This last month has been stressful to say the least. We did a lot of traveling which Edward is definitely a champ at. There are the “wonder weeks” where babies are growing and so they get fussy and like to eat every hour and then cry for seemingly no reason. Edward hit his 12 week one and is still going strong. Once he realizes we are starting to get him ready for bed, he starts crying and nothing helps him. He is fed, has a clean diaper, isn’t too hot or too cold (as we constantly cover and uncover him to figure it out). All we have come up with doing is to hold him and rock him while quietly talking to him to help him sleep. This process can take anywhere from half an hour to over 90 minutes. I usually start the process by feeding him and rocking him, and if he doesn’t go down within 45 minutes, I pass him off to Darrell who tries for half an hour. We only pass off if we are getting frustrated. Once he is down though, he goes back down no problem after eating.
Other than the bedtime routine, everything else has been smooth sailing. He doesn’t always like to nap during the day, so sometimes I end up doing a shortened period of bedtime routine just to get him to take a half hour nap. He is usually up for about two hours and then sleeps for 30-60 minutes. He tends to take about 3 naps during the day.
So our typical daily routine is approximately:
Wake-up 7:30
eat 7:45-8
play 8-10
eat 10-10:15
sleep 10:30-12:30
play 12:30-1
eat 1-1:15
play 1:15-1:45
sleep 2-3
play 3-4:30
eat 4:30-4:45
sleep 5-5:30
eat 5:30-5:45
play 5:45-6:30
eat 6:30-6:45
bedtime routine start 7
usually asleep between 7:30-9
wakes up to eat at midnight, and 4.
During play time, we do a couple things. He likes to sit on the couch and play with a handkerchief. We put him on the mat on the floor and put a mirror over him so he can talk to the baby in the mirror. He gets tummy time in front of a mirror. We sing songs, read books, take walks and he talks to the dining room light. He is starting to reach for items and grab them intentionally. He can’t hold onto them, but he will play with it for a little bit.
We also got our first belly laugh out of him the day before his three months. We had gone to a BBQ at Uncle Kenny’s and Darrell was playing with Edward on a desk and Edward just got a big ole belly laugh going. I am still waiting for mine. He definitely likes to be in a sitting upright position and likes to be involved with whatever we are doing. He talks a lot now and is always making noises at things. He loves looking at words and always looks at Darrell’s white board in his office when we go down there. We wrote his name on it and he just looks and smiles and then starts to talk.
I don’t know his measurements and wont until next month, but I do know he has grown. He is out of his 3 month clothes and is already out of some of the 3-6 and 6 month clothes. We finally took the infant insert out of the carseat and he is getting to the point we might need to go ahead and buy another carseat before too long. We have also started putting him in the stroller without the carseat which is nice because it is less hassle to carry around, but with the way our stroller works, we lost a little bit of space once we did that.
Edward is now taking some naps in his crib and also the first part of bedtime is in his crib until Darrell and I go to bed when we move him to the cosleeper. I think this might be helping in aiding his need for a midnight feeding, so we are going to try putting him in the cosleeper the whole time and see how the nights go.
As for cloth diapers, we are still rocking it. I am currently doing about 2 loads every other day right now. One for diapers and one for spit rags since he is still a spitter. However, I am thinking that soon I will only have to do them every 3 days. We are consistently using about 15-16 diapers in those two days so we still have 9-10 more when I do laundry. I was going to try not to do diapers on the second day and wait until the third, but the best time for me to wash them is after Edward goes down for bed so I just wash them to be on the safe side. He doesn’t poop all that often (sometimes we only have one poopy diaper when we wash them), and it was something we worried about when it first started happening, but he does poop at least once in a 48 hour period, so we aren’t worried anymore. It doesn’t bother him, so we try not to let it bother us. 🙂
We are still breastfeeding. It is getting easier now that he is getting better/faster at it. I still try to pump so that we always have a bottle in the fridge, but for awhile, I was only getting a couple ounces (and I only like pumping once a day) so when Darrell would feed him, I would still have to go in since it wasn’t enough. I started to eat more avocado and Oatmeal and then only pump half an hour before bed and now I am getting about 4-5 ounces.
