What's been happening this month:
- 14 lb. 7oz at her doctor appointment. Almost double her birth weight.
- Doing much better at tummy time and rolling over from front to back. She only gets to her side from her back though.
- Wearing size 6 month clothes.
- Laughing.
- Chewing her hands.
- Still drooling a lot.
- Understanding and anticipating games.
- Loves playing with toys, especially throwing them on the ground over and over and making me pick them up.
- Still needs to be swaddled for sleep. I might get the Zipadee Zip soon to try to transition her. It comes highly recommended from a few friends.
- Found her voice and loves to use it, loudly.
- Pulling hair. I can't ever wear mine down anymore.
- Loves to play with her feet.
- Waking up at night again. She wakes up about every other night. I've read that this can happen at about 5 months because baby becomes more aware of their surroundings. I am going to start some different methods for sleep so that I can create good habits. I'm not a believer in "sleep training" but I am going to start gently helping her to learn to self soothe and fall asleep on her own. I hope this works. I didn't buy a book on it (because seriously, who has time to read a book?) but I have read up on a few different techniques and am going to sort of make up my own sleep techniques. We'll see if it works. More on that later. I still really don't mind helping her to sleep but I would like to stop completely relying on nursing to sleep so that other people will be able to get her to bed.
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