"6 month Sleep Regression"

AJ's 6 month old Sleep Regression came when he was just 5.5 months old - and it reared it's ugly little head at the most inappropriate time (I mean, when it is ever an appropriate time for a sleep regression anyway?!)

By that I mean, it came the very day I fell sick with a high fever, tonsilitis and had to manage an inflamed tendon (tendonitis).
It will still lurking around as an evil entity when John fell equally sick with a very high fever. Just when you thought things couldnt get ANY worse, my period decided to make its appearance, coupled with the sickness & the immense stress ive been feeling the last week or so, my milk supply took a huge dip.

So by day 3 of the regression, it was us 2 extremely exhausted, wearied and broken bodies with a fussy, screaming baby who simply won't settle down (even with boob!) or go to bed.

And then, magically, by day 4 he was sleeping well again (by about 4 months old he'd been sleeping from 8-9pm to 2-4am feed then back to sleep for another 3-4 hours).

My milk supply is slowly creeping back up but it is during this time that I've finally properly appreciated my freezer milk stash. Before this, the bags were sitting untouched and I actually thought I would've to throw them all away because we are moving to brissy in a month's time (permanent move) & will not ship them over because of the amount of trouble it will take plus I have already established a good milk supply and AJ will be starting solids by the time we are in brissy anyway.

So as I'm typing this it's day 5, 1020pm and he's sound asleep in his cot. I'd better use this time to catch up on some sleep!

The almost 4 month old!

Wow. It has been a long time since I last updated this space. Heaps have happened in this time..

- mum and dad went back to melbourne
- our little family went on a 1 week trip to melbourne
- AJ started rolling over and army crawling
- I'm back to the workforce after a 3 month maternity leave
- new role, new responsibilities, new structure (2 top dogs left my team)
- possible migration
- AJ got his second booster immunization!
- 120ml intake

I've just named the main ones. . A lot of smaller scenarios have happened in between these larger ones.

Anyway AJ has just gotten his second jab yesterday.  In the butt. He was such a good boy though - crying only for the first few seconds and then quickly calming down after with the help, hug & cuddles from his daddy.

He's turning 4 months old tomorrow (how time flies!) and can now roll over, army crawl, babble & coo, giggle and smile (heaps!). He's such a happy, lovable baby and John and I are more than blessed to have this little man in our lives.

He's also started to lean forward ALOT especially when he's put down in his bouncer. The more I push him to lean backwards the more he resists and tries to lean forward - makes for a funny scene actually. And when he's sitting down he clamours to get on his feet (but obviously at this age he isn't able to do so yet) so the moment we lift him up on his feet, he goes all smiley and giggly. What a cutie.

Tempted to get him the Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo soon. I've seen so many good reviews on it (amazon) & I'm sure AJ will love it since he gets to stand and bounce!

Daycare is turning out to be fine as well. Santhy, Patricia and Katsuri (Aunty "Sura") are all looking after him well. The only thing I dislike is the fact that it gets hot & sweaty there sometimes and his bottles come home with tiny crawling gifts (read: ants) however that is to be expected since the daycare is a landed property (essentially a house-turned-daycare-centre). In the past month AJ's breastmilk intake has gone from 90ml to 120ml!! This is after we got feedback from Santhy that he's been finishing all 5 90ml bottles within 10 hours AND still sucking for more at the end of each feed! We increased it to 100ml and still nothing changed so we increased it to 120ml just 2 days ago and we shall see how it goes within the next week. 

I still can't believe how much he's thriving on breastmilk alone - it inspires and motivates me to keep continuing on this breastfeeding journey up until for some reason, I physically can't anymore! I truly love how it comforts him too and ill surely be sad when the day comes that this breastfeeding journey comes to an end!