Five months! (nearly!)

On Saturday my little guy will be five months old. Five months! Where has that time gone? No, seriously.... wasn't it just yesterday that I was making trips to the FS/OB office?

Daydreamer, just like his daddy

We've just survived Jonathan's first cold. He's still a bit snotty and will cough once or twice a day but he's back to his usual self again. I should've known he was sick when he slept for 5 hours without waking, it's rare he sleeps like that. He sounded a bit congested when I brought him into our bed at about 4am and then he just got sad. And miserable. And more congested and snotty. Poor little pickle. Usually breastfeeding will fix anything, but this time it didn't and he was too congested to nurse properly which made him angry and sad. Luckily he was only sick for a few days.

Poor sick, sleepy little guy.

He's rolling both ways now and every now and then will decide to go back to belly, to back to belly and wind up rolling off his play mat. He also wriggles and kicks and squirms his way around on the floor, he's even bringing his legs up underneath himself. It looks a bit like he's trying to crawl! Slow down baby, mummy isn't ready for that just yet!

Jonathan babbles and coos and gurgles. He makes this funny little noise too, nearly like a cross between a coo and a hiss. And this month he's starting whining and whinging when he's not happy.

Happy after splashing in the shower!

We've started him on solids, he's not a fan of purees but I don't feel comfortable giving him finger foods just yet (even though daddy gave him a stalk of asparagus last night). So far he's had rice cereal, avocado, banana and pumpkin.

He's still breastfed and I still feed him to sleep. (I know, it's controversial to feed to sleep. Let alone still be feeding to sleep at this age.) He doesn't sleep well. He'll nap between 20min to 1hr30min during the day, but only in the car or in our arms. About once a week he'll nap in the pram and that's usually during the walk home from mother's group. If I time it just right he'll fall asleep as I'm walking past the cafe and I can stop and eat lunch while he naps.

We've got a good bedtime routine but he's still not a sleeper. Tony does his bath, we read two books and then I nurse him to sleep in our bed while his sleepy music is playing and after about 20mins transfer him to his cot. He sleeps in his cot for a few hours and then I bring him into our bed after his first (or second) wake up of the night. Some nights it's great, because I only briefly wake up for 1min or so when he wakes and attaches. Other nights he spends the whole night kicking me and headbutting my armpit and cooing at 3am wanting to play.

Blue eyed babe!

When he's happy he is the sweetest little boy. He's this cute, cheeky little guy who smiles at the little old ladies in our building and coos at the shop assistants when we're out. But when he's cranky or over tired, oh boy, nothing will make him happy. I have lost count the number of times I've finished the grocery shopping wheeling the pram around and carrying him because if I dare put him in the pram he'll scream and screech and arch his back until people look at me with the "what is wrong with your child" look on their face.

So much cute!

I love being a mum and I love seeing my husband being a dad. This little guy has brought so much joy to our lives and our families lives. I find it surreal that I have a photo of him as an embryo and now he's this living breathing little person, with his own personality, likes and dislikes. I wouldn't swap this for anything in the world.

He's here!

Jonathan Robert was born 11/11/14 at 9.13am, weighing 8lbs exactly or 3.63kg. The c-section was a breeze, the worst part was getting up out of bed for the first time and showering. That was not fun, and I regret not taking the extra pain meds that they offered me before I got up. I was down to just paracetamol and ibprofen by day 3 and by the time I got out of hospital I just needed paracetamol if I'd over done it or forgotten to rest.

Breastfeeding has gone pretty well too, a few minor issues on one side but I saw a lactation consultant and we got that sorted out pretty quickly.

Jonathan is now 10 weeks old! The time has just flown by. He was a great sleeper at the start, except around 4 weeks he started fighting day sleeps and then after Christmas went from sleeping a nice 4-6hrs overnight to waking every two hours. But last night he slept five hours in a row! (of course I didn't, I cooked dinner and mopped bathroom, loaded the dishwasher......and went to bed 2 hours before he woke up. Mummy fail.)

When he's happy, he is this little ball of sunshine. Smiling and cooing, talking and mimicking you. But when he's upset he goes from 0-100 in no time and has quite an ear-piercing cry. He falls asleep while nursing and I transfer him to his bassinet, it's a 50-50 chance he'll wake up the second I leave the room and if he does he usually naps in my arms. I know it's frowned on upon but I can't give up the baby cuddles, one day he'll be big and won't want to cuddle.

He's spoilt rotten by both sets of grandparents as well as his aunts and uncles. He's still our little trickster, remember how he'd stop moving when Tony would try and feel him? Well, now he likes to flip from his tummy to his back the minute we look away. One day I'll actually see him do it, instead of looking back seconds later and seeing him on his back, when I'd placed him down on his tummy.

He has the best expressions and has discovered he can suck his hands, bat at toys and grab mummy's hair. He loves his daddy and lights up when daddy gets home from work each day. Tony bathes Jonathan and he spends most of bath time staring up and smiling at Tony. I put him in bed with Tony in the mornings while I shower and eat breakfast and can hear them cooing at each other as I'm getting ready for the day.

I'm doing ok, I've been a bit fragile after going a few weeks with 2 hourly wake ups. Tony and I don't always see eye to eye on some parenting issues and sometimes I can take things the health nurse or doctor has said bit too personally.

I really want to keep updating here. It wasn't until I had a comment that I realised I still hadn't gotten around to posting about Jonathans arrival! He's here, we're both healthy and hopefully it won't be another 10 weeks before I update again.

I do sporadically post photos on instagram too, my ttc instagram was donnattc but I post more on my regular one which is msflutterbye. :)