Isak news

Isak is now just over 3 months old. He has started to find his hands. Sometimes he just holds up one hand and watches it moving around in the air. After a while it normally ends up in his mouth after having missed a few times. Once his hands are in the mouth he won't let go and screams loudly if they fall out, until they are back in again.

He sucks his fingers like crazy at times, but still not the thumb. Or at least not just the thumb, it's normally a few fingers in there at the same time.

He often smiles when we give him attention. It's like he is so used to not being talked to (haven't got the same time as when we only had once child) that when we do play/talk with him he gets SO excited. It is starting to be quite hard to feed him at times. One problem is that I have a lot of milk and in the start of a feed it comes out so quickly and goes all over his face and tickles the inside of his mouth that he gets so angry and refuses to keep trying. Another problem is that he sometimes rather wants to play than eat. He sucks for about half a second and then looks up at me and laugh. He does that on and off until I give up and take a break from feeding. Today I tried to cover his eyes so he couldn't see me but that didn't help. I also tried closing my eyes and look bored and that actually helped a little. Feeding at night is still ok because he is too sleepy to play, even though he does try to get me going by smiling at me when I wrap him at night.

This week I have had one great night and one very bad night. The bad night I went to bed at 11, got up to feed Isak at 1, had some pain in my belly so spent 45 min on the toilet, when I was nearly finished Jakob got up and said there were spiders crawling on his face (nightmares...) so I stayed in his bedroom for nearly two hours. He went back to sleep a few times but woke up hitting things around him so I waited until he was in a deep sleep before I went back to my bed. After just 15 min in my bed Isak woke up for his next feed and after that he didn't sleep very well and kept me awake until the morning. Luckily Adam was home that day so I got a good sleep during the day in between Isak's feeds. The night after was a dream night! Isak slept from 7pm until 7am the next morning with just one feed at 3am!!! I couldn't believe it, what a night!!