Lately, Bentley has set his bedtime around 8 PM OR midnight. He usually gets cranky around 8/ 8:30 so we give him a bath and a bottle. After he falls asleep we carry him upstairs to the bassinet. If he gets woken up (from me taking a picture of him or when we pass him around) and has been asleep for 20 minutes or more, he will then be awake for several more hours. Basically he gets a little cat nap and he is rested for a while. So we figured out after he falls asleep, we wait about 10 minutes then take him upstairs. The picture above is one night after our failed 8 PM bedtime attempt. He was swadled and stayed that way under his play mat for a while.
Bentley smiles all the time and even laughs sometimes. He loves it when we talk to him in a baby/high pitched voice. He also "talks"/coos a lot. He tries to copy the sounds we make.
This was a few hours after his first shots. He was a little sad and got a slight fever that day and night, but he also had been a little sick before the shots so the fever could have been from that.
Bentley had his 2 month check up on June 13th. We went to a new doctor and new office because I did not like that his old doctor didn't listen to me at all. Here are his 2 month stats:
12.1 pounds (47th percentile)
23.82 inches long (71st percentile)
16 inch head circumference (57th percentile)
Everyone says how he is such a big boy, but he is only in the 47th percentile so that is not big at all... I am glad he is tall and sort of skinny and hope he will stay that way (Brynlee was as a baby and still is now).
We finally got a prescription medication for Bentley's acid reflux. The doctor said it most likely wouldn't help the spitting up, just make it so he is less fussy and uncomfortable. Well, the good news is that it is helping his spit-up, but it costs $63 a month and he has to drink it twice a day. It's a small enough amount that putting it in a bottle wouldn't work, but it requires 1 1/2 droppers and he spits it out if we don't get it in the right place in his mouth. It is over $1 a dose. We still mix gripe water in with his bottles, rub essential oils on his feet twice a day, and I can't eat dairy still. I stopped dairy when he was a newborn because he would scream for hours every night. About 2 weeks ago I thought maybe I could try dairy again because he hadn't had those crying spells in weeks. But it was incredible the amount of spit-up that increased just when I have dairy. We had finally gotten to where I only had to do laundry every 3-4 days (instead of just 2 days), and then it suddenly got way worse. So I had to stop dairy again and will be off it for a while until I decide to chance it again in a few months.
I am planning on pumping breastmilk until January. I make enough to feed him in a day, plus can freeze an 8 oz bag every day or so also. So after January we should be able to use the frozen breastmilk until he turns 1 in April. I am currently pumping just 4 times a day, which is manageable. I don't enjoy it, but am glad Bentley does not have to be on formula right now.
Bentley is still in size 1 diapers, but when they are gone we will go up to the size 1/2 diapers. He poops once every 3 days or so, but when he does it is a huge mess! Bentley has peed on me 6 times since he was born and twice on John. It has been a while though since he has done that so maybe we got smarter and faster. Bentley is still able to fit in 0-3 clothes, but because of his length the buttons are getting tighter.
He can entertain himself for a long time, sometimes hours on his play mat, the couch, or bouncy seat. He loves to suck, chew, and lick his hands and fingers. He also likes to stare at his hands while he holds them in the air in front of his face. Bentley has his hands and arms up like a boxer a lot and if you get close to his face, he will punch you.
It looks like Bentley's left eye is lazy. He has been cross-eyed a lot since he was born, but that is normal for a couple of months. Then the day before his doctor appointment, I noticed it was just the left eye and the doctor noticed it at his appointment. Unless we want to go to Salt Lake to see the opthamologist there, we will just watch and wait and hope it will get better on its own.
Everyone says how he is such a big boy, but he is only in the 47th percentile so that is not big at all... I am glad he is tall and sort of skinny and hope he will stay that way (Brynlee was as a baby and still is now).
We finally got a prescription medication for Bentley's acid reflux. The doctor said it most likely wouldn't help the spitting up, just make it so he is less fussy and uncomfortable. Well, the good news is that it is helping his spit-up, but it costs $63 a month and he has to drink it twice a day. It's a small enough amount that putting it in a bottle wouldn't work, but it requires 1 1/2 droppers and he spits it out if we don't get it in the right place in his mouth. It is over $1 a dose. We still mix gripe water in with his bottles, rub essential oils on his feet twice a day, and I can't eat dairy still. I stopped dairy when he was a newborn because he would scream for hours every night. About 2 weeks ago I thought maybe I could try dairy again because he hadn't had those crying spells in weeks. But it was incredible the amount of spit-up that increased just when I have dairy. We had finally gotten to where I only had to do laundry every 3-4 days (instead of just 2 days), and then it suddenly got way worse. So I had to stop dairy again and will be off it for a while until I decide to chance it again in a few months.
I am planning on pumping breastmilk until January. I make enough to feed him in a day, plus can freeze an 8 oz bag every day or so also. So after January we should be able to use the frozen breastmilk until he turns 1 in April. I am currently pumping just 4 times a day, which is manageable. I don't enjoy it, but am glad Bentley does not have to be on formula right now.
Bentley is still in size 1 diapers, but when they are gone we will go up to the size 1/2 diapers. He poops once every 3 days or so, but when he does it is a huge mess! Bentley has peed on me 6 times since he was born and twice on John. It has been a while though since he has done that so maybe we got smarter and faster. Bentley is still able to fit in 0-3 clothes, but because of his length the buttons are getting tighter.
He can entertain himself for a long time, sometimes hours on his play mat, the couch, or bouncy seat. He loves to suck, chew, and lick his hands and fingers. He also likes to stare at his hands while he holds them in the air in front of his face. Bentley has his hands and arms up like a boxer a lot and if you get close to his face, he will punch you.
It looks like Bentley's left eye is lazy. He has been cross-eyed a lot since he was born, but that is normal for a couple of months. Then the day before his doctor appointment, I noticed it was just the left eye and the doctor noticed it at his appointment. Unless we want to go to Salt Lake to see the opthamologist there, we will just watch and wait and hope it will get better on its own.
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