Being April

Last night I put DJ to bed around 7 as usual, and as usual he was up at 10 wanting to eat. He used to go a solid 6 hours when I first put him down, but now he will hardly go more than 2. So I fed him at 10, and I decided then that I would not feed him again until after 1. That was only 3 hours, and at 4 months old he should definitely be able to go that long, especially since he has gone much longer in the past. So when he woke up at 12:20-ish I just left him. He cried... and cried... and cried... I would periodically return his pacifier to him hoping that it would comfort him and help him go back to sleep, but he continued to cry and cry and cry... three minutes to 1, he finally stopped crying, just when I was about to feed him. He slept until 2, when I got up and fed him promptly. He got up again at 5, and then at 7. Did I do the right thing? What if he really was hungry and I was just starving the poor kid. I know that every baby is different. Some are sleeping through ...

So... pretty much every day is the same for me, so I never feel like I have much going on, but all of my days are pretty full. Being a mom is a full time job and I am loving it. Still struggling in the sleep department, but things are getting better. We all had a bout of illness last week, but it is coming to a close. I started DJ on his first solids a bit ago, he has fun with it, but I don't know how much of it actually makes it to his stomach. Still working with DJ on rolling over. He's done it a couple of times without help, but usually he just has no interest. I think he may be teething, but his gums look completely normal. He just drools a lot and chews on everything, and has been really irritable. He went almost a week smiling very infrequently except when he was in the bathtub, I always get lots of smiles during his baths. Yesterday I got my happy baby back though, it was wonderful. I've all but given up on my class, I'm not really get...

Last night, DJ woke up 4 times other then time to eat, and instead of going back to sleep, like I've been trying to get him to do, he worked his arms out of his blanket, and then couldn't get back to sleep until I reswaddled him. And of course the process of reswaddling him woke him up even more than he was before, so it took ages for him to get back to sleep. He has also been needing me to return his pacifier to him way more often than I like. He will not go to sleep without it. He will cry and cry and cry, but won't go to sleep unless I give him his pacifier. Usually after a good cry session he will go to sleep the second that I do give him his pacifier, but it really is a pain to have to do. So I'm considering not swaddling him so that he can have access to hands to suck on, hopefully that would solve the pacifier issue. He already sucks on his hands while he's awake enough that I think I'm stuck with a thumb sucker already, and I do...