Blog about being Mum and everything that comes with it.
Does your baby bang her/his legs with all the power she/he has ????
How does Chloe let me know that she is up, or that she needs feed in the middle of the night? By lifting her bum and legs up and banging it on the bottom of her crib. It is so loud is crazy. The first time she did it I was downstairs and I thought that I had an elephant in the bedroom !!!!!! How do you explain to 4 months old not to it because she can brake her leg ??!!!
Just when I thought that things (I mean nights) are getting better …. they go bad again or even worst …. Welcome to Mums world 😊
What a horrific night and evening we had ! Chloe just kept waking up every few hours crying. I even have taken her to our bed in the middle of the night hoping that this would help …. But no ….
On top of not sleeping and worrying you start playing the famus and most hated game : WHAT IS THE REASON BEHIND IT ?
Nappy ? No
Hungry ? No
Teething ?
In pain?
Had a nightmare ?
Sore throat ?
Belly hurts?
Didn’t poo today can this be a problem?
And we can go on like that for good hour or so …. It frustrates the hell out of me !!!! I don’t mind not sleeping but I hate not knowing !!!!!!
Ps. Yes she was up at 6am smiling like crazy 🙂 I looked crazy due to the lack of sleep
Breastfeeding an Einstein
One of the main stories on the news few days ago was about new benefit of breastfeeding. Aparently it has been proven that breastfeed babies stay in school for longer and get better jobs . Sounds great on top of all of the benefits that we know of … But it sounds great only if you are breastfeeding. What if you couldn’t? Or can’t ? This kind of news would just make you feel bad and guilty … Should we be speaking loudly about it or not? What do you think ?
I have been very lucky. Chloe has been born with my huge appetite which meant that she just latched on to my nipple and didn’t want to let go 😁 . It was very easy but I know how hard it is for some mums and the hell they go through when they can’t do it.
I do not agree with mums who choose not to do it (I am not judging you) I also don’t agree with advertising how amazing breastfeeding is as we all already know it. We should concentrate on how to help mums who want to breastfeed but can’t …
We have a break through !!!!!!
With the most enormous smile on my face I can announce that for the fist time ever Chloe has got up only 1 for her milk !!!!!!! Only 1 !!!!! After getting up every 2 hours for a feed then every 4 hours and then at 4 months going back to getting up every 2 hours we FINALY have 1 feed only ( every 6 hours ) ! I am so happy and so proud of Chloe !!!! Hopeful it means that we are only steps away from sleeping through the whole night ?….
…. If I had to get up only once to feed …Why am I so tired ???!!!! 😊
As you can see on the photo : socks are on ! And they are not going anywhere !
How many times a day do you put the sock back on ? I used to do it 10-15 times a day . How many sock did you loose ? Quite a few Not any more , thanks to some genius who designed sock ons
Brillant product ! As it comes in lots of colours I can match it to the socks that Chloe will be wearing 😁Trully recomend and thank you to whoever invented it 😄
Trying to be the Yummy Mummy while organising christening abroad,organising christening party in UK, getting my driving licence done and planning to decorate the whole house …. It’s proving to be pretty difficult 😄
Before I became a mum I was prabably a workaholic who wasn’t capable of seating on her ass if there was the smallest thing to do. I loved doing things and seeing the end result.
I have adapted very easyly to being a mum on maternity leave, and I love it, love every minute of it. Only thing which I crave is the feeling of accomplishment, knowing that I have done something. On the beginning when Chloe was few days old it was cooking a dinner. Most of the time now it will be cleaning the house , doing and putting away washing, going shopping etc …. Did you get the amazing feeling of achieving something really big and important after cleaning a bathroom when your baby was a month old ?? 😁 (heheheh times has really changed). Chloe is getting bigger and so is my need to complete and achieve things😊 as if being a mum wasn’t enough.
Chloe obviously comes first : keeping her entertain, going for a walk, playing with her and going to baby classes it’s a priority. That leaves me time when she naps, around 20 minutes in between the naps and some time in the evening to do everything what I mentioned above + everyday running of the house + trying to spend some time with my husband ….. As you can imagine it all was proven a bit difficult to achieve 😄
I needed to realise that I am not a superwoman with superpowers (Just a superwoman) .
With lack of superpowers I needed to step back, re prioritise, do one thing at the time and stay focus!
So of we went with organising Christning. Finding lots of restaurants and hotels in Poland while seating in Coffeeshop with Chloe sleeping. Then on her second nap if followed up on all of the RVPS and in the evening checking them and sending emails to all of them. Now because I did it on Friday night it it meant that i had to wait till Monday to hear back. It made me feel soooooo good ! ! !
Now we have to buy light stroller for travelling as I am not doing it again with out everyday pram (nightmare) highchair, travel cot and lots of clothes for Chloe. Get the driving lessons booked somewhere, finalise all Christning stuff and then fit in decorating 🙂
……. I will just have to prioritise 😄
……. One thing at the time 😄
Happy Mothers Day To All Mums ❤
I do have to say that being a mum is one of the most stressful (you worry about them all the time) and wonderful (I can’t stop smiling and my heart is bursting with love) thing ️in the world ! I couldn’t be happier though I haven’t slept for over 4 months ❤️💛💙💜💚❤️💛💙💚❤️
Ps Chloe don’t dribble on my flowers !
