Florence's Six Month Update

Weight

I went to our Children’s Health Clinic this morning and Florence now weighs a whopping 15lb 6oz!

Daily Routine

Florence’s naps are definitely getting shorter. She used to nap for 1/1.5 hours three times a day, and now I’m lucky if she naps for 30 minutes at a time. This means another shift to our daily routine so I can make sure she has a nap just before her baby class so she isn’t over tired. She is also waking up much earlier in the morning, the earliest being 5am which was very painful!

6.30am – Wakes up and comes into bed with us.
8.30am – Morning bottle
8.45am – 9.30am – Playtime
9.30am - Breakfast
10.00 -  10.45am – Morning nap
10.45am – Get dressed
11.00am – Leave for Baby Class
11.30am – 12.30pm – Baby Class
12.30pm – Lunch Bottle
1.00pm – Lunch Purée
1.00pm – 2.00pm - Playtime
2.00.pm – 2.30pm – Afternoon Nap
2.30pm – 4.00pm – Playtime
4.00pm – Afternoon bottle
4.00pm - 5.00pm – Playtime
5.00pm – 5.30pm – Last Nap
6.30pm – Bath
6.45pm – Night time bottle
7.00pm – Bed

Eating

Florence still has 6 x 5oz bottles over a 24 hour period.

She now has breakfast after her morning bottle, along with lunch after her midday bottle. We are still offering her water but she just doesn’t seem interested. We have tried her with a Doidy Cup and now the Miracle 360 Trainer Cup which I think is a little big for her. If anyone has some tips and advice on how to encourage a better water intake then please leave a comment!

Clothes

Florence is still wearing mostly 0-3 clothes. She is starting to wear more 3-6 “clothes.”  I can’t believe that she is six months old and wearing such dinky clothes. She definitely takes after me on the size front, I still wear children’s clothes and I’m almost 22!

Florence wears Size 3 nappies.

Development

Rolling – For a couple of months Florence has been trying her hardest to roll from her back onto her front. She finally started to be able to do so earlier this week and hasn’t stopped since! She rolls in her sleep, when you’re changing her nappy, when you’re getting her dressed, you name it. She is such a little pickle!

Weaning Diaries // Week 5

Florence has eaten so much this week, and she is really enjoying her breakfast now. I found that the single fruit purées were really difficult to feed her because they were very watery, and most of it would just drip out of her mouth because she couldn’t push it back. Since mixing the purées with yoghurt, Ready Brek, and Weetabix she is able to enjoy more fruit flavours, I’ve never seen her eat so much! 

If you follow me in Instagram you would have seen that Florence tried her first piece of finger food this week! On Wednesday morning we gave her a slice of buttered toast. I wasn’t sure whether she would take to it but she really surprised us and done so well with it. She is yet to cut a tooth so she mostly just sucked on the toast, but she did try to chew and was able to swallow parts too. A lot of it ended up on the floor but that’s absolutely fine, it was her first experience and our Dog loved it!

She’s also doing well with her Munchkin Mesh Feeder. If she doesn’t have fruit with her breakfast then we always try to offer her some fruit in her feeder at lunch time. 

Here is Florence’s food diary for week 5 -  

Week 5	Breakfast – 9.00am	Lunch – 1.00pm	Dinner – 4.00pm	Bedtime – 7.00pm
Monday	Bottle Ready Brek	Bottle Potato, Courgette, and Pea Purée	Bottle	Bottle
Tuesday	Bottle Yoghurt with Strawberry Purée	Bottle Potato, Carrot, and Parsnip Purée	Bottle	Bottle
Wednesday	Bottle Toast with unsalted butter	Bottle Tomato and Carrot Purée Strawberries in Mesh Feeder	Bottle	Bottle
Thursday	Bottle Weetabix with Banana Purée	Bottle Swede, Carrot, and Pea Purée	Bottle	Bottle
Friday	Bottle Ready Brek	Bottle Butternut Squash and Tomato  Purée Clementine in Mesh Feeder	Bottle	Bottle
Saturday	Bottle Yoghurt with Blueberry  Purée	Bottle Carrot and Cauliflower  Purée	Bottle	Bottle
Sunday	Bottle Weetabix Apricot in Mesh Feeder	Bottle Sweet Potato and Pea  Purée	Bottle	Bottle

We are going to start to introduce Florence to cheese, chicken, and fish next week!

182 Days // 26 Weeks // 6 Months

Florence at a few seconds old.

These past six months have been stretched out into infinite moments, yet flown by so quickly. I fear that if I close my eyes just for one moment you be in your school uniform, or clutching the keys to your first car, or with a rucksack on your back ready to leave your Father and I to explore the World.

Motherhood is tiresome. I have had moments where I have felt so fragile, weak, and insecure. I have never been so exhausted, but my heart has never been so full. Motherhood has changed me; it has made me grow, it has made me realise how unimportant everything before it was in comparison to how beautiful life is now. 

One day we’ll sleep again, but for the time present I’ll take the time to study your entire being. I’ll sit for hours in your bedroom to watch your chest rise and fall while you sleep peacefully. I’ll kiss you a thousand times a day. I’ll take the cries so that I can soothe them. I’ll take the aching shoulders so that I can hold you. All because I know that although the days may seem long now, they’ll soon be distant memories.

You still wear mostly 0-3 month clothing.

You are very nosey.

You came Riding with me and met a horse for the first time.

You can roll both ways.

You can swim underwater.

You love splashing the water at bath time.

You eat two meals a day.

You've turned into a real Daddy's Girl.

You love riding on Henry's back. 

You love people's noses.

You love it when we blow raspberries on your tummy. 

You don’t like having your face cleaned after meal time.

You love playing in your Jumperoo.

You love pulling my hair.

You blow lots of bubbles.

You love putting everything into your mouth.

You've been on a swing in the park.

You love talking, especially at 5am.

You get really excited when we squeak Sophie Giraffe or your bunny toy.

You've got a secret ticklish spot on the back of your neck that only I can find.

You love falling asleep in our bed.

You suck your thumb to fall asleep.

You smile in your sleep.

You love sitting in your highchair, playing with your toys.

You always wiggle your toes.

You giggle when your big cousin Lily is being silly.

You don’t like when people wear glasses or sun glasses.

You have been to the Aquarium.

Florence at six months old.

"To be a Mother is the greatest gift of all."