Thursday, September 15, 2011

Quinn's current diet and sleep cycle

Quinn's current diet is very limited. He loves pasta with spaghetti sauce as well as mac and cheese. He seems to not like baby food anymore. When he does eat it, he only eats the lasagna or spaghetti flavors. For breakfast he only eats yogurt. We change flavors and serve it both hot and cold and sometimes with baby rice to give him some variety. Quinn will eat crackers, cheetos and french fries but sometimes he just chews them and spits them out. On Fridays or Saturdays our family always has family movie night with pizza. Quinn knows what pizza is and asks for it very clearly. He eats one to two pieces and likes to dip them in ranch. Sometimes he will actually eat most of the piece of pizza and sometimes he will chew it, suck the ranch and sauce off of it and spit it out. His normal day is yogurt for breakfast and mac and chees or spaghetti for the other meals. He drinks about 40 ounces of milk for "snacks" thoughout the day. We have started to purchase gluten free products today and we mixed some almond milk in his bottles today to try and prepare him for the casein-free portion of his diet. Quinn's sleep habits have been unusual lately. He sleeps late, usually until 8 a.m. For the last four days he would not nap. He usually takes a two hour nap from about 1:30 to 3:30. Lately he had been skipping naps and now he will not take one at all. When Karla or I try to lay with him, he becomes extremely playful, almost to the point of becoming hyper active. When he finally appears to be falling asleep he seems to jerk himself out of it and begins to play again. In the evening he is becoming very sensitive and has cried the last two nights. We are thinking that having his own room with a twin bed would help. He still sleeps with us.

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