7/8/9 MO check in?

[Bernadine]

What's going on?

DD will be 8 months next week. Time is flying! She started crawling about 3 weeks ago, and now she's pulling herself up. I guess we'll have an early walker.

Her sleep has been....rough. We started CIO with checks two nights ago, and the last two nights have been ok. I was so exhausted, we had to do something.

ETA- she has finally settled into two good naps a day, sometimes with a third catnap.

She LOVES food. I'm working on getting more away from purees and onto actual food. Her pincer grasp is getting pretty good.  Between nursing and pumped bottles, she's getting milk usually 6 but sometimes only 5 times per day. I stress about her getting enough milk.

She also loves looking at herself in the mirror. H was trying to say goodbye to her today in the bathroom, and she kept looking around him to see herself, lol.

She's definitely starting to get a little temper. She does not like having her diaper or clothes changed, and she lets you know when she wants out of her high chair.

Oh, and I do have a question.  She's usually asleep by 7.  I have to get her up at 5:30 three days per week, but I can let her sleep the other days.  It seems that 7 is her natural wake up time.  Should I adjust her bedtime at all?

[Mrs.flang]

I was thinking of starting one of these the other day.  DD is only 6.5 months but I'll still check in.

She can roll belly to back but not the other way around. And she is scooting backwards and sideways, but can't move forward.  I feel like I can see it her face that she wants to and knows what she has to do - it's so exciting to watch!

Her sleep is atrocious.  Last week she was giving us 5-6 hours of straight sleep at night, this week she's up every single hour.  No consistency.  She's still sleeping in the RNP in our room because I don't think I have the patience to get her used to the crib.  For naps, she sleeps in the swing at dc, and either on me, in the car, or in the RNP at home.  DH wants to read Ferber but I'm still not really on board.  I know something has to give eventually though...

She's been getting purees since around 5 months and is doing pretty well!  She loves sweet potatoes, avocados, bananas and pears.  She hasn't been very excited about most veggies.  We've tried peas, eggplant, and squash. 

I just started giving her a sippy with water.  I think she took water from it once (I saw the funny expression on her face!), but she mostly just plays with it.  I'm not sure how much to push this.  I was thinking of using BM at some point to make it more appealing for her.


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[Bernadine]

Mrs.flang, I've been giving dd a sippy cup to play with since 6 months, and she's just now getting the hang of it.

[indylady]

DD is 7 months...

Food: She eats yogurt melts sporadically at daycare and half a jar/pouch of puree when we eat dinner, along with occasional Mum Mums. She has gotten the hang of eating way better than DS at the same age. Still nursing and taking pumped milk bottles at daycare. I hate pumping but I see the light at the end of the Medela tunnel.

Sleep: Half the time sleeps through the night, the other half is up once. She sleeps in the crib in her room. If she wakes up at night, I let her fuss for a few minutes before I go in there. Sometimes she goes back to sleep and it's glorious. Naps are all over the place. I stayed home with DS and we had a pretty good routine. Now that I'm working with DD, naps are a mess. Less of a routine and on the weekends, it's hard to get her to sleep. I'm trying to work on it but man, some times she just doesn't want to nap! I think she has FOMO.

Toys: Likes everything in her mouth. Uses a paci and loves mirrors. We put a cheapy full length one I had in the closet behind her crib and she looks at it a lot. Enjoys sitting in the Exersaucer. I'm going to have to probably get rid of the Mamaroo soon since she can sit up now! I'll enjoy having the space back in her room.

Skills/Mobility: Can sit up on her own now! Can roll over and kind of scoot backwards but no real crawling yet. I love this age where they're not yet mobile but can sit up. She loves to sleep on her belly and seems to sleep better that way.

Clothes: Wears some 6M, some 9M clothes. Will soon outgrow the 6M onesies but I didn't buy that many 9M ones!

Babbling: Has loved to growl for the past 2 months or so - less so now but it's hilarious when she does. Babbles sometimes, which is super cute.

