MrsB

On Monday I wrote about our co-sleeping with Oliver situation, no one commented so that must mean that no one thinks that it’s cute to share a bed with a 3-year old. …

There is something really exciting happening in my life. Something that makes me jump out of bed in the morning and go “WHOA!”

(Well, actually I should scratch the jumping-out-of-bed part as I’m not an out of bed jumper as such, I’m more of an open-my-eyes-and-see-how-long-my-wakefulness-can-stay-undetected kind of person… but anyway…)

Ever since Oskar was born my sleep has been very light – the tiniest amount of noise would make me up, child related or not. That means 7 years of dreamless, superlight sleep. I thought that this was just one of the things of motherhood, something that might change once the kids have moved out and gone to college, something that just comes with the territory and should be gotten used to… BUT…

We’ve decided to finally teach Oliver to sleep in his own bed. All. Night. Long.  (Well, that means until 6:30 cause no-one in our house sleeps longer than that during the week.) So last night Yours Truly got up every hour from 10pm until 5:30.  The little one was easy enough to settle, I just [...]

I’m frustrated. Frustrated that my emotional wellbeing depends on sleep so much.  A few nights of someone screaming uncontrollably every few hours and I’m all gloom and doom.  Yuck.  I wish I could just shrug it off like my other half, but I’m just a silly little emotional female model. We’re not sure what’s going [...]

As I was making a pumpkin risotto a la Masterchef Australia last night, in my head I was planning a funeral. James had not picked up his mobile or his office phone or answered his emails since early afternoon and because he rides his darn bike to work through the crazybusy streets of London, I [...]

Thank you everyone who commented on my last post about napping issues.  I have decided now to just chill.  On most days two of his three naps will be in the pram, I can’t change that, on the rest of the days I’ll just swing it. If I get tired to carrying him around (although [...]

I need advice. I tried for 2 hours today to have Oliver take his nap in his bassinet and failed yet again. On a good day, and we have had a couple of those, it goes like this: I put him down when he’s showing signs of being tired, he cries for a few minutes, [...]

Oliver has been sleeping in his own room for a few days now and shock!horror! I miss him :(  The first night I couldn’t sleep at all, I guess I got used to hearing him breathe in his bassinet next to me. The subsequent nights have been better, but to catch up on cuddle time, [...]

I just have to mention that all of a sudden I have a baby who’s a good sleeper! Me! Yes! It’s true! Oliver has been a miracle sleeper for the past 5* days in a row. He still struggles a bit for those naps he has to have in his bassinet, but at bedtime I [...]

Last night: Fell asleep at 6:60. I fed him in his sleep at 10. He didn’t make a sound again until 4:06, but then resettled. He was up again at 4:35 and cried a lot harder than he usually does at night. I waited for 10 minutes before taking him to bed with me and [...]

Last night: Fell asleep 6:50ish. I fed him in his sleep at 10. He didn’t make a sound until 4:06. He hasn’t slept that long after midnight since the first night after he was born. We held his hands a couple of times, but let him cry until 4:55. Fed/slept until 6:30. Naps: First nap [...]

Last night: Oliver finally fell asleep at 6:50 pm. I fed him in his sleep at 10 (it was a longer feed than usual – 20 minutes instead of 10) He made some noise 1:30ish. Started crying at 4:40 and I took him to bed with me since James had only gotten home at 3 [...]

Oliver fell asleep at 6 again in a milk coma. I fed him at 10 in his sleep. He made some noise at 1:20 and by the time I finished thinking ‘here we go again…’ I had fallen back asleep and the next thing I know it was 3 a.m. Oliver resettled himself quickly. Woke [...]

The test subject fell asleep while eating around 6 pm last night. I fed him in his sleep at 10. I have a feeling he was up briefly at 1, but can’t remember for sure. He was up at 2, resettled himself in about 10 minutes. He was up again at 3, resettled quickly. He [...]

Last night Oliver fell asleep a bit before 6 while I was feeding him.  He made some noise around 9, but we didn’t go to check on him and he got quiet very quickly. At 10 I fed him in his sleep.  At 1:20ish he started fussing again, but we didn’t get out of bed. [...]