You forget how truly stressful the nights can be - and truly awful when they are ill like Jensen, tell yourself it's not for long, one day at a time - any chance family can hlep with your older child so you can feed sleep feed sleep with Jensen Amie?
I mean Finn has only had one rough night and that sent me into floods,he was very unsettled, howling not in pain oddly though just pissed off with something or other
I was in tears as well, soothing him with the boob worked but then he chucked up the lot.
So plan A was scuppered.
At 4 am I went downstairs and the minute I left my bedroom I relaxed, I swaddled Finn really tight, lay him in the crook of my arm, buried his head next to mine and we slept on the couch for 2.5 hrs.
And of course the next day, DP was the really tired one not so tired that he fell into bed at 9pm, no... so tired he stayed up til 12am playing bloody pc goblin crunching games!!!!
I "tweaked" Finns afternoon pattern which delightfully consisted of sleeping through 5-9pm
Now it consits of catnaps, baths, nappy changes, feeds and general keeping awake.
Last night got him settled at 9pm and though sod it, I'm going to bed too.
He slept til 12
Bliss. I think in total I got 9 hrs last night - be it broken into3 lots of 2 hrs and one 3 hrs.
is anyone else baby regularly losing an entire feed?
Finn has vommed spectacularly his first morning feeds today and yesterday, he is piling on the weight otherwise happy and feeds again an hour later perfectly kept down.
the washing though
I don't care anyway, I got back into my jeans yesterday. Bliss I feel vaguely human again
Cannot say it loud enough
Post natal support girdle = dogs bollocks