I blogged about our Babywise experience with Caden and I am sharing how our experience with Babywise is going with our third baby. Here are the links to all the posts I have done in this series:
Schedule
Jesse dropped a feeding and is now nursing 4 times in 24 hours. The transition happened at 38 weeks. He began sleeping longer for his first nap and instead of waking up at 10am woke up a 11am. Which was perfect! Because the older two are back in preschool now and his feeding/nap schedule works great for drop off and pickup!
Week 25 – 37
- 6:30am: Eat/Waketime, Diapering
- 8:30am: Nap
- 10am: Eat/Waketime, Diapering
- 12pm Nap
- 1pm: Eat/Waketime, Diapering
- 2:45pm: Nap
- 4pm: Eat/Waketime, Diapering
- 6:00pm: Nap
- 7pm: Eat, Diaper, Back to Crib
Week 38 – 40
- 6:50am: Eat/Waketime, Diapering
- 7:30am: Breakfast*
- 9am: Nap
- 11am: Eat/Waketime, Diapering
- 12pm: Lunch*
- 1pm: Nap
- 3pm: Eat/Waketime, Diapering
- 5pm: Dinner*
- 6:30pm: Eat/Diaper/Bedtime
*Jesse joins us for family mealtime at the table for his cereal, fruits, and veggies.
Nursing
Jesse is nursing every 3.5 to 4 hours during the day and is now going to bed around 7pm and sleeping 12 hours at night. The only bummer about nursing right now is that Jesse has 7 total teeth now, 4 on top and 3 on the bottom. He is also cutting more teeth! Which has left my nipples (sorry if that is tmi) super sore and cut up. I have been having to pump a few days worth of bottle here and there to allow them to heal up. He total thinks the biting and grinding is a game and I can sense when he is going to do it or tell by this smirking grin/look he gets. It is getting a little better over this last week but yikes! Teething and nursing can be rough.
Additional Reading: Pumping, Dumping, and Freezing Breastmilk & Bottle Feeding
Merge Five and Six
Jesse didn’t drop his afternoon/before bedtime nap (Merge 5) until he started sleeping longer stretches for the first nap of the day. Once that happened he dropped from a five feed-wake-sleep cycle to four (Merge 6). On pages 101-103 there is more information about these merges. There is such a huge span of weeks separating Merge Five and Six that you have to figure out what is going to work best for your individual baby.
All three times we have done Babywise there has been huge variations with our babies during these weeks. For our family while the book proved helpful up to this point the first time around with Caden I felt like I was flying blind in sense because there can be such differences depending on your baby, family schedule, and routine.
Solids
I was a little reluctant to add foods because nursing is just so easy, well when your baby isn’t biting you that is, but then I started feeing him food and I remembered how much fun this phase is too. The faces when they try something new, the eagerness to put more in their mouth if they like it, and the chubby fingers learning to grab puffs.
So here is what we have fed Jesse so far. We started out with baby oatmeal/breastmilk, pureed fruits/veggies (sweet potatoes, apples, pears, carrots, bananas), and have moved on to puffs, little pieces of banana and avocados as well as thicker purees.
Jesse comes to the table now for all of our meals and has his own mini meal with us. He really enjoys table time and seeing what Caden and Maisie are doing.
Waketime
There is so much waketime and he loves to try and get into whatever Caden and Maisie are playing withbecause he can crawl now! He is into everything and putting everything in his mouth! We even had to take him to the emergency room because he swallowed something he shouldn’t have.
He LOVES bath time, and being cuddled, sitting up, drinking water out of sippy cups, eating at the table, and chewing on anything.
Naps & Night Sleep
He will generally wakeup in the morning around 6:15am or so and cry for a few minutes before falling back asleep for another 30 minutes.
His first nap in the morning is usually 2 hours now. Although I am sure I will post this and it will change again ;).
Jesse is now ten months old! When did this happen. He is the sweetest and best natured baby full or smiles and laughs.
