Sunday, July 15/18
Today's post is all about the third month, and what has changed in the life of myself and my daughter, Ivy. To preface this, I thought I should perhaps do a quick re-cap of the first 2 months which included a fair amount of colic, waking up every 3 hours and transitioning from combination-feeding to exclusively formula feeding. (Perhaps I should do another post on that) The first 3 months were hard, there's no way around it. It was also wonderful and lovely, but it is very difficult. I had a bit of a unique situation when Ivy was 6 weeks old, because my husband began a new job that had training an hour and a half away from home from Monday-Friday, so he's actually still only home on the weekends. Luckily, in 2 weeks the actual job will begin and we'll have him home again!
SLEEPING
When Ivy turned 3 months old, she started transitioning from 3 hours, to 4, to 5, to 7 and 8 (all within 2 weeks) and then suddenly regressed back to 3/4 hour stretches of sleep. She moved from the bassinet in my room to her crib in the nursery, and because she loves stretching out and is just over 14lbs, she really needed the extra room to be comfortable. In many ways I found it very difficult, I loved reaching over and seeing her little head beside mine and being able to touch her little hands, but honestly we woke each other up with our weird sleep noises (lots of grunting on her behalf- not sure what I was doing to wake her up!) Despite the lack of sleep, we both seem to be better rested in different rooms, as much as I wanted to keep her in my room until she was 6 months old.
FEEDING
To be completely honest, I haven't tracked the changes in food very much. She's now exclusively formula fed as I wasn't really producing enough milk to even give her one full feed in a day, and she hasn't really shown any signs of missing it, although I do feel extreme pangs of guilt when I dwell on it too much. Of course, the volume of milk she consumes has gone up, and the timing in between feeds has slightly increased, however, I'm still just feeding her on demand and haven't established too much of a feeding routine. Whenever she gets hungry I feed her, and she pretty consistently stops herself when she's had 100mls. The feeds can range from 80-140mls, anywhere between every 2-4 hours, occasionally longer if she's having a good night's sleep.
ROUTINE
While our routine is practically changing every week, right now our day begins anytime between 6:45 and 8am. This doesn't seem too bad, but I'm up quite late each night as I'm alone with Ivy all day and it's my chance to catch up with housework, take a shower or just have some 'me' time. We usually stay in PJs for as long as humanly possible, and begin the day with a feed and some playtime. We sort of spend the entire day switching between tummy time, the playmat, the swing, the bouncer (occasionally with Peppa Pig or Baby Einstein playing in the background) or just some floor time. We also try to sit, play with instruments and toys and if she's feeling snuggly I'll pretty much do that for as long as she can stand it. Day time naps are unscheduled and increasingly rare- but I'm planning to work on that this week and aim to get some scheduled naps in place. We end the day with quiet playtime, a bath every 2-3 nights and if it's not bathtime we do baby massage, a big feed, a book and bed.
I hope that was helpful for anyone curious about her 3 month routine/update! Thanks for reading!
Today's post is all about the third month, and what has changed in the life of myself and my daughter, Ivy. To preface this, I thought I should perhaps do a quick re-cap of the first 2 months which included a fair amount of colic, waking up every 3 hours and transitioning from combination-feeding to exclusively formula feeding. (Perhaps I should do another post on that) The first 3 months were hard, there's no way around it. It was also wonderful and lovely, but it is very difficult. I had a bit of a unique situation when Ivy was 6 weeks old, because my husband began a new job that had training an hour and a half away from home from Monday-Friday, so he's actually still only home on the weekends. Luckily, in 2 weeks the actual job will begin and we'll have him home again!
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| Tummy-time: less crying and face-planting! Much happier! |
SLEEPING
When Ivy turned 3 months old, she started transitioning from 3 hours, to 4, to 5, to 7 and 8 (all within 2 weeks) and then suddenly regressed back to 3/4 hour stretches of sleep. She moved from the bassinet in my room to her crib in the nursery, and because she loves stretching out and is just over 14lbs, she really needed the extra room to be comfortable. In many ways I found it very difficult, I loved reaching over and seeing her little head beside mine and being able to touch her little hands, but honestly we woke each other up with our weird sleep noises (lots of grunting on her behalf- not sure what I was doing to wake her up!) Despite the lack of sleep, we both seem to be better rested in different rooms, as much as I wanted to keep her in my room until she was 6 months old.
FEEDING
To be completely honest, I haven't tracked the changes in food very much. She's now exclusively formula fed as I wasn't really producing enough milk to even give her one full feed in a day, and she hasn't really shown any signs of missing it, although I do feel extreme pangs of guilt when I dwell on it too much. Of course, the volume of milk she consumes has gone up, and the timing in between feeds has slightly increased, however, I'm still just feeding her on demand and haven't established too much of a feeding routine. Whenever she gets hungry I feed her, and she pretty consistently stops herself when she's had 100mls. The feeds can range from 80-140mls, anywhere between every 2-4 hours, occasionally longer if she's having a good night's sleep.
ROUTINE
While our routine is practically changing every week, right now our day begins anytime between 6:45 and 8am. This doesn't seem too bad, but I'm up quite late each night as I'm alone with Ivy all day and it's my chance to catch up with housework, take a shower or just have some 'me' time. We usually stay in PJs for as long as humanly possible, and begin the day with a feed and some playtime. We sort of spend the entire day switching between tummy time, the playmat, the swing, the bouncer (occasionally with Peppa Pig or Baby Einstein playing in the background) or just some floor time. We also try to sit, play with instruments and toys and if she's feeling snuggly I'll pretty much do that for as long as she can stand it. Day time naps are unscheduled and increasingly rare- but I'm planning to work on that this week and aim to get some scheduled naps in place. We end the day with quiet playtime, a bath every 2-3 nights and if it's not bathtime we do baby massage, a big feed, a book and bed.
I hope that was helpful for anyone curious about her 3 month routine/update! Thanks for reading!
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