[pinotgrig]

Ds2 is 7 months. He's rolling and sitting like a champ! Starting to scrunch his knees up to crawl.

No teeth.

Still doing purées. We did some blw but he tends to bite off huge chunks which makes me worry about choking. He also gagged on a mum mum so holding off on those too. Still nursing and pumping, but I've donated 400 oz of milk so far and still have a a massive freezer stash. He eats 9 oz at daycare and I nurse him at lunch. He eats 2oz of food twice there and 2-4 more oz at home for dinner.

He goes to bed at 7. I wake him up at 7 on weekdays for school. On weekends he sleeps in, sometimes as late at 9:30! He sttn 98% of the time. He's getting to where he likes to put down at night awake so he can roll around and babble. Sleeps in his crib in a sleepsack. Never seen anything like it and complete opposite of ds1 in every way re: sleep.

He's such a happy chunk - as long as he's fed he goes with the flow. I surely don't deserve him, but am so glad he's ours. 💙 I want 3 more just like him. (Kidding. Sort of?)

He's in 9-12 month clothes.

Fave toys are a floor mirror, sassy rattle ball thing, jumperoo, kick n play gym, bouncy chair, and anything soft he can chew on. Oh! And those indestructible books - he goes nuts for them and they've held up so well! Washable, rip proof, chew proof, and <$5 on Amazon - perfect!

He's babbling like crazy and loves to "yell" - it's so high pitched and funny! He doesn't take a paci, but sucks on his first two fingers. It's adorable.

ETA - ds2 is 7 months, not 8. Derp. 🤣

[pinotgrig]

@bernadine - I wouldn't adjust her bedtime for the days she has to get up early. I'd assume she'd make up for it in naps but might re-assess after you get through sleep training.

I miiight try doing 6:30 to see if makes a difference, but trying to alter it too much a couple days a week seems like it might be harder on her than it's worth.

[lifetaketwo]

7 months today!

She started army crawling last week! She'll also get up on her hands and knees and rock, but then she drops her belly and army crawls. I'm not sure if this is going to be her preferred method of movement. She's FAST, and the dog is not pleased.

Sleep- we Ferbered a while ago and it was a life saver. She's now slowly dropping her night feedings to 1 or none and when she does wakeup she goes right back down after a bottle. We are doing 8PM - 7-7:30AM. For a while it was closer to 8 which was great on the weekends but doesn't work with workdays. Naps are down to 2x with a late catnap on the drive home from DC. She naps much better at home, but her naps don't seem to change her night sleep.

Food- She likes all the fruit and veggie purees we've given, but none of the cereals. We also tried puffs the other day and she wanted nothing to do with them. When do they start to like real finger foods?

She's not really babbling yet. Should i be worried? She shrieks and makes vowel noises a lot, but no consonants. She has her fingers in her mouth pretty much all the time.

Snow storm pic!

[lifetaketwo]

Where are the pictures??

[winemaker06]

DD is 7.5 months old.

Food:
she nurses or gets pumped milk 5-6 times a day and 3 meals of purées most days. We ramped up quickly because she was interested, and so far experimenting shows that she sleeps better when she has some food at dinner time. She is fascinated with puffs but still gags on them, so table food is not happening yet.

Sleep:
she sleeps 6:30-5:30 during the week. Sometimes she'll sleep in until 6:30 if she has a MOTN wake up, usually if she has less food that day. Random wake ups still happen and I just feed her because I assume she's hungry.
She does best with 3 naps but only gets 2 on daycare days. At home we let her cry for naps and she usually falls asleep in 5-10 minutes.

Toys:
She likes whatever her 3-year-old brother is playing with at any given time. He's not a fan. She's just starting to bang random things together and hit toys on the wood floor.

Skills/Mobility:
She has been crawling backward for almost a month and just yesterday figured out how to crawl forward. Never army-crawled like her brother did. She can push up to sitting easily and is Obsessed with pulling up on everything. She can succeed about half the time and seems to just want to stand all the time now.

