Tuesday, December 16, 2003
10 pm: dh gets baby to sleep after 40 minutes (20 each) of crying and rocking.
11 pm: I go to sleep
0.48 am: wake up to sound of baby thrashing about, half-awake and working up to a feed.
1.15 am: wake up properly. change baby, feed for total of 25 minutes in small blocks. A. doesn't seem to want to settle down to the job.
2.15 am: stealthily wrap baby, place in bassinet beside bed, turn on monitor and go back to kitchen for a snackeroony.
2.18: small noise from monitor. check. baby moving but not screaming.
2:30 back in bed.
4:45: baby awake and complaining.
4:50: cancel nappy change and place baby back in bassinet on cloth nappy. listen to baby squeeze out huge noisy poos for 10 minutes or so.
5:05: change incredibly full and runny nappy.
5:15-6:45: more halfhearted feeding, insterspersed with screaming.
6:00: crawl back into bed with still-awake baby. baby screams, dh gets up for work. eventually rock A. to sleep on my chest, and find it surprisingly comfortable to sleep with 4.5 kg of human on my chest and a small elbow dug into my throat.
6:40: dh's alarm goes off. pull annoying radio cord out of wall, dislodging baby. resettle him on his back on the bed, but I know it won't last while his arms are free and he can startle easily.
7:00: baby wakes again, demand more food. stagger to lounge, gently remind dh about turning off his alarm, collapse into the feeding chair.
7:25: change nappy
7:30: grocery delivery comes half an hour before the allotted time slot. whinge to delivery person. if I'd been asleep, it would have been more than a whinge.
7:45: feed baby some more.
8:45: after 1 hr of complaining and rocking by dh and myself, dh walks out the door as I put baby in the chest carrier. silence!
9:00: attempt to ever so gently move sleeping baby out of carrier onto bed to be wrapped for sleep. as his right leg comes free of the carrier, his mouth opens and a huge scream comes out. 0-100 decibels in .3 of a second, what a champion!
9:20: repeat attempt at removing baby. same thing happens.
9:30: begin days' chores fully resigned to spending the rest of my life with A. exactly wherever the hell A. wants.
9:35: discover that it's not so hard to go to the loo while wearing a baby. wonder about showers, though...
and so forth.
11 pm: I go to sleep
0.48 am: wake up to sound of baby thrashing about, half-awake and working up to a feed.
1.15 am: wake up properly. change baby, feed for total of 25 minutes in small blocks. A. doesn't seem to want to settle down to the job.
2.15 am: stealthily wrap baby, place in bassinet beside bed, turn on monitor and go back to kitchen for a snackeroony.
2.18: small noise from monitor. check. baby moving but not screaming.
2:30 back in bed.
4:45: baby awake and complaining.
4:50: cancel nappy change and place baby back in bassinet on cloth nappy. listen to baby squeeze out huge noisy poos for 10 minutes or so.
5:05: change incredibly full and runny nappy.
5:15-6:45: more halfhearted feeding, insterspersed with screaming.
6:00: crawl back into bed with still-awake baby. baby screams, dh gets up for work. eventually rock A. to sleep on my chest, and find it surprisingly comfortable to sleep with 4.5 kg of human on my chest and a small elbow dug into my throat.
6:40: dh's alarm goes off. pull annoying radio cord out of wall, dislodging baby. resettle him on his back on the bed, but I know it won't last while his arms are free and he can startle easily.
7:00: baby wakes again, demand more food. stagger to lounge, gently remind dh about turning off his alarm, collapse into the feeding chair.
7:25: change nappy
7:30: grocery delivery comes half an hour before the allotted time slot. whinge to delivery person. if I'd been asleep, it would have been more than a whinge.
7:45: feed baby some more.
8:45: after 1 hr of complaining and rocking by dh and myself, dh walks out the door as I put baby in the chest carrier. silence!
9:00: attempt to ever so gently move sleeping baby out of carrier onto bed to be wrapped for sleep. as his right leg comes free of the carrier, his mouth opens and a huge scream comes out. 0-100 decibels in .3 of a second, what a champion!
9:20: repeat attempt at removing baby. same thing happens.
9:30: begin days' chores fully resigned to spending the rest of my life with A. exactly wherever the hell A. wants.
9:35: discover that it's not so hard to go to the loo while wearing a baby. wonder about showers, though...
and so forth.
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