- Who is that gorgeous guy?
Hello!
(laughs)
Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel.
Today I am doing Jackson's four month update.
Can you believe he's four months old
because I really can't.
It has gone (baby wails)
so quick and he's talking and he's definitely not
a baby baby anymore.
He's come out of that new born stage,
he's definitely gotten his own little personality now.
He's much more wakeful and he's just more of like
a little baby boy now.
He's got a really sweet personality,
he's pretty content and relaxed and chilled out.
He's only really angry if he's hungry
or needs a nappy change.
He's just a really good boy and life
is definitely getting easier.
He only wakes up once a night now
at 3:00 am so he goes down at seven
and sleeps through 'til three
and then he gets up at seven again.
I've actually done a whole video on his current baby routine
so I will link that down below,
so you can go and check it out.
So he's sleeping really well,
he does get up once a night.
(baby wails) And a few people have said to me:
why don't I dream feed him at 10
and then he'll go through to the morning.
But I just don't want to wake him
and I think, oh I wouldn't like it
if someone woke me up and tried to make me full up
by feeding me, so I'm just gonna leave it
and then I know that one day he will
just stop waking up at 3:00 am
and sleep all the way through.
But when he does get up at 3:00 am,
I just quickly feed him for about 10 minutes
and put him back down, it really isn't much of a stress.
He's sleeping in his own room now,
he's out of the snooze pod at four months.
It is something that they can be in
until they're six months old,
but he is so long, he is on the 91st percentile,
I've said that before that the doctor has said
he's a really tall guy.
And although he still fits in it,
our older boys coming into our bedroom
in the morning was waking him up as well.
So he is just happier and we're happier
having him in his own room now.
I know it's a little bit earlier than recommended,
but he sleeps better and he can sleep in for longer
'cause some mornings he'll sleep through 'til eight.
He still sleeps on his front as well
and I have had a few comments of people saying:
oh my gosh, never put a baby on their front
with a blanket on, and people worrying about him.
As a third time mum, I feel very confident
that I know what I'm doing.
I know my baby, every baby is different in terms of sleep.
With my first, I did everything by the book.
And he slept really badly on his back.
Think all of my boys have had a little bit of reflux
and have really struggled sleeping on their back.
And also for reassurance I have a baby monitor
that is an Angelcare monitor that measures his movement.
So if he doesn't move or breathe for 20 seconds,
an alarm will go off and I will be alerted to.
There's a lot to be said for mother's instinct
and I know what's best for Jackson.
Jackson has definitely starting teething.
He is dribbling non-stop, I keep putting him in
the dribble-on bibs because he is soaking through his tops.
He's biting everything, his hand, my hands, toys.
I've got him a Sophie the Giraffe.
He is grabbing things but he is struggling a little bit
with holding them for too long,
but he is reaching out and grabbing toys.
But, like that, but he kind of will drop them sometimes
so I've just ordered him this product,
I have no idea if it's gonna be any good,
but I'll keep you updated.
It's called the Gummy Glove and it's basically a glove
that he wears that has loads of different things on it
that he can choose so he kind of can wear it
and then bite his own hand
'cause that's what he's doing at the moment.
So I thought it'd be great for when he's in the car
'cause he keeps dropping things
and I think it will just really relieve
the itchy feeling that he's having.
My other two boys got teeth quite young at four months
so I'm expecting him to have some teeth pop up any time now.
(baby groans)
And he's definitely teething.
So because of the teething I've stocked up
on liquid Anbesol, Teether and Calpol,
so that I am ready if he's in any pain
I've got it all there.
Jackson's also had his 12 week jabs now,
he did really well with it,
I filmed it on vlogmas as well
so you may have seen it but he is just so hard,
like he was not bothered and it was really nice
because he is quite big and chunky,
I actually haven't had him weighed
so I don't know how heavy he is,
but he's really getting some nice rolls now.
And when he had his injections,
he had quite a lot of meat and cushion on his thigh
to take the injection and, I don't know,
it just seemed a lot better.
