Lucy Mae: 8 Months

 

Our thick girl is now 8 months!!  This girl has been through a whirlwind of development this month!

As far as milestones goes, she's EXPLODED! Last month she was just working on sitting up.  This month she tackled sitting up on her own, to CRAWLING and to PULLING UP!  All. In. One. Month.  We can't believe it.  Our baby days melted away just like that.  She's babbling, saying "Dada" (first word!)  Now we know why she was sleeping like poop the last few months.

As far as sleeping she's doing SO much better. We realize now she went through a huge developmental leap and that's why she was regressing so badly.  She's back to sleeping through the night! She sleeps from about 8-7:15a.  During the day when she's home with me Lucy will typically nap from 10-1 and then 3:30p-5p.  We finally transitioned her to her own bed/room.  Ugh I can't believe it.  Once she started sleeping through the night we made the switch.  She's transitioned so smoothly.  I also got her a thicker wearable swaddle blanket which has helped her sleep better too. 

We are still nursing away!  I had another blocked duct, but it resolved thankfully pretty quickly.  She nurses 4-5 times a day and we are up to eating twice a day now for solids.  She's still doing purees but this week we started doing some BLW solid foods and she's doing well with the chewing!  She tries to pick up food and place it in her mouth but she misses quite a bit.  She's doing so good! 

This month we celebrated her first Valentine's Day!  Nothing too crazy, but it was fun to dress her sweet self up in hearts!  We had a pretty low key month and stayed close to home.  It's so much fun watching her explore and grow!

Lucy Mae: 7 Months

Here we are, over halfway to one!  Lucy is doing so well. The biggest update I want to lead with is she's OFFICIALLY graduated from her hip dysplasia brace!  We saw our ortho in the beginning of January and he said her hips look beautiful.  There is a chance that she could need further bracing in the future if they start to slide back, but I think I can safely say we can rule surgery out for good.  I'm so thankful she's progressed so well! I also can't say enough great things about the P.A. who we've been working with.

As far as milestones go, she's trucking right along!  We've started putting her in the boppy pillow to help her practicing sitting up.  She's wobbly, but I can't believe she can hold her big self up for a few minutes at a time already!  Kit swears she's saying "Dada" but I haven't heard it yet so it doesn't count.  She's getting up on all fours, but no crawling notions yet.  We are so proud of how she's doing despite being set back a few months. She's been grabbing my face for open mouth kisses and it's everything. 

She's still mainly breastfeeding at this point for nutrition.  We introduced solids last month towards the end, so this month we've been working on slowly fine tuning actually swallowing food and not just pushing it out of our mouth.  She's getting better!  She has liked every food we have given her thus far.  We have tried pumpkin, sweet potato, peas, apple, oatmeal and bananas. She's nursing around 5-6 times during the day and now nurses 1-2 times at night (new thing...ugh).  

Sleep.  Ugh.  This month was a month of regression. Waking up every night twice a night and the first time usually a hour after I've fallen asleep.  I'm dying on the inside.  I'm doing both wake feedings since it's quicker, but ugh I'm so miserable. She's napping great, still 3 times a day, 1-2 hours at a time.  She still will fall asleep in our arms and contact nap.  We will hold onto that for as long as she'll let us.

This month was full of holidays!  She enjoyed her first Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years!  She loved the tissue paper the best.  She even got to ring in the year with us at our little NYE party!

She's just the best and I love every day we spend with her more and more.  She just completes us so well.