I had been copying this blog to a journal all through my pregnancy so that baby boy would have it when hes older. Right before his birth I stopped posting here, and just continued privately with his journal where I talk about daily life with him and all of his milestones. I will try to start writing here again when I can now that things are slowing down a bit for us.
L is doing really well. He is almost to his 4 month mark now, on September 11. Next big thing on the horizon is the four month shots which I am dreading of course, even though he did really well with the 2 month shots.
He is right on track with development, and breast feeding continues to go really well for us- with all the thanks in my heart to Jack Newman and his clinic!
We are pretty well into a good routine now, and have been for the entire third month. Bedtime is great, and days are great as long as he gets the right amount of nap time. He will need between 14-16 hrs of sleep from month 3-6 and he usually gets 14. He sleeps about 10 hrs at night, gets up 3 times to nurse, and then has two 2 hr naps during the day (on a good day). His sleeping is only predictable in that his napes are about 2 hrs apart. He takes his first about 2 hrs after waking in the morning, and the second 2 hrs after the first. Usually.. there are odd days when he doesnt.
People started telling me that I should not worry so much about his naps and that I should go ahead and take him out whenever I feel like it because "he will adjust" and "learn" to sleep anywhere. Well, thanks to these people I learned the hard way that just because other peoples babies do things in a certain way dos mean all babies do things in a certain way.
I tried taking him out like that a few times and we both paid for it dearly. He does not sleep outside of home at nap time, and if he doesnt get all the sleep he needs he gets overtired and extremely cranky and worked up. Luckily for these advice givers- they dont have to mop up the mess, I do. :-)
So, needless to say we have learned to do things our own way. It simply means that if other people want to visit L, they have to go by his schedule and not their own.
I will write more soon, L just woke up from his nap and we have a few things to get done.
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