3 month updates

[Deleted]

I think there are several of us with 3 month olds right now. How are things going?? How big are the babies now? Sleep?

[andthentherewere10]

Ds is 16 pounds. Sleeps from 8pm to 4 am and then until 7/8. He smiles all the time. Coos, laughs... ugh he is so much fun. He is easy and only cries at 7 pm when it is time for bed. He is out of the infant seat (hated that thing and we never used it in dh's truck so we were used to a convertible from day 1). Still EBF.

[Deleted]

DD is 11.5 lbs and 24 inches long. She normally sleeps 8-9 hours straight at night, but last night she woke up early :/ We are still EBF, but trying to introduce bottles (she isn't a big fan!)

We still don't have any laughter, but she is a big smiler! She 'talks' all the time and is happy to sit and watch what is going on around her.

[catsarecute]

DD is great! I have a feeling she is almost out of Size 1 diapers. Not sure how much she weighs but I think the next box of diapers I buy will be Size 2 so that makes her at least 14 pounds, if not more. Home scale weight attempts show about 15 pounds. She was 22.5 inches at her 2 month appointment and already seems longer. She is busting out of her swaddleme so I ordered a size large to use until we are ready to be done with the swaddle.

She gets 6 bottles a day, 5 oz of formula each. She still gets pissed when I take the bottle out to burp her. I hope she outgrows that.

She is doing amazing at daycare. Her teachers praise what a good baby she is and she is so happy. Yesterday, as I was glancing in the mirror to see her while driving to dc in the morning, she was smiling the entire time. She loves attention! She is babbling a lot, trying really hard to roll from stomach to back and LOVES being outside. If we go on a walk in the evening, she smiles the entire time. She loves the wind in her crazy hair!

She gets her last bottle at 8:15 and sleeps from 8:45-5:00ish. She fusses between 3-4 but if I give her a pacifier, she goes back to sleep.

I'm bracing for behavior changes because I know they can happen anytime but overall, she is such a joy to be around.

[cmarie11]

DD will be 3 months next week...crazy! She's doing great, eating like a champ, but still on the smaller side. She was 10# 8oz last week at the doc, hanging out in the 15th percentie for weight and 17th for length - she's a peanut. She laughing and smiling all the time now, which is so fun. I go back to work on Sunday and I'm dreading it.

Still working on the sleep thing. She usually sleeps for 4ish hours for the first stretch of the night, and then shes ups every 2-3. I hate all of you and your sleepy babies.

I'm trying hard to figure out her "routine", so to say. We've basically been following her cues but it would be nice to have some sort of routine down.

[jene]

A is great, he is really fun. He enjoys playing in his kick and play, looking in mirrors and has started grabbing/holding onto rattles/toys. He rolled tummy to back last week and is really close to going back to tummy. We started using the merlin magic sleep suit last week since he rolled over and it is working well so far.

I weighed him the other days, he weighs about 14 pounds from what I can tell on our scale at home. He was 23.5" at his 2 mo appt, but has grown since then based on how his clothing fits.

Sleeping is starting to get a little more patterned and longer stretches. He usually goes down around 8 and wakes up once or twice during the middle of the night to eat, then goes right back to sleep.

He is eating well, we are still ebf. Given how much trouble we had in the beginning, I am really happy with how nursing is going now.

[speyedr]

DD is 3.5 months. She hasn't been to the pedi in a month so no clue where she is weight and height wise. She was 13 lb 12 oz and 22.75 in at that last appt a month ago though! That put her in the 95-98th percentiles for both.

She went a week with one 7 hr stretch at night but we are back down to a 5 hr, 3 hr and 3 hr (up at 1, 4, 7) pretty consistently.

She has refused a bottle since 4 weeks old which is really starting to wear on me. She eats every 1.5-2 hours during the day. I quit my job two weeks before i was supposed to go back because of this as DH was going to watch her for 12+ hour shifts.

She has recently discovered her tongue and sticks it out all the time, motorboats her lips and loves to eat her hands. She is such a calm, easy baby for the most part.

[catsarecute]

Jul 18, 2014 10:58:04 GMT -5 bricco said:

Things are great! TJ is exactly 3 months old today. We did measurements at home and weighed him at 18.4 pounds and 26 inches. I'm pretty sure he's off the charts!

He's sleeping around 10 hours at night, and then catnapping throughout the day--taking about 5 naps that are 30-40 minutes. I wish he'd consolidate those daytime naps, but with his night sleep, I really can't complain.

He's finally eating LESS.  He was taking 50+ ounces of formula each day.  He's down to a much more normal 35ish now.  Typically 4 ounce bottles now (whereas weeks 7-12 he was taking 6-8 ounces at a time!).

He rolled over 7 times over the course of 3 days at 11-12 weeks, but hasn't done it for several days now.

He's figured out that he can blow raspberries and does it as in conversation, like turn-taking with us.

TJ's also a total giggle monster and loves playing on his Kick n Play Piano.

And.. PIP:

Julia is the same! She was rolling over like a crazy woman and then just stopped. If I put her on her side, she will roll onto her tummy but she seems fine just being on her back with no urgency to roll onto her tummy like before. Babies are weird.

[Deleted]

DS is 3.5 months, around 16 lbs. He is what I can only imagine is an early 4 month wakeful?!? Ugh, it's terrible. Up every 3 hours on the nose again and acting like he's starving (still EBF). But he's generally a content baby during the day. I call him my lazy baby, because he just doesn't care. Put him anywhere, he's good. Try and do tummy time? No thanks, just lays his head down and goes to sleep! Still no rolling over for us.

[catsarecute]

Jul 18, 2014 11:33:30 GMT -5 bricco said:

Jul 18, 2014 9:40:34 GMT -5 catsarecute said:

DD is great! I have a feeling she is almost out of Size 1 diapers. Not sure how much she weighs but I think the next box of diapers I buy will be Size 2 so that makes her at least 14 pounds, if not more. Home scale weight attempts show about 15 pounds. She was 22.5 inches at her 2 month appointment and already seems longer. She is busting out of her swaddleme so I ordered a size large to use until we are ready to be done with the swaddle.

She gets 6 bottles a day, 5 oz of formula each. She still gets pissed when I take the bottle out to burp her. I hope she outgrows that.

She is doing amazing at daycare. Her teachers praise what a good baby she is and she is so happy. Yesterday, as I was glancing in the mirror to see her while driving to dc in the morning, she was smiling the entire time. She loves attention! She is babbling a lot, trying really hard to roll from stomach to back and LOVES being outside. If we go on a walk in the evening, she smiles the entire time. She loves the wind in her crazy hair!

She gets her last bottle at 8:15 and sleeps from 8:45-5:00ish. She fusses between 3-4 but if I give her a pacifier, she goes back to sleep.

I'm bracing for behavior changes because I know they can happen anytime but overall, she is such a joy to be around.

We got sick of this and just quit burping him.  Like we don't burp him at all anymore.  He's gassy, but we'll just keep him sitting up after his bottle and he eventually gets it out without screaming!

This morning when I fed her, not a peep. She was just sitting there all happy and fine in between burp attempts (at which I got no burps so whatever). She tends to have a good amount of spit up so I can't imagine feeding her an entire 5 ounces without a break. It would be a horror show. LOL