hi everone!
we are alive...most days all i can manage is a quick read.

Well...my little princess is having her first daytime sleep in a few days that she has put herself off too, she usually doesnt have a good sleep like this until around 4pm. We usually nap together on the couch around 10am together and watch Sons and Daughters.

We actually have some kind of routine that Paige has put herself into...I just wish her 'windy period' did't start at 4am where she grunts and farts all morning long...but then again, she is a fantastic sleeper up until then so I am thankful for that.

On the evenings when she is awake for a feed around 5-6pm, she has boobie, bath then a cuddle to her music, then she puts herself to sleep. I sometimes need to pop in if she has spuked a little...but she generally goes to sleep without much fuss.
She doesnt wake then till around 11-12 for a feed...then 3-4am. This is when Heath goes to work so I wheel her bassinette into our bedroom, and she generally ends up in bed snuggled with me until around 8am. She grunts and farts and sometime whines from 4-6am...but we are usually up and starting our day by 8am.
I think she is sleeping this afternoon because we walked at 9am, and decided to not go out today....we usually go somewhere around 10-11 to get out of the house.

OK confession time...who else finds that DH being home throws everything out of whack. Poor Heath is only home Saturday afternoon/night and all Sunday...but everything goes to ****e for some reason. I don't sleep as well...Paige is all out of kilt and I end up in tears most of the time from sheer tiredness.
Yesterday was the worst...Paige wouldnt go down for her sleep around 9-10am...I was exhausted as I had a migraine hangover, a headache that wouldnt budge...and I was really emotional and missing my mum.
Anyhow...Heath told me to 'just let her cry for a while, she might tire herself out". That was just something I knew I couldnt do....you see...when I was in the hospital and it was the 2nd night...Paige was crying and I couldnt do anything to stop her....I was exhausted and ended up calling the midwives to come take her for me...all I could hear was her screaming as they took her down the hallway. I sobbed my heart out...and eventually went looking for her. I took her back to my room and snuggled with her in bed and PROMISED her I would never leave her alone like that ever again. So yesterday when she was crying in her bedroom, I couldnt do it...so I went and picked her up, gave her a cuddle, cried a little then we both crashed on the couch.

Sleeping with her on the couch means I actually get some rest, so It works for me...I am just not able to leave her to cry...all she needs is some comforting and she is fine. Paige is such a good sleeper and is able to self settle etc...so i cant see why I would need to let her cry...she obviously just didnt want to sleep right then. So I will no longer bow to pressure from my husband to ever just leave her to cry when I know all she needs is a quick cuddle.

WOW that was an epic post.

hope everone is well!!

P.S I think ALL hubbies need to go on daddy bootcamp when babies arrive...where they have to go and stay with Bubs for a week and learn what its all about.