Oh, these clever babies - turning themselves around and rolling over! How fast they grow!
Ah, day sleeping... I'm no authority there, Charly's mum. In fact I need to kind of blurt things out and hopefully you can all be patient with me and let me know what you think...
Natalie is an erratic sleeper, probably because I haven't introduced any sort of bedtime 'routine'. Other than wrapping, there's no other consistent way I put her to bed in the daytime. During the day she sleeps downstairs in the portacot because its sooooo hot upstairs. Sometimes I put her in the stroller and take her for a walk to sleep (cause I want to shift some weight... also if I'm feeling tired and impatient this seems like the easiest, safest option ). She doesn't go to sleep until 9:30 at the earliest at night, it always ends with me feeding her to sleep, usually with a bottle of EBM, and I'm wondering if the timing's too late? Should I try to get her down earlier? I guess I just figured if she went to bed about the same time I did then I'd get the most sleep, but I'm now really worried that I'm forming 'bad habits' etc. I don't care about the inconvenience to me, cause at the moment there's none but what about her? I wonder if an earlier bedtime would be better for her? Would she be a happier baby? She can be grumpy all day sometimes. She is smiley and sweet after a feed and either side of her bath (she looooves the bath) but some days she can cry pretty much the rest of the day, unless I manage to get her to sleep for any considerable length of time. So, ok, maybe she's just a cry-y baby, or maybe she's constantly tired? I don't think I can cope with crying to sleep just yet - she's so little and I love cuddles, but is that selfish of me? (You don't have to just say no to be polite, I really want to know - should I be more conscientious in getting her to learn to get herself to sleep properly?) I figured because she was sleeping well at night I didn't need to change anything during the day, but now she's waking for a feed after 5 hours, which is ok, but then she'll sometimes stir and fuss a bit after only 2 hours after that! She doesn't need a feed, just resettling, but this really takes it out of me. Do you think the bother with night sleeping is a result of crappy day sleep?
Sorry about the long post. Just a bit confused and worried that I'm not doing the right thing for her.

BTW, her nose is back to normal colour, hooray! Just have to put on the sorbeline now because it was looking like peeling this morning Gee this responsibility thing is taxing