Stats: You weighed in at 16 lbs even on your 6 month check up on July 23rd. I switched you to size 3 diapers after you turned 6 months. I was finding you had many blow out diapers in size 2. You are wearing mostly 6 month clothes. You fit some 3-6 month and 6-12 is a little big on you. You started to wear 9 month sleepers this week and they are a little big as well but they do the trick.
Feeding: You sure get enough milk from me. You feed usually every 2-3 hours a day. Each feed has become shorter, anywhere from 5-10 minutes and you feed on both breasts for each feed. Your bottom two teeth popped up before you turned 5 months but just last week you started to really bite me when you are breastfeeding. One day last week you bite me so hard I started bleeding. You can be a little stinker sometimes!
We tried feeding you brown rice cereal the day you turned 6 months but you didn't like it at all and threw it all up including everything else in your stomach. The doctor told us to wait a couple days before we tried it again, we did and you ate it better but still didn't like it. We have put it on hold for now and will try again probably next week because we had started sleep training you and thought we should space both of them apart.
Sleeping: Before you turned 6 months you were not sleeping well. You would sleep for only a few hours at time and would need to be fed 2-3 times during the night. I would also need to nurse you to sleep every night and when I put you down for naps as well. I would nurse you for over an hour before bed and then burp you. Once you burped I would swaddle you up and carefully put you down in the crib for the night, the whole process would take almost 2 hours and it was exhausting. For naps you would usually have your first nap in the morning while we were out and about in the car seat. Sometimes you would just have a snooze while you were nursing. You would only nap for 45 minutes max. At least I could count on you to have a longer nap during the afternoon when your sister went down for her nap. You would sometimes wake up after 45 minutes and need me to put you back to sleep. You would then have a late day nap before dinner for 20 minutes or so usually on the breast when you were nursing.
Your doctor said we could start sleep training you at 6 months because you would be ready developmentally. We decided to start sleep training you on Saturday July 26th at bedtime. I had used the Sleep Easy Solution book to help us sleep train your sister so I reviewed the book again. I had to make sure during your feed that you didn't fall asleep on the breast before bed. We put you in a sleeper and made sure we took away the swaddle as well. We put you down fully awake with a little blankie and larger cotton blanket. You only fussed on and off for 13 minutes and then put yourself to sleep. We were amazed that was all it took, we expect you to cry for a whole hour. You were just ready for this. You woke up 3 times that night but I only fed you once. The next morning we decide to tackle naps as well, you surprisingly did just as good. You were able to put yourself to sleep, you woke up after 40 minutes but then slept again for almost another 2 hours. It felt like this huge weight had been lifted when you were able to go to sleep on your own.
Milestones: Just before you turned 6 months you started to do a push up and started an army like crawl. You will usually do the army crawl to get to a toy across the floor. Just yesterday I noticed you started to go up on your hands in a push up and then tuck your knees under to get into a crawling position. You haven't quite figured out what to do after that yet.
You started to blow raspberries when you get excited. It's super cute! You love to give open mouth kisses to everyone who will get close enough and then dig your nails into their cheeks. Ouch!
You learned how to sit up on your own last week. You can stay up longer and longer each day, I guess your core muscles have been working well. Sometimes you will topple over to the side after awhile when you are sitting up.
You love to still roll over both ways when you are on your mat. You don't even mind if your head ends up on the wood floor. You love to play in your Exersaucer, jolly jumper and play mat.
You love to laugh especially when your dad or I play peekaboo with you. You also laugh when your sister talks to you and makes faces. Claire is your best friend (this is what your sister says) she loves saying your name. She likes giving you toys to play with and giving you big hugs and kisses.
Social Life: You are a busy girl. We have done lots of fun things since you've turned 6 months old. You don't mind being in your car seat now and will often fall asleep on your own. You love your stroller and going for walks to the park and hanging out watching as things go by us. You also enjoy going in the baby carrier either around the house or when we are out. This past Saturday you went for you for your first swim in a pool. You really enjoyed the water and were not fazed by the coolness of the water. I think you are going to be fearless when it comes to doing things, the complete opposite of your sister who is extremely cautious. You also went strawberry picking with us on Sunday morning. Most days you like to hangout outside in the backyard with your sister and I.
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