Summary of a Bad Night
Last night none of us got any sleep. I put it down to the heat - I hope it's not a new phase...6.45pm - Start getting Theo ready for bed. It takes almost an hour and a half to get him to sleep. It always takes a while, but this is the upper limit of how long he takes to settle.
9.00pm - Freyja starts crying. This is unusual - she does still sometimes wake in the night, but not usually this early. She wants another story (no) and then wants to come into 'mummy daddy bed'.
9.30pm - Freyja cries again. I sit with her on her rocking chair for 10 minutes. She's still trying for 'mummy daddy bed'. I explain that we haven't actually gone to bed yet.
10.00pm - I go up to bed and feed Theo before I go to sleep. He is sleeping in his moses basket in his cot. I pick him up and he's drenched. He's wearing a short sleeved vest and is in a 2.5 tog sleeping bag, which is really too warm for the weather but I don't have a summer one in his size (Freyja was a winter baby so her newborn stuff, which Theo is now using, is all for the cooler weather). I panic that he is overheating and decide to put him straight into his cot as it will be cooler than being in his basket.
11.30pm - Theo wakes up. I put it down to him realising he is in the cot and not his cosy moses basket. When I go in I discover he has done a massive poo. I change his nappy and vest and do my best to clean it off his sleeping bag. He has to stay in it as the other one in his size is a thick velour one which will most likely finish him off in this heat. See how prepared I am? End up feeding him again to get him back to sleep.
12.30am - Freyja wakes up. I go to her and settle her back to sleep.
1.00am - Freyja wakes up. I go to her and settle her back to sleep.
1.30am - Freyja wakes up. I go to her, take her sleeping bag off and settle her back to sleep.
2.00am - Freyja wakes up. Up to now I have avoided waking Adrian up as he's got a chest infection and hasn't been very well. But by this point I need some back up. Adrian goes to her and brings her into bed with us. She snuggles up but doesn't go to sleep.
2.30am - Theo wakes up. I go and feed him and he settles back to sleep fairly easily after his feed.
3.00am - Get back into bed. Freyja is still awake.
3.30am - I tell Freyja that if she doesn't try and go to sleep she'll have to go back to her cot.
3.45am - Freyja asks to go back to her cot and then goes to sleep.
4.30am - Theo wakes up. I feed him.
5.00am - Get back into bed, but Theo hasn't gone back to sleep. After two more attempts to settle him I bring him into the bed with us.
6.30am - Freyja and Theo wake up. The day begins.
Have I mentioned how tired I am?
posted by solveig @ 12:08 PM
3 Comments:
Oh dear, this sounds awful!
I remember when Yannick was just a couple of months old (summer 2006) it was very hot in our bedroom at night (26-30C) and on some nights I had him sleep in his nappy only. On other nights he wore underwear over the nappy but there was no way he would sleep in a sleeping bag. Just in case it got slightly cooler I had a cotton blanket on standby. But he was sleeping next to me so I always knew exactly how hot or cool he was.
Hope you're going to get more sleep this night!!! x
this is why I dont want a third. Sam is finally sleeping through consistently, and even though I wake up regularly at about 4am, not having to get up is a major plus. I was reading your blog and comments earlier and was toying with the idea of buying a smaller tog grobag, but didn't in the end; its just not been that hot at night, thus far.
Just waiting for the pox to arrive, atm. At some point within the next week, by my calculations. I'm fully stocked with Piriton Syrup, Calpol, Bicarb and Oatmeal. Although not to use all at once, I hasten to add :)
Sylke - I bought Theo a summer weight sleeping back the next day. It's a thin sheet and is really good for the very hot weather. Still haven't had much sleep though - although not as bad as that night!
Rowan - I know what you mean. I'm not sure I could face it again (though it's amazing how you forget!!)
Good luck with the pox, if they arrive! Hopefully won't be too bad and then they'll be out of the way - we found Piriton was the most effective thing on Freyja. I gave her 1 oatmeal bath but other than that we didn't wash her for a week as I heard that the water can irritate them. She just remained covered in layers of calamine lotion!!
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