4 months

I am writing this as Neil is actually already over 19 weeks (4 and a half months) and adding pictures took me too long so this is posting right at 20 weeks. I'm going to try to only give updates through where I remember he was at 4 months.

I have realized that we have a very good, happy baby.  He has his moments and he definitely cries. But he's been sleeping through the night pretty consistently, and he really is content and very patient. He definitely gets the patience from his dad. :)

We had his 4 month appointment and he was low on weight and high on height. His weight was 14 pounds 7 ounces (28.11th percentile) and his height was 2' 3" (100th percentile).  I did not realize you could actually be at the 100th percentile, and I'm not sure what exactly that means. Does that mean he is the tallest of any baby boy his age?

Neil seems to be developing on a normal schedule, although rolling might be a bit behind. Around 3 months, he rolled twice from his tummy to his back when I had him doing tummy time. But he took his time about it, and he hasn't done it a whole lot since. When we put him on his back or his tummy, he's quick to go to his side but doesn't seem to push over the rest of the way. I'm not sure if he doesn't like feeling like he's falling, or if he just doesn't want to do it. I do know he CAN roll from tummy to back, because I've seen it.

Neil is quite the drooler. We still haven't seen any signs of any teeth, but he produces so much spit it's amazing.

We did get Neil out of wanting to be swaddled. We did that gradually. He was getting his arms out anyways, so we started by leaving one hand out of the swaddle. Then a night or two later we left both hands out of the swaddle (defeating the entire purpose of the swaddle). Finally we just didn't swaddle him at all. The only bad thing is that I think that was part of his bedtime routine, to signal it was time to go to bed and stay in bed. So we need to find a new way to establish a routine.

For me, I'm back into work. I think I would be fine with this (just missing Neil) if it weren't for pumping. I'm very frustrated with the pumping situation at work. I know it's better than having to pump in a bathroom and I'm grateful for that. But I feel that I'm not doing my job adequately because of pumping right now. And honestly if I had to pump in a bathroom, I would not be nursing right now.

I need to get back to exercising. I have a couple of pairs of "fat" pants that I wear to work and I'm going to need to work to get from those back to what I was wearing before. I hesitate still though because I don't want it to affect my milk supply. And it is hard to schedule in- I need Dave to be able to take Neil, especially since he doesn't have a nap schedule.  And I really need to exercise right after nursing.