8:30 till 8 something

Hi

In my Dear So and So I said how Aaron had fallen asleep at 8:30 two nights in a row which just isn't like him at all but was mucho appreciated.

Those two nights were Wednesday night and Thursday night.

Then Friday night he slept from 8 till 9 on my knee and before I put him down woke up and only went to sleep after I breasfed him to sleep at 10:40.  In cot by about 11 something.

Last night wasn't in bed till about 11:30 p.m.

So I said to hubby today that we only got a glimpse (2 nights) of the 8 till 8 boy but he is back tonight....
and I think today it is because when I put him down at 3:30 for his 2 hour nap, he only slept for about 40 minutes.

Anyway, he'll be up at 8 due to this, so I need to get to bed at a reasonable time so I am ready to deal with an excited 8 month old at 8 a.m. as the day will be full on from then on.

Anyway, I want to get BACK to this blog being a log of our lives as baby and Mummy so I will be doing more posts like this (like I used to).

What is REALLY working for us, is him sleeping on his tummy.

Liska xxx

2 wishes

Hi

Let me get these 2 wishes out of my head and down on blog "paper".

Wish 1.
I would love, simply love, a Cybermummy 2011 sponsor.  Guidelines of what I could do are here.

I live in London so would not require travel or accommodation.  Simply the £100 entry fee.  Contact me by leaving a comment and we can discuss what I can do for you on my blog.

Wish 2.
and I would love a company to send me a pushchair to review, suitable for an 8 month old boy.

I know in the blogging world they are two pretty demanding asks, but I believe in cosmic ordering so just wanted to get those wishes "out there".

Here's hoping,

Liska x

Stunned and Sleep

Hi,

For anyone who has read my regular "sleep" posts.... when he slept, when he didn't and when he did again... you'll know we've always been a late to bed late to rise house...

Well the other day... Valentine's Day actually... Aaron got up at 8 and so did I.  I thought *super* he will go to bed early and me and DH can have our first evening together in 8 months, and how appropriate on Valentine's Day.  Well if memory serves me right, DH went to bed at about 11:15 p.m. as he was to be up for work at 5 a.m. and me and baby went to bed at midnight :-(

But wonders will never cease, last night Aaron was asleep at 8:30 p.m. and slept till 8 a.m. this morning.  Am I going to join all the other Mothers, who have a 8 till 8 baby???? I think it is too soon to dare to hope but it WOULD change my life!!!  I would have an evening where I could have some leisure, or more importantly, catch up on the housework.

Aaron and I normally spend every waking hour together, but if I became an 8 till 8 Mum, wow, that would be wonderful, and with how sunny it is in the morning nowadays, I think it may just happen... I think the bright mornings wake Aaron up.  We have lined curtains but they are not blackout.

Because this 8 till 8 malarchy is totally new to me, when he fell asleep breastfeeding on my knee last night, I thought it was a nap, so I typed one-handed on the internet thinking he will wake after 30-40 minutes.... Got till 10:30 and he was still asleep, so I put him in the cot and he DIDN'T wake  :-0

I went to bed at 11:30, thinking I was shattered BUT I was still awake at 12:30, mind far too alert.  Oh and then when I started to get sleepy my nose was all congested... so I went and tried his Sterimar baby that we got free at a PR event this week.  Squirted it up my nose, and I am telling you, even though it wasn't even the adult version, it was the equivalent of TUNES for the nose... remember the old advert "breathe more easily' well I DID and I then went to sleep.

Sadly, because Aaron had got to sleep a few hours earlier than normal, he hadn't yet had his nighttime bottle, and I didn't want to wake him to do a dreamfeed so he woke at 3 a.m. and I hadn't been asleep that long so I felt like a zombie.  I got up, gave him a bottle and he was still *hyper*.  I then brought him into the bed and breastfed him to sleep.  That compromises the space in the bed so I slept uncomfortably until he woke at 8.  Luckily husband is off today so he got up with him and I slept till 9:30.

Do I dare hope I have a 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. sleeper..... THAT would be like a Lottery Win, and would be an ideal framework to set us up for Mum going back to work.

Sorry there's no photo in this post, which is very unlike me.  I will edit the post later with a photo if I can think of something appropriate.

Bye for now, Liska