Sleep, please.
Our nights are getting slightly better with little Abby. Usually, we get 3 hours sleep right after putting her down in her bed. Occasionally, we get 4! Which is a really treat, I tell you. After that, things are still a bit iffy.
Abby is still a baby that suffers terribly with wind and it will often stop her from settling down for another extended period. So she'll sometimes join me in bed and she'll often sleep another 2 hours, sometimes 3.
That brings us to very early morning, like 5am. At that point, she's quite unset and it's hard to settle her. The nights feeds have trapped some wind in her belly and she wants the world to know about it. That is usually when I'll bring her downstairs and we snuggle up on the couch. Sometimes, this results in another hour of sleep... if I'm lucky.
Around 8am, Jake gets up. Sometimes he sleeps until 9. He's a boy who loves his bed. I hope Abby soon adopts the same policy!
So I'm feeling as tired as usual and I'm looking forward to a more settled stage of our lives.
Stephen showed a little regret last night over the decision we'd made after Abby's birth that she would be our last baby. Abby will grow out of this 'baby' stage soon enough, he said, and wouldn't it be a shame never to have another little baby. Nope, I said, two's enough. I've got my boy and my girl and I'm very content with that. I look forward to them both being of an age where we can enjoy meals together, perhaps take a family holiday or simply play a little game together. After Jake was born, I knew that I wanted more babies. Since Abby's birth (and this is no reflection on Abby!), I feel content. Complete. Happy.
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midwifemuse / Website (6.2.07 17:39) Have you tried old fashioned gripe water, it worked a treat with Amy. |
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Nicola / Website (6.2.07 23:28) Yeah, we've finished a bottle of the stuff since she was born, but it doesn't seem to help. There's still lots of burping and farting and crying. 
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