What Jelly Bean is up to - 7wks

At 7wks our little Jelly Bean has changed a lot. She's put on a kg and grown 7cm.

• Focusing on faces and turning towards voices. She started doing this around 4wks
• Holding her own head.
• Smiling -very cute. First real smile was 13 July
• Rolling up onto her right side occasionally. She did this for the first time on 13 July.
• Baby babbling.

She has had her three 6wks vaccinations, one in each thigh and a vile of drops. She settled quite quickly after the injections (mommy's breasts are magic) but that evening she was very upset and cried a lot.

She also had her 6wk peadiatrician check up during which she was diagnosed with a mild form of laryngomalacia, but that's a whole post in itself.

She has been through her 5wk cognitive leap and now is much more alert. So all of a sudden we she is no longer able to zone out all the toddler noise around her. This last weekend was terrible because she would not sleep between her early evening feed and about 10pm. That meant one very over stimulated baby who then could not sleep and needed serious bouncing to get to sleep. She was also then waking every 15 mins crying. Poor baby and poor parents, going to sleep at 12 only to wake for a feed at 1 or 2am. On Sunday night we decided it was time for a new plan. So last night we started a bedtime routine with cluster feeding, a bath, a dark room and the whole shebang. It was in complete opposition to our toddlers schedule of family supper, bath, story and bedtime but we played divide and conquer (thank goodness we're blessed to be a two parent household) and it worked. She slept and fed every two hours till we got her down at 9pm. She then slept till 1am when she woke for her first night feed. Even experienced parents forget that it's all about the routine. Night two tonight and we're hoping and praying we have another slam dunk.

 

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