Babies Born December 2006

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Snacks, I must have a totally different approach , but I will say this, after having 5 kids, I am more relaxed with bubby. Even though I know she should be asleep, but if she was tired enough she would be, even though I KNOW she is sleepy! If she is grizzly, I give her a dummy, or cuddle her, toys, yadda yadda yadda, even so, most of the day she can be a right pain, she sleeps all night so I kinda am not so fussed on the daytime sleeps, as long as she has a few hours. It doesn't matter if you cuddle her to sleep either, I loooove that!
Right now they are going through the whole routine change thing, which can upset them very much, so basically I just let her do what she does, cos she knows better than me what she wants/ needs.
Having said that, I haven't changed the way I do things to suit her, bath/ bedtime etc has stayed at the same times.
Zac was such an easy baby< lay him down he would sleep, so Angel is a real wake up call, she will occassionally settle in our room, after numerous trips back & forth to put in the rotten dummy.
You are doing the right thing by her, your there for her, I dont know about crappy day sleep interfering with her night sleep though, coz Angel is the same through the day, but has good night sleeps. She also sleeps in the lounge room through the day, with all the noise etc & sleeps far better out here than inthe quiet dark room??? And has her last bottle anywhere from 9pm til 11pm, so I dont think you are putting her to bed too late, really I think it's not our choice what time they go to bed yet.So don't worry too much about it. And sometimes Angel feed to sleep too, you can;t really help that.You're not causing bad habits, you giving Natalie all she needs/wants. I was up at 2am Monday playing "toot toot" with Zaccie, he he, cos he wouldn't go back to sleep in the storm, & he hasn't tried it again.
Your doing a great job, so relax & enjoy your bubba. Some days here, our place is a total write off, now coming from a neat freak, I ignore it. Kids grow up way too fast to worry about how clean the house is, or how much washing is falling out of the basket. ROFL. On a good day, my house is perfect & my kids are happy. Any other day, happy kids, shambles of a house!!You can thave everything!!

Hope I am of some help to you. Probably not, but Angel seems to do the same as Natalie somedays.........


**eta** GLAD HER NOSE IS GETTING BETTER