Bek - Glad to hear Eva is sleeping a bit better. I hope it continues to improve!!
Freya - Blergh...that doesn't sound like a very fun night. Poor little man I hope tonight is better and you get some sleep ahead of your big day!
Mako - LOL, no need to hide hun! A day stay would be a waste of time, he sleeps really well during the day, always has. The only issues we are having are at night. To get DH to back off a bit I actually called them yesterday arvo to talk about what was going on. The nurse I spoke to said she thinks he is waking genuinely hungry and suggested we get him going on solids. We started in the last week or so but have been a bit fickle with it. She said she wouldn't expect him to sleep through until he was established on solids and it was normal for him to be waking even up to 3 times for feeds (which he has been doing, some nights 4 or 5 times ). She also suggested that because he does self settle it might be worth trying to move him to his own room and he might be a bit more settled at night in his own space. So we are trying both of those things this week in the hope that it improves (I will be the one awake crying if he ends up in his own room ). I told her how worried I was about going down the same path we did with L and she told me that she really doubted that would be the case considering D sleeps so well during the day and has self settled from a very early age etc. I hope she's right!
We have already had a small victory the last two nights - I have been making sure he is awake by 5pm in the evening and then stretching him out a bit till 7.30pm bedtime and so far () he has gone down without a fuss the last two nights. Previously it would take me up to an hour (our worst night was 2 hours) to settle him off. Not much improvement in the night waking but we'll work on that...Feeling a bit better about the whole situation today.
DH and I had a really nasty scare this afternoon. We'd just gotten home and had brought the kids inside and DH was going straight back out again. He said goodbye and jumped in the car, I looked around and couldn't see L so ran out the door...just as DH reversed the car with L behind it...oh my goodness I screamed at the top of my lungs for him to stop and thankfully he heard me in time. The car actually bumped him but didn't knock him over thankfully.
I cannot stop running through my mind what could have happened...it was so, so close It took me 2 hours to stop shaking and DH was pretty shaken up too. So, so, thankful that someone was watching over my little guy
Last edited by Willow; February 14th, 2010 at 12:46 PM.
I hope tonight is better and you get some sleep ahead of your big day!
). She also suggested that because he does self settle it might be worth trying to move him to his own room and he might be a bit more settled at night in his own space. So we are trying both of those things this week in the hope that it improves (I will be the one awake crying if he ends up in his own room
) he has gone down without a fuss the last two nights. Previously it would take me up to an hour (our worst night was 2 hours) to settle him off. Not much improvement in the night waking but we'll work on that...Feeling a bit better about the whole situation today.
It took me 2 hours to stop shaking and DH was pretty shaken up too. So, so, thankful that someone was watching over my little guy
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