Very quiet in here at the moment - we must all be busy with our little bundles!
Give me a chance to finish off my half done post from yesterday!!
Sal - I was wondering how you went with being away from DD. Sounds like it worked out really well... We came home after only 24 hrs and people thought we were bonkers as well. Sounds like Evan is being a great boy for you, fantastic! Hope it continues.
My DD is getting better - she isn't jealous at all, which is nice, I think she's too young to understand jealousy. But she is still quite rough sometimes with him - when he's in the bouncer, she tries to help bouncing him but is just too rough with it. She just doesn't understand yet. But she is getting much better! She's not really interested in nappy changes or anything, she's so independent she just does her own thing. But she has started calling him "Anda!" instead of baby, so that's pretty cute
Emma - it is ok for you to ask DH for help overnight. You can't expect to do it all on your own... I was much the same with DD and ended up completely exhausted, so had to wake DH a few nights so I could rest. I feel bad doing it though as I'd be already awake and it seemed silly waking up DH - but at least I could doze while he was tending to her.
This time around DH is much better - I deal with X overnight and he deals with DD. So if she wakes, he gets up to her - which has been the harder part of the bargain recently I tell you! Hope you are managing to get some rest hun! Oh and good work on the poached eggs!!
AFM: X asleep in the bouncer, again. He did the same thing yesterday - long stretches of wakefulness followed by cluster feeds (feeding every half an hour to an hour), dropping to sleep but waking as soon as he's put in the cradle and wanting to be fed again... so I've put him in the bouncer while DD is asleep. He's been quite grizzly too, which is a bit unusual for him.
I'm sure he's just adjusting to his new life outside the belly... but its frustrating not being able to get him to sleep longer than half an hour! I am grateful at least he's not doing it at night time...!
Nights are ok - he seems to be waking from a sleep around 6pm, so I've been feeding him one handed while eating dinner, then we let him have some awake time, put DD down for the night, then deal with him - either bath or wipe down, another feed, sometimes another ( ) then down for a few hours. Seems to go around 4hrs at a stretch overnight... not too bad.
How's everyone else going at night??
I've just put in my first Woolworths online order... very exciting. I couldn't comprehend how I was going to get to the shops by myself with two kidlets in tow so I'm making the shops come to me!!
ETA - I just re-read what I wrote above about X being wakey baby, then lots of feeds and grizzles and finally sleep... sounds like it could be a growth spurt. He certainly seems to be busting out of the 4x0 suit that I was still just fitting on him... might be time to give them the flick...
Last edited by OceanPrincess; July 19th, 2010 at 01:17 PM.
) then down for a few hours. Seems to go around 4hrs at a stretch overnight... not too bad.
Bookmarks