Kiddo Lifestyle | Audrey at 5 months
I need to start this post off by stating the fact that I have really been slacking on my blog posts for poor little Audrey. #2ndchildproblems. I’ve at least been keeping up to her milestone cards & notes on the back of those. So I guess that’s something, right? So much has changed since apparently my last post was way back at her 1 month mark. (***embarrassing***)
I’ll quickly recap the previous months:
2 months// Audrey is officially harness-free! Thank goodness for doctors & the geniuses that invented that contraption to pull her loose hips back into their sockets. She had it on for 1.5 months & I am so very excited to cuddle her and baby wear more, if she’ll allow me to that is. She tends to have a hard time relaxing and settling on me. She’s still nursing every 2.5 hours. We started doing “sink-tubbies” with her on her soft flower bath pad & she loved it… until we’d get her out of the water. Then she’d scream and really let us know how upset she was.
3 months// Audrey laughed for the 1st time! Her daddy & I were making silly faces & noises as parents do of course. We’ll often catch her smiling away up at the ceiling fan with intermittent giggles. When nursing, she’ll often stop, pull off & look up at me with the best smiles. She really is starting to take in everything surrounding her now.
4 months// Audrey had her 1st visit to the waterpark with all of her cousins! She napped on me for most of the time before wanting back in the stroller. She has been grabbing at things more including my hair & necklace, but not knowing how to release it yet. She’s still sleeping through the night with occasional nights of 2 feedings during growth spurts.
And now for today’s actual up-to-date post…
5 months//
Sleeping: Audrey still loves her sleep. A girl after my own heart. So completely different from the sleeping pattern of her sister back in her baby days, that’s for sure. I actually miss Audrey quite often. The girl just can’t hang very long. She also prefers to sleep in her crib and not on me which makes it very difficult to keep on living our life with an older sister. I love baby-wearing & would prefer if Audrey would absolutely allow me to do so. However, whenever I try, she’s fine as long as she’s awake & happy. But the second that she starts to get tired, she’ll start wriggling around and push herself away from me. The girl wants her space & her bed & I can respect that. Me too. So onward we push through with each day that we make an attempt to go places. If it’s a stroller-friendly location, that’s ideal for us. She is most happy out in public if she’s tired and can be in the stroller covered up with the canopy. Her days are pretty much nursing, playing on the activity mat for a little, hanging out in her bouncer seat with her Sophie giraffe teether or her o-ball watching her sister play or dance, & then she seems to be ready for a nap. She naps the majority of her days away still. And every time she’s napping, I miss the little nugget. At nights, she’s been sleeping from 7:15 p.m. until 7:30 a.m. for most nights. Now & then she’ll of course go through a growth spurt where she’ll wake up maybe twice a night for more feedings, but then the second I put her back into her crib, she’ll turn her head to the side & place her hand up alongside her face & you know she’s almost back asleep. That’s her go-to pose for sleeping. I love that she wants to put herself to sleep, but sometimes I just want to cuddle & hold her… rock her even. I just tried to this again recently when her big sister was away at a sleepover, thinking that I had all the time in the world to just spent with Audrey & cuddle her. But nope… Audrey got cranky in my arms & was wriggling all around ready to be placed in her crib. And once again she turned to the side & was asleep in 5 minutes. It’s amazing. And I’ll take it.
Eating: She’s nursing 6-7 times a day & is much more efficient at getting the milk she needs quicker these days. Typically around 5 minutes on the 1st side, & 4 on the other. And again, each time we nurse, she’ll pull off & look up at me just smiling away while cooing. Those smiles are the best & I hope I never forget how sweet & personal those moments are with her. I do still try to burp her in between switching sides & when I do that, she’ll typically get angry, impatient. If I lay her down on the boppy in preparation for nursing, I better be ready ASAP to feed that girl or she’ll let me know how frustrated she is & how I’m just wasting her time.
Personality: Her personality is still very laid back & go-with-the-flow. A very happy, smiley girl. As long as her basic needs are met like food, diaper changes & sleep… she’s easy-peasy that one. I couldn’t ask for a better baby. I honestly never knew that it could happen for us. But here we are with a sweet little girl who just lights up when you walk into the room. If she starts to get fussy, she’ll smile & be happy again the second your face comes into her view. It’s gotta be hard at this age just lying around & not being able to go where you’d like to go. It’ll be interesting to see how her personality continues evolving over the years.
Happy 5 months my sweet one. We are enjoying watching you grow. And I think your sister is slightly in love with you too 🙂 xoxo
