K is almost 20 weeks old. She is a 4 1/2 months old. We have been going through Wonder Week 19 the last few weeks. I didn't realize it at first till I started reading in the book I got for Christmas about the Wonder Weeks. For the last couple of weeks, probably weeks 17-19 she has been alot more clingy, with mood swings, happy one minute, laughing, then crying the next.
She has definitely gained new skills. She is more aware of her world and the people in it. She smiles, laughs, coos, babbles and makes many faces. She has found her hands, then her feet. She doesn't want to sit "still" in our laps and arches to get down (don't know where she thinks she'll go!). Her naps have gotten better though. She still sleeps in the swing, but her morning nap is almost always 1 1/2 hrs or 2-3 hrs! After helping her get through that 45 minute hurdle in the morning, by holding her arms still when she would go jolting through light sleep, for several weeks she was able to do it all by herself. I spent many mornings waiting for that 38-45 minute time window, sitting by her swing, then holding her arms through the jolts. She was swaddled still, but the light pressure of my hands on her arms/tummy helped her through somehow. The rest of her naps are variable. Sometimes she'll take a 45 minute nap mid day, then a long one in the afternoon, other times she'll take several 45 minute naps throughout the day. Either way , if she can have one GOOD morning nap she does tremendously better.
She does ok at night though. I rock her to sleep, nursing her. Then rock till she is in deep sleep, past 45 minutes, then lay her down and she is fine for 3-4 hours. She usually wakes up between 1 and 3 am. I then nurse her back to sleep and bring her into bed with me where she'll sleep till 7 or 8 am.
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