He's also talking loads, although he is a really chilled guy
he is a chatterbox.
(baby talks)
You are talking!
So if you talk to him he will talk back to you and coo.
His favorite thing by far is people's faces still.
He loves talking to us and his brothers
and his brothers still absolutely adore him
and he adores talking to them and looking at them.
He's also a really strong little guy.
He loves standing up, we have bought him a jumperoo now
so he will jump around in that happily.
He's a really active.
Although he's chilled out, he's so active in the jumperoo
I keep thinking he's gonna be
just as crazy as the other boys,
'cause he's only four months
and he's like a mad man in there.
He also goes on the play mat
and he's quite happy grabbing the toys for little while
but I must admit he prefers his jumperoo
even though he's so young.
He's got a really strong neck
because he does sleep on his front,
so I think he's quite able to hold it quite well
and jump around, so he likes that.
He also is really good with tummy time,
I think he's the first baby that I've ever had
that actually likes tummy time.
I'll put him on a cushion so he's a little bit raised up
and he will look at things in front of him
and he's just really happy
and he'll do it for quite a while.
And because he's not a massive fan
of laying flat on his back,
I've bought him this wedge for the pram.
We have a Bugaboo Bee and he's in the flat carry cot.
I don't feel like he's quite ready to go in the seat yet,
but he doesn't really wanna be flat
so I got him this so he can just be
a little bit more sat up
and be able to look around a little bit more.
So I'm hoping that will go well,
I'll let you know how that goes.
He had a great first Christmas,
we got him lots of toys that his brothers
just opened for him.
He didn't have a clue but he's got
lots of lovely things now.
We're off to the Dominican Republic on Friday
and I'm really hoping it goes well
'cause it's a nine hour flight.
But we purposely booked this holiday when we did
because we knew it would be easier to take him away
like this, at this stage, when he's not really moving
and is still sleeping a lot, than it would be
when he's crawling around in the sand
and getting into everything.
So we have purposefully booked
this holiday for when we have.
I'm also originally from Canada
so we've been on lots of flights with babies,
which is 8 hours to Toronto, so I'm feeling positive
but I will obviously vlog the whole experience
and let you know.
In terms of food I'm still exclusively
breastfeeding Jackson, he's doing really well with it,
he's obviously getting enough because he is huge.
He is getting to the stage now
where he's a lot more knowing and alert,
so the other day we went to a restaurant
and I started to feed him and I had a muslin over me,
and he just ripped it off of me.
So he is grabbing and he is not liking the muslin
on his face anymore, so that was embarrassing.
Right, so Jackson is now on his play mat
but lastly I just wanted to update on my myself.
I am pretty much back to normal as you can probably tell.
But one new thing that has happened
now that he's about four months old,
is I have got my monthly cycle back,
which maybe a bit TMI but I would maybe wanna know this
if I'd had a baby.
And it was a real shock because I've obviously not had it
for over a year because I was pregnant
and then 'cause I'm exclusively breastfeeding
I didn't get it back until now.
So, that's back, and I think that's nature's way
of not letting you get pregnant straight away
while your breastfeeding.
Still pushing on trying to lose the baby weight,
I have another stone in weight to go.
You may have seen in my other vlog,
I have been working out with a PT
and I'm trying to be as good as I can,
clean eating and stuff.
But because I am breastfeeding
I am so hungry and thirsty sometimes,
I just need to make sure that I reach for the right things
because it is so easy to grab
one of the boys' fish fingers or sausages
that they don't eat.
One, 'cause I hate the waste and two,
'cause it's just there and it's about five o'clock
and you're kinda hungry.
So I'm really trying to be good.
Right so that is it for Jackson's four month update.
Thank you so much for watching,
he's doing really well still
and I'm so so pleased and proud of him.
If you wanna keep up with his updates,
definitely follow me on Instagram,
I post loads of cute baby photos of him
and the other boys as well
and I will obviously be back next month
with his five month update and I will see you all soon.
Bye!