Is Jack starting to crawl?

Jack is now nearly three-months-old and his spending more time on his tummy.... and he's trying to crawl. He's obviously not crawling yet, but he's definitely getting much stronger and he can spend more time on his stomach, which I think helps him strengthen muscles in his back and neck.

Jack's sucking his thumb???

Jacks got really itchy eczema on his face - it itches most along his eyebrows. I guess its no surprise he has it, as I had exzema as a boy until I was about 18 to 20, but I hardly get it at all now. But can we treat it?? It's definitely very itchy for him and irratating especially when he gets tired.

There is some useful advice I've found from this article and this one on the ABC of eczema. But he is off to the Dr next Tuesday, so we'll see what they think he should use and whether there's something that can be prescribed..... Olive oil doesn't seem to be doing the trick at the moment.

Now is Jack sucking his thumb already?? Not sure whether its the thumb or thumb and fingers yet, but he is definitely self-soothing and we hardly ever give him a dummy now at all.

I love the weekends with Jack

Weekends are now spent looking after Jack, but I love it - he is such fun now that he's 12-weeks-old and seems so much more settled in himself.

Several people said to me that three months seemed to be apoint when things got easier and I have to say that seems to be true. He is sleeping through the night regularly, and he is muck more interactive now.

I was watching the Brits the other night and Snow Patrol were playing one of my favourite songs - chasing cars, which was the song I was listening to as I drove to and from the hospital the day that Jack was born. So here it is.. hopefully I've embedded the link correctly.

11-weeks-old and Jack's changing

Jack is now 11-weeks old and he is doing really well. All this week apart from one night, he has slept through the night from 6-30pm until about 7am... Pretty good. He is still having his late night feed at about 10-30pm, but he rarely needs changing at this time and if he is fast asleep, he hardly wakes and he goes straight back to sleep.

So we are pretty pleased and our life seems to be getting back to normal - we had our first dinner party this weekend and it was really nice to have some friends over and just chat like normal adults.

Our next challenge is to wean him off his late night feed, but he needs to have bigger feeds in the day to go without his late-night feed. He is now having about 6oz a feed, so he is nearly there but not quite.

But he is doing really well and is really starting to alter by the day now.

A well used prambulator

On a recent visit to my folks' place in north Norfolk, my mum notched up an ambition of hers - and that was for Jack to go to sleep outside her house in my old Silver Cross pram...

Pram design has clearly altered somewhat in 30-odd years as I can't see that you can readily fold this one up and put it in the car.. but hey it seemed pretty comfortable still and Jack fell asleep outside their front door in much the same way as I had done 35 years ago now...