Well I feel pretty good today. DH did the night and early morning feeds so I went to bed at 9.30 and woke for JD's 6.30 am feed. so thats a great night sleep, thank god! I am sitting here pumping away so JD has a bottle before his ultrasound this morning. I am a bit nervous about it. He will probably scream and cry. so will take a bottle of my milk and a formula just in case I need more to settle him. So far still no poo. His last poo was Sunday night and it was a beauty. But I just googled it and some babies can go a few times a day to just once or twice a week, so that has me settled a bit. THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE AND BB!
Ok better go boobs are empty now, so will get JD's gear all ready so we can just out the door hopefully without too much disruption.
P.S. Last night after his fed he wouldn't settle again. So when DH came home he tried to settle him while I started dinner but he wouldn't which is very strange as he loves his dad. We burped and cuddled and played and still no luck. So we wrapped him and put him in his cot shut the door and let him cry for about 30 minutes. He would calm down and then start up again. Not really full on screaming all the time though. We ate our dinner and then thought well thats 30 minutes lets see if he has worn himself out so DH went in and got him and placed him on his chest and no more than 5-10 minutes later he was out like a light! So we let him stay on DH chest for about 30 minutes before putting him back in his cot.
Is this called controlled crying or something, is it ok to do this at this age? I really dont want to teach JD that he needs us to cuddle him until he falls asleep. I have to go back to work part time after 3 months and full time after 6 months so this cuddling till he falls asleep thing is not going to work for us.
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