Holly - nice to hear from you! Also nice to hear you sounding a little more positive, well at least that you are taking a step back and trying to assess your situation and put it in the right perspective, if that makes sense. I reckon you should still have the phone consult and maybe even still book in with them for the residential bit - the waiting is the worst part and you can always cancel if you do decide you are happy to roll with it a bit longer.
By the way - I don't think you're being selfish or trying to force independence on him... you are right, absolutely, he will not be like this in 20 years! It is just a question of how you and DP are coping with his current behaviour - sounds like you are doing ok right now, so maybe you do want to just go with it for a while longer. But I'd still say talk to the QEC, see what they say.
How's school going??
Olive - how was the rest of your night? Hope DD slept a little better. So cute about saying "Done"! Miss I has started saying "yum yum yum yum yum" while she is eating. Very cute!
Malyna - glad to hear (in a selfish way) I'm not the only one with a night waker! But you sound like you are dealing well with it. I think I need to sort out DD's new mattresses and get that all happening, it'd be so much easier than sitting on the floor or dragging a chair in, as I have been doing.
How's everyone else going today?
AFU: had tea at my parent's house then I went to a friend's place, DH had DD, apparently she settled off to sleep well (exhausted after her 4am wake up no doubt) and stayed asleep all the way home and into the cot... then about midnight she woke up yelling and crying, so in I went, she had a massive drink of water and went straight back to sleep, then awake at 6.30am. So that isn't too bad.
The only sour note was when DH said "You're not going to like this but I think you should wean her onto a cup of milk in the mornings". To which I replied "you're right, I don't like that, and I am not weaning her".
Apparently he doesn't like the fact that she wakes up and all she wants is BB, he tries to distract her but she is just grumpy until she gets BB. This morning I was drying my hair and wanted to finish, so he was trying to keep her occupied and she cracked it, so from this he says its "too hard" for him to help out in the mornings when I am busy and can't feed her and I should wean her.
So now I am off to do some research on the benefits of BF beyond 12 mths...
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