food and sitting

Baby had an incident of throwing up alot of fluids a few days ago, the same day he chowed down on carrots for the second time.  I think it turned him off solids for a while because he's refused every single time since then.  I try multiple times a day and he just won't do it.  Pears, carrots, peas, squash, sweet potato with apple, green beans, nothing.  I will probably have to buy some more prunes and give those a try because he seems to like that consistency/sweet flavor the best so far.  It's been a battle trying to get him not to scream and gag on the food.

On a more positive note, he has been sitting unassisted pretty well considering he could barely do it a few days ago.  He's still wobbly and his body will have little spasms trying to maintain his posture, which will often cause him to overcompensate and fall to the side, but he can sit up on his own for several minutes with nothing holding him up.  He will also start to reach for things while he's sitting upright, which is something new today.  He'll see a toy and really want that specific toy and will go for it.  He will also express frustration when he can't get the toy or can't manipulate it the way he wants, which is usually toward his mouth to eat it.

He's been pretty fussy during the daytime this week, which is always tiring.  Never sure what the reason is, he's just extra cranky all day long multiple days a week.  Sometimes it makes me wonder if I'm playing with him to the best of my ability because he just seems so angry and moody alot, but at the end of the day I feel like I've been entertaining a large audience who has been boo-ing me all day and I am then exhausted.

We've narrowed our feedings at night to 2 feeds.  Rather, we limit him to 2 feeds because I've started to ignore him if it hasn't been long enough.  He's in the habit of waking every 3 hours but I make him go 6 hours for the first stretch and 4 hours for the second stretch.  He will then sleep another couple hours and finally get up for the day.  It's nice but I also haven't been getting any more actual sleep because I still wake up and can't fall asleep until he stops because it's usually pretty loud screaming.

I shouldn't write blog entries at the end of the day, they will have a negative tone, and all-in-all things are going great but there's just that feeling of being "done" by the evening, which I'm sure every mom can relate to!  In that sense, I'm thankful for his 6:30-7pm bedtime after which I am FREE!

Now where does schoolwork fit into this day???....