HDBD July 11

[alwayscheese]

How old is your LO:

Appointments:

Milestones:

Rants/Raves/Vents:

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby?

[alwayscheese]

How old is your LO: 4 months

Appointments: 4m next week

Milestones: TEETH omg the two bottom ones poked through the day he was four months and two days later.

Rants/Raves/Vents: I was/am not ready for teeth!!!

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby?

Either bath time, he loves it and is crazy wild and giggly OR first thing in the morn after I've fed him he's so happy we often end up just sitting and giggling at each other for a while

[calendula]

How old is your LO: 3.5 months

Appointments: not until 4 months

Milestones: She's rolling tummy to back and is soooo close to rolling back to tummy. She gets herself on her side and then falls asleep because its so comfy there

Rants/Raves/Vents: None really. DH's pat leave ends this week and although I'm actually excited for her to start daycare (lots of other families and babies we know), I'm not particularly excited about dropoffs, pickups and the mayhem that will be me, alone with both children at the end of the day trying to cook dinner. I foresee LOTS of sandwiches for dinner in our future.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? When she wakes up in the morning. She just beams sunshine and happiness out of her butt. She is SO HAPPY

ETA: Here she is working on sitting with DH 

[clementine]

How old is your LO: 4.5 months, 20 weeks tomorrow

Appointments: end of Aug for 6 month checkup

Milestones: we are thisclose to getting some real laughs

Rants/Raves/Vents: SO DISTRACTED when nursing. Even the tiniest noise or most boring scenery has him pulling off and looking around. I’ve tried a pitch black room and he’ll still pull off and just babble away. He’s also constantly pulling at my shirt while nursing or cuddling it to his face which melts my heart.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby?
Mornings for us, as well! He wakes up soooo smiley, happy, and talkative. On days I work, I also really love being able to nurse him at lunch. He always is so happy to see me when I go get him and it gives me a boost to get through the rest of the day.

Poof

[Rama]

How old is your LO: 4m next Tuesday

Appointments: Ped next Tuesday for 4m wellchild + vax

Milestones: She rolls! And is also teething. Also her bedtime is so early and I both love it and hate it because I never get to see her.

Rants/Raves/Vents: Lately H has been saying, "Well, let me know if I can help" when it comes to the baby. I've already snipped at him a few times about how he shouldn't have to ask, it's his kid, too. Which I know he gets and he really only asks me because if he took things into his own hands, I'd get annoyed by that, too, so it's a lose-lose situation. He learns, at least. Also, probably just me, but one of my favorite times of the night is right before bed when we're stuffing diapers for daycare and prepping bottles together. It's just...nice.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? Waking up. She is always all smiles, just absolutely loves to see us in the morning. We legitimately "fight" over who gets to get her up sometimes, hahaha. It's the literal best. Has actually messed up MrRama/my day if we don't get our good morning smiles.

[snowmoon]

How old is your LO: 3.5 months

Appointments: at the end of this month for well visit and vax

Milestones: rolling over both ways, teething, reaching and grabbing things. First camping trip last weekend. She finally decided she likes the pacifier and falls asleep within 3 seconds of it being popped in her mouth.

Rants/Raves/Vents:I tried to reintroduce dairy into my diet and she reacted really badly and had a couple of rough days.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby?
She's a morning person and wakes upso happy every morning. She smiles with her whole body and I love it.

[Leaf 🌱]

How old is your LO: 3 months today!

Appointments: nothing for a month

Milestones: rolled back to belly once but seems fine to never do it again 😂 We also started to drop the swaddle.

Rants/Raves/Vents: not much. She’s so sweet and fun right now. We figured it that she looooves the ring sling - something DD1 and I hated. We also started to use the dockatot for naps and it’s helped A LOT. She’ll actually put herself to sleep in it which is a huge help.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? Anytime she falls asleep on me. I love the weight of a sleeping baby on me. She also especially cute in the bath. She kicks and plays and talks the whole time.

Honestly she’s a super easy baby (which makes me irrationally worried for some dumb reason) and I’m soaking up all the last-baby moments. I don’t want another baby, but I’d give my left arm to be able to revisit or stretch their early infancies. I know the newborn stage is polarizing, but I really really love it.

My least favorite is the evenings when she cluster feeds and I can’t get anything done. It starts right after DD1 goes to sleep so I’ve lost my “me” time.

[mintyblueair]

How old is your LO: 3 months (14 weeks)

Appointments: August

Milestones: she suddenly loves tummy time and has rolled from tummy to back once

Rants/Raves/Vents: She's been such a sweet, easy baby. DS was the easiest baby ever and I wasn't expecting to get another one like that, but I guess we lucked out!

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby?

