And a
few days. Where has the time gone? Before giving birth I figured I would be
documenting EVERYTHING on here, so much so my few readers would be bored with
the posts. Alas, babies take too much
time, and my writing mojo seemed to be depleted. I am hoping it is coming back. Today is actually Canada Day and I am getting
the morning off of mama duty. Deb took
Spencer to visit family elsewhere in Alberta for the morning. My lung infection is back, the last round of
antibiotics, around Mother’s Day, didn’t quite kick it and it was starting to
come back with vengeance, so I tried to be proactive in going to the doctor’s
this time. I am now on a heavier set of
anti’s and it seems to be helping.
Yay. But that is why I got the
morning off, so I could rest and nap and sleep in without feeling guilty and
without Spencer needing me.
It
was at the six month mark that we were going to do the cry it out to get
Spencer to nap in his crib instead of his lamb swing. We didn’t really need to do that. For a large part of his naps he goes down
without a fuss. We have such a peach of
a baby. Don’t get me wrong there are a
few bad days of crying but overall he gets fed, and then knows it is nap time
and watches his fish mobile till he falls asleep.
On a
hope, I am going to try and at least do the monthly updates of information. I’m taking inspiration from 2momstobe.blogspot.ca.
Physician’s Checkup – For Spencer’s 6
month check up; we got his latest stats.
He now weights 7.23 kg which is a pinch away from 16 pounds. His height is 65 cm or 25.5” and his head is
42.5 cm or 16.73”. He seems to be
following the right curve of growth from birth, at around the 25th
percentile, so that is good news. Our current doctor is a little flaky, she
asked some very general questions like, has he found his toes, can he roll
over, etc all to which I answered yes. He found his toes ages ago. She also asked about his feeding habits and I
mentioned that we have started him on solids a little while ago due to the fact
he wanted to eat every 60-90 minutes.
She didn’t seem too concerned that we started food a little earlier than
the recommended 6 months.
Spencer
(and Deb) go in for the next set of vaccine’s next week. I seem to trust their measurements, for his
head and length, a little better. Weight
seems to be on par and our weekly Wii Fit weigh in’s are pretty accurate with
both doctor’s scales.
He
still goes for physiotherapy once a month, for the torticollis. Last month we got into a little trouble for
not doing his neck stretches enough.
Oops. Lately he has been doing a
lot better with his stretches at home.
We also need to carry him right side down and do repetitive motion
exercises with him when we can a few times a day. Some days we are better than others, but we
keep trying. He seems to be doing much
better.
Sleep patterns – About a month ago
Spencer decided that around 8:00 was his bed time. That is when he goes down for the major
sleep. Before Deb and I go to sleep we
feed him, so that is around 11:00 and he can eat usually around 100 ml or a
decent feed from the breast, aka yaybie.
(The term came from a comedic bit we heard and stuck.) Some times he will then sleep till about 6:00
but other times he wakes up around 4:30 and then again around 6:30.
Food - Food started a little earlier than six
months. He has done quite well. We started him with Oat cereal. That was a hit. We then introduced pumpkin, liked but not
quite as much as cereal. He has now had
butternut squash, peas, broccoli (that took a few days to acquire a taste for
it), carrots, yellow beans (those were a big hit surprisingly), banana, honeydew
melon in a food sock (that is funny to watch, he LOVES it and when you take it
away to adjust the food in it, he gets upset), watermelon, and chicken. All of which, except the cereal was made by
us to puree. We usually mix the chicken
in with a vegetable as he doesn’t quite like it by itself, he will eat it, but
not a favorite. We started him with
dinner, then introduced breakfast. We
have tried to introduce lunch, but so far he doesn’t seem too interested in
eating mid day yet, for solid foods.
The
few things that we haven’t made are as follows: he had a jar of Gerber Turkey
and Sweet potato, while we were in Fernie as we didn’t travel with solids for
lack of a freezer. One night we were at
a restaurant and we had brought cereal thinking it would be enough, and were
dead wrong, so he got Montana’s Garlic Mashed potatoes. I kind of fretted about the salt and garlic
and miscellaneous seasoning in there, but they were a hit and he didn’t react
to anything in the days following. Just
the other day at the zoo he got his first taste of Tropicana Orange Juice. I know juice isn’t good to introduce too
early, but I don’t plan on giving it to him on a regular basis, just on occasion.
Feeding
times are difficult. He won’t usually
take to the breast throughout the day, he prefers taking pumped milk from the
bottle or formula. I’m still a little
short on producing enough milk. I have
even started domperidone to help milk production which has help, but I still
need to supplement with formula. He isn’t
fond of taking a bottle while being held either though. So I usually still give it to him in the
swing, or laying on the change table, or I’m trying in the high chair after
eating. We are now introducing a sippy
cup for milk/formula drinking. That is
still a work in progress. So he usually
takes the yaybie first thing in the morning and any times he wakes up through
the night. He occasionally takes it as
he just wakes up from naps, and just before going to bed if it is me putting
him to bed. Then his additional bottles
varies from day to day, some days he has a lot of 60ml bottles other days it
will be 120 mls but less frequent.
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