Weekly Milestones

• Brennan can lift his head and support himself on his arms during tummy time! So cute! Now he can tolerate it for 2-3 minutes instead of 30 seconds.


• Raspberries! Every day is filled with happy tongue-sticking-out bubble blowing. He gets a big kick out of it if mommy raspberries back.


• 13 lb 3 oz at the pediatrician. Wow. Almost 10 lbs more than he was at birth. Plus, Mommy finally cracked out the 3-6 month clothes. Especially the jammies. Those big cloth diapers make his torso awfully long!


• Stopped reflux medication. The pediatrician said that both meds could make babies cranky, and perhaps we were at the point that we were doing more harm than good. Stopped Zantac on Wednesday and Prevacid on Friday. He does seem so much happier while nursing!
• LOTS of night waking. Crabby and fussy at bedtime. It seems that with his esophageal sphincter getting stronger and the reflux decreasing, now we can't get burps out of him. Especially during night feedings. An hour after Eric or I put him down - he's up and crying and uncomfortable. Yesterday it happened during naptime - and he was SCREAMING in pain. On top of it all, he lost his voice from all the crying. :(


• BUT - Friday night - he slept from 9:30pm till 4:00am! Saturday night, he went to bed quietly at 8:00, woke up twice to eat, but slept SOUNDLY between feedings, no burp awakenings, no multiple awakenings in the morning. Hurrah!


• First visit at Aunt Micki's. Disaster. Fussy, overtired Brennan; exhausted, overwhelmed Mommy.


• Laughter. Mommy found a ticklish spot by squeezing his back just above his pelvis. He laughed and laughed. What a hoot!


• 25 weeks old. Almost half a year this little miracle has been stealing our hearts.