The Good, The Bad and The Snuggly
Yesterday - Wed 24th Nov 2005 was a mixed bag. Harry, Ben & I went to Halfords in the morning to get a replacement headlight bulb. Once I had repaired my car we went to my old place of work, MRO Software in Woking. It was really good trip, despite the fog. The boys slept all the way there and when we got to MRO they were good as gold, everyone was cuddling them and giving them loads of attention. Harry & Ben seemed to really enjoy it and were brilliantly behaved.
The journey home was very foggy still and the boys slept the whole way. My Mum & Dad in law came round at about 3pm and had a lovely time playing with Harry & Ben. They were very impressed with Bens crawling and they encouraged Harry to try and crawl as well. Harry is so close to crawling now.
The boys were bathed and put to bed no problems at all.
Then all hell broke loose, at 12:40am Ben kicked off, had a right old screaming fit and wouldn't be placated. In the end when stroking his head and dummies didn't work, we had to resort to picking him up and cuddling him. This is a no no really as ideally you want your baby to settle themselves, otherwise you start to go down the road of baby not going to sleep unless you rock him in your arms, or let them sleep with you and this just sets yourself up for problems later on. However on this occassion (the first time) Ben just really wanted to be held. I guess teething was particular painful for him last night and he just wanted some comfort. So I held him for a while and once he fell asleep in my arms and gently put him back down into his cot. 1 minute later he stirred and realised he wasn't being held anymore and kicked off again. This happened several times and in the end I spent 3 hours sat in the rocking chair in their nursery holding ben whilst he slept. By 3.40am he was really fast asleep so I put him back into his cot and this time he didn't stir. As lovely as it was to have such a long snuggle with Ben (he normally wriggles for England when you try and cuddle him), it is just a shame it wasn't during the day :-)
So I crept back up to bed and tried to get some sleep, at 4.30am Harry decided he was going to have a scream as well. Luckily Carol got him back to sleep within a few minutes and we both tried again to get some sleep.
5.30am both of them woke up and wanted feeding, so we both went downstairs and got them fed quickly and again tried to get back to bed.
I asked Carol if she could go into work late as I couldn't survive on about 2 hours sleep, I wouldn't be in a fit state to look after the boys. So Carol stayed home for a few hours this morning and gave the boys their 8am feed, whilst I stayed in Bed.
What a night, I guess we have been pretty spoilt with both boys normally sleeping from 7pm through to 5.30am until now. I just hope this is a one off and not the start of a new sleep routine !
The journey home was very foggy still and the boys slept the whole way. My Mum & Dad in law came round at about 3pm and had a lovely time playing with Harry & Ben. They were very impressed with Bens crawling and they encouraged Harry to try and crawl as well. Harry is so close to crawling now.
The boys were bathed and put to bed no problems at all.
Then all hell broke loose, at 12:40am Ben kicked off, had a right old screaming fit and wouldn't be placated. In the end when stroking his head and dummies didn't work, we had to resort to picking him up and cuddling him. This is a no no really as ideally you want your baby to settle themselves, otherwise you start to go down the road of baby not going to sleep unless you rock him in your arms, or let them sleep with you and this just sets yourself up for problems later on. However on this occassion (the first time) Ben just really wanted to be held. I guess teething was particular painful for him last night and he just wanted some comfort. So I held him for a while and once he fell asleep in my arms and gently put him back down into his cot. 1 minute later he stirred and realised he wasn't being held anymore and kicked off again. This happened several times and in the end I spent 3 hours sat in the rocking chair in their nursery holding ben whilst he slept. By 3.40am he was really fast asleep so I put him back into his cot and this time he didn't stir. As lovely as it was to have such a long snuggle with Ben (he normally wriggles for England when you try and cuddle him), it is just a shame it wasn't during the day :-)
So I crept back up to bed and tried to get some sleep, at 4.30am Harry decided he was going to have a scream as well. Luckily Carol got him back to sleep within a few minutes and we both tried again to get some sleep.
5.30am both of them woke up and wanted feeding, so we both went downstairs and got them fed quickly and again tried to get back to bed.
I asked Carol if she could go into work late as I couldn't survive on about 2 hours sleep, I wouldn't be in a fit state to look after the boys. So Carol stayed home for a few hours this morning and gave the boys their 8am feed, whilst I stayed in Bed.
What a night, I guess we have been pretty spoilt with both boys normally sleeping from 7pm through to 5.30am until now. I just hope this is a one off and not the start of a new sleep routine !
posted by Simon at 11:24 AM
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I didn't know your pram had headlights
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