Sofia's feeding schedule at 6 months old!

When you have your first baby you try and do everything by the book and we were the very same. As Sofia gets older we just go with what we feel is best for her and just use "books" as a guideline. They can only advise you so much and after all you know your baby and what they like and dislike.

This is Sofia's feeding routine for an average day!

8.30am:
She has a 5oz bottle when she wakes up. She is on the Cow and gate follow on milk.

9am:
We will usually give her either cereal or a liga mixed with her milk and then some juice or water.

1pm:
After her morning nap she will have a fruit pot and a yoghurt for her lunch and some water. This is her favourite meal of the day.

2pm:
She will have another 5oz bottle.

6pm:
She will have a full jar of any of the cow and gate meals and some water. She loves the carrot ones and there's not much she wont eat. But she still doesn't like cottage pie or bollognaise.

7pm:
Sofia has another 5oz bottle.

10.30/11pm:
This is her last bottle before bed and she usually has a 7oz bottle which keeps her going till half 8 again.

All babies are different and will have more or less of what Sofia has but this is the routine what works for us right now :)

6 months postpartum!

I had a baby half a year ago! That just sounds crazy to say. I'm still not back to my pre-pregnancy body but I'm going by "9 months in and 9 months out" to hopefully be back to myself.

Diastasis Recti!

My stomach muscles are still not together as they should be I can still feel a gap in the middle and when i do a sit-up i get a bulge in my stomach coming up through my muscles. Its still sore to do a sit up and i find it very hard. Ive heard the Belly Bandit wraps are supposed to be brilliant for holding the muscles in and helping them join up again. They are quite expensive though so might be a while before i get one.  I did get an Ever last tummy slimmer for 6 euro for the mean time and it really keeps everything in so I'm going to wear it day and night and see in a few weeks if it makes any difference.

Broody Again!

One thing Ive noticed is I'm getting so broody again if I see a pregnant woman or a newborn baby but it's way too soon to even think about doing it all again. I want to make sure Sofia has my full attention till she is around 2. We want 3 kids and I hope to have them all before I'm 30 so 5 years for 2 more is loads of time.

6 month postpartum belly and stretch marks!

I still have my stretch marks but they have faded so much so I'm hoping they will carry on fading. I read somewhere at 6 months is when they start going white. My stomach still sticks out from my muscle separation but its gradually going back in.

Sofia's 6 month update!

Sofia is 6 months old! Half a year old already i really don't know where the time has gone. Shes such an amazing little girl shes so clever and very advanced for her age.

Routine!

She wakes up around 8.30 am and has her bottle and breakfast. Around 11 she usually naps for about half an hour. She is usually in a really good mood mornings. At 1 she has another bottle and dinner and will play till 6 when she has her dinner. Some evenings she will nap for about half an hour to an hour but she usually becomes really fussy around 7pm. She has her last feed at around 9pm and will stay awake till about 11. Once shes asleep she will sleep through till 8.30 am again although some nights she will wake 2 or 3 times but goes back to sleep after 5 minutes.

Milestones!

• Sofia finally rolled over :)
• She can sit up on her own for almost a minute.
• She can say mama, dada and baba.
• She holds her feet up and trys to put them in her mouth.
• She is such a fun little girl she loves to be tickled.
• She is in her 6-9 clothes and her follow on milk, shes growing up too fast.