Bath time is fun. But my favourite is any awake time she has when DS is having his afternoon nap. It's so nice just to focus entirely on her and that's when she'll do the most chatting with me.

[auri]

How old is your LO: 3 months

Appointments: Aug 6 for his 4 month

Milestones: Completed his first 1000 mile car ride last week. He also rolled from belly to back a few days ago. I think it was an accident though, he hasn’t done it again since.

Rants/Raves/Vents:

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? My favorite is when DD plays with J. She always gets the biggest grins. You can really tell that they both really love each other. ❤️

[mrsmonogrammed]

How old is your LO: 3 months today!

Appointments: none until 4m in Aug

Milestones: so much smiling these days! And he takes a bottle now that I’m back to work. Still STTN and I’m starting to look into options for transitioning off the swaddle.

Rants/Raves/Vents: going on our first vacation as a family of four on Friday! A week at the lake house filled with boating, fishing, and “relaxing” on the beach🙌🏻

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? I love the morning, he’s always so happy! and the last nursing session of the day, he’s so snuggly and just such a sweet little baby❤️

[katietopaz]

How old is your LO: 3.5 months

Appointments: 4-month checkup in a few weeks

Milestones: umm...I got his laugh on camera today

Rants/Raves/Vents: I survived day 3 of 4 of solo parenting. I'm over these work trips, and trying to keep the baby happy during witching hour while getting the toddler ready for bed.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? Like so many of you, mornings for sure. That magical time between when he wakes up and his first nap - SO many smiles all that chattiness. My heart.

[leatherpants]

How old is your LO: 4 mo

Appointments: 4 mo shots today. He screamed.

Milestones: He started giggling recently and only for me. He rolled back to belly once and got so mad. We e officially dropped the swaddle and the zipadee and are in sleep sacks.

Rants/Raves/Vents: nothing much. After that one 5 week period where he did nothing but cry, he’s pretty much the best baby and I’m enjoying it so much.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby?
He’s started to coo and chit chat when he wakes up in the morning so that’s nice but I think bath/bedtime is my favourite. He’s so animated in the bath and getting changed. It’s the best.

[cp3]

How old is your LO: 4 months on the 19th

Appointments: 4 month checkup on the 24th

Milestones: Teething over here too. She is constantly chewing on her fingers, hand, bib, and anything she can get her hands on. She also seems to be showing some early signs of being ready to try food.

She has no interest in rolling either way. But the past two days she has been getting on her knees and pushing off with her feet to move forward. I'm not ready for this yet.


Rants/Raves/Vents: her naps have been awful lately. She has become so sensitive to any sound while she sleeps and it is not easy to keep things quiet with a 3.5 year old. The 4 month sleep regression sucks.

And the only thing partially saving us is the swaddle. But she's quickly outgrowing lengthwise and I don't want to size up if she rolls soon but she isn't showing any signs of rolling soon.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? Morning time here as well. She wakes up so happy and chatty every morning. It is the best. I am not a morning person but her happiness is contagious.

Rocking her Target onesie they sent us.

[whatsit]

How old is your LO: 4m

Appointments: next week for 4m immunization- and I should book a wellness check for shits and giggles.

Milestones: officially moved her into her own room by moving the change table back in there today.

Rants/Raves/Vents: I love that she sleeps so well in the crib m, but I hate walking across the hallway ___ times a night to feed her. I want sleep.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby?
I love watching her interact with G and how she coos at him and watches his shenanigans. I also love when she wakes up from sleeping and pick her up and she’s all warm and smells really good.

[clementine]

cp3 I think you have a future yogi on your hands. She’s rockin that puppy pose!

[woodenshoes]

clementine I love that picture. Go Red Wings!

cp3 I need to put L in his Target onesie. Maybe tomorrow.

[woodenshoes]

How old is your LO: 4 months

Appointments: Tuesday

Milestones: Nothing this week

Rants/Raves/Vents: I am so over middle L’s one hour plus middle of the night wake ups. Why can’t he just take a bottle and go back to sleep. Thankfully he usually only wakes up once in the MOTN.

GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? My favorite times of the day with L are the times he is happy. Which is quite a bit of the day. It is difficult being more specific.

His arms look so long in this picture


He was sucking in his toes just before I took this picture

[sweetc129]

How old is your LO: 4m1w
Appointments: Just had his 4m. He had some fluid in his scrotum but that’s mostly resolved.
Milestones: He rolled both ways once, but clearly he has no idea how he did it.
Rants/Raves/Vents: This guy is not a good sleeper. He hasn’t even accidentally slept through the night. He was up 3x last night. I can’t imagine the 4m sleep regression at this point.
GTKY: What is your favorite time/part of the day with your M/A18 baby? Rocking him to bed. It’s loud and crazy in our house and it’s nice to have quiet one on one time.