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Leon: 3 months
Leon was 3 months old on Sunday, to celebrate which an awful lot of boats came past our front window. Or possibly that was something to do with some elderly woman in a big hat.
In the last week or so, he's suddenly developed/developing a whole new set of skills; and over the last month has been getting steadily more interested in the outside world. Right now EVERYTHING is FASCINATING, and he can now grab things within reach (and lean towards things that are out of reach) and attempt to fiddle with them or, often, convey them to his mouth. His accuracy is still a bit off, but he's working on it.
He has a wide range of sounds, including a particularly piercing shriek of joy. He giggles and coos at many things, including but not limited to: his parents,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dogrando pretending to eat his head, the Billy Bragg T-shirt in my T-shirt blanket (bright pink on black), his Sophie giraffe, a fold-out book of suns and smiley faces, and all of the slings. (He likes fabric.) He was also very taken with the rose I showed him the other day, and with tree bark. (Trees are great.)
He can roll onto his side if presented with sufficient reason to do so (e.g. when in bed and seeking out MILK OMG MILK. He has excellent boob-radar. He's fetched up on his front a couple of times and made strenuous efforts to get his knees up and shove forwards, without any noticeable success. He is *really* keen on standing up and otherwise pushing off with his feet, obviously with extensive adult support. I'm a bit concerned that supporting him like that isn't good for his balance, but he's very enthusiastic about it.
Touch wood, he still, broadly speaking, sleeps at night (with several wakings for a feed, of course, but I don't usually rouse too much for those. Hurrah for co-sleeping and for feeding lying down, which I got the hang of when he was about a month old.). Having said which, last night he threw up all over the bed at 0430 and then woke about every 45 min thereafter until we gave up and got up at 0730.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jvvw's recommendation of the book about the 90-min awake cycle has been very helpful in trying to manage his naps, though at the moment he's strongly resistant to sleeping for naps despite tiredness. We do usually get there in the end.
He's quite clingy right now, which we think is related to the current developmental stuff going on. And is feeding sufficiently often that there's probably a growth spurt going on too. The slings continue to be awesome for carting him around in whether awake or asleep -- he's still having most naps in a sling, and the ring-sling is v useful at the moment when he's awake and wants to SEE EVERYTHING OMG.
He continues to be a very chilled happy little person in general, and he is great fun to hang out with. Especially when he is so visibly delighted to see us. Aww bless.
I am continuing to enjoy parenting; and to enjoy newborn-parenting (though as of Sunday he is officially no longer a newborn!) more than I feared I might. I do, however, think I would be struggling a lot more ifdoop weren't home 4 days in 7. As it is, even though I'm still frequently needed on those days, I do also get some time out to do other things. As of the last couple of weeks, I've been taking my laptop to the Arch on Friday mornings, to do a bit of climbing and a bit of work, and leaving a bottle of expressed milk for L. This was very very weird the first time -- I was away from him for a whole 90 minutes! While I knew he was awake! It was still a bit weird today, and it was nice to get back to him, but it is also nice to get a slightly longer break, given that usually I'm feeding about hourly.
There are some photos over on Flickr, including some of his swimming lessons, which he is hugely enjoying. I have a new camera now as my old one broke, so might manage some more photos soon.
We got him in the trike at about 5 weeks, which has been v useful. It's a little hit and miss; if he's either asleep, or happily awake and recently fed, it's all fine. Otherwise, the bumps in the road unsettle him too much and I wind up having to stop and feed him by the side of the road to calm him down. As he gets older he's finding the bumps less alarming; also I'm getting better at going over them slowly. The roads round here are really quite rubbish in places.
And now I must go feed him.
In the last week or so, he's suddenly developed/developing a whole new set of skills; and over the last month has been getting steadily more interested in the outside world. Right now EVERYTHING is FASCINATING, and he can now grab things within reach (and lean towards things that are out of reach) and attempt to fiddle with them or, often, convey them to his mouth. His accuracy is still a bit off, but he's working on it.
