He's still right on track developmentally. There's lots of babbling, cooing, and flipping from back to belly. In fact, we put him to bed on his back, but he always ends up like this:
It was kind of scary at first, but he lifts his head up really well, so we know he won't suffocate himself. Still, that's quite a face plant.
A week or so ago, we decided to try and transition Luka to his crib for sleeping at night. He had been sleeping in a bassinet in our room (mostly) and co-sleeping in our bed for a few hours each night, so I expected him to have a rough time with the nursery. But it's actually been great. He sleeps much more soundly in his own room, up to six hours at a time before waking. That's with no sleep training at all! we just rock him to sleep as usual, turn on the monitor, and occasionally he will fuss around in his sleep for a few seconds. But he goes right back to sleep most of the time. If he does cry, we go tend to him either by rocking him, changing him, or whatever. He still eats once in the night, because he's not quite 12 pounds yet. Eventually we will wean him off of that last feeding in the night.
He's drooling like crazy, and chewing on everything. I wonder when we will see a tooth?
He lost the pushing tongue reflex about a month ago, so we tried him on some solid food for the first time. It seems soon for that, but between 4-6 months is pretty standard. He wasn't thrilled with the organic whole grain rice cereal we gave him. We will just take it slow and try it another time.
He's still so teeny for his age!
Every day he surprises us. And exhausts us. Ha.
Oh Luka is just the best! I can't believe he's 5 months old already. So glad all went well with the nursery transition. My mom told me that the first time I slept through the night was when my grandmother made them finally put me in a crib. If no one forces me who knows how long it's going to take! :)
ReplyDeleteI meant to ask you about solid food yesterday. I guess I should have read this earlier! I think we tried the Earth's Best rice cereal first with Milo. He seemed to enjoy it. I know every baby is different though. I loved feeding Milo solid foods- it was a nice change from bottles all day. Although in the beginning they still get the same amount of bottles. It was just nice once I could eliminate a nursing session here or there. Sounds like all is well in Lukaland! Hooray!
ReplyDeleteThanks Alicia! I know how you feel, it was so easy to have him next to us at night.
ReplyDeleteJill, we do a little bit of the Earth's Best rice cereal mixed with a teeny bit of sweet potato each night. He's still getting the hang of things, though he likes the cereal much better with the potato mixed in. Also, Lukaland sounds like a fair full of spit-up rides :D