Hi everyone and welcome to all the newbies/lurkers.
DS1 napping and Toby in his moses basket hopefully sleeping, haven't heard him squawk for a minute or so. I am taking him to the clinic this afternoon to be weighed, so we will see what he is but I reckon he is knocking on the door of 12 pounds, so at 4 weeks today I reckon that's pretty good going! All he does is eat though so not surprised. He is already in 3-6 month clothes, and everyone is surprised when I tell them how young he is, as he looks much older.
Still exclusively breastfeeding which makes for an interesting time sometimes when DS1 is running riot. He always demands a cuddle whenever I am giving Toby booby juice, which is hard, cos i want to give him affection when he asks for it but there is only so much room on my lap....
Toby is now going for 3 hours at night rather than two, which is good, and only takes about 10 minutes to feed and usually goes straight back down to sleep, so I'm only up at night for about 40 minutes in total, and I can cope with that. Feed and change him at 6am and rarely get back to sleep after that, especially as DS1 figured out how to climb out of his cot on Friday night and now comes into our room about 6...Toby pooed all over the sheets this morning as well, so I was up and changing the bed. Gross.
During the day though, unless he is asleep or we are out and about Toby is demanding more frequent feeds than ever, particularly in the eraly evening. So despite HV's advice to ignore his cries I give in as I rationalise that the more food he gets early evening the longer he'll go at night and it seems to work. I do try to push the feeds out for at least two hours between earlier in the day though.
Took DS1 to Toddlecraft this morning, got the clinic later then story time at the library. Have had a few days of inviting friends round here with their kids rather than going out to do stuff and have found it infinitely more stressful than going out to things, plus the clearing up afterwards, so will limit it now to one friend at a time. Had two round yesterday afternoon and let the kids out in the garden with the hope we could sit in the conservatory with our tea and watch them - what a joke - three toddlers running riot, chucking stones in the pond, kicjing the gravel, ripping up the plants. Gave up and plonked them in front of the telly in desparation in the end. Not doing that again.
had a rather stressful weekend, mainly because bed time for DS1 went to pot cos he could now get out of his cot, so DH and I rowed about how to handle it - I did an hour of the rapid return method on Saturday night constantly putting him back in his bed and making him lay down which worked eventually, but was incredibly hard work. Sunday night, DH shouted at him once, he ran back into his room and lay down immediately and we didn't hear a peep out of him for 12 hours. Have to say that although I don't like using that method and couldn't do it myself, it worked like a dream! hard this parenting business.
DS1 at nursery Monday and Wednesday mornings, which gives me some Toby time which is really nice - also tried to start my exercise routine yesterday, and managed a whole 6 minutes on the exercise bike in the garage! How pathetic is that? I was absolutely knackered. Will have to push it to 7 minutes tomorrow. Am DETERMINED to shift this last stone, am being very good on the food front, boringly so, but have now plateaued at 10 stone 2 and have been that for a week. I think it's going to be harder than last time, but determined to prove all the doubters that keep telling me I won't do it ("harder after the second one") wrong.
Sorry for enormous post. Love hearing how you are all getting on.
Love,
Bloss
xxx