30 Weeks and Overdue Updates

Hi Bloggy friends! Long time no update eh? Sorry!!



Nursing: Here's a big change - we're all done with nursing! Due to the list of cons getting longer and longer - I decided that I was ready to move on. I was going back and forth for a while, and battling the guilt of quitting breastfeeding - but finally just made the decision. I do not regret it at all! The process went much quicker than I thought it would - I tried to keep the night and morning feedings for a while. But, we discovered after I had a night out that Henry sleeps through the night after getting a bottle - but not after breastfeeding. Yeah - not going to keep that up! Then once I dropped the night feeding - he wasn't happy at the morning one. So our weaning process took a total of almost 2 weeks.

Bottles: So now Henry gets 4 bottles a day. He takes 6 oz in the morning and at bedtime great - the daytime bottles are a challenge. He'll eat anywhere from 3 - 5 oz. I worry when he doesn't take enough - but he has no problem letting me know he's done by pushing the bottle away and spitting it out.


Solids: Henry's eating more and more table food now. He loves getting tastes of what we're eating. His schedule for his jarred food is the same as before. He now gets puffs or yogurt melts after each meal. He chews like a champ - I tried to give him a teether cookie to suck on, and he just took a big bite of it, so we had to nix those already!

Waketime Length: Still 2 hours, sometimes 2 1/2 depending on what we're doing.

Naps: This is some of the best news. Henry has overcome the 45 minute intruder. Finally! He now takes a morning and afternoon naps, usually 1 1/2 hours long, and then a cat nap of about 45 minutes around 5pm.

Nighttime sleep: Also good news. Henry sleeps through the night again - and is now going down to sleep around 8pm. He was trying to wake up at 6am on our vacation - but since being home he's slept until 7 everyday.

Milestones: Big things here as well! Henry can now sit up by himself for extended periods of time, and has even pushed himself into a sitting position a few times. He pushes up onto all fours and rocks back and forth, then launches himself into a face plant forward. He's taken a few true crawling movements - but now that he has figured out army crawling - he just likes to do that. I'm wondering if teeth our in our future soon - he's going through random cranky fits and objecting to his solid meals. We shall see!

We also went on our annual vacation to Munising. Nick and I go every year after school gets out - and this year dragged along my parents for babysitting purposes! Henry was so awesome on the 6 hour car ride. He took his naps - was a little fussy inbetween - but nothing near what we thought it would be. He adjusted well to the vacation home were were staying in - but was Crank the last couple of days - I think he was ready to come home!

Well - this is probably the most positive post I've ever made ... that probably the next one will be full of confusion and frustrations again!

A few pictures from Lake Superior