2 Months Postpartum

So Oscar is now over the 2 month mark. He has changed so much already.

He smiles when you smile at him, if you tickle his cheeks or touch his nose and if something makes him happy (sometimes it's me talking to him, sometimes it's a light switch... smiles are smiles and cute either way!)

He gurgles a lot and copies sounds. His "vocabulary" gets bigger constantly - by which I mean the sounds he makes. He likes to say "a-boo" and "goo" when he's happy. But if you talk to him he copies the vowel sounds and is starting to master more consonant sounds too (b, g, d, m, l..). It's so cute now that if I say "hi" or "hello" to him his copy sounds so like the real word (or maybe I'm turning into one of those mums who thinks their child is a genius...)

He is much more alert now through the day and definitely knows when it is night time as he sleeps for big chunks through the night. We've not really established a definite routine yet but there's definitely more of a pattern than there was a few weeks ago. I can't wait for us to be in some kind of routine - but at the moment I'm happy to just go with the flow.

He's bottle-fed and taking about 3-4oz on average at a time. He should be having 6 5oz bottles a day (according to the formula box) but instead he's having about 8 3-4oz bottles a day. We're having a few issues with reflux so I'm not wanting to really push him. Although we are now trying to encourage him to take a bit more at each feeding time to try and support some sort of routine.

He's well and truly grown out of newborn clothes. He's mainly in 0-3 month sizes but some of his baby grows are starting to get tight and his feet don't really fit in them anymore. This week he has started to wear some 3-6 month size jeans that are a little bit big on him but it's better than squeezing him into the smaller sizes. Everyone seemed to buy 3-6 month clothes for him as gifts so as soon as he gets into that size we'll have some gorgeous little outfits to put on him every day :)

We can tell that he is getting stronger now. He holds his head up much better (except when he is tired), he punches and kicks the air really forcefully when he gets excited about something, if you hold up stood up he'll try and straighten his legs to support himself and if I lie him on his tummy he's started to push his feet out to force himself to move forward!

Today he had his first set of immunisations and he screamed! Poor little thing. The nurse did them in his legs and afterwards when he'd calmed down every time she went to put his jeans back on he bawled again... So he came home with no trousers on and all wrapped up in a blanket lol. He's been quite niggly ever since and considerably more hungry than he ever is (which is the opposite of what she told me might happen). I was definitely not prepared for how much he hated his injections but he has the next set in 4 weeks so I best give myself (and Oscar) a pep talk before we go in!

He's growing really well and gaining weight nicely - we go to the baby clinic next Wednesday for him to be weighed so we can see exactly how he is doing. But he's got squishy little cheeks and seems to be a happy little boy so I know he's growing well.