Kayna, it is so great to know that someone else is right there with me!! Obviously i wish you weren't struggling too, but it is somewhat reassuring :wink: :wink:
I agree that Ruby is just too cute, unfortunatley she has the attitude of a hormonal 13 year old at the moment!! Is it teeth, new-baby or just being 22 months? Who knows? but it certainly is a case of tantrums and plently of tears in this house right now. Not to mention that she favours the word NO! over any other!!
I swaddle using a flat crib sheet (a standard size one) it is big and wraps around him several times, but i swear he is a magician at wriggling out if i use a smaller sheet. Have you seen/ considered the miracle blanket? I have heard fantastic things about it. One thing i do, if it is not too hot and i want him to sleep when we are in the car, is i swaddle, but with the legs out and then pop him in the car seat (legs out so you can do it up) this seems to help him sleep in it, but it has been too hot for that here recently.
We have had some stinking nights here. He has gone from waking once at 5am, to waking at 3.30am, then again at 5.30am then again at 7am. this is not good, and i am exhausted, especially as at the 5,30am waking he is not hungry and just fussy. This morning he would just not go back to sleep. He wouldn't feed, wouldn't co-sleep, wouldn't take his paci, just cried. I was so tired and upset that i walked away from him and to my shame punched the door!! I was just so mad, like why won't he sleep?? And i am so not a morning/ night person that i cannot think straight and act very irrationally until i have had a shower and woken up fully. I was now very upset and dh was with Red. He eventually settled him (i don't know how - paci i think!) and came and consoled me.
I feel terrible for reacting this way, it is just because i am tired and not good at night. I also feel like we have regressed. It is not like he is hungrier during the day, he is not having a growth spurt so why have we moved backwards?
Napping is going ok, as long as we are in the house!! He gets swaddled and will settle by himself if i get him down in the window, otherwise forget it. We have had to resort to the paci, and still do when he 45 minute naps as there is no other way to get him back off to sleep! He has his last nap of the day (4.30pm-6pm ish) in the sling so i can a) guarantee a nap and b) get Ruby her tea and get sorted.
My napping problems occur when he 45 min naps and gets overtired. I cannot get him to sleep then and yesterday he cried himself to sleep (with me there) because i just couldn't help him. He did not want to be held, he couldn't keep his dummy in and he was a mess. What should i do in this situation? Give up on sleep? But then he is getting even more overtired for when i try to put him down later.
Blech, heres hoping for a good night tonight!
In other news (!) he is very constipated :cry: He is on Gaviscon (an infant food thickener) for reflux. It is working but it is bunging him up so much. His poop went from a normal BF baby poop to slightly thick and formed and now it is pellets :shock: :cry: He is really struggling with it, so i halved the dose of gaviscon for one feed and almost immediatley the reflux symptons came back. He was miserable again, in fact i had forgotton how miserable he was before he was on it. This means we will go back to the GP again and get a referal to the paed at the hospital to be prescribed some zantac, as my GP can't do so.
Gosh i have got to go and achieve something else other than typing out my life story!! :lol: :lol:
