The morning feed routine
Day: Monday
Time: 1:37am
Extra notes: -1℃ = bloody freezing. Dark outside and snowing.
Extra notes: -1℃ = bloody freezing. Dark outside and snowing.
“Ben. Are you awake?” the sound of my voice as I am woken by Thomas squirming in his moses basket at the side of our bed. “What’s he even doing awake! He slept 7 hours last night! It's only been 4 hours..”
Eyes half open, white fluffy dressing gown wrapped around me as tight as possible to warm up, red polka dot cosy toes slippers on, I make my way to the kitchen to make up a bottle. Just to add, I am freezing cold. Meanwhile, Ben is upstairs, getting Thomas out of his moses basket to go change his nappy. I hear this “aaaaa” noise coming from Thomas as he has woken up in a chatty mood at 1:37AM !! We are kinda used to this now. Broken sleep is our new thing haha.
Heading back upstairs, still half asleep, I have successfully managed to make a 6oz bottle using our FANTASTIC Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep Machine, bottle was already sterilised waiting for me, the water tank on the machine was full and the 6 scoops of formula all measured out in our little pot thingys, were all waiting for me. All I had to do was push a button and shake the bottle to make sure the formula dissolved. Easy-peasy so far right?
Welcomed to cooing and smiles from Thomas, I lift him into my arms for a cuddle to make my way to the chair in his room to feed him, Ben just lets me know that his eye needs bathing as its all gunged up. Yes. Gunky eye is a thing. Poor little guy couldn’t open his right eye.
Ladies, have you ever gone to sleep with mascara on and then woken up and your eyes were all stuck together? If you have then that is what I imagine it to feel like to a baby. Bloody awful.
Bathing his eye with a cotton pad soaked in warm water, Thomas could not keep his legs still, wriggling all over the change table, so I got it done as quick as I could, dried his face off, then made my way to the chair to feed him.
2oz of milk down. No burps. No farts. Yes that is what you want your baby to do while feeding them . I get up and ask Ben to take over, as Daddy seems to get better wind up from him and within seconds, a huge belch comes out of someone so little. It must have hurt him as he cried a little, then the hungry little chunk wanted his bottle so made his trademark noise. The pathetic “ah ah ah” noise. Well that's what we call it as there are no tears and it isn't a cry.
Ben finishes giving him his bottle. Over the shoulder for one last burp and YES he crashes out. BUT that is for seconds, and we hear him crying and fussing while he is trying to head-butt Ben or nuzzle into his soft dressing gown. Either way he was not a happy bunny. This then means a few minutes to an hour (depending on how Thomas is feeling and whether or not he wants to torture mummy and daddy) pacing his room, landing and our bedroom while he relaxes and goes to sleep. We then resort to putting on the blue stars and moons projector, lighting up our bedroom ceiling, well the whole room, so that his eyes get tired watching the star lights move. This works but we also use white noise video on YouTube and play it near his moses basket so he can hear the constant “whooshing” noise, which is meant to sound familiar, like he is in my womb.
Thomas is laid in the basket. Ben wraps his blankets round him, trying to get him to put his arms down to swaddle them in too. Sometimes this is a fail but this morning it was a success. Time for mummy and daddy to go to the toilet, get a drink of water and then go to bed. This means we leave the room for 5 minutes or so, and Thomas is STILL awake, but just laid fidgeting in his moses basket. No crying.
Back into bed we get. Oh this feels like heaven. It's so warm, toasty, relaxing, sile….. Yeah not silent! We then lay in bed, while Thomas makes his “ah ah ah” noises and fidgets listening to him, wishing he would just go to sleep and be quiet so we can sleep. I then realise Ben is fast asleep before Thomas, so then that leaves me wide awake listening to the baby, whooshing white noise and watching the blue stars on the ceiling so I go to sleep.
Day: Monday
Time: 2:26am
Extra notes: Mummy, Daddy and Thomas all in bed. Mummy wide awake. Daddy fast asleep. Thomas half awake half asleep. Mummy thinking when the next wake up will be, and it was 6am as Ben was leaving for work, so not too bad. I managed to get some sleep.
Extra notes: Mummy, Daddy and Thomas all in bed. Mummy wide awake. Daddy fast asleep. Thomas half awake half asleep. Mummy thinking when the next wake up will be, and it was 6am as Ben was leaving for work, so not too bad. I managed to get some sleep.
Love
Kelley-Jay Louise M
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