5 months past your due date
Well Ayden, you are now 5 months (on July 25, 2009) past the date that you would have been born if everything went okay with mommy carrying you. We celebrated yesterday by buying you a new toy!
You are certainly changing. You are getting bigger. Your longer now and heavier too. I don’t know how much you weigh right now as we don’t go to the doctors for a while, but I can just tell you are growing. You are also starting to become really really interested in what mom and dad are eating. Soon we will start to give you some rice cereal and then a whole new world opens.
You are also really starting to teeth now. Nothing is showing through yet, but you are biting on everything that you can get your hands on…you are also a drool machine. Sometimes you have so much drool that you start coughing and gagging….Due to the teething, you have become somewhat of a cranky little guy. Nap times are getting harder for mommy as you just don’t want to go to sleep.
Friday night this week and yesterday night you showed your dad and I that you were very uncomfortable. You did this by SCREAMING and refusing to go to sleep. Last night I got you to sleep at about 8:00pm and then at about 9:30 you woke up SCREAMING and mommy had to go up stairs to calm you down. Once I got you to sleep you woke up an hour later screaming again. Mommy again went to calm you down. You then slept until 3:30am, but then woke up screaming again, but mommy didn’t have to go into see you this time as you went back to sleep after a few minutes.
I know that you are uncomfortable, and your dad and I will do whatever we can to make you feel better. If you are crying, we will just hold you and comfort you. If you need to bite on something we will either be your teether or we will get you something to bite on. Just know that we love you very much and we will do whatever we can to make this comfortable for you.
On the up side, you LOVE your jolly jumper! Your neck muscles have gotten stronger and you are able to go in the jumper for quite a while. We have to make sure to put a towel or blanket underneath you as you drool so much we don’t want a wet carpet!!!
you are now eating a bit more now too. We have noticed that you are getting hungrier quicker so we have up’d your formula from 120 mils every 2-3 hours to 140 mils. so far so good! But I also think that you might not be getting enough nutrients out of the formula which is why we are looking forward to starting you on solids.
Well, just know that we love you little guy. You make us smile and laugh with the things you do and your babbling. You are such a joy in our lives.