Videos of Jack! :D

#1 October 1st, 2009, 01:22 AM

Hey everyone

If you want to check out some videos of Jack, I have some

There are a bunch of photos there too. Ok, I need to go to bed now.

KCMomma · #2 October 1st, 2009, 03:41 AM

He is just so stinkin cute!!! I love your blog!! Sorry you can't sleep lately. Hope that gets better soon. Is he going through a growth spurt or something?

ChristinaR · #3 October 1st, 2009, 05:28 AM

Oh my gosh he is so adorable! I especially love the last one with Daddy. Too cute!!

#4 October 1st, 2009, 09:29 AM

I dunno Gwen, I hope it is a growth spurt! Last night he woke up at 12, 2:30, 4:30 and 7:30am. Ugh. What I don't get is that he doesn't eat every 2 hours during the day! I hope he isn't trying to switch his schedule on me. He has been taking two 2-3 hour naps a day, and is awake the rest of the time too. I thought that was good but maybe it is causing this? I don't know if I am doing something wrong or what. At least when he wakes he seems pretty hungry and usually passes back out after feeding him.

thx Christina

He loves his daddy!

~* Liss *~ · #5 October 1st, 2009, 05:08 PM

So sweet!!! Love your blog!!

Michelle, I was telling my DH about your Britney dance to try to induce your labour! Do you still have that?

#6 October 1st, 2009, 05:24 PM

Yeah I do! I made it private b/c I got some perverted comments from people I didn't know

But I just made it public again if you want to see it (mrswho2 on Youtube). Wow was I big!

courtneytcu98 · #7 October 1st, 2009, 07:15 PM

Michelle, That baby is just the cutest! I think I love your blog.

The sleeping. . . oh, the sleeping. There is a BIG change around 3 months--his naps should be more predictable and regular, with more awake time. I found that the 'Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child', book is right--sleep begets more sleep. Also. . . I had to put Elliott back to bed earlier than I initially thought. He needed to go back down for a nap after only being awake for a morning nap after being awake for only 1- 1 1/2 hours.

Sorry for the advice you didn't ask for. I couldn't help it. And the growth spurt hellaciousness will pass. Promise.

#8 October 1st, 2009, 11:59 PM

I love advice Courtney! I noticed that early morning nap thing too. You know, I have sorta let any schedule he had fall to the wayside lately. You think that could be upsetting his sleeping too? I think I need to get a set schedule with a more predictable routine. I am bad when it comes to sticking to routines.

downunderchick · #9 October 2nd, 2009, 01:57 AM

gorgeous michelle
xxx

Lauren S · #10 October 2nd, 2009, 07:22 AM

He's so cute and happy! I love him eating his feet and laughing with his dad.

*Mommy2Camden* · #11 October 2nd, 2009, 08:00 AM

Such a happy little guy!!! Thanks so much for sharing!

LuvMyToriBug · #12 October 2nd, 2009, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by *MJ*

I love advice Courtney! I noticed that early morning nap thing too. You know, I have sorta let any schedule he had fall to the wayside lately. You think that could be upsetting his sleeping too? I think I need to get a set schedule with a more predictable routine. I am bad when it comes to sticking to routines.

You know, the funny thing is that probably any schedule that you set will be overstepped by his own schedule. He WILL fall into a routine where he will nap at around the same time, eat at about the same time etc. and he will fall into that on his own, but as Courtney said, they have various periods that they are enduring a growth spurt. I actually had my worst time with Tori at 6 months. Good luck, and this too shall pass!!

Because of my limited access here at work, I can't see your videos, but I was able to see a few pictures and he is so cute. I think that he looks like you from what few pictures that I remember of you. Too cute!!

LindsLuvsSi · #13 October 2nd, 2009, 08:32 AM

so cute! I can't believe how fast time flies, and that he's 3m!!!

courtneytcu98 · #14 October 2nd, 2009, 11:07 AM

I'm a big believer in routine for kids, but every family is different. I think it allows their bodies to become accustomed to do certain things at certain times and to predict what is next. All that being said, before 3 months i think it is fairly useless to even try to set a firm pattern.

