Tonight Jake went down without his dummy for the first time ever! He has been such an angel recently. Ames has introduced a strict routine for Jakers and he has taken to it extremely well. For example, now he has set times for his naps. When the time comes he is put into his cot with his dummy and taggy blanket. He likes to pull the blanket over his face. When he does this he starts his sleepy singing and soon he is fast asleep.
Now that his teeth have come through he is so content. He is now saying mama pretty much all the time. He is yet to say dada but I keep trying to teach him :-). He also has now started sucking in his top lip so we are thinking that those top pegs will be making an appearance.
His feeding routine is now in place, Ames makes all his food. So far he has tried salmon and plaice in a creamy sauce, lamb casserole, vegetables with cheese sauce, green veg with nutmeg, pear and apple with cinnamon, berries with vanilla, sweet potato, butternut squash and carrot, leek, pea and broccolli, fish with mash potato, parsnip with spinach and basil, parsnip, carrot, pea and blanched tomatoes, peach, mango and papaya, orange, kiwi, grape and papaya, strawberries and blackberries with natural yoghurt, museli with poached pear, porridge and banana, roasted beetroot.
His daily routine is something like:
- Wakes around 7am and has a milk feed followed by a nappy change
- Play until 9am
- Breakfast plus water
- Nappy change and 1 hour nap until 10.30am
- Get’s dressed and has a play
- Has a feed at 11am and then a nappy change
- 11.15am goes out in the pram
- 1pm he will have lunch and water and a nappy change
- Afterwards he has a nap for 1.30pm to 2 hours wihich takes us to 3pm
- 3pm has milk followed by a nappy change and play
- 5pm nappy change and goes for a walk until 5.30pm
- Dinner and water at 5.30pm
- Daddy back at 6pm(best time of the day ;-))
- Play with Daddy
- Bath with Daddy at 6.30pm
- Massage and book (if amenable :-))
- Milk feed at 7.15pm-7.30pm followed by bed
Amy – it is going amazingly well and Jake seems to be so happy. I must admit I am just getting confident with it and so am feeling a little uneasy when the weekend’s events clash with his routine, but it will just take time to realise Jake will not get out of sorts with the odd changes. I am really enjoying his company at the moment because he is so happy and I am also getting time to relax and have lunch and write to ‘Papa Alba’ etc. I realise it is bound to go pair shaped once he starts on the next round of teeth, but at the moment the biggest achievement was removing his dummy during his waking hours – and then finally removing it to go to sleep. I shall try that for his naps tomorrow, but I can not believe it will be that easy!!
We bought him 2 new toys today and 3 more books. He was loving it and so we are trying to use that to encourage him to roll over more regularly. Actually he could roll at 4 months, but he appears to be quite lazy and won’t do it unless you almost trick him into it!! He is such a cuddly little soul and will lift his arms in the air for me to pick him up and sit on my lap touching my face and nuzzling into me. I love it of course. 🙂