The Villoria Family: 5 Months

Hudson continues to be the sweetest baby and we are still just loving every moment with him, but this past month was tough with being back at work, Hudson getting sick and having to find a new daycare. Sometimes being a parent is hard.

Weight: 14 lbs 6 oz (10th percentile)

Height: 26"

At 5 months:

Started eating solids! (And then stopped when he got sick)

Started Sleeping through the ENTIRE night! (And then stopped when he got sick)

Sitting Up, but topples over after a little while

Daycare #2

Leaving Hudson at daycare was incredibly hard, but to make it worse I didn't have the best feeling about the place. To be honest, I didn't have a good feeling about it from the first time we visited. But I figured it was just because it was daycare and I wasn't going to love anywhere that wasn't home with me. Turns out it was more like Mother's intuition... On day #2 Hudson came home with a giant scratch on his face starting at his eye. The daycare didn't address it at all. On day #3 he came home with a full bite mark inches from his eye! This warranted a call to the school's principal who seemed less than concerned and told me biting is normal child behavior. Although I agree to some extent, it was not OK that children with teeth were being allowed unsupervised access to my baby! That along with a few other things and my gut feeling that the place wasn't right was enough to find a new daycare.
So, Hudson is now at daycare #2 and it's MUCH different and has made a huge difference in my ability to cope with going back to work. I have so much more confidence in leaving him where he's at and it's made it easier for me to focus on work during the day. When I drop him off in the morning he's instantly intrigued by all the kids. When I pick him up he seems perfectly content and not overwhelming happy I'm there to rescue him. Overall I'd say it going much better!

Being a Working Mom

Even though I'm pretty happy about his new daycare I can't say I love being a working Mom. I'm back in the swing of things at work now, but I can honestly say I am a different person than I was before. Work doesn't matter as much as it used to and everything about being away from my child all day feels wrong and I am incredibly exhausted! Being a working Mom is having 2 full time jobs. I have to get up at 5am to be at work by 8. Then during the day I am constantly juggling trying to get things done, attend meetings and manage to pump every 3 hours. I get to spend an hour or two with Hudson once we get home before we have to start the bedtime routine and once he's asleep it takes another hour to wash all the bottles and pump parts, then pump again, then rewash and get everything ready for the next day.

Hudson's First Cold

What comes with daycare? Germs & sick kids! Of course only a week after starting the new daycare Hudson got a cold, which then turned into a sinus infection. For the past 2 1/2 weeks Hudson has been sick, congested and of course NOT sleeping. Poor baby. Seeing him uncomfortable is heartbreaking! He had just started to eat solids and was loving it, and then he got sick and lost his appetite. Notice his 5 month stats are the same as last month. In the past few weeks he lost the weight he'd gained at the beginning of the month :-(