Hair/Eyes:
It seems to be thinning out a bit to me. It also seems more brown. It is still pretty straight but I have already accepted it will be curly! Her eyes are still blue but not as light as the girls were at her age. They don’t look like they’re going to go brown but it’s still to early to call it.
Size:
She doesn’t have an appt this month but I’d guess she’s around 13.5lbs by now. She’s tracking on the 75th percentile for weight for breast fed babies. She’s got chubby little legs and a few chins. She’s actually thinned out a bit this month and I think she lost a couple chins. She seems very long (especially in the torso) and I’ve noticed that she’s growing out of shirts on the length rather than the girth. I pulled out the girls 3-6 month stuff and there is stuff that fits her pretty well already.
Sleeping:
Still co-sleeping so it’s still going well. When she’s feeling well she only gets up once a night and she is usually good for a good 6 hour chunk. She naps whenever she feels like it - there is no routine or schedule yet. Her sisters fell into their schedule so I am just going to let Claire do the same. She is pretty independent about falling asleep during the day and at night she sleeps beside me, not on me. She has taken to her soother this month and it helps her get to sleep.
Eating:
Still on demand. She is going much longer between feeds this month. I try not to let her go more than four hours. If she’s distracted while we’re out and about she still doesn’t seem to get hungry. At home, on a normal day, she eats every 3 hours or so. She is getting very efficient but sometimes she still gets in the zone where she wants to take her time.
Personality:
Claire is a really sweet baby. She’s full of smiles and loves to coo. She definitely knows John and the girls but she’s still willing to smile at anyone who so much as looks at her. She started laughing this month and it is really cute. She rarely cries or fusses unless there is something she needs. She is very curious and likes to look around. She sits in her bouncer chair during the day and just watches everything that’s going on around her. She’s a lot more vocal now and will yell for attention and then smile when she gets it.
This month Claire got her first cold. It didn’t seem to phase her for the first week but then she got really sick. She cried all night and I ended up taking her to the doctor to make sure she didn’t have an ear infection like her big sister Leah. She was pretty needy for a couple of days but settled right back into normal Claire once she felt better.
Claire really enjoys her playmat. She’s started to reach for things but her favourite thing is talking to herself in the mirror. She loves watching Baby Einsteins. She likes to kick her legs and wave her arms and just this morning she very nearly rolled onto her belly. She’s also started moving around a bit more when she sleeps. The other night she managed to get herself horizontal on our bed.
The girls are still good with her. Emma likes to get her soother or tell me Claire is hungry. They make up all sorts of stuff about her - their favourite is that Swiper (from Dora) is trying to swipe Claire and they have to stop him. They have decided that Claire’s favourite colour is green and they will tell you all the limitations there are when you’re a baby.
