RainSong
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Well, we did finally figure out two things: How to deal with Nathan's weird fighting the bottle thing, and why we were having nightly (sometimes multiple times daily) screaming crying fits from the little big man.
Seems Nathan is very routine oriented... and I (we?) were letting him stay up too late. He wasn't napping when he needed to, or going to bed when he needed to... which resulted in a very TIRED baby boy who would scream and kick and... generally make life miserable. Things have improved greatly since we figured this out...
And our little man is now being fed four ounces (or however much he wants up to four ounces) without being burped between. He stops eating for half an hour or so if you stop to burp him, and thus... gets unhappy.
He's also attempting quite often to roll himself over. If he could just figure out where he needs to put his arm, he'd have it
I just wish he'd stop trying to roll over ON ME when I'm feeding him LOL
Sadly, he's still waking up 3 times (or more) at night *sob* He usually goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:30pm, wakes up at 10pm, then 12am, then 2am, then 5am (those are rough time frames... give or take an hour here and there) to eat. I usually hit the hay around 10pm, but if I get to sleep before midnight it's a good night ... I just am having an easy time getting to sleep lately.
He's got a Dr's appointment in early December, a few days before my birthday, as I recall- we'll find out how much he weighs, how much he's grown, and he'll get more shots (Oh please god(s)/goddess(es), no... )... and I'll ask the pediatrician about solid foods. He'll be 4 months old in weeks, but... not in months (confusing thing...)
I also plan on asking her about ways to get him to start sleeping through the night, and ways to get him to start putting himself back to sleep. I can lay him down now at night shortly after a feeding, and he'll put himself to sleep.... but during the day, and earlier in the night... no way. I'm not sure if I want to let him "cry it out" yet, or what else can be done. I do try to wait until I can tell he's not gonna go to sleep to get him.
Today was a bad day- he didn't have much of a morning nap, and thus... spent half an hour crying/screaming in my good ear, because I didn't want to spend half an hour standing up rocking him. Then he was short on sleep for his afternoon nap, too. Yargh... he did more crying and fussing this evening, but nowhere near as badly as before.
He also got cereal with applesauce. He was watching me eat ice cream... very very intently... and at one point, when I put the spoon up to my mouth, he opened his mouth.
He's not had cereal for awhile, since he didn't need it and wasn't too interested. He made me feel guilty for eating in front of him, and kept licking his lips, sticking his tongue out, and opening his mouth as I ate
Say, here's a few new pics. They're cruddy cheap digicam pics, but... better than nothing?
More in the next post
Seems Nathan is very routine oriented... and I (we?) were letting him stay up too late. He wasn't napping when he needed to, or going to bed when he needed to... which resulted in a very TIRED baby boy who would scream and kick and... generally make life miserable. Things have improved greatly since we figured this out...
And our little man is now being fed four ounces (or however much he wants up to four ounces) without being burped between. He stops eating for half an hour or so if you stop to burp him, and thus... gets unhappy.
He's also attempting quite often to roll himself over. If he could just figure out where he needs to put his arm, he'd have it
Sadly, he's still waking up 3 times (or more) at night *sob* He usually goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:30pm, wakes up at 10pm, then 12am, then 2am, then 5am (those are rough time frames... give or take an hour here and there) to eat. I usually hit the hay around 10pm, but if I get to sleep before midnight it's a good night ... I just am having an easy time getting to sleep lately.
He's got a Dr's appointment in early December, a few days before my birthday, as I recall- we'll find out how much he weighs, how much he's grown, and he'll get more shots (Oh please god(s)/goddess(es), no... )... and I'll ask the pediatrician about solid foods. He'll be 4 months old in weeks, but... not in months (confusing thing...)
I also plan on asking her about ways to get him to start sleeping through the night, and ways to get him to start putting himself back to sleep. I can lay him down now at night shortly after a feeding, and he'll put himself to sleep.... but during the day, and earlier in the night... no way. I'm not sure if I want to let him "cry it out" yet, or what else can be done. I do try to wait until I can tell he's not gonna go to sleep to get him.
Today was a bad day- he didn't have much of a morning nap, and thus... spent half an hour crying/screaming in my good ear, because I didn't want to spend half an hour standing up rocking him. Then he was short on sleep for his afternoon nap, too. Yargh... he did more crying and fussing this evening, but nowhere near as badly as before.
He also got cereal with applesauce. He was watching me eat ice cream... very very intently... and at one point, when I put the spoon up to my mouth, he opened his mouth.
Say, here's a few new pics. They're cruddy cheap digicam pics, but... better than nothing?
More in the next post
