Eight Months Old

The month in pictures

This was the big month that I went back to work and Daddy got his turn to stay home with Adelaide.  The transition went as smoothly as we could have hoped, and Adelaide adjusted quickly into a new schedule.

Daddy and the Bug found their rhythm and routine very quickly, and he was actually able to get her on more of a schedule that I had been able to.  She started taking 2 regular naps per day, and having a more regular bedtime. I still cherished my time with her after work, and cuddled her to sleep in our bed each night.

We worked hard to continue breastfeeding, and I pumped for most of the month and was able to continue EBF (nursing all but one bottle of EBM per day) until she was just shy of 7 months at the end of January.    After that, we started topping up my short falls with formula and eventually transitioned to one full bottle of formula per day, while the remainder of her milk was direct nursing.

Other than that, it was a month of winter walks and a new round of swimming lessons with Daddy. A happy, quiet, uneventful month.

February 4, 2013 - 8 months old