Cannon is also starting to grow in new hair! He has all this new fuzz on the top of his head. I can't wait until it's long enough for me to style again! He isn't rolling over both ways yet, but I think he could if he really tried. He rolls to his side to reach for toys, but stops when he gets them. So I tried putting them a little out of his reach, but then he won't try to get them. Oh well, he'll do it soon enough. He has also been playing with his feet more. He grabs them, but he can't get them to his mouth yet.
This week he decided to only take two naps instead of three. I was okay with this because each nap was two hours long. It makes it tricky because when he wakes up from the second nap, it's too late to take a third nap but too long to wait until bed (unless I put him down at 6:45). So I've been doing my errands in the early evening and letting him sleep in the car for 10 or 15 minutes. It's just long enough to get him through until bedtime. He is still waking up in the night, actually it's the early morning, to eat and then go back to sleep. It's my goal to get him to sleep 11-12 hours, without eating, by the time he is six months old. So I've been tweaking his schedule a little and hopefully it will work. I'm just tired of getting up in the night. It wouldn't be so bad, but I can't fall back to sleep for almost an hour. He is also not very hungry when he wakes up for real at 8:00 or 8:30 because he just ate at 5:00 or 6:00am. So he should be eating during the day and not in the middle of the night. He was such a good sleeper as a newborn that I thought it would carry on. Don't get me wrong, he is a good sleeper now, but he hasn't really progressed recently. At age six weeks, he started sleeping eight hours at night. When I started solids, he was going 10 hours. One time he went 11, so I know he can do it. But right now he is back to eight or nine. So yesterday I gave him his "dinner" rice cereal right before his bedtime nursing instead of at our regular dinner time hoping that he could go longer (don't ask me about last night, he woke up at 2am). Then this morning I gave him a little bit of rice cereal after I nursed him. This will give him three solid food meals a day plus five nursings (four, once I cut out the 5am one). I'm not really sure how to cut out that 5am feeding, so I'm open to suggestions. I was thinking of only partially feeding him and gradually decreasing it. I've tried rocking him back to sleep, but that did not go over well at all! I'm hesitant to let him cry it out because he gets out of his swaddle that way and then I have to reswaddle him. I guess I could also teach him to sleep without his swaddle. Any other suggestions?
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impressive!! we are still working on it. He's so cute.
So cute!! I love when they start sitting up. Although, we've had many bonks with Ryan falling, I still love it. They seem so old when they do it.
As for the sleep thing, we had the same problem. So what I started doing was just putting him to bed earlier. He was going down at 10 and waking up at 6 to eat and then go back to sleep. So now he goes to bed around 730 or 8 and still sleeps as long. He eats and snuggles with me in bed after that. Oh, and the last nap of the day is a cat nap, so Ryan sleeps 2 - 2 1/2 hours during regular naps and then 45 minutes at night and then when he wakes up we get him ready for bed and put him down.
It's so funny because I went through all these same things about 4 weeks ago! ;)
Such a big boy - sitting up! he looks so dang cute! I'd try shirley's suggestion. i can't remember what time you put him to bed but cole definitely needed an earlier bedtime to get rid of the night wakings too. sometimes it was 6:45 like you mentioned until everything evened out. Then it was 7:30, then 8:00, and well you know now that it is anywhere between 8:00 and 9:00 depending on the days activities and naps.
He is soooooo darn cute! I think he is starting to look like you a LOT!
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