Clothes:
just now moving into 9-month clothes for length even though her weight is 4-5th percentile. She is fine in 6 months except some pants are getting short.

Babbling:
In the past week she finally started some real babbling like mamama. Most of the time out of the corner of her mouth which just looks hilarious.

[winemaker06]

Bernadine- my son was an early crawler but late walker. So it depends on how interested they are! #2 was crawling pretty early too, so I kinda figure she'Il take her time with the walking too. But it'll be funny if not!

pinotgrig- your little guy is 8 months already?! Where does the time go. I know we had the same due date but couldn't remember which was born first. It feels like yesterday... sorta

[indylady]

[Bernadine]

I'm constantly pulling her away from the water bowl. Didn't grab her in time in this pic, lol.

[julianabixby]

DD is 8 months old - I can't believe it!

Sleep: she is mostly down to one wake up/feeding at night that ranges anywhere between 1-5 AM. Sometimes more than that if battling a cold or a tooth coming in, but I can't complain. Her week day schedule is 7:30 PM to 6:30 AM and that seems to be working well. If she doesn't get a late nap we sometimes have to do bedtime more around 7. On weekends she goes down at the same time and then around 6:30 will still wake up for a bottle and then go back to sleep for a couple of hours (most of the time!).

Food: She is on fully formula now (nursing was being weaned last month and totally ended when we all had the stomach flu) and has loved all of the purees she has tried so far - fruits and sweet potatoes being her favorites. Looking forward to trying finger foods in the next couple of weeks. She has tried a sippy cup a few times but still need to practice that with her more. I was sad to give up the nursing time with her, but I do feel like not having to pump (and clean all of the parts, bottles, etc) has made work days so much easier for us.

Moving: She rolls all over the place, can scoot backward and does a "dead fish flop" on her back to also scoot around. She has learned how to get where she wants to be even without actually crawling yet.

Teeth: bottom two are in and a top tooth is just now breaking through.

Clothes: We just switched her closet to mostly nine month clothes. Her 6 month tops and onesies were still fitting somewhat okay, but pants were way too short.

Other: She absolutely loves looking at herself in the mirror or in the phone and is just this week getting better at her babbling. Instead of being mostly vowel and high pitch squeals, she is starting to add "ba" and "da" noises. Her jumperoo is one of her favorite toys, along with a walker/play stand that plays music. She also has started to really have an interest in Sophie the giraffe in the past month too. She is such a little ham and is such a sweet and happy baby. She cracks us up all of the time and I LOVE her belly laughs. I am really enjoying this age lately. She can play on her own while we cook dinner but isn't so mobile you have to be really concerned about where she is going just yet. Daycare has said she has been so content lately and that makes me feel better too.

[julianabixby]

Bernadine - I wouldn't adjust it if it's working for you and her. Maybe do earlier if she starts getting fussy earlier, but otherwise I would keep the 7 bedtime for her.

lifetaketwo - I had been starting to worry about DD not being much of a babbler, but she has definitely picked it up so much more in the past couple of weeks. Maybe see what the next month brings?

[pinotgrig]

Feb 15, 2017 18:56:02 GMT -5 winemaker06 said:

br]pinotgrig- your little guy is 8 months already?! Where does the time go. I know we had the same due date but couldn't remember which was born first. It feels like yesterday... sorta

Gah! No, he's 7 months! Lol It does feel like yesterday - I can't believe how quickly it's gone! 😭

[jssymom14]

Turns 7 months on Saturday. He is rolling all right, trying to figure out belly crawl but goes backwards and does a good job of sitting on his own. No teeth yet but is a crazy drooler! We feed three times a day with fruit/oatmeal, veggie at lunch and both fruit/veggie at supper time. Gets about 32 oz formula every day and has been a very good sleeper since 2 months, about 2x a week will get up once in middle of night. He transitioned so easy from RNP to crib shocking us! DS loves kick n play, jumperoo and his saucer.

