Brycen's Growth Timer
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Rolling Over!
We are technically four months old. I know it has been a while since I updated anything, but am sure it’s understandable.
B is an amazing child. He warms my heart each time I look at him and I can promise you I love him more at the close of each day than I did at the beginning of the same day.
At four months old, he has had a lot of milestones. Right now he sits when supported, does commando style crawling in reverse and grabs at everything he sees.
He also had a really deep and intense stare. He can win a stare contest, I tell you. He looks at people and things intensely and deeply and as if makes it a point to intimidate people me. Yesterday my cousin failed to eat her dinner while sited across from him coz his gaze followed each lift of the fork that she made from the plate to her mouth.
Bedtime has become a game. It was only last week that he was sleeping while I breast fed and sang him one of my concocted lullabies; now I cannot get him to stay in one place. You see I figured it was more strategic for me to nurse him as he lay sideways on the bed and I sang to him. It is a close and intimate time for both of us it worked wonders the whole of last week, he was asleep in less than 15 minutes. However, last night, something new happened- he learnt to roll over from his back to his tummy… and my lullaby and juicy boobs cannot get him to stay still. So last night I let him crawl and roll and coo and giggle for 45 mins before I realized this could go on forever. So I switched of the main lights, switched on our nioght light and turned it so dim he could not see his fingers, I held him close to me and sang my lullaby in a whisper, so lightly he had to keep silent to hear what I was singing- he was out in 10 mins!
B is an amazing child. He warms my heart each time I look at him and I can promise you I love him more at the close of each day than I did at the beginning of the same day.
At four months old, he has had a lot of milestones. Right now he sits when supported, does commando style crawling in reverse and grabs at everything he sees.
He also had a really deep and intense stare. He can win a stare contest, I tell you. He looks at people and things intensely and deeply and as if makes it a point to intimidate people me. Yesterday my cousin failed to eat her dinner while sited across from him coz his gaze followed each lift of the fork that she made from the plate to her mouth.
Bedtime has become a game. It was only last week that he was sleeping while I breast fed and sang him one of my concocted lullabies; now I cannot get him to stay in one place. You see I figured it was more strategic for me to nurse him as he lay sideways on the bed and I sang to him. It is a close and intimate time for both of us it worked wonders the whole of last week, he was asleep in less than 15 minutes. However, last night, something new happened- he learnt to roll over from his back to his tummy… and my lullaby and juicy boobs cannot get him to stay still. So last night I let him crawl and roll and coo and giggle for 45 mins before I realized this could go on forever. So I switched of the main lights, switched on our nioght light and turned it so dim he could not see his fingers, I held him close to me and sang my lullaby in a whisper, so lightly he had to keep silent to hear what I was singing- he was out in 10 mins!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
4 weeks...yay
Yesterday we made one month and yes now I believe when they say that they grow up so fast. My cuppy cake is getting bigger and its amazing how much has happened in these last for weeks. One thing I know for sure now is that there is a huge difference between being a mother and being a parent.
Needless to say, I have been too overwhelmed in the last 4 weeks that I could not even find my laptop. But now that Brycen is getting bigger and beginning to settle into some sorta routine, I hope I can manage the weekly blogs.
This week, Cuppy cake has begun to as if smile; not yet intentionally, but he shows some signs of amusements and it melts my heart when I see this. He also is making small gguurrh gguuurh sounds and has me already talking baby talk and sounding stupid; and I love it.
We started using a pacifier to soothe him especially in the evenings when he really becomes fussy. I used to think that pacifiers where not good but seeing the benefits, I now understand why some parents use them. Trust me, if u have a fussy baby, any sort of dummy is a great help because it can be so hard on both parent and child when the baby is inconsolable.
Breast feeding is not as easy as I thought it was, but I will endure till the end. I realized I had always underestimated the benefits of breast feeding and after reading online how beneficial it is for a child, I will feed Brycen until 2 years at least.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
New sleep schedule
The last 2 weeks and five days have been the hardest, most exciting, trying and best days of my life so far. I cannot detail how in words, but I can assure you the being a mother is the best reward God ever gave a woman.
Brycen is the love of my life and this is not just a cliché. Each time I look at him he looks different and love him more and more, even when I have only 2 kj of energy left in me.
He is bigger now, 3.5 kgs and getting heavier. Obviously my Kendra-like boobs are serving him well. I would have loved to record his developmental changes for the last 2 weeks but I guess we will start here. I will try and blog as often as I can for I do not want to lose memory of any of his precious growth stages.
So this last week Brycen has changed his sleep schedule from sleeping 8 hours of the day to only… and he cries… will continue later….
Brycen is the love of my life and this is not just a cliché. Each time I look at him he looks different and love him more and more, even when I have only 2 kj of energy left in me.
He is bigger now, 3.5 kgs and getting heavier. Obviously my Kendra-like boobs are serving him well. I would have loved to record his developmental changes for the last 2 weeks but I guess we will start here. I will try and blog as often as I can for I do not want to lose memory of any of his precious growth stages.
So this last week Brycen has changed his sleep schedule from sleeping 8 hours of the day to only… and he cries… will continue later….
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)