Tag: Zach

Happy eight months {& two days}, Zacher!

Much like last month, a couple weeks of your seventh month were spent sick. Colds, pink eye, & RSV are not your friends. Thankfully both in VA & for almost the last week, you Pops was able to help take care of you. Pops & you are best buds. Snuggle partners during the day & night. If you can’t be held or with Mommy, your next favorite person is by far your Pops. It’s so cute to see little you with my big Dad.

And speaking of being little. We’re not trying to give you a complex calling you our Little Guy or Little Dude or Little Buddy. At 13 lbs 10.5 oz {as of your follow up doctor appointment Friday}, you are little. Your pediatrician said Wednesday that you’re boarder line in the 1 percentile. But you’re gaining weight & growing so they {& us} aren’t worried.

You get three 5 oz bottles of Mommy’s pumped milk at daycare & nurse with me once in the morning, usually twice in the evening & at least once overnight. We’ve been trying solids for a while & you’re still not a big fan. This month, we started taking purees into daycare to have Miss Ashton & Miss Mercedes feed you there as well. They seem to be having some successes that Mommy doesn’t always have.

We have slowly weeded out most all of your 3 month sized clothing. They were getting too short for your long legs. You fit nicely in 3-6 month Old Navy clothes & pjs; Gymboree 3-6 outfits & we’re transitioning you into Carter’s 6 months clothes.

You can still wear all the small & one sized cloth diapers. You’re still wearing size 2 Huggies naturals without issues overnight.

Oh overnight. You’ve been spoiled when sick by getting your way ~ sleeping in bed with Mommy or on the couch with Pops. You sleep so well cuddled next to your people. But transitioning you back into your crib is tough on you. We’re still working on that this week post-RSV. You’re sleeping in five-six hour stretches most nights which I’m so thankful for.

Our guess is that you might skip official crawling & go straight to walking. You love to sit independently & do a great job with it. We started putting a boppy behind you for support but we don’t have to do that anymore. You can & will go from sitting to on all fours & can move to get something you want. But 99% of the time, you’re content staying still {that is unless Sister tries to run you over}. You’ve begun pulling up on things {the exersaucer, play mat, me} & took steps multiple times last weekend while holding both your Cici & your Pops’ hands. I’m not ready for that Buddy!

I can’t wait to see what you’re being eight months brings us!

Our Zach. He’s Mommy’s boy for sure. He likes others: his daycare ladies, his Daddy, his Pops & Cici. But if he’s the least bit tired, hungry, or sees me while being held by someone else, he’s arms out whining until I scoop his lil booty up.

Zach sleeps pretty well. He continues to take two naps at daycare. And he usually sleeps from 830-7a getting up once or twice a night for nursing & snuggling. His favorite is to sleep on us on the couch or cuddling with me in bed 4a on, but we try to not have that happen much.

And speaking of little booty, I weighed him on his month day & he was exactly 14 pounds. I’ve transitioned him to size 2 in his Huggies naturals & he’s a size two in the honest co disposables we’re trying too.

He still fits girth size in 3 month clothes, but one piece outfits look like capris. I’ve been retiring them to pass down. And I’ve been putting him in 3-6 mo & introducing 6 more clothes. Our stash of hand-me-downs has dwindled, but I found some Carter’s deals I’m looking forward to him wearing.

Zach recently had his first high fever & doses of baby Tylenol. I’m pretty sure he had hand foot mouth only in his month. It occurred just days after his sister’s bout of it & just a day after getting his first two bottom teeth! The left front bottom popped out the Sat after I saw the right tooth Fri afternoon. It was quite a busy few days.

Zach is all but sitting unassisted. He gets into crawling position but hasn’t made any moves yet. Zachy discovered his feet within the last couple weeks but still likes eating his fingers best. He loves reading books, the birdy on the exersauser, & of course, his monkey wubba.

