McKenna Baby Summary: Week 43

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Schedule and routine for a 42-43 week old baby. Get info on this baby’s daily schedule and routine for each day and know how to structure your day.

43 week old McKenna with her mom

May I first take a moment to lament that my baby will soon turn 10 months old? Double diget months?!?!?! I just love every minute of her baby life. I know, I know. The future will have much fun. Enjoy the moment. Yes, I know. But I am taking my moment to lament. Okay, moving on.

NURSING

Things are still going well and we are nursing 4 times a day.

SOLIDS FINGER/FOODS

Things didn’t really change here this week. I did notice that her little pincer grasp is perfect now. She uses her little index finger and thumb to daintily pick food up.

ECZEMA

She started to get some eczema signs on her forearms this week. I had her in a short sleeved shirt and she is an army crawler, so that might have aggravated the skin and caused a little flare up. I think another contributor is that it is hard for me to lotion that area of her body. She doesn’t like her arms held still while I lotion, so I don’t always do a great job of it.

Well, not anymore! This is one of those things where you have to do what is best for your child even when she doesn’t like it. I put hydrocortizone cream on her forearm morning and night for a couple of days as well as lotion, and her skin is back to great now. She is also protesting the lotioning less, though she is still furrowing her brow at me while I hold her arm still. McKenna is a wiggly child.

DROPPING THE THIRD NAP

We are still in the weaning process and have no significant changes this week.

Read: Dropping the Third Nap (evening) Gradually

WAVING

McKenna has a fun new thing where she waves to me every time I go to get her up if she is already awake. Little things like this just make me love this time in a baby’s life.

INDEPENDENT PLAYTIME

She was great wtih independent playtime this week, but I forgot to write a couple of weeks ago that she started protesting it. I just kept at it with a shorter time period. I also started having her listen to children’s hymns while playing. She once again loves it and doesn’t complain at all. For now.

OUR SCHEDULE

8:15 AM–wake, nurse, solids (prunes or peaches/apricots and oatmeal). This is when we do a bath and independent playtime.

10:00 AM–nap

12:30 PM–wake, nurse, solids (green veggie and applesauce. Sometimes mix with blueberries or cherries).

2:10 PM–nap

4:30 PM–wake, nurse, solids (yellow veggie and bananas or pears).

5:30ish PM–dinner with family. Finger foods and what we are having.

6:45 PM–nap. Some nights, she stays up until 7:00. Since most of this week included this nap, I am including it in our schedule.

7:45ish PM–wake, nurse, PJs, story, bed

On nights we dropped the third nap, we did:

7:15-7:30 PM–nurse, PJs, story, bed.

Babywise schedule week 43

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