Six Weeks And Still Growing Strong

Well he's now 6 weeks old and is growing so quickly.

Since I last blogged, we celebrated his 5 week and one month birthdays and had our one month checkup with the pediatrician.

He's growing so fast he seems to have doubled in size already. The doc was surprised at how strong his neck was, because most babies necks get even more floppy at this age as many babies are not active enough.

I wasn't surprised. My boy gets floor time, tummy time and play time every day and it seems to be paying off as he grows strong and healthy.

Here he is just trying to crawl some more.

You'll notice he gets all his parts going, he just doesn't quite have them all going at once.



And here he is trying real hard to get himself going.



You'll notice he still fusses a bit from time to time when he's trying real hard like that. The important thing to note is that the fussing is normal and is definitely different from crying. I purposefully posted this video so you could see the difference, he really does like it on his tummy, I swear.

He's only 6 weeks old so he's not quite cruising around yet... but I'm proud of him.

By the way for those who read my previous post about getting your baby to sleep... I'd like to follow up with a little warning about not getting your baby down on the ground.

I shirked on his evening play time one night and we woke up every 3 hours versus the comfortable every 5 hours we were getting used to.

Here he is all tuckered out at the end of our play time today.



In my attempts to be the best dad, I'll try not to forget any more play time. It's just too important :)

I'm going to be a dad

Hi,

My name is ken, I am 34 years old and I'm going to be a dad.

In these first few post, I am going to try to catch you up to speed, as I am now in the process of becoming a dad for the first time.

My wife and I just went to the doctor and found out we are 8 weeks and 1 day into the process.

Since I'm already getting conflicting feelings and feedback to just about everything related to rearing a child, I am writing this blog as a public diary of what this process has been like for me in my attempts to become the best dad I can be.

That is why this blog's title is called Best Dad Blog. (If It were to be about the actual Best Dad, well that would have to be a blog about my father :)

Please feel free to comment on any of my posts to give me your feedback.

Ken -new dad in the making

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