Soooo much happened and its been a crazy week, emotionally good & bad, but we are home now!! I'll give you the epic first....
Monday was very hard on me emotionally... as soon as we got there Matilda was tired so we had to settle her with the nurse, and she put up a HUGE fight and I was crying outside the door saying I wasn't sure I should do this etc etc the nurse convinced me to give it 24 hours and if I still wanted to leave I could... then I looked down the hall and all 6 other mums were doing the exact same thing crying outside the doors of their babies. Then after her nap she fed & instantly was on a 3 hour feeding schedule which she took to with no effort! She was quite happy from then on to feed for 3 hours, no problems ](*,) and was the perfect child for the rest of the day, she slept when put down with little effort etc... until the night sleep! She got tired and I took her to the nurse to help me settle her... the way they do it is enter the room every 5 minutes and settle/pat for 5 minutes and then leave for 5 minutes etc... but when the babies start stopping & starting their cries they stay out of the room to not further stimulate the baby. Well... another hour went by and I had to pick her up and cuddle her and give her a comfort suck and start over, and then within 10 minutes she was out to it... and only woke every 3 hours that night!!! Never since has she woken or wanted to feed every 2 hours!!! Oh!! the other news is that Matilda will not sleep on anything but her belly... The nurses tried and tried and decided it wasn't worth it anymore, I had to sign a waver saying I would not sue if SIDS happened on that facility due to Matilda sleeping on her belly...
On Tuesday morning Matilda decided to roll over both ways for the nurses. From back to belly and back again... then again and again and yep it was scary. She slept within 10 minutes of putting her down everytime, had 3 naps a day, had 10 times the amount of happy time and no screaming unless she got tired! Except when something happened like I tried to burp her when she wanted to feed...lmao!
So, everyday she got happier and happier and slept and slept and her feeds slowed down, but the hardest thing was everyday she did something she wasn't supposed to do, try and engage in conversation, rolling over, pushing her bum up in the air and pushing herself along the ground (at least she doesn't have hand control yet!). So the nurses told me that much of her screaming is frustration, she is frustrated not being able to do what she wants to do and that I will have to learn how to parent her and not just wait for things to happen but be prepared for them. And we still get our morning cuddles and thats okay too! So I take Matilda to bed with me in the morning and have a good feed & cuddle. I still get to be myself in this, its not taking over a parenting style, its just understanding Matilda better and helping her do things better....
Reflux is so much better before I went in that I starting thinking that she didn't really have it, but then while we were there she regurgitated in front of the nurses heaps and they agreed that it was there, but the meds seem to help it heaps because she's not as upset about that, she just doesn't scream the "pain" scream anymore! JOY!
So there is so much more I could talk about, but thats all for now as she's getting a bit tired... off to bed!
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