Completely opposite

You think by now I would have realized and just assumed that everything Alexis is/does/did/will do is completely opposite of what Jonas was like/did.

He was a calm baby that hardly every cried. She was completely opposite.

I could eat anything while nursing him and nothing ever affected him. She is completely opposite.

He was ok with anyone holding him. She is completely opposite.

He would fall asleep anywhere with anything happening. She is completely opposite.

He ate anything that I stuck in his mouth. And she is completely opposite.
     I have tried rice cereal and oatmeal, which she spit out completely. She started spitting before the spoon even reached her mouth. Then I started carrots and I thought she swallowed a few spoonfuls, but then spit it out every day I tried. Now she is on peas and she spits those out all the time too. At least she'll open her mouth and let me put in the carrots and peas, but it's as if she thinks its a game. She swishes it around and after a few seconds to a minute she'll spit it out. It's like she doesn't know how to swallow. Oh well. I'm making my own baby food so at least I don't feel like she is wasting money because it's so cheap to make your own. Hopefully we'll find something she'll like enough to swallow.

He slept through the night starting at 2-3 months and has been ever since. And she is completely opposite.

Since my last post about her being 5 months, she has woken up twice. Every. Single. Night. To eat. Really? She's a chunk. She doesn't need to eat that much. But each night I kept thinking to myself as I put her to bed - Maybe she'll only wake up once tonight. Maybe she'll sleep 6 hours before waking up to eat again. Maybe she'll grow out of this soon. Maybe, maybe, maybe. NOPE!

I'm so done with her waking up. I'm tired of being tired. So yesterday I did some research about when babies should stop eating during the night. I found this and this on BabyCenters website. I love that site! It's so useful!

Basically I learned that you should start weaning nighttime feedings around 6 months, which she will be in 2 weeks. There's plenty or reasons why she might be waking up, but I really think she wakes up because 1) she wants to be cuddled, or she misses me and 2) she is too distracted during the day and wants to play instead of eat so she makes up for it at night. But she has plenty of "reserves" (if you know what I mean) that she can handle not eating at night.

We are starting sleep training. Blah! Basically if she wakes up before 3 am, I send Clint in to quiet her, put her binky in her mouth or whatever. I'm hoping that if she sees or hears Clint she won't associate it with eating. And anytime after 3, I'll go get her and feed her. We're just working on skipping her first feeding which would usually happen around 12 or 1. Then we'll start weaning her from her second feeding and hopefully by then she'll realize she better eat during the day or she doesn't get anymore.

I'll let her cry it out if I have to. I've done it plenty of times. Her crying doesn't bother me anymore. But hopefully she'll get better. There's another "maybe". But she doesn't really cry when she's awake during the night. She just talks to herself and then gets whiney until you put the binky in her mouth.

However, Jonas is awful right now, so maybe when Alexis is 3 she'll be completely opposite of him and be a sweet angel for me. Just maybe. Don't get me wrong, she's really happy and so good when she's awake compared to what she used to be. She's just stubborn and picky about certain things.