The Smell of Little Pong

It's oh so quiet

Adrian went back to work this week after his two weeks paternity leave. I was a bit worried about how I would manage to get myself, Freyja and Theo up, fed, dressed and out the house by 8am to get Freyja to her child minder on time, but it has gone surprisingly well - even this morning when I fell back to sleep for 20 minutes after my alarm had gone off...

I put Theo in the sling to get to the child minder and he sleeps all the way there and back and if I leave him in it will sleep until around 10am. I took him in the pram today, thinking it would be easier to get a few things done if he was asleep in there rather than in the sling. He slept there and back but as soon as we got home his eyes pinged open - just like his sister's used to do! It doesn't matter - so far he is a pretty good sleeper during the day and I am managing to get him down for one long sleep in his cot plus a few other naps here and there. It's very different to Freyja who really fought sleeping during the day from very early on - amazing to think that now she loves her nap and asks to go to bed!

This afternoon, at about 4pm, Theo and I retired to my bed for what I thought would be a 20 minute snooze, given that he'd already had three naps, but actually turned into an hour and half sleep.

Bliss!

I had forgotten how quiet it can be at home all day with a newborn. I understand why they give you that 'Talk to Me' leaflet after you have a baby - hours can pass and you've barely uttered a word. Tomorrow will be a whole different ball game...Freyja doesn't go to her child minder on Thursdays...

posted by solveig @ 8:38 PM