Life with an infant

So I had a baby and life has changed, as expected, extremely!

Its really hard to find time to myself, seeing that I have another human being to take care of! Its such a blessing though. I have so much fun teaching my son new things and watching him learn and grow. Its an amazing experience to be a mom! He is now 6 months old.

Recently he has learned to roll over. He can roll from his tummy to his back. They say the hardest one is that roll, but I think each way (from back to tummy or reverse) is hard. Sleep has become a bit more........scheduled I guess you can say. At least at night! I had nights where he would wake up every 30 min. and boy was that rough. He went through that for about 3 weeks, and is still going through a sleep regression- waking up every 2 hours.

I'm used to it and can say I'm glad its "progressed" to 2 hours, and am grateful it has stayed that way so far!! He will give me 3-4 hours with the initial put down, we start our bedtime routine around 745pm. He gets 2 tbsps of oatmeal cereal with a slice of mashed banana mixed with formula. Then I wait about 5 min after he finishes to let the food settle, then we change and I put him in his pack'n'play so that he knows its time for bed. I tell him "its time for memes" and I pick him up and breastfeed him till he goes to sleep.

He is asleep by 830pm! He wakes up around 1130 or 12am and I feed him again and he goes right back to sleep. Since he was about 5.5 months is when he went from waking every 30 min to now being every 2 hours. Up until about 5am, when daddy gets up for PT he sleeps in his bed, and at that time I put him in bed with me until daddy leaves, then sometimes if he isn't fully awak by 6am, then he goes back to sleep till 7am.

His naps have been all crazy! He doesn't have a napping schedule as of right now like he did up until he was 5 months old. I try to not stress about it, seeing as he will nap whenever he is ready and has never been the type of baby to be "over tired" to go to sleep. I did start puttin him down around 9am, when I can tell he is tired and just is fighting sleep.

Today he surprised me! Normally I put him down and he fusses for a good 10-20 minutes, and right before he starts crying I pick him up and feed him and he sleeps for a little while. Well today, I put him down he fussed for about 8 minutes and I have him his paci and he fell asleep, and not just for 10-20 minutes, this was a good 1 hour nap!! YAY!!

I'm praying really hard that this wont be a once in a while type of nap, but only time will tell!!

I can heard him talking now, he is waking up from his second nap of the day, so until next time!!!!