Rolling

At 15 weeks, Graham has started to roll over. The first roll scared me because I went to check on him at night and he was on his stomach, swaddled (so no arms available to help fix the situation). Since then he's rolled over repeatedly for us on his activity mat. It makes tummy time a little easier because he's now the one putting himself in the push-up position. He'll hold his head up and smile (if we cheer for him). Then his head plops back on the mat, face down.

Things aren't going as well in the sleep department. Graham has reverted back to waking up every 3ish hours most nights. I was told at my Baby Steps class that I don't necessarily need to feed him when he wakes up; we can just comfort him back to sleep. That works well when we give him a pacifier, but it seemed like we were waking up even more often for pacifier put-backs. Our new goal is to let him cry it out for a little while so that he learns to self soothe. It makes for a noisy, restless night. Another challenge is that we are trying alternatives to his swaddle since he's rolling over now. Last night we just swaddled his lower body so his arms would be out. He did lots of flailing around, but eventually alternated between sleeping on his side and on his back with his arms bent behind his head.

Here's Graham sporting the souvenir onesie his friends Charlene and Erin brought him back from New York. He's eager to meet his long-distance NY friends, Kate and Kendall Anne.