5 Months Old!

Happy 5 months old to my little pumpkin today!

Since my little man is so much more mature today than he was yesterday, we are going to change up his feeding schedule a little bit! We are going to try giving him 7oz every 4 hours instead of 6oz every 3 hours. That means he will only get 4 bottles per day. He is still drinking only milk right now because I have decided not to introduce solids until he is 6 months old. I am still pumping and am trying to increase my milk supply a little bit because it dropped down to only 7oz per day a couple weeks ago. Right now I am back up to 10oz per day, so he gets about 1/3 of his milk from me and 2/3 from formula. A lot of people ask me why I even bother pumping still, and the reason is that I know breastmilk is so healthy for him that I figure even if he only got a few ounces of it per day, he is still getting my immunities. He has gotten two colds so far since he's been born, and both of them were so minor, you could hardly tell he even had a cold. I'm positive it was because of the immunities he is getting from me. My goal is to continue to pump until he is 6 months old, and from there I will see how it goes.

Anyways, he is still a GREAT sleeper. I sometimes forget how lucky I am until I talk to other moms who have 8-month olds who "only wake up once or twice a night"!!! Conner sleeps at least 10 hours in a row EVERY night and sometimes up to 12! And he has done that regularly since he was like 2 months old. He has also learned how to soothe himself to sleep without me having to do any of those crazy Ferber methods or anything like that. I really couldn't ask for a better baby...he's the best!!!