My Friend Fist
Oct. 11th, 2006 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaThe Dillo is three months old today (13 weeks yesterday), and a bonny boy he is. When Casper was this age, her best friend was a small stuffed gingerbread man, meant as a wrist rattle, that we kept on the handlebar of her car seat. She rginned delightedly at him. Dillo does the same with his left fist, so now when I chat with him I say things like, "Oh, are you looking at your friend Fist? How is Fist today?" And then he gnaws.
After a couple of weeks of waking up at 11:45/midnight to nurse, he is now back to having the first waking of the night at 2ish. This is good (or would be if Casper weren't a devil in the night.) Maybe it was a growth spurt and not the start of reverse cycling.
He melted down last night at about 6, and we had classic evening nyuk nyuks until bedtime. I think this tends to happen when he doesn't get good naps in the afternoon. As to how to further encourage good naps, I'm not sure. He naps in his car seat or bouncy seat for new!nanny in the mronings, but in the afternoons wants to be in my arms and wakes up if I put him down, even if he seems pretty deeply asleep. My plan had been to start putting him to sleep on his own at 3 months, and let him fuss a little if that happened. So maybe I'll try to start doing that, in the pack n play, for afternoon naps. He goes down fine at night, assuming he hasn't had a meltdown evening. I can wrap him up and put him in our bed with the light off and just lie next to him and he falls asleep okay. Occasionally he's even done it unswaddled. Meltdown evenings, he needs to be rocked in arms to go to sleep.
He's a fine eater, and "enormous" was the pronouncement at Monday's La Leche League meeting. Not a lot of developmental progression at this point - head and neck strength is incremental. He doesn't grab stuff or put stuff in his mouth yet, except for Fist. An elaborate talker/cooer. Loves his big sister, and can be amused by her for long stretches, and is very resilient. (Rules we have had to make: no feet on the baby. No putting things on the baby's face. No pulling the baby to sit/stand up.)
After a couple of weeks of waking up at 11:45/midnight to nurse, he is now back to having the first waking of the night at 2ish. This is good (or would be if Casper weren't a devil in the night.) Maybe it was a growth spurt and not the start of reverse cycling.
He melted down last night at about 6, and we had classic evening nyuk nyuks until bedtime. I think this tends to happen when he doesn't get good naps in the afternoon. As to how to further encourage good naps, I'm not sure. He naps in his car seat or bouncy seat for new!nanny in the mronings, but in the afternoons wants to be in my arms and wakes up if I put him down, even if he seems pretty deeply asleep. My plan had been to start putting him to sleep on his own at 3 months, and let him fuss a little if that happened. So maybe I'll try to start doing that, in the pack n play, for afternoon naps. He goes down fine at night, assuming he hasn't had a meltdown evening. I can wrap him up and put him in our bed with the light off and just lie next to him and he falls asleep okay. Occasionally he's even done it unswaddled. Meltdown evenings, he needs to be rocked in arms to go to sleep.
He's a fine eater, and "enormous" was the pronouncement at Monday's La Leche League meeting. Not a lot of developmental progression at this point - head and neck strength is incremental. He doesn't grab stuff or put stuff in his mouth yet, except for Fist. An elaborate talker/cooer. Loves his big sister, and can be amused by her for long stretches, and is very resilient. (Rules we have had to make: no feet on the baby. No putting things on the baby's face. No pulling the baby to sit/stand up.)