Babies Born September 2007 #34

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ETA - Leanne I live in hope of one day being organised and life not being so chaotic too~! LOL
DH gets home tonight, but next week he leaves ON OUR ANNIVERSARY (*stamps foot*) for 3+ months.

Trill, sleep has been much better, am going to persevere with the settling techniques as taught for another couple of weeks (giving a rollover feed, then resettling until 5-6am when I can feed again) and then we'll see what sort of pattern she's in then, might abandon the rollover feed and just get up twice in the night. She had a horrendous 2.5 hour settling session on her first night in QE2 (I was asleep thank goodness but she gave those nurses a run for their money) but since then I only usually have to go in one to three times to pat and sing and she is happy to relax back down into sleep. I'm usually only settling once or twice a night now (including one time before I go to bed), as opposed to 3-5 get ups with crying, feeding, more crying etc. Like Cally I still feel exhausted though. The longest 'session' we've had at home was 35 mins which was mostly calm but a bit of protesting along the way. Interestingly there have been a couple of days where she's had a few teething symptoms and it hasn't seemed to affect the way she sleeps unlike before when we were convinced that she was in pain all the time. I haven't opened the bottle of panadol for 10 days now which is good IMO. Also, I'm feeding her more now (sore nipples and all) and we make sure she's having lots of cuddles and affection during the daytime and before bed, and I really concentrate on calm and loving energy when I'm patting her so she knows bed is a happy safe place to be.

ETA GL with your scan tmrw! Hope you get some answers and hopefully good news.