Nettie, that pic is SO cute, of jungle boy. Cracked me up. About temperature, you can get sleeping bags (grobag) that come with a temp thingy on them, to check the temp of the room. You get grobags of 0.5, 1 or 2.5 TOG. 2.5 would be for winter, and I think it's for room temps of 16 - 20. 20 - 24 is the 1 TOG. Ebay sells them cheaply, otherwise they can fetch $70. I want one, all I know who use them say their babies love them. You can also get a grobag egg, which is a room temp thingy. I had read that babies like the air temp to be 25 degrees, or wrapped to that temp. Others say sleeping in 16 degrees is ideal. Maybe it's both. I keep Ci pretty warm anyway.
We had a routine, we didn't make it, Ci did, but now not so much. Because I'm feeding him on waking and then again on sleep, he has two feeds in one hour sometimes because of it. This has thrown me all out of whack. Also trying to get him to nap in the cot means he keeps waking, and has about six naps a day cos we can't get him to settle until the next half hour. It sucks. I like routine, I like knowing what's coming next. Not before I had kids, but since kids, definitely.
Steph, I'm really over slinging, not slinging so much as him napping in the sling. I've found a few threads on BB with women desperate to get the kid out of the sling for naps, so it's common. I try and comfort myself with the good bits, like I did when starting out with all those probs bfing. Unlike Bfing which got better, sling naps are wearing thin!
It's suddenly really cold these days and our heater is broken. Yay.
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