(The following post contains a number of details that probably only a mother would care about, but I like to look back and see how things were then...so bear with this mama!)
So far I am really loving 6 months! Finally, Axel is sleeping through the night. He was still sleeping in our room since he had been waking up for a very early morning feeding. Then it seemed I would stay up late to feed him and he was still waking up at least twice and would only settle down if he was fed. NO! This was not the direction I thought we should be going. I decided I would put him in another room to sleep in hopes that he would sleep better and maybe only wake up once. He obviously needed his own space because now I put him down at 8 or 9 and he wakes up around 8 am!!!!! This is so great... if only I had made the move earlier I think we all would have been sleeping better much earlier! I'm sure adding some solid food helped as well.
He is taking a short morning nap (45 min - 1 hour) and then a good nap in the afternoon (2-3 hours). Tobi is still napping, so recently there have been a string of days where both kids have been napping at the same time. SO NICE!
He has turned into a super eater...rice cereal, sweet potatoes and bananas were all he ate the first few weeks and this had some troubling effects on his poor little digestive tract...but after some prunes and pear juice and a switch to oatmeal cereal things have been moving along quite nicely :)
So far he has loved everything he has eaten...carrots, peas, green beans, apples. He treats banana in the mesh self-feeder like his sole life source...I have to limit his banana intake but he start panting and grabbing when he sees the feeder coming out. I tried to put in an ice cube in it once....let's just stay it was not met with great delight!
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| Banana and bluberry - yum! |
