Lucien experienced many life changing events during week 10. Lucien got vaccinated this week, he is going to get some consistency in his daily activites, and we have a new president in office - Barack Obama, who will hopefully propel this country out of the rut that it is in to give Lucien an easy life in 20 years.
We brought him to his 2 month doctor's visit for his first round of shots. Lucien weighed in at 12 lbs. and is now 24 inches tall. He was signed off as a very healthy baby and then the shot was administered. Mommy and Daddy discussed his shot schedule at length and decided to split up a couple of the shots. They now give babies one shot called Pentacel that contains 5 different shots in one - DTap, HIB, and Polio. We gave him that shot and the Rotavirus vaccination which is taken orally. We decided to hold off on the PC or Pneumococcal shot until next month. Our main concern is the aluminum preservative in shots given to a baby at such a young age. Lucien emerged from the doctor a happy baby but in 3 hours time was very fussy and we were in for a long night.
My book finally arrived - "On Becoming Babywise" by Ezzo and Bucknam. It took me a couple of days to get into it but now I can't put it down. Some of the techniques are controversial but I'm starting to be a believer of the techniques and I'm giving it a try. With these techniques the baby should be sleeping through the night (or at least 8 - 9 hours straight) by week 8 - 12. Some things that are going to start to change for Lucien:
- new order at each feeding interval consisting of eat, wake time, sleep time. Lucien's old order was eat, sleep, wake time. Sometimes his wake time just became another feeding.
- Lucien is going to be put to bed to fall asleep on his own. We have to stop rocking him to bed each time because now he wakes when I put him in the crib and then I pick him up again to rock him. This is going to be a tough one to accomplish in the next week.
- Lucien will wake up the same time every morning for his first feeding. I'm going to try and set it at 7am.
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