He's pretty big now, our little one, he really looks around and has a definite preference for cuddles and jiggling up and down. He's an interactive baby now!
Here he is, looking towards the TV!
He has a different sort of schedule each day, so I can't say he has any real sort of routine yet - I try and watch what he wants and needs throughout the day, and guide his sleep, feeds and baths, and his alert-time so that he is not doing too much of any one thing at a time - he's only a baby after all, he has no way of understanding that if he feeds every half hour he'll only have a rough time digesting the milk! He also has no way of seeing how tired he is getting, and I have to remember to put him down for a nap in good time! More or less, he feeds every 2-4 hours. He tends to have a few feeds close together (2 hours apart) and a few quite far apart. Some feeds are l-o-n-g, and others are faster and shorter - I leave all that up to him unless we are in a hurry for some reason - in which case he gets a top up feed asap, or a bottle of expressed milk, which is SO the fastest way to feed him!
I'm testing out the Dr Browns anti colic bottle, and the Breastflow bottle (it's like a breast in terms of what baby has to do with his bottom lip to get the milk out of the special teat) - and Jaan seems to get on best with the Breastflow bottle. To be honest, Jaan loves the ordinary no-frills Mothercare bottle we had lying around (unopened hand-me-downs from his cousins!) - but they do leave him a little windy and he sucks way too fast!! It's amazing he does not spit up more than he does (hardly at all thank goodness).
... and we've been enjoying family time together in the mornings,
when we can. LOVE this picture.
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