Shannon - I am so very sorry to read about your darling little girl Jessalyn. Your all going through such a tough time but you sound so positive and strong. Your all in my thoughts, please keep us up to date with Jessalyn`s progress.
Nell - Yes it gets very cold out here in the winter then summer is opposite, gets so hot, guess you get that when you live inland in the country.
Juliette - I have also found the first few weeks so tough. When Matthew got his flu at 11 days old I was getting up to him every 30 minutes throughout the night and at times I would be up 10 times in 10 minutes, I was exhausted that I got to a point where I was beginning to loose my patience, I am normally an extremely patient person but when your totally exhausted with a baby who will not sleep it takes it`s toll. I would have just loved to hand him over to someone in the middle of the night even for just 5 minutes break. In the end I just piled him into bed with me, put him back onto the breast and we both fell asleep. Now he`s over his cold but when he wakes at night I still feed him in bed where he drops off to sleep feeding then I put him straight back to his bed, he is always wrapped when feeding so all I have to do is put him straight to bed otherwise like Fi says if you leave wrapping too late he`ll wake up.
You girls are lucky getting a day sleep, something I haven`t done at all, no wonder I`m exhausted by early afternoon, I find that there is too much to do to sleep, I suppose even if I had a rest would be of some benefit but I don`t even seem to do that.
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