Brodie has been growing up fast these days! He had us really worried about eating at daycare, but he seems to have come around on the bottle. He smiles and laughs at his teacher, Miss Sharon, and really seems to enjoy being with all those other babies at school. He doesn’t cry at all when we drop off, and he doesn’t cry at school except when he’s tired or hungry. He’s a pretty happy-go-lucky kid.
As for milestones this past month, he showed us he could roll over. I haven’t seen him do it again, but he’s starting to get mobile in other ways. He was on his play mat the other day, looking up at all the dangly toys. I walked out of the room for 5 minutes and came back to see him turned a quarter turn. I asked Joe if he moved Brodie, and he said no. I figured out how he’s moving though. He’s getting pretty good at lifting his legs up (Oh, yeah! He’s figured out he has feet!), and then he twists his body a little bit as he brings his legs back down. Inch by inch, he manages to shimmy his way to face another direction.
His hand-eye coordination is getting so good. (Soooo good!) He can grab at all his hanging toys. He grabs for the little bucket we use in his bath. He grabs at my hands when he nurses. He grabs my hair (ow!), and his little pinchy fingers are even able to grab at my throat (super ow!) when I’m carrying him. He still unknowingly pulls his pacifier out of his mouth, but it seems he’s able to push it back in too. We really have to watch what we put within arm’s reach.
Poor kid is still dealing with congestion though. The pediatrician said it’s just a result of being in daycare. :-\ But at least we all survived his first cold. The kid was just miserable for those 3 days and nearly inconsolable. Hopefully, he’s good on illnesses for a while. I somehow doubt it with RSV floating around schools, but fingers crossed that he stays healthy.
Because of the bottle issue, his sleep pattern has been in flux. He went from sleeping through the night (8-9 hours) to waking up twice, and there isn’t much of a pattern to it. Most of last week, he was only waking up once around 3 am to eat and then up for the day at 6:30. But then he gave me a 9 hour night followed by a 2 am/5 am wake up. I’ve actually had to turn on the lights and wake HIM up at 7 the past two mornings.
He’s taking 2 naps at school each day, takes another quick nap around 6:30 and is down for the night around 8. At least we know that after 8, he’s pretty well asleep, and we have that time to ourselves. I’ve been trying to go to sleep around 9 to take advantage of longer stretches, but work has gotten in the way of that.
I’m hoping that his schedule starts to even out now that he’s gotten more used to daycare, bottle feeding, and a set evening routine.
Here are his stats from his 4 month well check appointment. He’s measuring 24 1/4 inches long (25-50th %), 13 lbs 10 oz (dropped to 25th percentile, likely from the 2 weeks of not eating at daycare) and 41.2 cm head circumference (50%). He also got his 4 month shots, which are never fun. We had a really rough night with his waking at 1 am, 3 am, 5 am and 7 am. He had a slight fever, but after a bit of acetaminophen, he seems to be doing much better.







See the rest of Brodie’s 4 month pics here.
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