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Diary Of A New Mum -
Week 12

Two steps forward, three steps back

So, remember last week when I was saying (boasting?) that Jess was sleeping through now until about half-six/seven in the morning? On Monday night this week she gave me heart-failure by waking up screaming for food at 2.00am and then again at 4.30am! I was inconsolable. 

It’s funny because it didn’t bother me that much when she was still being fed in the night. Paul and I had our rota all worked out and, apart from being half-asleep while shoving the bottle in her cute little mouth, it all worked pretty well. She started to go longer and longer between feeds all by herself – we never pushed her into it. But we clearly got used to it very quickly. And loved it. Because in the early hours of Tuesday morning I thought my world had ended at the thought of having to go back to night feeding… 

Paul got up and did them both, despite being at work the next day. I lay in bed and tried to work out what had gone wrong. She’d fed the same amount as usual in the day (one benefit of bottle-feeding is that it’s easy to tell how much milk your baby has had). She’d had the usual amount of sleep. Gone to bed at the same time. We’d woken her at 10.30pm, as usual, to give her a top-up bottle before we went to bed. What had gone wrong? 

The next night I went to bed with a sick feeling, not knowing if I’d get a good night’s sleep or be up in a few hours. And Jess went through until 5.00am! So go figure. The health visitor says it is probably a growth-spurt (sounds painful), and that all babies go through these at various times and need either more food or feeding more often. Of course, her tummy is so tiny she can’t fit a lot in, bless her. (Unlike her mother, who seems to be surviving mainly on chocolate at the moment!) 

What is going well is that Jess is going to sleep in her cot in the evenings. I’m not sure how it happened, only that I asked Paul to sort it out (as I was working so hard on the routine in the day time) and he kind of did! Just did it. Thanks, Paul. And he managed it with hardly any crying (Jess, not Paul)! So that is a step in the right direction. The step backwards – because every move forwards seems to be followed by a step backwards – is that Jess has started hating her bath-time. 

It’s such a shame – she loved it before. She even liked having her hair washed (I used to be a hairdresser so I do it really professional). Now she’s taken to screaming her head off when I wash her hair, and screaming again when she’s taken out of the bath, and again when we try to dry her. It’s turned what was a pleasurable activity into a bit of a chore to be honest.

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