4 Months Old

My babies turned four months old on Sunday. I'm noticing more changes these days. They're reaching more and more developmental milestones.


As of four months:

• we're usually eating about 5oz six times a day. And normally the last feeding is increased to 6oz in hopes of sleeping longer through the night.
• Our diapers are changed 6 times/day and we only poop once a day now.
  
• We wear size 2 diapers.
  
• we have our last feeding between 7-8pm and then wake up hungry around 2-3am. We are fed and put back down to sleep until our next feeding around 6am. Then we start our day.
• We still share a crib that is in the master bedroom. In another month or so we'll be in our own separate cribs and in the nursery at night.
• We have a nighttime routine that includes swaddling, white noise and sleeping in our crib. We are only in our cribs at night. We tried to stop swaddling and we weren't ready to give that up yet.
  
• We are still restless at night and Daddy is the one that usually gets up to give us our pacifier or to check on us. Mommy is lucky to have Daddy.
• We like sucking on our pacifiers. Andrew especially. Mommy worries that we'll still be sucking on them when we're three years old.
  
• We have almost outgrown our infant bathtub. We splash water all over the place during bath time.
• We now recognize Mommy's face and voice and we mimic her expressions.
• We have a daily routine that is a constant cycle of feeding, burping, diaper change, activity time and then nap...then we start over again
  
• We can play and entertain ourselves in our exercisers for up to an hour. We love to bounce up and down. Matthew lasts much longer than Andrew before becoming bored or fussy. We also love to look at ourselves in the mirror. And just recently we realized that we can touch the rattle and have it make a noise. (Matthew has been playing in his exerciser for 90 mins and just now fell asleep in there)
  
• We smile all of the time and actually laugh out loud.
• We also "talk" constantly.
• We do not roll over from a laying down position and haven't attempted it either. We can occasionally when we are propped up in the boppy pillows on our stomachs.
  
• We dislike tummy-time greatly. Mommy has to distract/entertain us constantly in order for us to be on our tummy even 5 mins. We don't get much tummy time.
  
• We still have yet to try anything other than milk (breast milk or formula). Mommy is still debating on when to try out the rice cereal &/or solid foods. Mommy has many food allergies and she fears that early introduction of foods could increase our chances of having them too.
• Daddy packs one of us around in the baby Bjorn carrier when he gets home from work. Mommy doesn't use it much b/c it hurts her back.
  
• We will be getting our first immunizations tomorrow. Mommy and Daddy decided to put them off a little and we'll be spacing them out. So we'll only get the HIB and IPV (polio) vaccines tomorrow. We'll alternate that series of shots w/ the DTaP series (starting next month). All of the other immunizations will be put off until we're a little older.
• Daddy set up our 529 college savings plans this past month. So we're already being prepped for college :-)

***I will update later this week on how the immunizations go. J will be going with me. He's taking the day off because I'll be having a CAT scan later on in the day. I had some x-rays of my head come back abnormal last month so they want me to have a CAT scan. I hoping this might lead to some answers on why I have such horrible headaches. I have daily (5 out of 7 days/week on average) headaches that cause moderate but manageable pain and then severe migraines on top of that. My primary physician was concerned when I mentioned it a few years ago. I've lived with this a very long time...since high school. My doctor said it wasn't normal and not okay to ignore so I agreed to look into some testing after my pregnancy. I wasn't willing to worry about it during my infertility treatments so now that we're past all of that maybe we can find a cause and a cure to my headache issues. I am crossing my fingers that they do indeed find something as long as it's easily treatable/curable. I'm not holding any high expectations though since headaches run in my family and no one else has found a magic cure.