We saw Dr. Wilson on Thursday for Jackson's six-month check up. He weighs 16 lbs, 1 oz, is 26 3\4 inches long, and his head is 17 inches around. He is still in the 50 percentile in his stats, and as Pops says "The picture of health." And for that we are very thankful!
She also said it's time that he sleeps through the night, so we've started doing some sleep training this week. The first night, we woke up about 4, and cried off and on for an hour, then slept until 8 that morning. So basically that was 8 hours, but I knew it couldn't be that easy. Last night, he ate a bottle and went to bed at 6:30. We tried to feed him again at 10:30, but he wasn't having it, so we put him back down. I think he cried from 3-4 this morning, and we decided that he'd been 10 hours and was really hungry. So he ate and went back to sleep, only to wake up at 6 with a blow-out diaper. Not sure how much he really slept from then until he got back up at 8. So I felt like last night was a bust, and not sure how tonight will go either. I think the key is a later bedtime, but when he doesn't take a nap in the afternoon, bedtime has to be earlier. I'm sure it'll get a little easier once we start back going to school and have more of a regular routine, so I'm trying not to worry about it.
I've always said that having a baby is a big science experiment, and the project continues! All in all, I couldn't have asked for a more healthy child.
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