At 4 months, Dalton is 14 lbs (20%) and 26″ (80%), and it has been another happy month.
Dalton continues to want to sit and stand a lot, so we brought out the BebePod chair again. He still needs help of course, but he gets such a big smile on his face when he is up and about.
He also learned a new sound early in the month, and found his feet and his thumb around 17 weeks.
He has rolled over from back to front a few times, but not with any consistency yet, and has stayed steady in his tummy time ability and interest.
At 15 weeks Dalton dropped down to 3 naps – two 1.5 hr naps in the morning and a 30 minute nap in the late afternoon – all separated by ~2 hrs of awake time. At night, he has consistently been sleeping from 7pm to between 3-5am, and taking only one feeding a night. We have kept waiting for the dreaded 4 mo sleep regression to take hold, since it started at 14 wks for Sonia, and it may have just hit now at 17 weeks. The past couple days he has had a harder time staying down past the first 30 minutes of his naps and his nighttime sleep, but still sleeps long stretches once/if he gets past that wake-up point. He is still reliant on the swaddle and the Wubba for sleep cues, but since he has already been able to suck his thumb during the day, hopefully by the time he really rolls, he won’t need it.
I have been very thankful that Dalton was such a good baby this month, especially when Eric got a mysterious illness that put him out of commission, and made me a single parent, for a week. That Dalton was able to spend a half hour plus happily in his pack n play, or bouncy chair while I tended to Sonia’s whims, was a huge help!
Now that I’m finally heading back to work next week we’ll see how things go. The extra time off has been wonderful, and the extra weekday Cardio Barre classes mean I have only ~5lb to go to get back to pre-pregnancy weight, woo hoo!