His newest and most fun trick is smiling, and even giving a little giggle sometimes! It's the sweetest. He loves to look at James and gives him the most smiles without any prompting. He also likes to lay on the play mat and smile at the little bird toy.
He doesn't love tummy time anymore, but he is getting stronger nonetheless! We usually just do a minute or two several times a day now. He even has accidentally rolled from belly to back a handful of times... I know he will start doing it intentionally soon enough! He's been able to ride in the stroller (both the BOB and our umbrella stroller) with no problem and no extra head support besides the harness itself.
He weighed 13 lbs 8 oz at his check up today, which puts him at 77th percentile - still fat and happy! He's mostly grown out of 0-3 month clothes and already moving into 3-6 month sizes. Breast feeding is going great. Most of his feedings are 20-30 minutes long, except for during the evening, when he will nurse for an hour, take a short break, and nurse for another hour... a few times. He's less fussy in the evening, but still a little and likes to nurse frequently for a few hours. He had his first bottle this past month and did great - he drank 5 oz with no problems! He'll need to take a bottle while I'm away for 14 hours at the hospital for work (first shift back is next week! sad face!), so I'm grateful that feeding does not seem like it will be a problem. The last few weeks, he has been nursing every 2-2.5 hours pretty consistently during the day, but I am not complaining because...
He has slept through the night! Like 9 hours through the night! So I think his constant feeding during the day is just to fill up his tank so he can sleep. He will not go to sleep before 10pm, try as we might, so on the best nights, he sleeps through until 7am or so! Some nights he still wakes up at 4 hours, but most often he sleeps 7-9 hours every night the last two weeks. This morning Dr. Zimmerman said that if I want, I can try to get him to go back to sleep without a feeding during those nights that he wakes after 4 hours (because he is gaining weight fine and has demonstrated that he's able to go all night without a feeding!)... I don't really mind the middle of the night feedings right now because if he wakes up, it's only once, and easily goes back to sleep while nursing (laying him down asleep still at bedtime and overnight)! Also, I know that prolactin peaks in the middle of the night and is good for my milk supply to keep that feeding.
His naps are sort of all over the place. We are still swaddling and putting him in the swing awake on the highest setting for naps... He usually fusses a little, and sometimes I have to bounce him for a few minutes and lay him back down awake, but he almost always falls asleep on his own (well, with the help of the swing). We are trying to implement the eat, play, sleep routine, and he usually seems to be sleepy at about an hour of wake time. For most naps he only sleeps 30-45 minutes then wakes up and wants to eat (see frequent feedings above), but sometime during the afternoon or early evening he usually takes a longer nap and I wake him at 3.5 hours to keep him on track for feedings. At bedtime, he is swaddled, nursed to sleep and gets laid down in his crib with white noise. He is a wiggly little guy and wiggles all over the crib in his swaddle... all the way down to the foot, at which point he wakes up because his knees are bent up to his chest! I'll have to see if I can just move him back up to the top of the crib and see if he will go back to sleep without a feeding, now that we have Dr. Z's blessing in the middle of the night.
Happy two months to little Sam! We like you a lot!
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