Baby A - 6 months update

Thanks to " The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight" book by Kim West, we have made some progress in getting baby A to sleep through the night. The book made me realize that baby A shouldn't need to eat during the night and he was probably waking up simply because food is available.

The first 2 nights were really rough, with A screaming for a long time numerous times wanting to nurse or maybe even have a bottle. I think he was really mad that we had decided to stop feeding him at night. Daddy was really great and stayed with him and didn't get much sleep. We almost gave in numerous times and I actually did once.

But by the 3rd night, baby A slept mostly through the whole night waking up only one time around 6 o'clock. Last night was the 3rd night he has slept through the night. Weeks before that, he was waking up multiple times a night and won't go back to sleep until I nursed him making me a very tired mommy. Now before we stopped the night feeding, we did up his day time feeds by giving him more cereal and more baby food. We watched our home video of when J was A's age and realized we gave her a lot more cereal (2 -3 tb spoon) than we had given to A (1 tb spoon).

We are also watching the clock really closely and putting him to nap every 2 hours. So far, baby A has been sleeping much better. His naps are more like 1 1/2 hours - 2 hours like how they should be. Previously, I was luck if he slept for 45 minutes. Now putting him down to nap is still a big struggle. He really fights it and usually won't sleep unless he cries for about at least 20 minutes. And it doesn't matter if I hold him or not. It's like he really wants to sleep but just don't know how to settle himself. Poor baby. I'm trying to get him to get attached to a lovie but so far he's not attached to anything. Pacifier also stopped working a while back.

Other than that, he is doing well. He's getting better with tummy time but still refuses to roll over. We got an ONYA carrier and use that when we are out shopping and sometimes around the house. He does really well in that. He loves to hear me sing the alphabet song as well as the Chinese phonetic song. He's always got a smile when we blow his hair. And he absolutely loves bath time, esp. if he takes one with me. We always give him an infant massage after bath and he really enjoys that. Baby A is also a good eater. So far, he likes all the food we gave him and is very interested in what we are eating.