Baby Central
A couple shots from last week’s baby outing. Thanks to Lisanne and Dennis for inviting us over.
I took a pocket camera instead of the big Nikon (trying to disguise myself as non-geek Dad…right) and most everything I know about shooting photos with the big camera doesn’t really scale down as well to the dinky cam. But a fuzzy picture is better than none at all I guess.
After yesterday’s picture of Zane in teething sadness we played together some more, he drank milk, took another nap, and then things calmed down quite a bit. We had a nice quiet evening in the family room and then the last feeding and an attempt at putting him to bed around eight.
For the last three nights Zane has been sleeping all night. The caveat being that it’s been a challenge to get him to sleep at his normal 7-8 timeframe, instead he holds out until nine, or even later. I don’t know what’s up with that, maybe his Mom’s sleep genes are kicking in? Whatever it is I’m not liking it as he’s moving closer and closer towards my bedtime. Also, I don’t get to see him in the morning when I leave, which doesn’t seem right. Still, he’s sleeping up to eleven hours non-stop.
Saturday Faith and I (and Zane, no babysitter) took a CPR class. I hadn’t taken one since my Radio/Air Force days so it was a good refresher, especially considering that they changed the technique. Zane was winding up for teething all day Saturday and was in a high pitched mood, squealing like crazy. He did ok at the class, but needed to be distracted most of the time.
I mentioned that he’s been getting up on all fours. Here’s a web cam shot from the other day when he was airing out, baby derrière au natural.
But that’s all threes!
— Faith · 28 January 08 · #
The Zane sleeping thang has been interesting. He really did it himself with a little help from Mom who can sleep through a tornado.
First off, Zane is on the small side of his weight percentile, and we felt uncomfortable denying him a meal. He is not a voracious eater and is likely to not eat more at the next meal if he skips one. So, we let him set the milk demand.
Then once, Mom slept through the Zane crying and Dad came up (work night sleeping necessity) to a crying baby and a totally zonked Mom. It was at that point that we knew he could go 6 hours without expiring.
So, we built that 6 hours in. Mom would wake him and feed him right before she went to be (or before last pump) between 10-11:30pm, and Dad would wake him between 5:30-6:30am or there abouts. This worked well for a loooong time.
Then, we got rid of Dad’s morning feeding. Dad would listen to the baby monitor in the morning evaluating whether the baby noises were hungry or not.
And as Zane got to bed later, the night feeding went too.
A big help has been our records; we could always check our spreadsheets and see how much he’d eaten. If it wasn’t a normal amount, then we’d wake him. If he’d eaten enough, he’d sleep. This was very helpful.
Now, we might try and move the whole sleeping thing an hour or two earlier. We’ll see how that goes!
— Faith · 28 January 08 · #
Zane’ll love this shot when he’s in middle school. ;-)
— Ted Jerome · 4 February 08 · #