ds1 has been signed up for 6 sessions of speech therapy to 'improve his attention span'. His eyes wander off to look at something else within 2 seconds of you starting to talk to him, and the SALT thinks this is why he can't speak very coherantly - he doesn't watch and doesn't listen. I spend a huge proportion of most days trying to attract and keep his attention.
5 month old ds2 whines for a massive part of the day - partly I think because he would like more attention, but I am wrapped up with chasing ds1 around trying to stop him destroying my house. Partly because, I am starting to believe, he is that sort of baby. he wakes up between 2 and 4 am every night and cries and whinges for at east an hour - he doesn't want a feed, cuddles, rocking, anything. It seems like he is just protesting at being awake and refuses to go to sleep. He hardly drinks any milk now - he took 5 oz at 4 am, 1 oz at 9 am, probably won't drink anything (t6hrough choice!) until about 5, then will have 3 or 4 oz at 9-ish, maybe, will wake sometime in the night for no apparent reason....
I sound so negative but really I deal with it ok, but I am so tired today. I'm not even dressed yet.