Half a year
December 8th, 2009
K2 is six months old today. Crazy. I’ve said this before on the blog, but it’s worth repeating: he’s such a different baby from E.
For starters, he’s still not sleeping through the night. You think to yourself, “She needs to try [insert book/method].” Trust me. We’ve tried it. Cluster feeding. Dream feed. Ferberizing. Crying it out. Best as I can figure, he has a crazy metabolism and actually needs to eat at least once at night. At this point, he generally sleeps from 7 PM until 3 or 4 AM. He eats and then sleeps until 6 or 7 AM.
On the subject of crazy metabolism, K2 eats ALL. THE. TIME. He nurses every three hours, and then eats solids three times a day. E was a picky eater when it came to solids. He loves ‘um all: squash, pumpkin, apple, pear, and rice cereal. No matter how much I feed him, he still fusses when it’s over.
In spite of all that great food, he weighs in at only 16 lb 8 oz (25 percentile). His height is 27.25 inches (75 percentile). His head tracks his height at 17.75 inches (75 percentile).
Unlike E at this age, he doesn’t sit up on his own. He’s also a big talker, jabbering away come sun or moon. He’s not a lone ranger like his sister; he delights in face-to-face interaction and literally breaks into a smile upon basic eye contact. So, sleep or no sleep, we’ll keep him!
December 8th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Carolina started sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old and I just have a feeling that Baby #2 (whenever he/she comes along) will not be as easy. Oh boy….
K2 is quite the charmer. :) Go K2!!!!
December 8th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Oh Bethany…he is such a cutie! All those theories and methods on babies, and yet it seems that “mama knows best” is usually the key. If only we had an answer key to each kiddo! =)
December 9th, 2009 at 5:48 am
aww he’s adorable! Congrats K2 on your 6th month bday! Every month is a celebration in my opinion… :)
December 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am
What a smiler! Sounds like his metabolism is a racer! Which is good long run. All my babies wanted to nurse once in the night for quite a while, maybe a year. I could always go right back to sleep though, so didn’t mind.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:19 am
precious.
December 12th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Love his smile! Will keep praying for sleep (a more valuable commodity than time, gold, or maybe anything else!)
December 18th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
It’s amazing how different kids can be, isn’t it? Which makes me SO curious about this baby … Aidan and Ronan are very different … what’s very different from THEM?! Knocking on wood that it doesn’t involve being an even worse sleeper than Ronan was. Yikes.