Nita, the high chair is pretty supportive. He can hold his neck and body up with just a back rest. We’ve had him in it twice for about 3 minutes. Just trying spoonfuls of milk but he just pushes it back out his mouth. Haha I think somewhere about the 3 month mark he chilled out a little. Now he quite happily plays on his own. He does notice when we are eating though so I end up getting DH to cook or do the last bit of dinner and I’ll feed William. Then he’ll happily play on the floor or his bouncer while we eat. Or if that fails, I feed William and DH chops my food up into bite size pieces and I use a fork haha. Seriously, I did not think eating a meal was going to be one of the hardest things about having a baby.
In terms of the reading about routines etc. I’m just trying to make sure he gets enough sleep for his development. When W was 3 months old I let him do what he wanted. Sleep, feed etc whenever. But the more I looked into it I realized we were missing his tired cues. Babies aren’t going to tell you there’s ready for a sleep apparently haha. So now, I do eat, play, sleep. He’ll wake up and I’ll feed him. Then change. Then we have awake time, so singing, going outside, playing with toys etc. then between 1.25-1.75 hours after he woke up, I just do a similar routine to our night time one. And he’ll nap for 20 mins-3 hours. He’s never been a grizzly baby but I notice he’s less agitated and he seems a lot calmer. It’s nothing strict. If I need to feel him to get him to sleep or if he wants another feed during his awake time, that’s no worries. But that seems to be the big feed (when he’s still a little sleepy and less distracted) and then he has top ups.
Lucy! Cute bump!! Man it makes me miss mine haha. My SIL said that beyond a point (can’t remember now) babies can hear the doppler. So they’ll kick back because it’s loud and sounds weird haha. I thought that was kind of cute. I remember that milestone too. I think I was about the same as you and our new neighbor moved in and I went and said hello and she asked me when I was due haha. I told her later on that she was the first to ask without knowing (now we are good friends) and she was a bit embarrassed haha. I was just excited.
Nita and Lucy, not sure that the shaving thing applies everywhere. They definitely don’t require you to be clean shaven here. Maybe check with your midwife Lucy?
AFM, we had a really scary incident over the weekend. I can’t say too much but we are all safe and ok. We have had police and police dogs around. Having to make statements today and there will be a trial in a few weeks I imagine. Sorry that’s really vague. But we are all ok and safe.
I feel like the last 4 months have been a mixture of the best thing I could ever imagine and so SO many rough moments. Maybe we will catch a break eventually.
Ill have to wait and see...promised my DH I wont track dates for the next year, but iys difficult lol.
