morning all ...
had a lovely lie in this morning ...
with the routine thing, I just went with the flow until ds was about 4 weeks old, then my anal-retentive-inner-control-freak just couldn't let me, and ds went into a routine based (loosely!) on GF ... it worked for us - the first day I tried it, dh came home from work to a happy, smiling baby ... and a wife who was not only dressed, but able to talk in coherent sentences!
However, the cc thing never worked for us - we tried it several times, but even though it worked eventually, we would be back to square one within 3 weeks!
We did have major sleeping problems with ds - culminating in him cracking one of my ribs in his tantrum not to go to bed when he was 2 1/2 ... we had professional help - and used the rapid return method in the end: if you saw the house of tiny tearaways a couple of years ago, where it took over 130 returns for the child to go to slepp, that'll give you some idea!
Problem is that I believe that some of those problems we had were caused by cc ... needless to say, we won't be using that again!
Am going to quilt tiday ... then my list is finished! [gulp] ... appointment with the acupuncturist for her to give my system a bit of a nudge tomorrow - then I've wanred dh to brace himself!
Have a good day all!
J20 - careful of using a breast pump to do nipple stimulation, you could give yourself cracked nipples before you even start (voice of experience here ... that's how desparate we got with ds!)