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Fire sounds like your Ci and my Greer and a lot alike. The days are doing my head in too. MCHN said be kind on yourself for the first 3c months - but make sure that you get to the cot between 3-6 months as that is when they make their memories of sleep associations.
No time right now for any more writing be back later.
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Looks good BW, I will show DH. We hve a motion junkie, that's for sure.
Grubi, it sucks, eh. At the moment, being kind to me means Ci comes off second best, so we're at an impasse. So far he's in the lead, but I don't know how much longer my body will hold out.
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Fire how does he go in a rocker chair? at least that way you can relax a little and just rock the chair (even with your foot!)
I've been very lucky with BJ (sorry guys!), I was determined to make sure he could settle on his own etc, which has gone quite well (except during his hysterical times due to whatever is wrong with him!)
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I wish I could have had your determination BW, I'm either lazy or unable to deal with the requirements of getting Greer to settle on her own. Fire I know what you mean about your body and with the c-section I'm finding the constant carrying too much to deal with. I really have no advise for you, especially since i'm doing it all wrong anyway!! LOL!
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Havent been keeping up, so much going on on this thread... Lila's been off and on. She had a little bit of a cold and I took her in for 2 mo. immunizations and she's been sick ever since. Kind of going nuts over the sleeping thing. Still doesn't sleep during the day, and when I spoke to a midwife the other day she told me to put her in her cot and let her scream, that she needs to sleep during the morning and the afternoon. Sorry, not doing that. She dozes in the sling, and that lets me get some housework done so ok. Pretty steamed at the GP in general because they sort of ridiculed everything I'm doing, from the cloth nappies to the EBM. Pfft. I hope everyone is getting more sleep than me, just had to poke my head in and say hello and that I'm thinking of you all- we're going through the same things and that thought really keeps me going at 3am.
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grubi and fire, how come us c-sec women are the ones who seem to be carrying the babies 24-7?! (well not quite 24-7, but i did a log of our day recently and found i'd carried dd for over 8 hours). it seems so unfair, given the fact that we've recently been sliced through the middle and our backs aren't really up to the job.
fire i sympathise with your feelings of exhaustion, i have them periodically myself. i've also tried to get dd to nap on the bed, but last time it was so spectacularly unsuccessful that i decided to put it on hold for a bit. still, i feel really jealous of those who can use their babies' nap time to do things that i struggle to do with the sling on (clean, play with ds, sit in a chair and put my feet up!!). most days i eat all three meals with the sling on and sometimes i get SO SICK OF IT!
bw glad to hear things are improving.
all right gotta go jiggle this grumpy baby around. stupid cold has made her really unhappy and she's struggling to get to sleep.
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Baby wrangler (this is going to sound very strange but) Congrats on the Poo!! Funny how these things make us feel better
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