Also it's so weird comparing siblings! DD was so early on everything, sat up by 3 months, 4 teeth by 4 months, crawled at 6 and walked at 8.5 months.

[macmars45]

DS is 9.5 months old. He has 3 bottom teeth and is currently cutting his top front two.

Food: He loves to eat and has been done with purees for about a month. His pincer grasp is great. He bangs his hands on the tray and yells if I don't put more food on the tray fast enough. He has 5 bottles/day and eats table food at breakfast & dinner. When he turns 10 months we will add lunch.

Sleep: He is a great night sleeper 99% of the time.... 7/7:30pm-6/6:30am. Naps have been good when they're good and bad when they're bad. He's kind of an all or nothing kid. Either they're 40-45 minutes (or less) or they're 1.5-2 hours. And sometimes for fun he skips a nap entirely.  He takes 2/day and has for the last 1.5 months.

Toys: loves his books! He'll happily look at them for 20 minutes at a time by himself. He loves puppets too and squeals happily when I make them talk.

Mobility: He started crawling 5 weeks ago and pulling to stand 2-3 weeks ago. This past week he picked up cruising. Slow down baby!

Clothes: My chunky baby is in 18 month clothes. He was in 12 month clothes from 5-8 months so who knows how long before he sizes up to 24 months.

Babbling: He loves to talk! dada, mama, gaga, baba, yaya.... I think I'm forgetting some. A few weeks ago he started yelling just for fun.

[pinotgrig]

Poof

[ellipses84]

DS2 just turned 9 months. The onesie sticker pics get increasingly more challenging! He's saying mama and has 2 bottom teeth. He did a funny army crawl that was almost like a seal, moving his arms and dragging his legs behind him, but in the past month he started crawling normally and now wants to pull up and stand all the time. He is so fast and into everything. He's growing too quickly and I feel like I can never keep up with upsizing the clothes and babyproofing. DS1 (5) is a wonderful big brother and they are at an age where they can play together. Poor baby has his 4th ear infection this winter and I'm worried he'll need tubes. He's normally a happy baby, but the ear infections make him miserable. He's still wakes up a couple of times a night to nurse.

ETA: He loves food but he has a strong gag reflex so I've been a little hesitant with the BLW. He learned to clap last week at his brother's baseball practice and he even clapped for me when I walked in the house tonight.

[ellipses84]

And I finally finished the nursery! It didn't completely live up to my arctic nautical vision, but after losing everything in the flood, and never having time to focus on it with a baby and all, I needed to get it done! Nearly all the furniture was donated by my coworkers.

[ellipses84]

Feb 15, 2017 17:35:18 GMT -5 pinotgrig said:

@bernadine - I wouldn't adjust her bedtime for the days she has to get up early. I'd assume she'd make up for it in naps but might re-assess after you get through sleep training.

I miiight try doing 6:30 to see if makes a difference, but trying to alter it too much a couple days a week seems like it might be harder on her than it's worth.

I agree. Bedtime never seems to impact my kids wake-up times much. They sleep when they want and it never fails that they want to sleep in on school days and wake up early on weekends, lol.

[gt7301b]

DS is 8 months already!

Food: His favorite food is peanut butter puffs, he expects them at dinner and gets hangry if he doesn't get them.  I usually give him some of whatever we have for dinner, but he tends to pass that off to the dog.  He gets 4 bottles, puffs, yogurt, and a puree of some type.  I don't have patience for the purees so I let daycare handle those  

Sleep:  He goes to bed around 8 and sleeps till 7.  He usually wakes up one time to eat, if it is before 3AM we let him cry it out.  He is pretty good about naps, usually 2 a day.

Crawling - He is army crawling like crazy, sometimes he gets up on his knees, but it is tough when you have a big ol' belly to lift up.

Clothes - We are in 12 months right now, but they are getting a little snug.  I think we'll be in 18 months soon.

Other skills - He can wave and say dada, but he doesn't seem to actually associate dada with DH yet.

Teeth - One tooth is poking through.