We were sort of getting in to a routine with things these last two weeks, but then again, maybe not.
There were quite a few nights this month when Edward has had a good sleep for the first part of the night and has slept until gone midnight. It then follows that he wakes one more time before getting up for the morning. But more recently we have been back to newborn three- hour bursts of sleep (or rather, three-hour bursts between feeds as each feed/burp/resettle takes about an hour).
Our morning routine has been to get up for breakfast at 7am when Leila wakes, but then Edward will wake either just before or just after Scott leaves for work at 7.30am He'll then have a bit of a wash and change of clothes and a feed before resettling into the sling for a long morning nap. If things go our way, then this nap in the sling can go all morning until lunch time! He's very content in there and it's great for getting out and about with Leila. This week though things have been variable and he's sometimes up when Leila is so needs another small nap and feed before his longer nap. And then this longer nap hasn't been so long!
Bedtimes have been a bit variable too. I feed him to sleep on the bed but last week I ended up falling asleep before he did and then waking up hours later! Ooops! Some nights he settles well. Other nights it takes ages. Other nights still he needs resettling a number of times until I give up trying to spend time with Scott and just go to bed with Edward.
Scott is still sleeping in the spare room as Leila needs tucking in a number of times in the night (she kicks off her duvet and can't figure out how to get it back on her yet). At least Leila seems to be over her cold (which had been causing her to wake numerous times in the night), but she still wakes in the early hours and needs 'Shhh-ing' to resettle until it is a reasonable hour to get up (reasonable is 6am, but she can often get to 6.30am if we're lucky).
We know it's too early to try for a routine or pattern in life, but it'd be nice to just have some idea of what the next hour is going to bring!
There were quite a few nights this month when Edward has had a good sleep for the first part of the night and has slept until gone midnight. It then follows that he wakes one more time before getting up for the morning. But more recently we have been back to newborn three- hour bursts of sleep (or rather, three-hour bursts between feeds as each feed/burp/resettle takes about an hour).
Our morning routine has been to get up for breakfast at 7am when Leila wakes, but then Edward will wake either just before or just after Scott leaves for work at 7.30am He'll then have a bit of a wash and change of clothes and a feed before resettling into the sling for a long morning nap. If things go our way, then this nap in the sling can go all morning until lunch time! He's very content in there and it's great for getting out and about with Leila. This week though things have been variable and he's sometimes up when Leila is so needs another small nap and feed before his longer nap. And then this longer nap hasn't been so long!
Bedtimes have been a bit variable too. I feed him to sleep on the bed but last week I ended up falling asleep before he did and then waking up hours later! Ooops! Some nights he settles well. Other nights it takes ages. Other nights still he needs resettling a number of times until I give up trying to spend time with Scott and just go to bed with Edward.
Scott is still sleeping in the spare room as Leila needs tucking in a number of times in the night (she kicks off her duvet and can't figure out how to get it back on her yet). At least Leila seems to be over her cold (which had been causing her to wake numerous times in the night), but she still wakes in the early hours and needs 'Shhh-ing' to resettle until it is a reasonable hour to get up (reasonable is 6am, but she can often get to 6.30am if we're lucky).
We know it's too early to try for a routine or pattern in life, but it'd be nice to just have some idea of what the next hour is going to bring!
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