Only about 2 weeks late with this one, not too shabby. As with the first month update, there isn’t a whole lot to report. Babies this young are pretty boring. Cute and lovable, but boring. So you’ll get a boatload of pictures again instead of words.
A couple small things of note – I put away their sleeping bassinets in the living room and brought out little baby chairs instead (froggie and a bouncy seat I got); they got their first baths in the baby bathtub instead of sponge baths in the kitchen; they moved up to size 0-3 month clothes then quickly up to 3 months, which are big on them, but way cuter than our 0-3 selection; switched diaper brands and moved out of newborn size; both started smiling and cooing/gurgling “talking”; got their first colds (thanks, big sibs); first trip to the zoo and in the big jogging stroller.
Also, we have started noticing some differences in their personalities and characteristics already. Nat takes a pacifier better, burps better, stays awake just looking around calmly for spells better. Avit takes a bottle faster and can calm better without a pacifier, sometimes just putting himself to sleep during the day after a little fussing. Overall, both are relatively calm little guys, usually able to put themselves to sleep or calm down with a pacifier. They do have a “witching hour” in the late afternoon and evening, but we’ve come to expect it now instead of just saying “what the ever-loving f???” every day when it happens.
One big change did happen, actually. I put them on a feeding schedule, which we’d never done with any of the others when they were babies. It’s taken a couple iterations, but I think I’m getting the right one dialed in – 4 4-oz. bottles during the day (roughly 9:00 a.m., noon, 3:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m.) that are varying mixtures of breast milk and formula; nursing at bedtime, overnight, and first morning feeding (usually somewhere around 7:00 a.m.); then pumping twice a day in the late morning and late afternoon/early evening.
Their bedtime routine has been pretty nonexistent so far, which is driving me nuts. So I’ve begun trying to get them to bed earlier – changing and swaddling them, then giving them a small 2-oz. bottle of all formula maybe an hour/hour and a half after that fourth bottle during their fussy time when we’d normally just try to quiet them to sleep in the living room, then putting them right to bed. Then I give them a dreamfeed when I go to bed, which is just nursing them while they’re asleep. Ideally I’d like to stretch that 6:00 bottle out and give it as late as possible and then put them to bed after that, since I don’t think they really need to eat that extra time at all. We’ll see if I can get that to work, though – almost every day has been different so far.
Their “typical” night then, with a dreamfeed when I go to bed anywhere between 9:00-11:00, is to wake up somewhere around 2:00 a.m. and somewhere around 5:00 a.m., but I really never know what to expect going into each night. Some nights one or the other fusses after one or both or more feedings, sometimes I don’t get any chance to go back to sleep after the 5:00ish feeding before my alarm goes off at 6:00 on school days, sometimes they wake up well before 2:00 and I want to scream, etc., etc. My hope is that using this schedule will just help smooth everything out sooner than later.
Guess I had some words about them this month after all. Now, after all that, here are their official 2 month stats. They did get their first round of vaccinations at this appointment, too, but they handled them like absolute champs. Each one got 3 jabs in the thighs, and each one cried for literally only seconds. The doctor, nurse, and I were all amazed at how quickly they calmed after the shots.
Nat
- Weight: 10 lbs. 14 oz. (13%)
- Height: 22.5″ (21%)
- Head: 38.2 cm (18%)
- BMI: 15.1 kg/m2 (17%)
Avit
- Weight: 10 lbs. 2 oz. (5%)
- Height: 22″ (8%)
- Head: 38 cm (14%)
- BMI: 14.7 kg/m2 (10%)
I wonder how long it’ll take to get a monthly picture where both of them are looking at the camera and smiling. I didn’t do this for their 1-month picture, but here’s a look at all 5 of them in a row at 2 months. See any similarities?
And now here’s a month-to-month comparison of just these two:
