Florence's 6 Month Update

Dear Florrie-Lu,

This month has been all about getting back to normality after our lovely holiday. We also had Dada's birthday, for which we had a little party and both you and your brother were so good. You only tend to nap for 20 mins at a time but on your Dada's birthday you slept for 2 solid hours!!! Dada also had a few days off around his birthday so we took you both up to London to go to the Natural History Museum, followed by a walk through Hyde Park.

Milestones

So far, you have pretty much been exclusively breastfed but you recently had 2 bottles of formula with your Yaya. The first one was because we all stayed over at Yaya's house so your Dada and I could have a child free night in London! In the morning, your Yaya even let us have a lie in! The other time was just when I had to pop out for a few hours. Both times you were so easy going with it and didn't seem to mind at all!

The biggest step this month is that we have started weaning you. You recently began to have less milk and you seemed more and more interested in food, so I thought I would start a few days before you turned 6 months old. So far, you've had pureed carrot, broccoli and some melon and broccoli as finger food. I am planning on doing a mixture of purees and baby-led weaning, like I did with your brother. You seem to be enjoying it at the moment but I forgot quite how little you would eat at the beginning.

We have had a few bad nights when you wake up wanting your dummy quite a bit but generally I would still say that you are an amazing sleeper!!

Routine

7:30am - Wake up and feed
9:30am - Sleep
10:30am - Wake and a play
12:30/1:00pm - Lunch
1:30pm - Feed
2:00pm - Nap
2:30pm - Wake and a play
4:00pm - Feed and a nap
4:30pm - Wake
6:00pm - Bath
6:30pm - Feed
7/7:30pm - Bed

You're still waking at about 4:30am for a feed.

Weight

I got you weighed bang on 6 months and you were 14lbs 8oz!! You have done amazingly this month and you have gone back up to the top end of the 9th percentile. You are still wearing 3-6 month clothes but I have washed your 6-9 month bits so you can start wearing them soon.

Love you loads!
Mama xxx