Witching hour

[myturn]

Yeah I have 4 carriers. A sling, manduca, woven and a borrowed caboo. They are all good for different purposes. I'm a bit anxious about how to get her on my back though. I do need to cook earlier in the day. Or at least prepare stuff. She's a bit of a 'napper' rather than a big sleeper as well so I often only get 20 minutes while she's down.

I shouldn't really complain. She's sleeping from 9.30pm till 5or6 with no wake ups at the moment. But consequently feeding more often in the daytime and not sleeping a lot.

I know we will get there. It's nice to know I'm not alone. I know the cleaning and other stuff doesn't matter. But it feels better when I'm on top of it it's just so never ending.

[vic261]

I remember those days. It was awful. For me it was always a Wednesday and we had been to baby group and DS didn't sleep in the morning so would be out of sorts all day. Come 5 pm I was at my wits end. The only thing to help was to get DH to bring the pram inside and I would push him for ages until he fell asleep as he was so over stimulated and over tired. I could push it with my foot while cooking. I used to dread Wednesday afternoon and then Thursday mornings.

Prepare dinner earlier if you can. Not always possible I know, but at even having it prepped can help.

Sometime I would take him into his bedroom and make it really dark and just rock and hum to him. He used to get over stimulated really easy and need unwinding time. I still feel he gets over stimulated from daycare and find 20 mins down time when we get home makes the night time easier.

It does get better but the dinner ritual doesn't get easier. DS now has dinner around 5.45pm which is just about when dinner is starting to heat up /boil/ burn. Lucky DH takes over dinner while I feed DS. Most nights my dinner is eaten cold. Lucky I am not too fussed on temperature. Its rare to get to eat a meal without interruption. DH eats, oblivious to it all. Saturday nights we eat dinner later just so I can eat in peace.

Its hard when they dont sleep through the day and come night time you are too exhausted to do any house stuff. Everyone says it doesn't matter, but it gets to the point when it does matter. I used to feel out of control if the house was trashed but you get better and quicker at time management. Its easier when they get bigger although DS "helps" now.