Growing // You probably weighed about 13 lbs 2 ounce, but you weighed 13 lbs 0.5 oz a week before you turned 7 months at your 6 month checkup! And you'd gained 10 ounces in 10 days. That felt like a record to be honest as I feel like you've been slow going in the weight gain department. And at that appointment you measured 23.75 inches and your head circumference was 43.5 cm (41st percentile). It's the only measurement that has you on the growth chart for your actual age, all the others are 0th percentile!
Eating + Sleeping // You are eating 140-150 mls and I think you started the month at 120 mls. You continue to eat well. Praise the Lord! And feeding you is so much more enjoyable. You still don't have a ton of hunger cues and you don't really cry when you're hungry. I can just tell because you start sucking on your hands and you welcome the bottle so readily! We feed you when you wake up, and sometimes I feed you again before you go down for a nap just to get those extra ounces in you! There have been some moments where I feel like I'm forcing you to eat, but for the most part we've been really good at following your cues and trusting that what you might not finish at one feed, you'd eat at another.
You're eating 7 times a day still. And we typically feed you after your last nap around 5ish, and then keep you up till about 630ish and feed you again before you go to bed. You're still napping 3 times a day, and I'm still waking you up to eat before I go to bed around 11 and again in the wee hours of the morning around 5 or so. I can't wait for the day we can just let you sleep, but truthfully, I feel like it might be awhile just because you're slow going in the weight department! But you are such an incredible sleeper, truly. Your brothers wake you up and you go right back to sleep. And when I wake you up to feed you, you just go right back to sleep without any fuss. It's such a gift. Not much else to report in the sleeping department.
Wearing // You are still wearing some 0-3 month things, but you've started to wear a few 6 month things and I've cycled alot of the 0-3 month things out of your clothes bin. It's so fun to watch you grow! And I'm loving those Zutano booties. You wear them with every single outfit. And you're in Size 2 diapers. And you're still rocking the cloth diapers too.
Loving // You love when dada bounces you on his leg and raises you up in the air. You love to laugh, I mean you truly giggle. And you're ticklish. And you just love when people pay attention to you and talk to you! You just smile and laugh, and it's just lovely.
Loathing // Truly - I have no idea what you don't like these days. You don't really like having your hair washed and water streaming down your face, as it all just catches you off guard, but who does.
Nicknames // Connie, that's really the one that will stick I'm sure!
Doing // So much smiling and babbling and rolling from front to back and rolling onto your side.
Doctors appointments // So many doctors appointments this month. 2 Occupational therapy appointments, 1 visit to North Seattle pediatrics, 4 appointments at childrens with cardiology, pulmonology, nutrition, and radiology, 1 three hour infant development appointment at UW, and 1 appointment with an ophthalmologist. You had so many appointments at Children's this month, most routine followups, but you had an MRI - your head had grown a ton since leaving the hospital and they thought you may have fluid in your brain because you were having some eye issues. Alas, everything was fine, but even to this day, so many months removed, I can still remember the panic of the day as they got Conor in immediately. The concern all began a few days prior at he infant development appointment, and they told us to go see our pediatrician and see what they'd say. And they said take him to Children's, so we did that same day. And everything came back clear.
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