believe time has flown so quickly. My little man is growing up! Things are getting easier every day. I cannot wait until he is a little older and we can start playing and interacting with him more. That being said, he's becoming a lot more interactive lately. We can tickle his feet and he'll squirm. Today he even smiled and wiggled around. It wasn't a fluke either, we got it on video! And he went to his grandparents' house so we could go to dinner and he did it for them too!
Now if only I had more energy to get stuff done around the house.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
2 weeks and 4 days. That is how old Henry is today. Getting close to 3 weeks! I spent all this time on the April Baby Board on Babycenter, but everyone I sorta got to know over there has 6 week old babies or even 2 month old babies. No one was at the latter part of April with their due dates and none of them went into May. Now I'm a May Mama!
Henry is doing well. He really is a good baby. It's just at night he doesn't really want to go to sleep. I think he just doesn't like not being held. He looooves to be held. He loves to lay on our chests too. Jason lays down with him on his chest a lot. He had to start wearing a shirt at night though, the little guy tries to rip his chest hairs out! Amazing though, it calms him down almost immediately. Well unless something else is wrong, like he's hungry or a dirty diaper, then his legs start going. He kicks and kicks and kicks and works his way up your chest until he has no where left to go! It is pretty hilarious to watch, except for the fact he needs something.
Our baby boy is SO strong. He has the longest legs and people keep commenting on them. And loves to use them. He already tries to scoot around on his blanket during tummy time. He's not even 3 weeks old! I have no idea what this means for the future, but I don't think he'll be sitting still a lot.
He also loves to be burped. That calms him down really more than anything. He has loved being burped since day one, since the first time Jason sat him on his knee, put his hand under his chin and started patting him on the back. His face goes into an immediate look of satisfaction. Sometimes we burp him just to calm him down. He rarely spits up, except this weekend when he spit up EVERYwhere! He's spit up three times total, and two of the three times we know for certain he got too much to eat. The other he had a gas bubble. 3 times in 18 days is pretty dang good I'd say.
He also loves his swing. He takes naps in it daily. We've used it for nap time so much that we already had to replace the batteries (yikes, three Ds!!). I dunno if that is a bad thing, letting him sleep in his swing, but he loves it, he's right near me and I can see him from where I sit. That's surely ok, right?
We've tried to stay away from the pacifier so far. We've given it to him twice now, just because he clearly needed to suck and he just isn't finding his hand to do so. He will get it a bit but he moves SO much when he is awake, he keeps yanking it out of his mouth, but I do not think it is on purpose. He doesn't understand his arm movements yet, just that he needs to move. He doesn't get that when he moves his hands or arms, they won't be where they were a second ago.
We love him to pieces. Looking forward to the days he sleeps through the night though. Might have to take my mother in law up on that offer to watch him while I nap.
Henry is doing well. He really is a good baby. It's just at night he doesn't really want to go to sleep. I think he just doesn't like not being held. He looooves to be held. He loves to lay on our chests too. Jason lays down with him on his chest a lot. He had to start wearing a shirt at night though, the little guy tries to rip his chest hairs out! Amazing though, it calms him down almost immediately. Well unless something else is wrong, like he's hungry or a dirty diaper, then his legs start going. He kicks and kicks and kicks and works his way up your chest until he has no where left to go! It is pretty hilarious to watch, except for the fact he needs something.
Our baby boy is SO strong. He has the longest legs and people keep commenting on them. And loves to use them. He already tries to scoot around on his blanket during tummy time. He's not even 3 weeks old! I have no idea what this means for the future, but I don't think he'll be sitting still a lot.
He also loves to be burped. That calms him down really more than anything. He has loved being burped since day one, since the first time Jason sat him on his knee, put his hand under his chin and started patting him on the back. His face goes into an immediate look of satisfaction. Sometimes we burp him just to calm him down. He rarely spits up, except this weekend when he spit up EVERYwhere! He's spit up three times total, and two of the three times we know for certain he got too much to eat. The other he had a gas bubble. 3 times in 18 days is pretty dang good I'd say.
He also loves his swing. He takes naps in it daily. We've used it for nap time so much that we already had to replace the batteries (yikes, three Ds!!). I dunno if that is a bad thing, letting him sleep in his swing, but he loves it, he's right near me and I can see him from where I sit. That's surely ok, right?
We've tried to stay away from the pacifier so far. We've given it to him twice now, just because he clearly needed to suck and he just isn't finding his hand to do so. He will get it a bit but he moves SO much when he is awake, he keeps yanking it out of his mouth, but I do not think it is on purpose. He doesn't understand his arm movements yet, just that he needs to move. He doesn't get that when he moves his hands or arms, they won't be where they were a second ago.
We love him to pieces. Looking forward to the days he sleeps through the night though. Might have to take my mother in law up on that offer to watch him while I nap.
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