In the last week of his first month, Dalton is already stretching his long arms and legs out of his newborn clothes, and has surprisingly stable movements for his age. He is still growing like crazy, too, now weighing right around 9 lb.
Unfortunately, Dalton seemed to catch Sonia’s cold at the beginning of the week, so we ended up tilting his bed and letting him nap in the bouncer to help with the congestion. It didn’t get much worse than that, thankfully, and passed in a few days.
His general fussiness continues, however, although he’s starting to have some “good days” with decent stretches of happy awake time, including some of his first social smiles already!
I am also learning more how to deal with the “bad days”. One sure fire way to calm him from screaming down to sleep is to put him in the K’Tan with a Wubba and go for a walk outside. Unfortunately, one of his fussiest times seems to be a “witching hour” around 4am, where that isn’t really possible. 🙁
Despite all of that, Dalton still gets about 16 hrs of total sleep per day, including a 3hr midday nap and a 5hr stretch at the beginning of the night (from 7pm-midnight). We also started him on probiotics this week to see if that might help the general fussiness.
Right around 4wks, Dalton’s acne worsened significantly and he started losing all of his hair and getting cradle cap – just like Sonia did. At least he still really likes his baths 🙂
