…take things I read to do with babies with a pinch of salt, but this time I thought I’d give it a go as I had nothing to lose.
On a site I came across I found a comment, ‘can’t get your baby to stay asleep for long lengths of time?’, very true i thought especially in the night, basically it said that babies struggle going through the process of changing from light to heavy sleep and this is the time when they either wake briefly or scream out like they’re in pain, most people I’m sure do as I did, have an instant reaction to rescue them before they get too destressed, well it said to leave them as long as you knew they wern’t due a feed and just to comfort them and omg it works , in the last three weeks he’s slept like an angel, only waking for 2 feeds at 12.30am and 4am and for the last 5 nights he’s only woken once around 2am.
The only problem I have now is at night I worry about SIDS, the thought of losing him terrifies me, I’ve cried myself to sleep the last few nights and the 2nd night he slept through I thought my worst fears had come true, when I opened the curtains which usually wakes him …nothing, I thought ‘just keep youself together go and see if you can hear and see him breathing’ but I could’t and just as i stood up from his cot wondering if I should touch him the cot creaked and he jumped, I’ve never been so happy.
Its scary to think that something could happen when were asleep and we’d only find out when it was too late. I know I’ve got to stop thinking like this and it is only at night I worry about it ‘cos I can watch him sleeping during the day, but I can’t wait ’til he’s past the 6-12 month high risk age, I know you shouldn’t wish their lives away but its for my own sanity, Im grateful of the extra sleep, I really am but if I could be certain he would be ok I’d sleep so much better, but I suppose thats children for you, always worrying you from the day they’re born all the way through ’til they’re all grown up and it doesn’t stop there I guess.
Anyway on a happier note he’s really smiling now we’ve got some lovely pictures, I’ll have to ask Steven to put some up on the site, he’s trying to sit up on his own too, (thats Andrew not Steven) usually when I’m trying to feed him along with battleing with him to keep his bottle in his mouth, as he’s trying to get hold of it but only manages to pull it out and then proceeds to get upset.
So keep checking back and I’ll try and blog as often as is humanly possible and of course add some very cute photos.
Catcha all very soon x
July 22nd, 2007
Andrews new weight is 13lbs 7ozs.
July 12th, 2007
Andrews new weight is 11lbs 15ozs
June 19th, 2007
Andrews new weight is 11lbs 5 1/2 ozs
June 11th, 2007
Yay, Andrew did his first full night in his own bed last night, waking only for his feeds then settling quite quickly.
This has been a long time coming, well it seems that way when your awake most of the night, (every ten minutes to be precise) then eventually giving up to put him in his favourite place…my chest. The thing is I wouldn’t have been too bothered about him sleeping there permanently but with the weather getting warmer it was time to make the change as its really bad for him to get too warm.
This isn’t to say I think this is now fixed but fingers crossed it will be a bit easier from now on, that and daddy was stating to be in desperate need of cuddles without said child attatched to my chest, sorry daddy.
Andrew had his 6 week check up a couple of days ago and all’s well apart from he has a small hernia under his belly button that we’ve got to keep an eye on, hopefully it will fix itself ‘cos Im not sure I could keep it together if he needed surgery, I had the same thing when I was little and it needed to be fixed and I know its only a small operation but still its our baby and I’d rather go through it myself ten times over than see him go through it.
Anyway on a lighter note, mummy still smiling, he’s becoming more of a joy with each passing day, we saw his first big smile yesterday and it definatly wasn’t wind, a big cheesy grin, I can’t remember quite what caused it, there’s been a couple of little ones since but nothing quite so big and gorgeous.
His feeding is going well too, after we changed him from breast to bottle, a week ago last Sunday, he’s been so much happier and alot calmer in himself. It was a bit of a stress changing over ‘cos I felt like I should be sticking with the breast feeding, you know as you’re told ‘breast is best’ but I was struggling to produce enough milk even with the constant drinking of what seemed like gallons of water each day but I’m happy to say I’ve got over myself about that, with a little help from Stevens mum (thanks mum x) and he’s really loving the bottle feeds, alot less stressful for him too, after all a happy baby is all that matters.
