Sorry I have been MIA – and thanks for all the enquiries re the nurse and Jakey.
We are going quite well….in fact it is going very well and a lot better than I thought.
The nurse was excellent – I was scared of it all being about cc or something.. and to be honest I guess it is a form of that but more gentle than I pictured and so right for us now. In a nutshell we are weaning at nights now – this means he is more likely totake milk in the day and he is sleeping a lot better. I think all the onight feeding was disruptive to him – he did know how to self settle (and did all day) but never did it at night. We started mon night and it was a pretty quick result. Mon there were 2 settles, tues 2 settles and last night 1 settle. And each night he has slept til 7.30-7.45!!! (he is making me late for work!). we are lucky that there hasn’t been as much crying as I expected (I think bc he is a good self settler really). He is starting to take on a bit more solids… and yest he had half a sippy cup of milk at crèche… so it is a positive story so far…. To be honest I wasn’t so open to what she may suggest (but I was soooo desperate) but it has been better (and so much more successful) than I thought. We haven’t had a terrible terrible week at all (so far). She was thorough – also helped us rearrange his room a bit and lots of other tips – it was qwhat we needed. I have had a really rough few months – and was gwetting so sleep deprived that I was emotional and knew I wouldn’t cope for much longer esp with work etc… so this has been great for us. Anyway – early days… so lets see how the next few go…
Anyway – work is full on (I have 16 direct reports now – ekkk and a massive load of accountability) – I better go but I wanted to update you all. I will pop on and read properly and catch up on personals later (maybe at 3am when we are settling – we are both getting up for them which is great)
xxx