He has a wide range of sounds, including a particularly piercing shriek of joy. He giggles and coos at many things, including but not limited to: his parents,
dogrando pretending to eat his head, the Billy Bragg T-shirt in my T-shirt blanket (bright pink on black), his Sophie giraffe, a fold-out book of suns and smiley faces, and all of the slings. (He likes fabric.) He was also very taken with the rose I showed him the other day, and with tree bark. (Trees are great.)He can roll onto his side if presented with sufficient reason to do so (e.g. when in bed and seeking out MILK OMG MILK. He has excellent boob-radar. He's fetched up on his front a couple of times and made strenuous efforts to get his knees up and shove forwards, without any noticeable success. He is *really* keen on standing up and otherwise pushing off with his feet, obviously with extensive adult support. I'm a bit concerned that supporting him like that isn't good for his balance, but he's very enthusiastic about it.
Touch wood, he still, broadly speaking, sleeps at night (with several wakings for a feed, of course, but I don't usually rouse too much for those. Hurrah for co-sleeping and for feeding lying down, which I got the hang of when he was about a month old.). Having said which, last night he threw up all over the bed at 0430 and then woke about every 45 min thereafter until we gave up and got up at 0730.
jvvw's recommendation of the book about the 90-min awake cycle has been very helpful in trying to manage his naps, though at the moment he's strongly resistant to sleeping for naps despite tiredness. We do usually get there in the end.He's quite clingy right now, which we think is related to the current developmental stuff going on. And is feeding sufficiently often that there's probably a growth spurt going on too. The slings continue to be awesome for carting him around in whether awake or asleep -- he's still having most naps in a sling, and the ring-sling is v useful at the moment when he's awake and wants to SEE EVERYTHING OMG.
He continues to be a very chilled happy little person in general, and he is great fun to hang out with. Especially when he is so visibly delighted to see us. Aww bless.
I am continuing to enjoy parenting; and to enjoy newborn-parenting (though as of Sunday he is officially no longer a newborn!) more than I feared I might. I do, however, think I would be struggling a lot more if
doop weren't home 4 days in 7. As it is, even though I'm still frequently needed on those days, I do also get some time out to do other things. As of the last couple of weeks, I've been taking my laptop to the Arch on Friday mornings, to do a bit of climbing and a bit of work, and leaving a bottle of expressed milk for L. This was very very weird the first time -- I was away from him for a whole 90 minutes! While I knew he was awake! It was still a bit weird today, and it was nice to get back to him, but it is also nice to get a slightly longer break, given that usually I'm feeding about hourly.There are some photos over on Flickr, including some of his swimming lessons, which he is hugely enjoying. I have a new camera now as my old one broke, so might manage some more photos soon.
We got him in the trike at about 5 weeks, which has been v useful. It's a little hit and miss; if he's either asleep, or happily awake and recently fed, it's all fine. Otherwise, the bumps in the road unsettle him too much and I wind up having to stop and feed him by the side of the road to calm him down. As he gets older he's finding the bumps less alarming; also I'm getting better at going over them slowly. The roads round here are really quite rubbish in places.
And now I must go feed him.
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And thanks for the chance to see him at the weekend - it was excellent to see you all. He is a lovely baby.
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I think he's quite nice myself ;)
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We still have his happy-new-baby card and welcome-to-the-world item in our hallway waiting for us to have time to put them into packaging and thence the post, so I am horrified that it has been a whole three months since I acquired them, but we are parents with full time jobs and such levels of organisation are beyond us.
Lovely to have an update! I hope we can meet him some time.
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I too hope you can meet him; we have done one trip down to Southampton by train without ill effect, so Bristol might not be beyond us..
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This elicits not just a giggle, but an enormous belly laugh...over and over again. Yay!
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Just written an article about sleep for our local NCT newsletter which I can send you if you are interested, though sounds like you are doing fine there!
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I'd be interested to see the article! We do seem (touch wood again...) to have been lucky enough to get a sleeper, though. Although coming up on the 4 mth sleep regression so We Shall See. And we've just had a couple of slightly disturbed nights so am feeling a little weary myself today. (Nothing compared to those of you who have had v reluctant sleepers, of course!)
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I think someone (Mum? my aunt? can't remember now) made me nervous by muttering darkly about bandy legs etc etc; and I've seen some debate about whether crawling-before-walking is important or not & have no idea what would influence that, really. But he shoves up on his legs without any adult encouragement at all so I shall assume he knows what his body can do.
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