Mummascribbles – Oscar you are 5 months old – Mummascribbles

My goodness little man, time is flying and the last month has probably been both the hardest and the best so far. 

To follow on from the weeks of illness, you decided to catch your brother’s chicken pox. Yep, just after I wrote your four month update, those pesky spots appeared and boy were they bad. Your poor head and face were covered, your bum was covered and the rest of you was dotty all over. People had told me that if you did get it, it would probably be a milder case than Zach’s but I can say that is definitely not true. You dealt with it amazingly and really, the most frustrating part for you was the mitts we made you wear to stop you from scratching yourself with your nails. Oh boy you hated those mitts and screamed every time we put them on you.

For me, the worst part was the temperature. OK so you looked pretty bad and you was a very sorry sight, but you had a raging temperature for about five days. It was the first time you’d had a proper temperature (other than the one that came on after your first set of jabs) and so I didn’t know how your little body would deal with it, whether we would get any febrile convulsions. Thankfully that didn’t happen and you just dealt with it by sleeping a lot. Once your temperature had gone, it all got a bit easier – well, dressing you was hard but we worked around that. You were a proper trooper little man! 

Once the pox had gone, you were also cough and cold free and I can’t tell you how good that felt and what a happier baby you became. Not that you were miserable the whole time but you really have suffered over the past few months with cold after cold and so to see you well was just lovely. You are just the smiliest baby and when you smile, it lights up your whole face. 

This month you have very much discovered your laugh and it is a beautiful sound. You are so very ticklish and this brings out those giggles – as does daddy and his belly kisses and Zach with, well whatever he does really because you are always laughing at him. You are always mesmorised when he is around!

You have really come into your Jumperoo now. We got it out a few weeks back and eased you in gently. As I type this, you are bouncing up and down and playing with all the bits and bobs that are attached to it. And then I look over and you give me the biggest smile to show me you are happy. We have already had to downscale the box that was positioned underneath it. You have gone from a deep Scalextric box to a Cluedo box. I can see that it won’t be very long before you’ll just be bouncing off the floor. 

Your Bumbo has now made an appearance (after asking Daddy repeatedly to get it out of the loft) and it means I can now sit you down while I do important things like make a sandwich. You are super duper clingy and don’t really like to be out of my reach (apart from when you are in the Jumperoo). It all stems from you being ill for so long, and especially when you couldn’t really lay on your back because you would just cough and cough. You had to spend so much time propped up in our arms that it has made you very very needy – something I really didn’t have in mind to happen! I am trying to improve this by putting you down, putting you in your Jumperoo, Bumbo, Poddle Pod. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.

The evenings for me are the hardest. You just will not go to bed on your own. I have been trying every night – I get you ready for bed, lay down on the bed and feed you and you fall asleep. Some nights I have transferred you into your cot, others into your Snuz and on one occasion left you sleeping on our bed. The problem is, you just know when I am not there and after about ten minutes of sleeping, you wake up in a complete crying state! We can’t leave you to cry because you’ll wake Zach up (and neither do I want to just let you cry) and so you end up back downstairs with me where you spend the entire evening on my boob. I eat dinner over you, I blog with you, you are just there. I will keep trying though! 

You are also co-sleeping at the moment which is another thing I am working on. Trying to get you into your Snuz again. You have slept in there for an hour the last couple of nights before waking up. You are not a very good sleeper at the moment and I am a very tired mumma. I guess you are catching up on all of that eating that you struggled with for so many weeks and are waking every couple of hours (if not every hour!). If you could stop that, I would be very happy! 

You are teething! The day before you turned five months, you spent an hour screaming the house down and I was sure that it was your teeth as you were frantically gnawing on your thumb. I couldn’t feel anything and yet, pop – just a day later, there was the beginning of your tooth, poking through your gum and seriously sharp!   

You are a complete chatterbox, making gurgling noises, little screeches of happiness and ga-ga’s. I love hearing you chattering away to yourself and your toys! 

You are getting so strong now and you love standing up on our laps. You are also so, so close to rolling. There is just one bit that you need to work out and you’ll be there.

You have now been upgraded to both your highchair and your pushchair. I’m not going to say that I’m not ever going to put you in your pram carrycot again but I *think* you’ll be happier seeing the world as you get very frustrated laying in your pram now!

I think that is everything covered for this update – I am hoping by month six, your sleeping will be better and you’ll no longer be in our bed! We’ll also be weaning you…eeek!