thanks for all tehe good advice about stopping waking at 5am - weds night he slept from 7- 7 adn i thought we'd cracked it - oh how little i knew. thursday night 2.30am - wakes up
2.45 - go in adn put bomjela on incase its teething.
3.00 go and change very wet nappy.
start controlled crying. he almost drops off several times then wakes up.
4.15 kick Dh to take over. 5.00 baby drops back off. Dh comes in and says how much his teeth must be hurting because he was really chewing on his (dh's) fingers.
by tehn I have been awake for 2 adn a hlaf hours, am wide awake adn can't go backto sleep. tehn i feel really guilty that Icouldn't stop DS from crying - maybe i needed to use more bonjela? maybe i should just have breastfed him since that usualyy does teh trick - but tehn at 7 months I'm not convinced he really needs teh food. fell guilty that i didn't recognise that he was teething adn didnt do anything to help. (not realistic to give them tetthing toys/carrot sticks in teh middle of teh night so what do you do?) also really pissed of at myself for not being able to go back to sleep finally got up at 5.30 adn now hvae a whole day to look forwrd to. actaully had some nice things planned for today - going aout at meeting people etc btu am wondering whether to go since wil proably be in dribbling mode by 9am. am also dreading tonight adn wondering what my plan should be. sorry for the rant adnhop eyou can read this depite all teh hideous spelling mistakes! little weed