Hiya Girls,

Well I haven't written or read for nearly a month!!! That seemed so long it is crazy. Life for us has been pretty busy with DH going away to UK for nearly 2 weeks and then we have been sick for almost 2 months. Every cold under the son we have had. Eventually Jemima started vomiting and I took her to our GP who diagnosed bilateral ear infections... poor bubba the AB's cleared her up pretty quick but gave her diarrhoea for 5 days. Suffice to say it had been a busy time as a single mum. Darren got home but went straight away onto 8 night duties. JEmima missed his so much it has put her sleep completely out of wack.

I have tried every thing but now it seems that she is distressed every morning at about 3-4am...... just wakes up and thrashes around. I don't know what will help. Although I suffer DH suffers worse cos once she finally goes to sleep she sleeps till 10am but he has to get up and go to work at 7am or whatever it is. Last night she woke at 3.30 I took her into bed then but she woke DH at 4am. He finally couldn't sleep at 5.30 or so because she was thrashing so much and had to be at work at 8.

I kinda get that she is a baby and that this is what some babies do, and whilst I am ok because she slept till 10.45am this morning letting me catch up on all the missed night sleep. My DH hasn't slept well since he came home from the UK. Right now as he is trying to study for his exam in FEB next yr it is meaning that our whole family focus is on getting him thru his exam. I must say that I just wish it was over....I am so past it I have said to him on more than one occasion that we don't care if he is a senior house officer we just wish he wasn't studying so much. Anyway he really wants to finish what he started and I want to support my man, but I am thinking maybe I have to go and sleep in Jemima's room just to make sure he doesn't get to interrupted by her frequent night wakings. I have lost all hope as to what to do atm.. I have a regular night ritual with her and music playing and still for the last 3 weeks she has woken regularly in the night too keep me up for hours. I cried on my next door neighbour today cos I was so tired. How embarrassing!! Oh well Frank my next door neighbour is pretty understanding but still. I am worried. I don't want to sleep apart frm my hubby but my baby is keeping us both up at nights. I cope well with the frequent night nursings it is just the night wakings that kill me.... being awake for 2 hours from 4 am is not ok as far as I am concerned... I feel for you [COLOR="rgb(255, 0, 255)"]Naomi[/COLOR] if that is what you are coping with!!!

Other than all my whinges Jemima is going ahead with leaps and bounds!!!! She says "Ello" into my phone and "bye bye" with waving. She also says "puppies" "babies" and of course mummy and daddy. Her favorite at the moment is "tish" which means finished which we say as we sign the word finish to her. She will use it to say she has had enough of her bath or food or anything really. VERY clever I think Yesterday we went to a BBQ, and she is so socially interactive that she had 3 of the doctors that DH works with dancing with her on the dance florr as she did pieroettes on the dance floor. It was hilarious seeing full grown men bending to the whim of a tiny baby girl. I must say it made her daddy consider shooting classes for when she was 16.... LOL

ANYway sorry for a selfish rant. Things have been going well with BabyMammas. Selling lots or wraps to people. Not trying heaps because I like ppl to just have a relaxed approach and not be pressured but I have put up heaps of new colours lately which are selling really well.

Anyway I must off to bed.

Hope you are all well, love lots Bella

MWAH! xxxxxx