Aaron's Blog

Aaron actually slept through the whole night on Thursday 18th August. We were a bit worried at first as he usually wakes up a couple of times during the night, but he must have been tired out and had enough food during the day.

Unfortunately, he hasn’t quite slept through the whole night since but he has done very well with his sleeping! 😉

On 2nd August Aaron had his second set of jabs for Tetanus, Diphtheria, Meningitis C and Whooping Cough so Kelly and Ben took him up to the doctors.  He cried a little bit as any baby would but he wasn’t really bad at all.  We were expecting a rough night but it wasn’t any different to usual, but a couple of days later he came up in a bit of a rash which could have been a reaction.  It passed again as soon as it came though, so was nothing to worry about. 😉

Well, the little man is growing so quick that we have had to take him out of his Moses basket now and put him into the cot. He is still quite young to go into Ben’s room as he is not sleeping at all at night really, so we have had to move the cot into our room for now. A bit of a nightmare really, as it is quite large due to it being a cot bed, so there is barely any space for it. We are looking into getting a smaller cot for the next few months until he finally settles down during the night, but we will have to see how this goes for now.

Aaron is now teething and has been for several weeks. This has made him into a right dribbler, and is probably not helping him to sleep at night. No teeth have actually come through yet, but you can feel them all just beneath the gums so it won’t be long before they start coming through.

In the past week, Aaron has started to pull himself into a sitting up position!  He is a very strong baby and it is quite early for him to be doing this, but he fights you to get up so that he is sitting up and he seems to quieten down when he is in that position.  Maybe it is because he can see everything a bit better!

He is also smiling all the time now and when he does smile, it makes him look very cheeky indeed! All you need to do to make him smile it to look at him and talk a bit to him, and then he smiles back at you! Very cute!

Aaron is now in 3-6 months size clothes, even though he is a little way off being 3 months still!

On Tuesday, Aaron and I had our 6-8 Postnatal check up with Dr Charlotte Massey.  She asked me questions about how I was recovering after the birth and then checked Aaron over, including his hips, eyes and boys bits, all of which were fine!  Then the Doctor weighed Aaron, so at 1 day before 8 weeks old he was 13lbs 10oz!  He is definitely getting heavy now but is maintaining a steady growth pattern on the centile chart between the 75th and 91st lines.

The doctor gave us some infant Gaviscon for what we think is a bit of reflux, hopefully it will stop him being so sick and keep the milk in his tummy!

At 5 weeks old, I took Aaron to the weigh in clinic at Roborough Recreation Hall for the first time.  His weight was 11lbs 12oz, so still gaining weight well!!