October 09, 2007

Baby Trouble

Well not really trouble so much as just HARD WORK and sleep issues.

When I say 'hard work', I mean that she's being quite high maintenance. She is incredibly sweet and smiley and cute and scrumptious but she has long periods every day during which she's really difficult.

I think that aside from the reflux, part of her problem is overtiredness much of the time. It's very difficult for her to go to sleep. She nearly always has to nurse herself to sleep and the only other way I can get her off is in the swing. When she wakes up in the middle of the night to feed she will not go back to sleep in her bed. G takes her into the living room to the swing in desperation - and then of course a habit has how formed. In the morning she wakes up and feeds and is awake and happy for a bit then gets very stroppy and goes back to sleep (in the swing) waking shortly thereafter thanks to noisy Harry and being even more grumpy, then finally dozing off properly just in time to be woken up for the school run. She will not sleep in the car. She screams in the car. THE WHOLE TIME. It's very draining. The afternoon routine is pretty similar with the not sleeping and being overtired and fussy, she dozes off just before going to get Dylan then screams for an hour during that school run, comes home and can't do anything with her.... she'll have a short swing nap at that point and then be a nightmare till bed time. Bed time is at least becoming better. She has a bath around 6.30 then nurses for about an hour until I can transfer her to bed when she's zonked.... which at least is better than it used to be.

Any suggestions on how to improve her daytime routine extremely welcome, the problems are really a) noise b) mid-day school run c) 3pm school run all of which involve waking her up!!

Posted by katie at October 9, 2007 01:09 AM
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