So, alls good in the Culshaw home and were getting into some kind of routine at last but I’m sure just as things settle down it’ll be all change again, hey ho, the joys of having children, I still can’t quite believe that we’re parents and it makes me smile when I think about it, it’s funny really, I always thought that I’d grow old and grey alone, never to be married and never to have had children, just me and my hundreds of cats and all the kids in the street would be terrified of me, how wrong was I, and now… I couldn’t be happier, all thanks to my wonderful husband.
Well, thats all for now, I hope everyones well
Catcha soon
S,C & A ~:)
P.S. Ladies…Theres one thing that your never told about having children, its the fact that your body decides that thats it and that your once sexy underwear is now more like heavy duty scaffolding. Sorry girls, I felt it was my duty to share that with you.
June 7th, 2007
Andrews new weight is 10lbs 10ozs
June 4th, 2007
Andrew’s 5 weeks old today and thankfully sleeping alot better.
Now we’re going up to bed at 8.30pm, Andrews having his feed which takes around 45 mins to get through, feed, wind and settle etc then he sleeps through ’til 3am, now you might think 8.30pm is particularly early for the average adult but then again he’s up for an hour to an hour and a half for a feed at 3am then wide awake again at 6am and when I say wide awake I mean wide awake… ‘no rest for the wicked’ they say, well I must be really wicked.
Andrews awake after his 6am start til about 1pm, now, numerous nappy changes, windings and please don’t stop bouncing me’s later, mummys ready for another sleep but someones gotta keep us in clean washing and my god, this child doesn’t like to be mucky (just like his daddy) and he doesn’t mind tellling you at the top of his lungs.
Now I’ve always loved my sleep but I’m getting used to this not much sleep stuff, a nights uninterupted sleep wouldn’t go a miss though, but daddy still has sleep issues, he now stays awake ’til 3am downstairs so that we sleep but as soon as he comes up to bed, bumph gone and snore OMG! but still a crying windy child won’t wake him.
Well thats all for now , trouble’s due to wake from his power nap anytime now and I’d better finish off before he does.
(Notice how it’s alot longer between each blog now, oh the joys of being a parent …and we wouldn’t change it for the world 
)
Bye for now
C,S & A ~:)
X
May 26th, 2007
Andrews new weight is…9lb 6ozs
May 17th, 2007
We just wanted to say a big THANKYOU to eveyone for all the cards and kind gifts we have recieved to welcome our son Andrew Walter into the world.
Love and bubbles to you all x
S,C & A~:)
May 12th, 2007
We had our local friendly health visitor round last Friday, to introduce herself and give us any ‘help and information’ we need (aka government brain washing).
So how are you feeling after the birth, was it as you expected?,
Well yes general pain and feeling like I was going to split in two and of course the ever present toilet trip flash backs.
Also we were given a red book ‘my personal child health record’ which is ours to keep ’til Andrew is 14 (yes you read it right) and that we can write in but there are some really patronising quesions in there that the health visitor has got to ask us at milestones in Andrews life, for example…
On the 6-8 week review…
Q7 Have you remembered pillows, cusions and plastic bags can suffocate your child?
I’m sorry did i forget that I was really an idiot in disguise.
Q10 Do you use fireguards for fires and heaters in your home?
He’s 6-8 weeks remember, hes not going off trying to warm his toes alone just yet or are babies much more advanced if they are part of the government breeding programme?
Q13 Do you make sure your child is never left alone in a bath or near other water?
Well i was thinking of letting him chill and have a soak whilst I catch up with the house work.
Q115 Do you make sure that you put the tops back on medicines after use and return them to the cupboard?
Er is this just in case he goes rooting for snacks and comes across them when I’m not looking thinking that they’re sweets like crawling babies do when they’re out snacking!
I mean, please???!!!
This book has all these lovely quesions that we have to ‘discuss’ lol… the dog ate my book which shouldn’t be a problem as it is after all ‘our book’ There aint no way that we’re being told how to bring up our baby or what is right and wrong… we know what is right and wrong and it sure aint what is happening out there in the world right now… so… if we’re really bad to him then like all really bad folk we should be killed but until then we will do things our way thank you very much!
Support services = Support … look it up in the dictionary… it’s under S not B for Brainwash, I for Interfere or T for Total-Bollocks.
Bye for now…. S+C=A ~:)
May 9th, 2007
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