Alex is now 6 weeks. He is getting bigger every day it seems and is much more aware of his surroundings. He is holding his head quite well and pushing with his little feet. He has gotten too big for his bassinette and is now sleeping at night in his crib which charles’ sister brought up this past weekend. He takes most of his naps downstairs either in the pack and play or in one of his bouncy chairs. Sometimes if he is really fussy he will sleep in his infant carrier which seems to work best so far!
He has been very gasy this past week. It seems he is reacting to the increased amount of Formula we have been giving him. He is not pooping as much and is crying after each bottle non stop. We started giving him mylocon, we changed to powder formula ( after we discovered they put MSG in the ready formula and we thought it might affect him) and we changed to a Dr. Brown bottle. This all seems to have helped he seems to have gotten better in the last two days. He also has gotten bad rash/acne on his face and now shoulders and parts of his arm. We are not sure what this is from. Some say it’s due to an allergic reaction to the formula. We will see what the Dr says when we see him in two weeks.
Early this week he actually slept through what I call ” the night” he went from 9:30-10pm to 4am one night and to 5am next night. So he went without a bottle for over 6 hours. However, he did not fall asleep right away on both nights. instead he would cry for a while on and off until about midnight, 1am. So in both cases he did not sleep more than 4 hours straight.
After these two nights, he went back to his usual pattern of eating at 9:30pm and then falling asleep around 11:00pm and waking up at 2am…which is tough on us. he then wakes again around 6am. but he has a difficult time falling asleep after his 2am bottle.(atleast, when I give him this feeding). Last night I was able to get back to bed at 3:30am.
After his 6am feeding he snoozes for about an hour or so and then eats again around 9:30 am. then around 1pm, 5pm, 9pm. We sometimes try to squeeze in an extra feeding by feeding him around 4pm, then 7pm and then 10:30pm in the hopes that he will wake up later than 2am. This never seems to work, but for some reason we keep trying.
We have been going on playdates with some new friends we met at the park Jackie and her two sons Daniel (2 1/2) and William (4mths) and kathy and her two daughters Sarah(3) and Julia (19mths). It’s been nice to get out of the house. Unfortunately Alex always seems to sleep through them.
He sleeps pretty much from 10am to 1pm consistantly. The other naps are not as consistant. He sleep again for another hour or so after his second bottle and again in the evening after his dinner bottle.
We are slowly adjusting to life with two babies. It’s tough but we are getting the hang of it slowly but surely. We are hoping to start eating better and excersing more as soon as we get our double jogger which should be coming in soon. I think I’ll feel better once I lose those extra 22 pounds. My goal is to be 132 lbs again…if not lower!
Well that is all for now!
I love you Alex, you are definitly a cutie!
Mom