Height: Around 26 inches
Diapers: Size 2
Clothes: she still has some 0-3 month clothes, but she is also starting to fit into 3-6 and 6 months clothing.
Sleeping: Her sleep is fairly unpredictable. She still usually takes 3 naps a day- shorter morning nap, long afternoon nap, and shorter evening nap. Some nights she is up twice while other nights she only gets up once. Some nights it takes me 1-2 hours to get her back to sleep and other nights she goes right back down. She goes to bed between 7 and 8 and that is pretty predictable. She typically has an hour or just over an hour of awake time before she is ready for another nap. After her last nap of the day is probably her longest awake period. She is up for the day around 8. It just depends when the last time she ate was. She is still swaddled for sleep, but that needs to change asap because she has rolled over while swaddled.
Eating: If Ella is not swaddled and going to sleep, then she is a pretty crappy eater. She gets so distracted that she'll only eat 2 ounces at a time even though she is hungry, so she usually only gets fed if she is going to sleep. It still works out to be around 4 ounces every 3 hours. I'm excited to start solids this coming month!
Milestones: Ella is doing things her own way and rolled from back to belly on January 22nd. Most babies roll from belly to back first, but she has spent a long time trying to get her over her arms. She spends a whole lot of time rolling to her belly these days. She just rolled from her belly to her back the first time this morning. She found her feet just in the last week. She had her first Valentine's Day.
Likes: playing with toys/ being swaddled for sleeping/ grabbing onto everything and anything (toys, hair, shirts, etc./ rolling over
Dislikes: not being able to roll off of her belly/ getting splashed in the face in the tub/
Personality: She has really become so intrigued and interested in everything. If you have her on your lap, then she will lunge at anything you're holding to try to get her mouth on it. She is super smiley, but she doesn't laugh a ton.
I am continually amazed at how different Ella is from Hudson as a baby. By her age Hudson was sitting up on his own for short periods of time, and she does not sit up on her own at all. Hudson was super ticklish and laughed so easily, but it can take some serious work to get a laugh out of Ella. I can't wait to see their differences shine through even more in their personalities.
Of course she struggles more the time I go to record her than she normally does, and who knows what Hudson is saying no to haha.
Hudson's 5 month update can be found here.
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