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three months
Feb. 25th, 2017 08:34 pmHoly crap, this past Thursday the prince was three months old.
He likes or does not mind me, his father, snuggling, milk, bath time, standing up on our legs and looking around, kicking his heels against the floor of the pack-n-play, and gurgling and cooing and practicing his vowel sounds with us and his grandmothers (his favorite word is "ghu," not that we know what it means). He dislikes wet diapers, dirty diapers, being cold, being tired, being hungry, and being swaddled - but he's not yet ready to sleep with both arms free, because he startles himself awake after about five minutes. So he has to have one arm pinned. We leave his right arm free so he can get used to unswaddled sleeping; recently he has also been using the opportunity to nom on his hand.
He's been able to get his hands in his mouth for about a month, but now he's doing it all the blessed time and with real intention. He can get a whole hand in there. I've just about given up trying to get him to stop and resigned myself to the fact that we're in a slobbery phase now. He's drooling copiously, and between that and some other indicators I think it's possible these are early symptoms of teething. The wise internet suggests that he might show signs as much as three months before the first tooth actually comes in, and that that's likely to be around six months, so (a) right on schedule? and (b) oh my god, this much drooling (and crankiness, and and and) for three more months?!
We generally put him to bed around 7:30, give or take. (Mostly give. He can't really make it to 8pm.) He generally wakes up once, usually in the sort of 2:30am area but sometimes as late as 4:30, which is the worst possible time because there's no real useful sleep for any adult between that and 6am wakeup. (A few weeks ago for three nights in a row he slept from 8pm to 5am and we thought we'd turned a corner. Alas. On the other hand, two nights ago he woke up at 12:30 and didn't go down again until 1:45, and then he woke up again at 4:30. Thank god that's not normal.) Generally up for the day around 6am. And he's a very sweet kid from 6am to about 5pm. ... Unfortunately, the last couple of hours of the day are developing into a real challenge.
( Baby sleep stuff. )
This got a lot ventier than I meant it to. Really things are mostly great. The kid is awesome about 21 hours out of every day. It's just the other three (the last two before bedtime and one overnight) are really starting to get to us.
He likes or does not mind me, his father, snuggling, milk, bath time, standing up on our legs and looking around, kicking his heels against the floor of the pack-n-play, and gurgling and cooing and practicing his vowel sounds with us and his grandmothers (his favorite word is "ghu," not that we know what it means). He dislikes wet diapers, dirty diapers, being cold, being tired, being hungry, and being swaddled - but he's not yet ready to sleep with both arms free, because he startles himself awake after about five minutes. So he has to have one arm pinned. We leave his right arm free so he can get used to unswaddled sleeping; recently he has also been using the opportunity to nom on his hand.
He's been able to get his hands in his mouth for about a month, but now he's doing it all the blessed time and with real intention. He can get a whole hand in there. I've just about given up trying to get him to stop and resigned myself to the fact that we're in a slobbery phase now. He's drooling copiously, and between that and some other indicators I think it's possible these are early symptoms of teething. The wise internet suggests that he might show signs as much as three months before the first tooth actually comes in, and that that's likely to be around six months, so (a) right on schedule? and (b) oh my god, this much drooling (and crankiness, and and and) for three more months?!
We generally put him to bed around 7:30, give or take. (Mostly give. He can't really make it to 8pm.) He generally wakes up once, usually in the sort of 2:30am area but sometimes as late as 4:30, which is the worst possible time because there's no real useful sleep for any adult between that and 6am wakeup. (A few weeks ago for three nights in a row he slept from 8pm to 5am and we thought we'd turned a corner. Alas. On the other hand, two nights ago he woke up at 12:30 and didn't go down again until 1:45, and then he woke up again at 4:30. Thank god that's not normal.) Generally up for the day around 6am. And he's a very sweet kid from 6am to about 5pm. ... Unfortunately, the last couple of hours of the day are developing into a real challenge.
( Baby sleep stuff. )
This got a lot ventier than I meant it to. Really things are mostly great. The kid is awesome about 21 hours out of every day. It's just the other three (the last two before bedtime and one overnight) are really starting to get to us.
