{"id":3154,"date":"2009-11-19T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2009-11-17T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:55:18","slug":"five-month-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"Five-month update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At five months, Avery has hit the happy-baby phase. Unless she&#8217;s tired or hungry, she&#8217;s almost always smiling &#8211; or happily observing the world around her. While she&#8217;s still content just sitting and watching people, she recently started showing an interest in toys. She enjoys the various animals dangling from her ExerSaucer, and she has shown a fondness for a red kangaroo that crunches and rattles. I have yet to see her laugh really hard, but she does giggle a lot &#8211; especially when her dad tickles her tummy or under her chin or when I brush her face with my hair. And last week I was sounding out words for Zoe (&#8220;Bbbbbb is for bear&#8221;), and Avery started to laugh. <\/p>\n<p>Another fun development: she now recognizes her name, and she&#8217;ll turn her head and give a curious look when she hears it.<\/p>\n<p>As for physical milestones, she rolled over (back to stomach) for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=3001\">first time<\/a> a few weeks ago, and now she&#8217;s almost constantly on her stomach with head held high &#8211; like below. If she leans forward and places her hands on the floor, she&#8217;s able to sit unassisted for a few minutes. (When sitting straight up with no hands, though, she topples right over.) She has more than doubled her birth-weight; at her last doctor&#8217;s appointment (on 11.6), she was just over 17 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>In terms of sleep, Avery typically takes 3-4 naps around the same time each day. After a month-plus of some bad nights, Q and I changed her night-time schedule and did a bit of &#8220;sleep training&#8221; a few weeks ago. (Zoe was such a good sleeper, that we never had to do that with her. As I told a girlfriend recently, I didn&#8217;t even know what &#8220;sleep training&#8221; was!) We now feed her at 7:30 or 8 PM and put her to bed at 8 or 8:15, and no longer wake her for a feeding at 10 or feed her if she wakes up in the middle of the night. It seems we&#8217;ve trained her body into *not* waking up for milk &#8211; because she now routinely sleeps straight through to 5:30 or 6:30 AM. I hope it sticks, because we&#8217;re all much happier!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?attachment_id=3288\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Avery-on-mat.JPG\" alt=\"Avery on mat\" title=\"Avery on mat\" width=\"392\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Avery-on-mat.JPG 392w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Avery-on-mat-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At five months, Avery has hit the happy-baby phase. Unless she&#8217;s tired or hungry, she&#8217;s almost always smiling &#8211; or happily observing the world around her. While she&#8217;s still content just sitting and watching people, she recently started showing an interest in toys. She enjoys the various animals dangling from her ExerSaucer, and she has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40-two-kids-november-09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}