Well its sure been a crazy week.
It started of terribly , both girls were driving me insane. I’m pretty sure Eilidh is teething as
she has everyone of the symptoms and Rebecca was getting her bottom eye tooth through so of course they were both moany and not sleeping great. Last Monday was probably the hardest day emotionally i have had since Eilidh was born , everything was getting on top of me and i was just so tired.
It did get much better though as the week went on , Tuesday night was Eilidhs last night in her moses basket as i could no longer get her settled in it (she would fuss and have to be rocked for ages then wake up constantly ) , if i let her sleep with me she would wake up around every 15-30 minutes crying so we made the very hard decision to move her into her cot full time . This
is very upsetting for me as i really believe she should be in my room for at least the first 6 months but as we cannot fit a cot in here i had no choice.
Wednesday night i had my first night off since Eilidh was born, my sister and i went to the pub for a few drinks (only a couple of course because of breastfeeding) and then to the movies to see “The Number 23″ , we were only gone a few hours and DH was home alone with the kids thankfully Eilidh never woke once as although there is milk there she has never taken a bottle before. It was great to get a couple hours off to just be me and not “mum” .
That was also the start of the good sleeping nights, Rebeccas tooth broke though and she was back to normal and Eilidh only woke up twice during the night.
Things just got better, Thursday night she only woke one at 5.30 and last night never woke at all – she slept for a whole 12 hours it was amazing, Rebecca slept in the living room with DH and i had the bed all to myself . I feel like a diffrent person at the moment.
And today we went to a cousins birthday party (well my cousins daughter), it was at “Buckaroo Jaxx” one of these kiddy play areas and Rebecca had a ball running around and climbing on everything , she was so well behaved and it was wonderful to show her and Eilidh off . My 14 year old cousin Jack was there and we is just this wonderful kid who is so helpful and ran after Rebecca most of the time.
All in all its been busy, both girls are sleeping now and I’m hoping will be for a while. Its a busy
week next week to Eilidhs gets more jags on Monday and Rebecca is at the hospital on Friday.
Laura
Goodness, Laura, what a roller coaster of a week. I’m glad both girls seem to be doing better now. I absolutely think you did the right thing by moving Eils into her own room. We had to do the same with Nadia, and it helped her sleep much better.
How was the movie?