Midwest Mama: Christian James

6 Months!!

You now weigh 19 pounds 6 ounces. (85th percentile)

That's just over a 2 pound gain from last month.

You are also now about an inch longer this month at about 27.3 inches long. (85th percentile)

You have started to outgrow your 3-6 month clothes now and are mainly wearing

9 month sizes and 12 month sizes as well! Such a BIG boy!

You are still in size 3 diapers, but wear size 4 diapers for bedtime.

Now that you are eating solids, you only poop about once a day (I know, TMI...sorry!) and you

eat about every 3-4 hours. This means you are also using less diapers per day, going through about only 8-10 diapers per day.

Despite our returned sleep with the Magic Sleepsuit last month, what mommy thinks was a growth spurt coupled with a cold and Day Light Savings again disturbed your sleep. Combine all that with a trip to New York and no routine and your sleep has been very erratic the past few weeks! I'm hoping to get things back on track soon!

Our attempts at moving your bedtime back later so that it would stay at 9pm after Day Light Savings Time was a worthless effort because you just were no longer able to make it awake that late. I think our Day Light Savings plan of moving your bedtime back would have worked if we hadn't been in denial about you needing an earlier bedtime.

So now bedtime is at 7:30pm. We start your bedtime routine between 6:30pm and 7pm.

You have your last feeding and usually some solids for dinner around 6pm and then we do a dream feed around 10/10:30pm. Then you will usually sleep until 4 or 5am, wake to eat and then go back to sleep until 7:30am {about 12 hours total}.

The rest of your day usually is on about a 3 hour schedule. You will be awake for about 1-1.5 hours and then nap for 1.5-2 hours. We still follow the Babywise method of eat, play, sleep. I'm not sure it's the answer to sleeping through the night, but it is the answer to a happy baby boy!

For Thanksgiving we were in New York visiting Daddy's family and you cried almost every day {or at least fussed} which you RARELY do at home. I don't even think I can say I know your cries...I feed you before you get too hungry and change you before you get too upset about being dirty or wet and put you to sleep before you get too tired....at least that's what I aim for and it seems to keep you quite smiley!

Generally you take a morning nap for about an hour and a half {around 9am} and then pretty consistently you take an afternoon nap from about 12:30pm - 2:30/3pm and then an

early evening nap {usually from about 4pm-5pm or so}.