We had our 4 month "well baby" appointment on Wednesday, and everything seems to be looking good for our girl! She's weighing in at a whopping 15lbs 5 oz (90th percentile), and is 25 inches tall (75th percentile)! The Dr. said she's perfectly proportioned, so I'm not too concerned that she's been putting on a few extra rolls around those sweet legs :) She's not rolling over yet, but she's so close she can almost taste it! She can lift/hold her head up really well, and she's working on lifting her body up & supporting herself on her arms/hands. She still loves her bouncy chair, and now that she has a Bumbo (thanks GG!!), she loves that too!! It's so crazy to see her sitting up in that thing...she looks too much like a little girl, and not enough like my tiny baby! She's "talking" all the time now, and smiles & laughs a lot more, too. If I can ever figure out how to do the video thing on here, I'll post a cute one of her laughing...it gets me every time!
We also started sleep training again, and it's been fantastic! This time we went with the Ferber Method. A few days ago, when we put her to bed at 8, she cried for about an hour (us checking on her every 10 min). She then slept from 10pm - 5am, and then from 5:30am-9am (when I woke her up!). She had also had her shots that day, so I think that's why she was so sleepy! But then the next night she only cried for about 15 min (with us checking on her at the 10min mark), and then she was down...she ate her "dream-feed" at 10, and slept from then til 3:30am and then went back to sleep until 7:30. Though I don't want to jinx it by saying this, but I think it has been a success. My goal was for her to only wake up once per night, and she's doing great!
She's learning new things every day, and she is truly the happiest baby I've ever seen! I'm one proud Mama :)
3 comments:
Yea for sleeping! Glad she's doing so well!
Amy, I am glad that Elli is sleeping better. We went with the Ferber method as well. I think it is so much easier on the child and parent. Jason couldn't handle having Emily scream nonstop without us checking on her at points.
Woot woot! I hope it's still working. That's what we did with Elle and it worked for us.
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