Thanks for the kind comments. that photo was of me in hospital after my 6hour labour with no drugs! pretty proud of that one! j/k
Ok, album done, I also put a photo of what we call 'cloud corner' - its so pretty when it rains.
Last edited by taralee; June 26th, 2007 at 08:08 PM.
having one of those days...where everything feels blah. thank goodness the rain has stopped though. must make a note to myself that going to the hairdressers is something I should do BY MYSELF!! takes away all the enjoyment of having your hair done when you have three kids in tow, one of who is sulking because she wants her hair cut too, (and got it done! how stupid am i??at least she has a smile on her dial now!)
Aston is fussy today - not sure if its teeth, or the cold, or a combination of the two, or him picking up on his cranky mother...
oh God Vicky!!! I should have called you today & said lets meet somewhere in between. My two were both just absolutely rank & I am so tired after a night up & down all night long.... I just got the two of them asleep at 3pm!! For the first time today by laying down in our bed with both of them. Now they are still in our bed together LOL very very cute...
I spent hours trying to get Jovie to sleep today & everytime I put her down 10 minutes later she would be screaming.... ARGH.... days like today you just want to help them get those teeth out!
Im sorry girls but im the opposite.. i cant keep Chelsea OUT OF BED. Slept 14 hrs last night... then had a feed, back to bed for 2.5 hrs.. feed and now back in bed since 2.30.
nope kim sleeps creates sleep!!!! sophie had 12 hours then fed and back for 2, up for 2 down for 1 up for 2 down for 2!!!, those sleep tips really helped hey!!!
that's how aston ahs been today Christy - I think he has in total 1 half hours sleep - 10mins this morning, half hour at the hairdresser, and 40mins just now. and he is fussing so much as the breast. I
god I just re read my posts - i really am tired...spelling, grammar, the whole hog really bad!!! (as she carefully reviews, and edits this post...) I think delirum must be setting in....
Ok I was having an okay day, now just spoke to my sil (the one who i babysit for) and i'm feeling really stupid.
let me just lay it out. evie doesnt seem to be sleeping too great at night. it seems like i put her down and she wakes every hour or so just with a grizzle - sometimes she is still asleep, other times i need to put her dummy back but she'll go straight back to sleep. still wakes around 2-3 times a night for a feed. around 930, 12 and 230 -ISH she wakes for the day around 5 but will usually go back to sleep if i put her in bed with me.
Anyways, currently she has 2 naps a day then bath at 5 and asleep by about 545. which i am thinking is WAY too early.
i was thinking that if i give her another short nap late in the day then give her dinner, bath and quiet play i could put her to bed a bit later - say more like 7/730.
the only thing is that dh doesnt get home from work til around 730/8 and we both need to be up at 6 for work (he goes to work, i babysit), so i am thinking that if i put her to bed too much later i have to try and do all that while making dinner, then dh and i would only see each other for a bit before we have to go to bed. is that too selfish?
anyway i really need some advice because for some reason i feel like a real idiot. a real, tired, idiot
i should also mention that i am babysitting from 7am til 5pm, so not only do i not have a lot of time with evie i dont have a lot of time on my own either. oh, now i feel like crying, i think i am way too tired
thats another thing, i'm sure she'll sleep better during the night if she were eating solids but she just doesnt want to know about that. she just associates it with being so sick and doesnt want a bar of it
this is really compounding my mother guilt-stupidness. and i have to settle for coffee now
For us, Craig is up between 730-8am. Chelsea will normally wake 8-830...sometimes later. Have a bottle...Then go back to bed..will vary each day how long. Does that on and off all day. Most days she is still in bed come 6-630 pm. Craig gets home at 7, then she has dinner or a bath depending on the last bottle time. She is in bed by 830 at the latest....other then them silly FDC days! Normally he will then do work on the PC so i dont really see him.. and he spends less time with Chels too...the thing is we dont go to bed til 11-12.
SO i dont think your being selfish....coming from me who was crap at routines....IMO 545 is early for bed. Esp if Evie is still waking for feeds. Maybe you can prepare dinner during Evie's naps or pre cook it in the nap times? Im not sure what works for you. DH gets home and i cook tea while he watches Chels and plays with her.
