My lovely little bub is starting to really take to food. I bought a couple of sachets of the Rafferty's Garden 4 month vegies. I'ved mixed a teaspoonful of the apple and pears with farex for his breakfast and he likes it. I gave him a feed (breast) this afternoon and he seemed to want something more so I gave him a couple of teaspoonfuls of the sweet potato, carrot and apple sachet. I know it's slack because I could be making my own, but there's nothing else in these except fruit and veg. I'm always giving him the breast first - at least until he's 6 months old. My theory is that he doesn't really need the "food" so it can come second to the booby milk!

He loves rolling! You lay him on his back and quick as you please he's rolled over onto his tummy. He's trying to crawl which is just gorgeous! He pulls his knees up to his tummy and sticks his bum in the air (hillarious when the nappy's off - got many videos of him for his 18th). Now he just has to get the hands coordinated. At the moment he's pushing himself along on his face. If I walk out of the room I will always walk back in to find him facing in a different direction. He has his own form of breakdancing (yep, showing my age here) spinning himself round on his tummy.

Feeding is so interactive now. He just loves an audience. He knows when I start watching telly, talk to someone else or my attentions not on him. He stops sucking, turns his head towards me and waits for me to catch his eye. I tell him yes he's the centre of my attention and he smiles that wonderful gummy smile and goes back to drinking. If I do ignore him, he's not above biting down on my nipple (ouch!!).


We haven't had a repeat performance of the big sleep. I'm thinking that was a one off from being absolutely exhausted from being sick and not sleeping properly - either that or DH and I were so out of it from not getting any sleep at all for 5 days that we slept through him waking up! I guess he can't have cried too much because DS1 didn't get up to him and his bedroom is right next door to the nursery. I've gone back to giving a dreamfeed last thing before I go to bed otherwise I get up twice a night. Getting up more than once just seems to make me more tired. I would rather go to bed a bit later. No matter what his wake up time seems to be between 5 and 5.30. Then it's a feed a bit of a play and then back to sleep within about an hour and half for a big morning sleep. This is followed by a feed and a play then a bigger middle of the day sleep. Then he has an afternoon nap, going down somewhere between 4 and 5 otherwise it's meltdown time. Bathtime is between 6 and half past, followed by a feed then it's bedtime.

Well that's about it from me. I'm going to get him weighed on Wednesday, so I'll let you know where he's at now..... gosh can't believe he's been here for 20 weeks already!!