He loves reaching for our food. I can no longer eat while he nurses. He’s still nursing well {besides the days he had a fever}. We’ve upped his bottles to 5 oz of fortified breast milk after his daycare teachers saying he still seemed hungry after 4.5 oz. Over the last week, we stopped the zantac reflux medicine & haven’t noticed him having reflux issues.

We started solids right after Thanksgiving. First rice cereal {not a fan}, then when Mom was down a couple weekends later, I made avocado, sweet potato & banana baby food in the baby bullet. Zach loves avocado! He’s okay about the other two. I have plans to try him with organic purchased pouches & jar food over the Christmas holiday.

Happy 7 months my littlest buddy! {Will add photos soon}

How has half a year past since this little guy stole my heart?! On this, his first, Thanksgiving day, I’m so grateful for Zach’s arrival into our lives. His smiles brighten & bring joy to everyone who sees them, especially me.

Zach is such a happy baby. Even though he’s had a cold/sniffles/cough pretty much for two month straight, he continues to smile through it. Zach experienced his first ‘sick’ day last week when he went solo to the doctor {without sister for the first time}. The doctor called his sick a sinus infection & he’s taken his first round of antibiotics {since via IV in the NICU}. He took his 3 mls of amoxicillin great mixed in 20 mls of my milk morning & night.

We think his reflux issues are getting better, but we have continued to give him 1 ml of zantac mixed in with 20 mls of breast milk twice a day. He’s spit up more this month than before but doesn’t seem to bother him.

I noticed him grabbing the bottles while I gave him his mixed medicine & then daycare clued me in that he mostly holds his bottles there. So we tried it last weekend & he held his own big bottle for a feeding. It was too cute!

He’s eating well {takes all his 4 oz bottles at daycare & he’s our speed nurser}. He weighed 13 lbs with his outfit on at the pediatrician a week and a half ago. I’m looking forward to getting his official 6 month stats next week. At 13 lbs, he’s still on the {very} small side for 6 months old. He’s still wearing 0-3 month clothes {especially pjs}, 3 month Circo & Carter’s, & 3-6 month Old Navy.

We continue to put Zach in size one Huggies naturals at night. I haven’t really been using the Kissaluvs as much on the weekends although he can still squeeze into them. He wears our AIO cloth diaper stash at daycare where we pack him the more trim ones.

Zach is a great napper. Daycare laughs & says they see him more asleep than awake! He’s not a fan of napping in the crib though; he passes out during tummy time over a boppy & will sleep for two hours easy. Once we learned the boppy trick, we’ve gotten him to take two plus hour long weekend naps in a pack-n-play while laying over a boppy.

Great naps, mixed with little guy, with {maybe solved} reflux, means that he has yet to sleep for more than six hours straight. But that’s okay, I don’t mind my quiet, alone nursing time with Zach. We usually put him down {for a while in the rock-n-play in our room due to his sniffles} around 9p. He’ll wake up around 1 & 4 or sometimes just once around 230 or 3. Zach will quickly fall back asleep on me but getting him back down can be tough. This is when I will call upon Jason to wake up & take over on the couch so I can get a little more sleep before work. Yay co-parenting!

Zach has always been our tummy time rock star. He’s now up on all fours but hasn’t yet crawled. Daycare thinks he’ll be our first crawler though. It took him a bit longer to roll over ~ he was happy on his back or side. But now he’s rolling too & has happily discovered we’ll let him sleep on his stomach now that we know he can roll around.

Zach likes sitting up too. Either leaning a little on me, a boppy, the couch or a pillow or in the bumbo chair. I’m working on him sitting up on his own while we play on blankets in the evenings after daycare/work. He also has discovered toys this month. He loves to play with the ones on the exersaucer, the colorful rattle ball & crinkle elephant. Zach’s biggest toy love though are his wubbas. He will have the biggest smiles while holding onto his monkey or throwing it around.

I’ll update with the 6 month-day photos when I have a chance to upload.