So Mason went in for his 6 month checkup last Friday and he was 16lbs and 28 1/4 inches. He was 15lb 4oz at 5 months, so he did gain. But fell into the 25th percentile for weight and stayed in the 90th for length! He is so very active with sitting up and rolling all over the place, so i'm not concerned about his weight. He is like Natalie..she was long and thin!
He has been sleeping from around 8pm to 4 or 4:30 am (depending on what time Ben gets up). This has been happening for almost 2 weeks now, with a night or two that he woke up once.
But last night I got up probably SIX times to check on him! I am so tired today!
I'm not sure what my deal was, other than i'm quite the worrier. It could have been that he slipped in the bathtub last night and hit his head (he didn't cry but I still felt so horrible!) or the fact that I found one of the cats asleep in the crib with him the night before ( and I can pretty much guarantee that will be the last time she does it, so not sure why I was worried). But anyway, he's sleeping a lot better than me!
And this is probably too much info for most of you, so if you don't want to read about breastfeeding then you can stop here :)
Mason only wants to nurse when he is tired! I don't really know what to do. Other times when he is hungry and I try to nurse him, he flips out. Arches his back, screams, and then bites me!! I know that he's hungry, so I go get a jar of baby food and he gets so excited then eats the entire jar. This has happened for 2 days now. I'm not sure if it's a phase or what. He's nursing about 3 really good times during the day, then before bed and early in the morning.
Anyone who knows us well will know that I did NOT have this problem with the older two! So i'm hoping that this passes soon. Or I suppose I need to just make sure he's getting good food through the day?
2 comments:
Christian would have weaned himself at 8 months if I hadn't persisted. He just wasn't interested. I didn't push it all the time and started giving him a bottle with formula, but I still made him nurse at least twice a day until he was a year old.
McKenna weaned herself just before six months and I was so relieved because of everything going on at life at the time, but I regret it now and wish I had tried harder. She had a rough winter and I'll never know if it would have been better if I was nursing. It's so hard when they start to have a will of their own! Good luck with that little man. Hopefully it's just a phase because who wants to spend money on formula.
Mark did that for a while when he was about 3 months. The ONLY way I could get him to nurse was to rock him and get him REALLY sleepy. Then he would eat. I just kept at it and eventually, probably in a week or so, he stopped. It sounds like just a typical nursing strike.
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