It works!

12:30 am and the boy child, once he had finished feeding and had a change of daks was firmly wrapped and placed in bed awake.... He snuffled a bit, adjusted his sleeping position a touch, sucked on the dummy a few times and "Voila!" he slept for the next 7 hours.

Woo Hoo!

I guess that the proviso is that it works at night, when it's really dark and quiet.... And he's not too tired... sounds perverse that it's easier to get to sleep if you've only just woken up.

I've just popped him down for his 1st morning nap. I tried just popping him in the cot and leaving but he lasted 2 minutes when he politely coughed "excuse me Mummy, I need the dummy please". So I've reinserted the dummy, patted him gently on the tummy for a minute - I swear... just 1 minute - and he's off to the land of Winken, Blinken and Nod.

I repeat, Woo Hoo!

Speaking of Winken, Blinken and Nod is it because I'm a book fiend, or a woman or a mother that I remember all those bedtime stories, and nursery rhymes? For those of you who don't know Winken, Blinken and Nod is a poem by Eugene Field, a delightful little bedtime poem... you should read it sometime.

Well given that the boychild is asleep I must get to a little work, and a little rest... I'm entrenched in a new book, rather it's not newly published but it was a birthday gift. It's The other Boleyn girl by Phillipa Gregory. I've not read PG's work before but it's not bad. It focuses on Anne Boleyn's sister Mary and her dealings in the court of Katharine of Aragon, her relationship with Henry VIII, and the fulfilling of her sister's ambitions. The problem is that I'm going to have to review my Tudor history to see where the lines of fact and fiction meet... maybe when I've finished the book, though I already know how it will end. Off with her head

Shhhh... The baby is sleeping

How do you tell the native wildlife to "kindly shut up or move on elsewhere" that is the question?
It's easy with the humans, just put a little note on the front door to please be quiet, bargain with the workmen who are digging and drilling on the street to do our section first and move on to the neighbours.

We've begun the interesting exercise of teaching the boy child how to fall asleep, and some may well say"about bloody time". He's 4 months old so we can't really do controlled crying (confession: we tried it for about ten minutes and couldn't hack it any longer), so we're doing a modified "controlled comforting". 4 days in and it seems to be working.

Night 2 was amazing, the local ringtails on their nightly rounds knocked over a potted plant - rather some potted bulbs that haven't sprouted yet.... Thanks J & I! - spreading the dirt and bulbs halfway along the front veranda. I thought it was something in the bathroom falling over again (toothbrush holder on a suction cup that regularly makes a bid for freedom only to find it can't walk) and when I found it wasn't I went out into the night to check out what was happening. There they were ... 2 ringtail possums.... By the noise they make at night bounding up and down the colourbond roof I was sure they were brushtails... But little ringtails they are. The man of the house and I actively encouraged them to move on and I picked up as much dirt and bulbs as I could to repot the next day. We came inside and to our utter surprise he slept through it all. Sigh of relief.

The cat napper.

Some babies sleep for more than an hour during the day between feeds -- but do you think Tim does? No. He's really good at sleeping for 30 minutes then waking up bright eyes and bushy tailed ready to play again. So this by definition is a "Cat napper" -- no solution to this other than to live with it.
On the up side, he sleeps and settles very well overnight. So we shan't complain or get worried, but just make the most of the 30 minute breaks during the day.

Blog this!

Well, we've made it into a blog -- so hold on tight. We're going to comment on life with a little boy, what he's up to and what we're up to.