Conway has started eating solid (puréed) food and at first he loved it. So far he's tried rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, carrots, peas, avocado, and applesauce. He was all excited about eating the oatmeal cereal, carrots, and peas, but basically gagged on the avocado. Then I thought I'd give him something he was sure to love - applesauce - not a fan. What isn't to like about applesauce? I've been pretty lazy about feeding him solids, which probably wasn't the case with Parker when he was this age, but somehow it just seems to get lost in the shuffle. My goal is to feed him solids twice a day so he usually eats oatmeal for breakfast (which he still loves) and then I try to get him to eat something for lunch (which has been less successful).
Conway is very close to crawling, but I feel like I keep saying that. He consistently gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth. He even moves his knees forward and tries pushing with his feet, but he has yet to figure out that he has to move his hands too. The result is often a face plant. He doesn't seem to mind, though. He's also very close to sitting up completely on his own. He can do this for quite a bit of time now, but eventually he falls over with a little less control than I feel comfortable with. I know I should be excited about these new developments and I partially am, but I also know that once he can really move I'm in TROUBLE. He's going to be into everything. Watch out!
Conway's sleep has still been a little unpredictable lately and let's just say that I'm not a big fan of the unpredictable. Okay, fine, I like to have complete control! There. I said it. My name is Treva Totten and I'm a control freak. Joking aside, Conway is almost completely on a four hour schedule (4 hours between each daytime feeding with a nap included). The end of the day is where it gets a little unpredictable because he's toying with dropping his third nap. On days that he refuses this nap, he goes to bed for the night a bit earlier. All in all, not a bit deal. He does still wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and has a little party in his crib before falling back asleep. It's a party for one at this point, though. He isn't hungry so I don't join him. Not really sure what's going on here, but I think it could be that he's getting cold during the night. The temperature throughout our house is a little uneven so I'm having a hard time figuring out how to keep his room warm enough without making Parker's room into a sauna. My newest solution is to put Conway in two sleep sacks and I think that's helping.
The most important bit of news this month - Conway's skin is much better! (knock on wood) We visited a dermatologist and she gave us some good advice and a very large supply of the prescriptions that have worked on the rash he was getting. So, he's getting a bath basically every day using either just water or Mustella Stelatopia Cream Cleanser. He gets slathered in either Vaseline or CeraVe a couple times a day (although I wish these were working just a little bit better so we might give Eucerin a try). His nails are kept very short and filed so that when he does start to get itchy he can't damage his skin. And when the rash does come back we use the prescriptions for several days. The other interesting tidbit that the dermatologist shared with me was that eczema is often brought on or exacerbated by stress. Maybe this is common knowledge, but I wasn't aware. So the teething, vaccines, cold, travel or a combination of all of these were probably to blame for how bad his skin got. Even though his skin will probably continue to react to these stresses in the future, at least we know how to treat it now. Phew!
Parker at 7 Months
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