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matt turned five months today and so much has happened since my last monthly post.

in the last month matt has started smiling a lot, even for me! he also started crawling (more like creeping) but he gets really tired when he does it. he’s also sleeping better at night, i think because he can now change positions by himself. we also went to the doctor and he now weights 17 pounds, 13 ounces and is 25 inches long! but the biggest surprise by far is that he is starting to cut a tooth on the right side of his bottom gums. he has also started to show interest in food, even trying to grab his daddy’s coke!

he still hates his car seat and the stroller, although he’s improved quite a bit, falling asleep on his own a couple of times on the stroller without having to be breastfed. he’s still boycotting formula and the bottle, but when he’s really hungry you can get him to drink breast milk from a bottle.

next month will be exciting because he will be starting solids when we go back to australia.

we watched indiana jones 4 last saturday at the howard hughes center. it was OK, nothing special. i guess you would like it if you were into killer ants, aliens and tarzan.

we have just over 3 weeks before we fly to the philippines. i’m looking forward to seeing my parents and cousins. i’m worried about the actual wedding day though, i hope matt takes the bottle that day. otherwise i will be breastfeeding while in my wedding gown lol

matt is now four months. as usual, it only seems like yesterday when i was typing the post for month 3.

in the last month matt has started smiling regularly for his dad, giggled a few times, started wearing size 6 months clothes, stopped drinking formula and started grasping his bib and the belt on his swing. he also enjoys bath times a lot more now, with me soaking wet after each bath. he is also starting to get a bald patch on the back of his head, i think he might be shedding some of his hair.

as for me i am no longer so sleep deprived although i still feel like i am, shedding some of my hair too and still not losing weight

matt is relatively easier to put to sleep at night, although days are still a bit of a struggle. his regular bedtime is around 9pm and he wakes up anytime from 7-8.30am. he still wakes up a few times during the night to feed, but at least he doesn’t groan and grunt as much anymore.

my milk supply has been quite good since we came to LA so i actually stopped giving matt a bottle unless we were out or if we had to leave him at home with my MIL. however over the last couple of weeks we hadn’t really gone out so i think matt has forgotten how to drink from a bottle! i’ve also ran out of karicare gold and we started him on nestle’s good start but he seems to hate that formula with a passion. my MIL got him to drink EBM last week but i can’t really express that much so my EBM supply is limited.

i’ll get him to try enfamil lipil and see how that works. i prefer he drank EBM if he needs to drink from a bottle but i’m just not able to express as much. the most i’ve ever expressed was 80ml in total for both breasts and that was when i was really engorged.

although i’m really pleased with myself, having breastfed for 15 weeks and still going

matt turned three months today (LA time). the last three months has been such a blur.

in the last month matt has been smiling randomly, crying less, outgrew more clothes, took his first domestic and international flights, went to LA, slept on his crib, started pooping every other day instead of 6 times a day, squealed in delight, can lift his head for a couple of minutes during tummy time, saw a paediatrician for the first time, got his second set of immunisations and started “talking” to us.

as for me i am still sleep deprived, my back is starting to suffer from carrying matt (he’s almost 14 pounds already), watched a movie for the first time and have been eating regularly since getting here in LA.

it’s a bit difficult to measure matt’s stats cos we don’t have regular visits to the doctor, not to mention they don’t use kg and cm here. but i’m pretty sure he’s gained a lot of weight cos he’s really quite heavy now and he is quite chubby already. he looks a bit like the michelin man

i hope he starts giggling soon and will smile a bit more and become less grumpy lol