At around Jack's age, the morning nap definitely developed first for us. . . I did a lot of reading about sleep cycles and sleep hormones, etc because I was desperate. The avg. sleep cycle is 45 minutes long. . . and Elliott would wake on the dot--I would go to him and pat his back and such until he fell asleep again. The hormone cortisol rises significantly if we don't get enough sleep, then preventing us from sleeping (weird conundrum) and making us feel tense and cranky--on edge. That is why it is so important to catch the baby before the cortisol spikes. This hormone is also why sleep begets more sleep. . . it keeps that hormone from building up in our systems. We did our own version of sleep training, where once we laid him down, we would comfort him, but wouldn't pick him up. Lots of back rubbing and such. Ah. Sleep has been/was our main struggle from birth. Luckily, we have been on a good pattern of not waking at night for about two months. I forgot how much I love a good night's sleep!

LuvMyToriBug · #15 October 2nd, 2009, 11:24 AM

I am by no means saying that a schedule is not important. Tori is on a pretty routine schedule now but when she was really little, I did not just really "Lay down the Law" and say "okay, she must eat at 2, 4, 6 and 8 pm etc", or that she must take a nap at 11 am and 2:30 pm" etc. They are like us, they may not be hungry at 2 KWIM. Anyway, the older Jack gets, he will be on a more routine type schedule. Tori has mostly been a great sleeper, I have been pretty fortunate, but I did have a 6 month growth spurt issue.

Anyway, it will get better Michelle, I promise!!

courtneytcu98 · #16 October 2nd, 2009, 12:12 PM

Good point, Becky. . . when I say schedule, I really mean routine, I guess. Like taking a nap 1- 1 1/2 hours after waking, then a bottle/breast upon waking, then play for another hour or so. . . like that--more of a sequence instead of setting actual times. Does that make sense?

#17 October 2nd, 2009, 12:28 PM

Jack really is a happy dude! Most of the time

I did have him on a routine like you both are describing since birth to about 2.5 months. But now it seems he changes everyday, and he changed the routine. I want to say more, but my coherent thoughts are leaking out my ear. I agree with both your points though. I just need to pull it all together, oe whatever. Ugh so tired . . .

LuvMyToriBug · #18 October 2nd, 2009, 01:24 PM

I think at this point, and at his age, it is more important to maintain a nighttime routine rather than focusing on a 24 hour routine/schedule because that is probably one of the only ways that Jack will finally take the hint that he is supposed to sleep at night!! HA! It will take some fighting, but when he wakes, pat or rub him on the back and if that does not work, pick him up and soothe him, then lay him back down. Do you cosleep?

#19 October 2nd, 2009, 01:52 PM

No way I don't co-sleep! I am a zombie when I sleep. He has fallen asleep on me before, and I don't do that good-mommy light sleeping. I pass out like the dead!

So it is safer for him that I don't. He sleeps in a co-sleeper next to the bed though.

The thing about his waking is that he just eats and goes right back to sleep. Before a few weeks ago he was a wonderful sleeper. Now it is like he is famished in the middle of the night. He eats a ton when he wakes in the night. And since for a while he seemed to be stuck at 12.5 pounds, I wanted him to eat more. I find it odd that he decided the middle of the night was the best time for that though. So now that he has gained some weight and my supply has increased again, I want to somehow get him to eat more before bed so he sleeps longer. Maybe I should try cluster feeding earlier, at like 3pm? I am so lucky that he apparently just wakes up b/c he is hungry, but he has had a few days now where he is hard to put down and wakes up for his binky during that first half an hour when he falls asleep, which isn't good. I could see that turning into him waking up for comfort in the middle of the night. And I worry that maybe at first it was hunger waking him, but that now it will be a habit. Like he started waking up at midnight EVERY night to eat.

The patting for sure does not work if he is hungry, but I do use it when he is just whining and sometimes he goes back to sleep. I will try getting a bath/nurse/read nighttime routine going though. Then I could cluster feed a ton in the late afternoon, and maybe that will help him to go longer between his night feeds. I don't think I was feeding him often enough during the day and maybe he started a growth spurt and that is when everything got topsy turvey. One thing I did yesterday is put him to the breast a lot during the day, and he only woke up once last night! But he was up at 6:30 for the day. Still, that is much better then the past week! I had noticed he was hardly eating in the morning b/c he was pigging out all night, and I figured the only way to get that switched back was to get him to pig out during the day.

Sorry if I am rambling and repeating myself.

courtneytcu98 · #20 October 2nd, 2009, 02:36 PM

Girl, you sound so much like me. . . there are sooooooooooo many darn reasons that they could be waking. All part of the puzzle, eh? I think your plan sounds like a good one. I will say that it gets much easier in a month or so when there is some kind of pattern you can figure out. . . except when you can't.

Hang in there.