- At her 6 month well check up Charlie weighed 13 lbs 14 ounces and is 25 3/4 inches long. She's in the 50th percentile for height, 13th percentile for weight and 18th percentile for head circumference.
- Reaching up to touch mamas face while nursing. Really touching anyone's face is a new thing. Grabbing noses, hooking her fingers into other people's mouths etc.
- Finding the feet. She's grabbing for them a lot more. By the end of month 6 she has definitely accomplished eating the feet on multiple occasions. Aka whenever she can.
- Her speaking abilities have progressed from excited screeches to monkey sounds. Ooh ooh and such noises. It's adorable.
- We practice trying to sit on her own a lot but no go yet. I don't think it will be long though.
- When she rolls over onto her belly she's getting really strong in supporting her body with her arms. She's even started the nudging motions like she might get going soon?
- Hair! My baby has hair. Granted it's really fine and light colored but my goodness it's getting long. She still has the bald patch in the back along with this patch of dark black hair from when she was born.
- Baby giggles are contagious. And this kid smiles and giggles at anything, everything. This month there is very little that upsets her.
- Sleeping through the night has continued through most of this month. The last week before her 6 month birthday she was going to bed on her regular schedule and waking up at 11 to nurse and then play! Luckily for mama, I was off work that week for Thanksgiving so it wasn't too disruptive for our schedule. Napping goes really well some days and then there's cat naps on others.
- Still on breast milk. She has cereal in the mornings after her first bottle. Then half a jar of baby food at lunch and half a jar at dinner, along with her bottles and nursing sessions. The solids are definitely increasing. She's still taking 4 ounces of breastmilk by bottles 4 times a day though and nursing twice with me in the evenings on weekdays. We are trying to gradually wean her though. So far, she thinks formula is for the birds. The current plan is to buy every type of formula there is and see what agrees with her. Otherwise known as whatever the baby will agree to. At this point I'm just looking to eliminate one bottle of nursing for a month and then another bottle etc. I want to gradually wean her down so that by the time she's getting to a year old, she's nursing once or twice and on formula almost full time.
- Still pooping every few days but now that solids are in the picture it's awful. Breastfed baby poop was no big thing to me. I mean it was gross but it didn't bug me. Baby's poop after having solids in her diet is just plan gross. Gag.
- Still on Zantac twice a day but I'm debating phasing her off of it. She's definitely gained weight and at first it seemed like her script wasn't doing much but being home with her that week, she didn't seem to spit up or have any screaming issues at all.
