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- Hello.
(baby cooing sounds)
(mom laughs)
Hello!
(baby cooing sounds)
You keep sticking your tongue out.
What's that tongue doing out?
(mom laughs)
Hi everyone!
Welcome back to my channel.
Today Jackson is five months old.
Aren't you?
He's getting so so big.
Yeah I can't believe he's five months already.
I do not know where that time has gone.
I know I always say it,
but it's going so quickly.
He's still such a happy little guy.
He's such a good boy.
He's so portable.
So in the past month you may have seen on my channel
Jackson had his very first ever holiday
or vacation if you're in the U.S.
So yeah we went off to the Dominican Republic,
and it was so nice to have some time as a family
and some sunshine.
And he was so good.
He was so adaptable.
On the flight he was a little dream.
Really really easy.
I took my baby sling and
my baby carrier on the plane with me,
which was like a godsend.
He just slept in that for some of the flight.
And when we got there he had a little bit of jet lag,
but he was so adaptable.
He adapted to it far quicker than my older children did.
While we were on holiday as well,
Jackson rolled over for the first time,
and now he can roll from front to back
and back to front.
He's rolling both ways.
And he is pretty mobile now.
If I lay him down on a play mat,
or on a blanket somewhere,
and turn away for a minute and then I turn back,
he is in a completely different position
on a completely different way.
In the middle of the night now,
if I hear him crying and I go into his room,
although he normally sleeps on his front
he will be on his back and be like
ready to be picked up.
So he's moving around loads.
He still loves standing up.
(toy fluttering)
Wow!
Okay. (laughs)
Yeah. (laughs)
Shh. (laughs)
(mom laughing)
He loves that dragon.
Don't you?
Um yeah, since we've come back from holiday,
we have had a few tricky nights.
Getting back into our routine hasn't been easy.
And I think he's got a little bit of
a sleep association with me,
and also when we're on holiday
he actually preferred to sleep
in the carry cot of the buggy
than the huge cot that they gave us.
The cot they gave us was like a single bed.
So I don't think he was very cozy in it.
So we slept him in is buggy quite a lot,
and I think it's all kind of changed.
So I'm trying to get him back into the swing of things,
but I do find when you take babies on holiday
their sleep kind of gets a bit messed up.
So unfortunately that has happened,
and we're trying to deal with that at the moment.
So his perfect routine has kind of gone
a little bit out the window at the moment. (laughs)
But I'm working to bring it back.
Similarly to my last update,
Jackson has still been teething for the past whole month.
There are no teeth yet,
but things must be moving around.
I can feel them under the gums
if I really press on his gums.
So he has been teething.
He's literally sticking everything into his mouth.
He loves the soak of the giraffe.
He loves the toys like this.
The lamaze toys.
But literally anything.
He's chewing on muslins,
and almost like ripping them out.
Like that must give him some relieve from the itching.
So yeah he's loving all of that,
but he's definitely teething.
And we had a couple of nights
where I did have to give him Calpol
from like a bit of a fever.
And he's still using liquid Anbesol,
and teether as well does calm him down.
So I'm expecting teeth any minute,
because all this teething.
I can still just about squeeze him into
his three to six months clothes.
But he is wearing six to nine months clothes
the majority of the time,
especially vests and baby growers.
He is really really long.
He loves his jump-a-roo so much as well.
My mother in law actually got another
little like activity center.
And we have put that upstairs,
and it's actually been really good.
So when I'm getting dressed in the morning
he can stand in that and like look around.
Because laying on the bed really
is not doing it for him anymore.
He still quite enjoys tummy time.
But I must admit his favorite thing is
the jump-a-roo at the moment.
And he's a really strong little guy as well.
He is nearly sitting up.
He can sit for a good few seconds before he falls over.
And I have got this like inflatable ring out of the loft.
That used to be the other boys' toy as well.
It's really really bright.
I got it on Amazon like years ago,
but it's a really really good one because
he can sit up and look around in it.
And there's also things that you can grab on it.
He can practice sitting up,
but if he falls any way it doesn't matter
because obviously it's cushioned.
So I think he will be sitting up
in like the next month or so.
Also with the teething he's blowing bubbles all of the time,
and he is still babbling all of the time.
He loves to have a good 'ol chat.
In the past month as well,
Jackson had his 16 week injection.
And they were so horrible because
he had to have three injections.
Two in one leg, one in the other.
And because he's so strong now,
he was like gripping onto me,
and like trying to move his legs and pull away.
So it was a really really horrible experience.
But he is completely done now
for injections until he is one.
So I am really glad that is all out of the way.
He still absolutely adores his brothers,
and they play with him all of the time.
They give him loads of attention.
He's so lucky that he has these like
people to entertain him all of the time.
He still comes everywhere with me.
We are attached at the hip.
And it doesn't really matter what I'm doing.
If I'm working or I'm having my nails done,
or I'm meeting someone for a coffee,
Jackson is with me.
He is like my little shadow.
And I never really leave him.
I have had a few nights out with the girls,
because he normally feeds at seven,
and then not again until 3:00 am.
I have been able to go out to dinner and things like that.
But we've never tried a bottle with him.
So I can't really go too far.
And where we're pretty much joined at the hip,
if I'm not with him I feel like (gasps) where is he?
I really expected to be updating you
on how weaning is going as well
and how he's doing with solid food.
But we have not given him any solid food yet,
and he's five months old now.
I did actually end up weaning the other boys
at four months or four and a half months.
I just haven't done Jackson yet.
I've been holding off and he's been doing
quite well with just milk.
And I recently went on a weaning workshop,
and at that weaning workshop it was saying about
a babies' guts and how it's not completely mature
until they're six months old.
And how if you do feed them solids before six months,
it could cause allergies and things like that.
And that just really scared me a bit,
because my eldest does have an allergy to something.
And now I'm thinking,
"Oh god, is it because I weaned him early, or?"
I don't know.
But he's not having too many extra milk feeds,
so it hasn't been too difficult.
But I think I am gonna start weaning
him in a couple of weeks.
He is staring at our food.
He is grabbing things off of the plate.
He is so interested and keen.
And he sits up quite well,
so I do think he is ready.
I've just been holding off for whatever reason.
And also nowadays they say to just
give them veg for two whole weeks
so that they don't get like a sweet tooth.
So I'm gonna try and give as much veg
as I can for two whole weeks.
But I still think as soon as they eat
like fruit or a banana,
they're obviously gonna know that
that is really really sweet
and they're gonna want that all the time.
But I'm gonna try my hardest to just do veg,
and all of that.
And I think I might go a bit more
down the baby led route this time.
Just because I have done all the pureeing
and freezing and all of that in the past,
but because I have the older boys,
I think if it's baby led it might be a lot easier if
I'm making everyone a meal.
I'll just put some of the meal on his chair as well.
And he can just help himself to it,
and try it that way.
So I think that way will be a lot messier,
but I've heard really good things about it.
I'm gonna do loads of weaning videos,
and I will obviously keep you all updated.
So thank you so much for watching.
And we will see you next month
for his six month update. (baby cooing)
See you later!
Goodbye!