I go out all the time, mostly for a walk, baby classes or a coffee, but also (once in a while) to shopping centres, to see some of my working friends for lunch ect. Up until now I was very limited in places I could go to because I didn’t want to take Chloe on the tube (I thought she was to small for this). Somehow train or a bus seemed much more “safe” for a tiny baby. You know less people, being able to open a window etc 🙂
Now at just over 4 months I decided that we will go to west end to see my friends and do some proper shopping. Because I was up from 6:30am (yes Chloe still things it’s a great time to start playing😄) it meant that I could get going by 9am , get to the west end , do some shopping, see friends and get back home before it gets too busy. We have had a lovely day :me because I have seen my friends and did some shopping (I love shopping!); Chloe because she loves looking at everything + I didn’t make her have her naps 😀 (I will prabably pay for it later) .
Only problem I had is : stairs ! why is there so many steps everywhere??!!! Don’t they realise how heavy prams are??!! Shouldn’t we have by now better acces to public transport ?
Oh and not being able to carry shopping with the pram, and needing to think about getting back home. This has seriously limited my shopping (thank god for that 😃)
Advice:
Plan your lunch or your shopping around baby. I always make sure that I have a good plan 😃 shipping is fun but your baby routine and happiness is more important.
1. I leave the house when it’s Chloes nap time. Why? So she sleeps on the journey. I usually wak for 10 minutes before getting on the train which gives enough time in the pram for Chloe to fall asleep. If I travel by car then she would sleep in the car seat as soon as we set off.
2. Plan your lunch or shopping around your baby. I always have lunch when Chloe is due a feed or I make sure that I am in the shop which has a parents room so I can easily feed her.
3. Baby needs some fun even when shopping (I don’t think that at this stage they understand that shopping is a great fun). I always give Chloe brake from the pram. Usually while I have lunch I would get her out of the pram and let her stand, seat, bite or wherever she wants to do. It means that while we are in the shop she doesn’t mind being in the pram. And she loves seeing what’s happening around her !
4. Consider time at which you will be shopping. There is nothing worst than trying to shop and push your pram in a busy shop! Early mornings are the best, being a mum means that we need to get up at ridiculous time in the morning (night more like it) anyway so this shouldn’t be difficult.
5. Make sure you visit more than only baby shops 😊
I am used to disturbed sleep by now. Getting up every 2,3 or 4 hours to feed my little princess – it’s fine My body knows that nower days we are constantly tired 😊. What I’m also used to is being able to sleep untill 8am. For some reason 8am was always making me feel better about my lack of sleep, probably because I could think in my head oh it’s already 8, everyone are already at work and I am still in bed (not thinking about all of the night feeds I have done) .
Now Chloe decided to take that away from me as well as good night sleep !!!!!!!!!!! Now Chloe wants to get up at 6:30am and play!!! Play at 6:30am 😳😳😳 non of my arguments that it’s to early to play are working 🙂 If I am lucky I manage to slee through her talking till 7am …. Good news ? It will all pass …. Soon? Hopefully 😁
So I thought that we cracked the sleeping problem and everything will be now perfect … And it was for a day or two but then Chloe decided that she will go back to being a newborn baby and start feeding every 2 hours!!!!!! How and why??!!! Until now Chloe was eating every 5 – 6 hours at night and was sleeping perfectly in between !!! Why would she change that? 😳😳😳
On the very beginning I thought that she is going through the growth spurt, but after a week of it I guessed that this is not the reason …. She can’t be growing so much !!!
It’s been now over 2 weeks and after another bad night I hit the Internet 😀oh yes again ! I discovered that there is a lot of us with exactly this same problem. Just put on to google: 4 months old feeds every 2 hours and you will have millions of links. My research conclusions : there is lots of reasons it may be happening 😃 (I told you that nothing is ever straight forward with babies)
1. Your milk changes at 4 months and it’s not as fatty as it use to be, because of that baby needs more to stay full or eats more often. That would explain a lot 😊 apparently you should feed your baby more through the day and it will make her fuller at night so she won’t be up so often for the feeds. In my experience it won’t work, Chloe will eat all of the extra on top of her usual 😳😳😳 she also poos so much that I don’t think it stays in her belly for very long time 😁
2. Baby’s are so interested in the surrounding that they eat very quickly so they can explore what is happening. Obviously eating isn’t very exciting so they want to get it done very quickly and eat only the minimum needed to stop feeling hungry. That would be a good explanation as well. Apparently feeding in a dark quiet room should solve the problem.
3. At 4 months they go through sleep regression.
4. It’s normal up until around 6 months that babies wake up a lot and we just need to wait for them to become sleep mature !!
So I will be trying some of it to see if it makes any difference! I will also be begging Chloe to let me sleep a bit more and maybe she will feel sorry for myself and decides to give me a small break.
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