Go to bed when Evie does during the day if ur not baby sitting...im glad my day dont start at 6am!! Dont be hard on urself Tara.. ur doin a fantastic job!
I feel like the slack mum cos so far Chels has NEVER had homemade solids yet... she been having the jar food... so that makes me feel bad... i wanna make it.. but to lasy or cos i just dont wanna stuff it up cos i dunno how to do it!
*hugs* Tara.... I don't know what to say. Sleep over here has been atrocious the past 2 weeks... and Jovie eats more than I do. I can't say what it is, but its been horrible.
Vicky, I've just poured myself some wine. I'm so cranky & tired and slightly delirious atm... so I totally understand.
Kim - you keep those sleepy vibes matey, you need them more than I do building a new life inside you *hugs*
AJP - great work!!! I'm so glad to hear Sophie's settling for you.
Thanks Kim - i'm thinking that if i just give her a short nap in the afternoon then she might no go to bed too late.
i guess too that if she starts sleeping a bit better through the night then i might not need to go to bed so early
Thanks for the hugs christy..sometimes they say more than words *giggle*
Tara - Aston in the last 2 weeks has started going to bed at 7. Before that he was lucky to make it to 6.30, which was difficult because around 6 is when we are having dinner, so I would have a very whingy tired bubba boy, and DH and I would take turns eating. I like for all of us to sit down at dinner to eat, as it is a way for us to come together and talk about what we have done during the day. Its good now that Aston is going to bed a bit later, as he sits in the high chair and "joins" in, lol. On a normal night he will "wake" twice for a feed - 10ish, sometimes 2 or 4. Last night I didnt hear him, thats how tired I was, until 4, and DH had gotten up and put his dummy back in, and stroked his head around 2. Dh leaves for work at 6.25am, and usually doesn't see aston awake before he goes - most of the time he wakes after DH has gone, around 7am. DH gets home at 5pm. and we alternate who cooks dinner, and who gives Aston a bath. I have found that if Aston is getting sqidgey around that time, a bath always helps, he loves his bath, and most of the time you end up very wet as well...lol. He has two to three sleeps a day, depending on what we are doing. two if he has woken late, three if it was an early start to the day.
The one thing I have learnt having three kids is that no two are alike. My daughter was the text book child - she sounds like AJP's Sophie. She slept thru from 6 weeks, during the day was up 2 hrs, down for 2, 3 times a day til she was about 9 months old, then went to twice a day until she was about 15mths old, then once a day til she was about 3 1/2. She ate food from 6months, and never had any problems with it, she would drink ebm from a bottle, and took formula without skipping a beat once I weaned her from the breast. She got her first tooth at 5months, sat at 5 months, crawled at 9mths, walked a couple of days before she turned 1. She made having a baby seem easy!!!! Then I had nathan! They are about alike as day and night. and have been from the start. Aston seems to be a combination of the two, but even saying that I have experienced things with him that I never experienced with Laura and Nathan. For example, he still throws up after a feed, not a lot, but still does it. and you know all about the food saga....
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say now...just that you have to do what is best for YOU and EVIE, and bugger what anyone else says. and you are NOT an idiot. Motherhood is a day by day learning process. and everyone's experiences are different. Evie will eventually sleep through the night, and she will start to eat food, and you will feel like a human being...when I can't say - probably around the same time I do...lol. Be kind to yourself Tara. Your daughter is very loved, and cared for, and that amounts to lot. dont underestimate it ok. HUGS, and lots of them.
well, now after that mammoth post, I am going to have a glass of wine. clink Christy (that was my glass clinking yours - pity they dont have an emoticon for that one!)
Thanks heaps Vicky, feeling a bit better today. evie had some pumpkin last night and was up every hour and a half from bedtime until she stayed awake at 530 this morning, i could hear her stomach going mental so at least i can put all that waking last night down to that.
am going to skip any solids today and try putting her down later tonight.
we have a house being built next door to us and the cement mixers and stuff were here at 630 and they are sooooo loud so hopefully we can get a bit of sleep this morning.
heres a tip; never, EVER be the first to build in a new estate!!
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