Weight/Height:
C's 6 month checkup and shots aren't scheduled until August 24, so this month we went with the at home methods to determine weight and height! He clocked in at 19.2 pounds and measured out to be 26.0 inches. With these measurements he's ranking at 71st percentile for weight and 23rd percentile for length. I'll update after his checkup next Friday and see how accurate we were!
Eating: This month was fabulous and stable. Imagine that! The first month of his life that we know what he's eating and when without hardly any debate or changes. Yay! For the most part his schedule has been: 5 ounces of Similac Alimentum and 1 tablespoon of Plum Organics Oatmeal with 2mL of Zantac at 5am and 5pm and 6 ounces of Similac Alimentum and 1 tablespoon of Plum Organics Oatmeal at 8am, 11am, 2pm and 8pm. He's getting a total of 34 ounces
of Alimentum formula per day with 6 tablespoons of oatmeal per day.
Some days he isn't taking as much, but still sleeping on schedule so we
let it be! This month C also learned to hold his own bottle. We still hold him, but he holds the bottle. He is so funny with it! As soon as he sees it, he starts reaching for it, grabs it and puts it straight into his mouth. And when we stop to burp him, he stares at the bottle and screams. He enjoys his food as much as we enjoyed the consistency of month 6! But we are excited about adding some solids into C's diet with baby led weaning this month. We'd been waiting for him to hit the 6 month marker and it's finally here. We shall see how this goes...
Sleeping: With all the changes that took place in the middle of C's fifth month, he has continued to amaze up with his flexibility into month six! He handled the bed time change, out of swaddle, out of Nap Nanny, out of mom and dad's room with such ease. Such a little champ! Not much happened on the sleeping front during month six, besides he started sleeping MORE! You read that right. He has started to take longer naps at school and its a given that he is going to sleep at least four hours during the day. The times are all over the place, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon and sometimes both, but he needs a good 4 hours of daytime naps. Then he's sleeping between 8.5 to 9 hours at night from 8pm to 5am. We still have our off nights here and there, but for the most part little man is being a sleeping rockstar. And, again, his mom and dad are super grateful and enjoying it as much as we can! And I should say, we are still rocking him for sleep. I just can't stop. While he will fall asleep on his own in his crib, I just love cuddling him too much to stop it just yet. During weekend naps, I can see his sleepy signs and we help him calm down and drift off. He's started 'talking' himself to sleep this past month too and its just too cute! One day, he won't want us to rock him so we're loving it while we can! For month six he averaged 12.95
hours a day!
Diapers: We're still loving the cloth and he is
wearing FuzziBunz
with 2 inserts exclusively during the day. We did find this month we needed to increase the length of the dipes so we changed the leg setting to a 3 on each end, but his waist is still set at 2 on both sides. At
night, when he is going 8+ hours in 1
diaper he wears a BumGenius
4.0 with 2 microfiber inserts plus a small hemp, however he has leaked through a couple times so we need to look into adding some extra absorbancy to those nighttime dipes! He is averaging
about 6.5 cloth dipes a day total with an average of 2 poops a day. The only negative of our diapers is the rash. He cleared up at his 5 month birthday on July 15 and stayed clear for a good week. But then, with 1 nasty poo, the rash came back with a vengeance. And while it clears up, it hasn't truly left our poor boy's bum. We did switch to A+D cream for him at school and at home we only use the perscribed Magic Butt Cream. So we're using our fleece liners, which means double the washing efforts each week, but in the grand scheme it isn't that bad. And I still perfer more washing than using disposables on C. The rash still isn't painful for him so we're just riding it out until we visit his new pediatrician next week for his 6 month checkup.
Clothes: C can no longer fit in any of his 3 month outfits and they were all packed away this weekend. And, his 6 month ones are getting a little tight around his fluffy bum too! We're hoping he can squeeze the last of these hot summer days out in them, but we shall see. His Grandma B. bought him some 9 month summer rompers that we can break into if need be! The poor boy though, he has about 3 pairs of pjs that get recycled because the 9 month Carter's that we have are way too big and we don't want to buy more 6 months knowing he's going to soon be out of them!
Social Butterfly: Poor C didn't get out and about too much during this month. Thanks for his dad's work schedule of nights and weekends and his mom's busy school routine, we had a lot of time playing together at home. He had the occasional grocery or Target trip and even went to Sam's Club with daddy alone one afternoon where he got to ride in the cart like a big boy because dad took the car without his bucket carseat! C's social butterfly for his 6th month was family time with us and the pups for the most part. He did say goodbye to his cousin Vivi and visit with his Great Aunt and Uncle while we helped pack and move my cousin out of Louisville and back home to Virginia and C had his 6 month photo shoot too where he adored our photographer's husband who came along as her assistant.
Playtime: With all the family time at home this month, our boy has learned a lot! He is officially sitting on his own!! While I wouldn't leave him on the hardwood floor without supervision for fear of him bumping his head too hard, I will leave him sitting in the middle of the bed, his crib and the carpeted floor. He loves sitting and playing with his toys - Mortimer the Moose, Sophie the Giraffe and his latest loves, little crinkly books. Also this month our big man FINALLY rolled from belly to back! And of course, it happened while neither RCW nor I were watching. RCW put him on his belly on his playmat, we were putting things away in the hall closet and when we turned around, C was on his back! WHAT?! We immediately ran over, flipped him back to his belly and RCW ran to get the camera. C rolled again. RCW missed it. We spent all weekend trying to get C to roll so RCW could witness it and get it on camera - finally Sunday night C cooperated! He isn't rolling from back to belly so he isn't really mobile, but he is lunging for toys now that he's sitting up and will scoot around. We often put him to bed and wake up in the morning to find him sideways in his crib! This month we also starting putting him in a highchair, it is actually a
travelseat that attaches to our kitchen table. He loves to sit there and play with his toys while I'm working in the kitchen or we're eating. We decided as we prepare for Baby Led Weaning to get him acclimated to sitting at the table with us and he seems to really enjoy it! He has been so much fun this month with everything he is learning and doing, but I will say he still enjoys being snuggled and I'm relishing every moment he lets me just hold him! He often sits in our laps and plays and seems to just want to be with us sometimes. And I'm perfectly fine with holding off on chores to cater to my little man!
Personality: He has definitely had a happy summer. Lots of smiles and giggles. He loves being tickled on his belly, when you get his neck and when I 'eat' his hands and feet. Hearing him laugh is the best sound in the whole world! We video it often because I don't want to ever forget these moments with C! He is still talking all the time. This month we got a lot of ba-ba-ba. He says it all the time, but I wonder if he's talking about his bottle. We have been using the baby sign for bottle and saying the word to him with the bottle in hand for the past 2 months. And we are excited to begin teaching him more signs, especially as he begins to eat solids with us at the dinner table! C is also a big fan of the pups - he loves watching them and has started to reach for them if they're close by. I love that our boys loves his dogs and that they love him!
Milestones:
In C's sixth month, his biggest milestones were learning to sit up on his own, roll from belly to back and learn to hold his own bottle. C continued to have a happy summer full of smiles and laughs and bringing so much joy to our lives!
