Quinn at six months...
-12 pounds 11 ounces and 24 1/2 inches
-you can sit up now! well, you still need the boppy pillow around you so you don't topple over and i stay right by you because when your toy goes flying you launch yourself at it, which usually results in a face dive into the carpet.
-you take three naps and except for your late evening nap they are usually longer than 45 minutes now! hurray! you still wake at the 45 min intruder but i just give you back your pacifier and you go back to sleep. sometimes it takes a little while but you do eventually fall back asleep.
-you're awake span is still two hours. i'm really looking forward to you not needing that last nap in the evening so we can go places without worry about you getting overtired or trying to find a place for you to sleep. you won't eat if you're too tired and you can get over tired to the point where you fight going to sleep pretty bad. so i really try and make sure that doesn't happen!
-you love to grab our faces (with a death grip that is sometimes very painful) and eat/kiss our face. i love it!
-definitely know what your pacifier is! if you want it you get excited when i show it to you and if you see it where you can't get it you get upset.
-you've started to favor your stuffed pink hippo that plays music when you pull the tail. i keep it in your crib and turn it on when you're fussing as i swaddle you. sometimes you get really excited when you see it and just grab it and cuddle it. i'll give you other stuffed animals and you definitely don't have the same reaction for them.
-moved up to size 2 diapers
-rolling from back to tummy is very consistent now but once you're on your tummy you won't roll back and when you decide you're done you just get sad and cry until we help you.
-definitely know what your pacifier is! if you want it you get excited when i show it to you and if you see it where you can't get it you get upset.
-you've started to favor your stuffed pink hippo that plays music when you pull the tail. i keep it in your crib and turn it on when you're fussing as i swaddle you. sometimes you get really excited when you see it and just grab it and cuddle it. i'll give you other stuffed animals and you definitely don't have the same reaction for them.
-moved up to size 2 diapers
-rolling from back to tummy is very consistent now but once you're on your tummy you won't roll back and when you decide you're done you just get sad and cry until we help you.
-just the last couple of nights you have finally started sleeping through the night again! either the teething tablets are working or you just decided to stop waking multiple times a night. thank goodness!
-you started baby food and you loved it! well, you mostly just loved it the first time. i think you were just really hungry. we've only tried whole wheat rice cereal mixed with breast milk so far just cause you still haven't really learned how to eat well from a spoon.
-you are the most smiley baby ever! you smile at anyone and almost never stop :)
-i think this might be my favorite baby month with you. you are so fun and we love to just be silly together.
-one thing that has made things a little better with you and me is that you don't nurse anymore. you started refusing to nurse just before you turned six months. you would just scream and scream. i would still offer at every feeding but i would still end up pumping and giving you a bottle. but after a few days of still offering and you still screaming i decided it definitely wasn't worth the stress for the both of us! at first i was kind of freaking out wondering what we were going to do because i did not want to give you formula and i did not like the idea of pumping all day every day. it's not that i don't have breast milk to give you it's just that you don't want to nurse. you never ever really did. since day one it has always been a struggle. i'm surprised we made it six months.
so i've decided to stick with exclusively pumping. it is time consuming and it is so not my favorite thing to do but i honestly would feel so selfish if i just put you on formula when i still have the best thing for you. it might take a little more time out of my day and give me more bottles to clean but it makes me much happier when you're happier. no more wrestling matches to try and get you to nurse. i love feeding you and if you are a happier baby with the bottle than i guess it makes for a happier home. nursing was almost always so emotionally draining for me since you made it such a chore. so i guess this is all for the better. i have noticed such a difference between the both of us.
(i keep wanting to do a post about our struggle with breast feeding because a lot of the time i felt that i was so alone and that everyone else had perfectly nursing babies that they could nurse any where and every where and i was so sad and mad that i couldn't do that. hopefully i can get to writing about it.)
-you are the most smiley baby ever! you smile at anyone and almost never stop :)
-i think this might be my favorite baby month with you. you are so fun and we love to just be silly together.
-one thing that has made things a little better with you and me is that you don't nurse anymore. you started refusing to nurse just before you turned six months. you would just scream and scream. i would still offer at every feeding but i would still end up pumping and giving you a bottle. but after a few days of still offering and you still screaming i decided it definitely wasn't worth the stress for the both of us! at first i was kind of freaking out wondering what we were going to do because i did not want to give you formula and i did not like the idea of pumping all day every day. it's not that i don't have breast milk to give you it's just that you don't want to nurse. you never ever really did. since day one it has always been a struggle. i'm surprised we made it six months.
so i've decided to stick with exclusively pumping. it is time consuming and it is so not my favorite thing to do but i honestly would feel so selfish if i just put you on formula when i still have the best thing for you. it might take a little more time out of my day and give me more bottles to clean but it makes me much happier when you're happier. no more wrestling matches to try and get you to nurse. i love feeding you and if you are a happier baby with the bottle than i guess it makes for a happier home. nursing was almost always so emotionally draining for me since you made it such a chore. so i guess this is all for the better. i have noticed such a difference between the both of us.
(i keep wanting to do a post about our struggle with breast feeding because a lot of the time i felt that i was so alone and that everyone else had perfectly nursing babies that they could nurse any where and every where and i was so sad and mad that i couldn't do that. hopefully i can get to writing about it.)
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