Wesley's seven-month stats

Once again, a belated post, and this time I don't have stats to add - we don't have a well-baby visit scheduled until nine months, and I didn't even try to get a rough estimate on his height or weight.

Current developments include eating solid food! We're doing baby-led weaning again, and so far Wesley has been open to trying anything and everything. Tim and I are loving watching him eat and explore textures and tastes - he can be the most eager eater and also the most expressive.

On the eating front, we also started supplementing with formula after he turned six months old. I still nurse him in the morning and at the end of the day (either right after we get home or right before bed, depending on several factors but mostly determined by how much seems to be hunger and how much seems to be "in need of comfort) and pump once a day while at work (instead of twice). He usually gets one bottle of breast milk in the morning and then two bottles of formula at daycare, and if he needs a bottle in the evenings he gets formula.

Current developments also include being on his first prescription medication. At his six-month well baby visit, the doctor noted that his weight hadn't really followed an upward curve, but instead had kind of moved straight across the growth chart. Since he's a big kid anyway, she wasn't super concerned, but she did want me to watch his spit up, which had recently increased. Two weeks after the appointment, his spit up was definitely not improving and was worse on some days than it had been in months. Tim and I had both noticed it, and our daycare provider brought it up as well. It seemed like he was constantly erupting, and while he didn't appear to be in any discomfort, I decided to call the pediatrician as she had requested and update that things had not improved. She called in a prescription, and unfortunately it can take 2-4 weeks to kick in. It's also hard to know how much of the medication that he's actually ingesting because he spits up constantly. So hopefully we'll see improvement soon, and hopefully he'll only be on the medication for a few months.

He's also extremely mobile - it doesn't matter that he's not crawling, standing or walking yet, nothing is safe around this kid. He rolls like a cement mixer (which can't help the spit up issue, but you can't stop him, only hope to contain him) and reaches and manipulates himself to get whatever or wherever his little heart desires. I watch him with awe, horror, fear and annoyance.

Current habits include much of the same: nursing/taking a bottle 5-7 times a day, eating solids 1-2 times a day, napping 2-3 times a day (usually twice, and he's definitely not napping for long stretches on days that he goes to daycare, so his weekend naps can often be quite lengthy), sleeping a solid stretch at night (usually sleeps 9-10 hours, then wakes to nurse, then sleeps for another hour or so). He almost always goes to sleep on his own at night (I think he's just completely exhausted) but still sometimes needs help/fusses when put down for naps and often falls asleep in his car seat.

We're getting ready to transition him in to a convertible car seat and out of the convenient (but heavy) infant seat. He's nearing the height limit of 30 inches, and while I love the infant seat for many reasons, I look forward to not having to heave and store the infant seat in the condo.

Current loves include solid food (favorites include watermelon, sweet potato fries, mango and banana), sibling bath time, the cats (he has a radar for them and stares at/follows them whenever he sees them), rolling every where.

Current nicknames Bro, Hoots, Buppa, Deedee.