Danny is 18 weeks old today, and what a sleepyhead! It's 7:30 and he's still out!
Yesterday was his 4 month appointment. He weighs 14 lbs 9.4 oz, is 25 inches long and his head is 17.25 cm. Big old head! I think it's in the 82 percentile or something. Anyway, Dr. Z is very pleased with his weight gain! Yay! We talked about starting solids and I don't plan to start them until he is 6 months. She said as long as he continues to be satisfied with breastmilk and isn't waking up in the middle of the night to feed it's fine to wait. Of course I went in with my list of questions and concerns but most everything is fine. Dr. Z is a little concerned that his soft spot is still so "open" and wants to do a sonogram to make sure everything is developing okay. Great, no worries mom..just want to make sure your son's head is developing normally! Ack! I'm sure it will be fine but I'll just be glad when it's over and we know that to be true :) She was pleased to see his head/neck stregnth and to see him roll over. I was just thinking all this time that it was his big head that was toppling him over. Nope, indeed his rolling over since he was just a few weeks (maybe around 6 or 7?) is in fact developmentally rolling over! Oh and he got a couple vaccines yesterday. Dtap and rotavirus. I don't remember him being that fussy after the last round (hib and pc) but I do remember it after his 1st round of dtap and rotavirus. Anyway, he was unusually fussy last night but seemed to do better with a bit of tylenol.
Eating and sleeping at night continue to go well. He ate about 5-7 times per day this last week. A little more than he had been. Sleeping is the same too, although we did have a couple shifts in his routine this week and he did great. He is still going down around 9 and wakes up anywhere from 6:30-7:30. Although on Sunday he slept until 8:45! I fed him on one side at 8 like normal then since we were still out we had him hanging out. Put him in his jammies for the car ride home. He slept all the way home and we got home around 9:45. Barely fed him on the other side (hey, I just wanted to make sure the kid was good and full before he went to bed) and he was in bed probably by 10:15 or so and slept all the way to 8:45. I was kinda bored in the morning..didn't know what to do with myself! Ha! Naps this week were still inconsistent. Some days he only took a couple cat naps. Some days he did take a 2-3 hour nap in the late afternoon around 3. A couple days it seemed like were spent just trying to get him to sleep.
He continues to be very chatty this past week. He is also squealing and what the doctor confirmed to be a start in laughing. When he's smiling sometimes he takes in a bunch of air and makes a funny sound. Hard to describe in words. Anyway, yay for laughing...almost! He has just been thinking mommy saying "hi" and this fast breathing thing that sort of sounds like I'm making the H sound repeatedly..he loves it! So many smiles and so cute!
In other news I got a job! I will be working back at Seneca Center but this time I'll be working for their Mobile Response Team. My schedule will be Wednesday to Saturday from 12-10pm. It will suck since me and Randy won't see much of each other these days but it will really limit D's day care to about 15-20 hours a week which is great! I am also happy that Daddy and Danny will have so much one on one time to bond. Plus I will have 3 days off and get to spend every morning with him. So I think it will be a good fit for us for now.
The challenge now has been to find someone good enough to watch our little man. Guess what? They don't exist! Shocking I know. I am lucky though that I think we have 2 good possibilities that I checked out this week. We are visiting one hopefully tonight and I hope to make a decision by the end of the week. It's stressing me out and I just want to have it done so I can enjoy my time left with D. Oh and the worst part about the job..the start date! 8/24! So I have just about 2 weeks left. I'm so sad. But I guess at some point he would have to make this transition anyway.
Sounds like he's waking up now!
Wow! So sorry I've been out of touch -- I started with the most recent and worked my way back to this post. Congrats on the job! Starting work is pretty horrible, but one does eventually adjust. And if you like your job (which I trust you will), the adjustment goes easier. And trusting your day care provider is also hard -- Sarah and I talk about this often. I have grown to love Carmen, but it wasn't instant, that's for sure. Sarah told me last week that something I said a long time ago was helpful to her, so I'll pass it along to you: They won't always do things the way you do, but it's not necessarily wrong, it's just different. As long as your kid is happy (and Kid A is most definitely happy), that's a sign that all is well in their world. And the guilt of being away from them never goes away. Even when you like your job. For Kid A and me, it's far better for me to work, guilt and all!
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