i imagine you're all dieing to know how our dummy weaning weekend went. well the score is
baby: 1, dummy: 0!!
yes, we are now dummy free. despite all our angst and conjuring of worst case scenarios it went quite well. we're not perfect yet but there is resassurance that if we put our collective minds to something we can achieve good results.
as i said earlier percy went well last thursday and friday sans wrap and dummy. this continued thru the weekend and also monday and tuesday. we had forgotten that this weekend was the change to day light saving time. if so we probably would have conjured up other horrors and put off the wean for another week. i'm so glad we didn't. it's an absolute load off my mind not wondering whether percy has come out of her wrap and lost her dummy. i think i even sleep deeper not having this 'wonder' constantly knocking for attention.
congratulations all 'round!
having said this, there is plenty of room for improvement. little miss still gets two feeds during the nite. the first anywhere between 10pm and midnite and the second anywhere between 2am and 4am. i'd so like to drop at least one of these! she's waking at 5am now too. good god! aren't you still tired little one? i certainly am. she generally ends up in our bed, dozing, waking, pulling our hair, playing with the bedclothes and dozing again until we get her up at 6:30 or 7am.
the last two nites she's woken between 9pm and 10pm with an inconsolable cry. i comforted her while leaving her in the cot, to no avail. once picked up and in bed with us she settles quite quickly. hope this doesn't become a pattern! she isn't hungry as i don't offer her any milk yet she still falls asleep. the feed comes later. is she having a nightmare? is it something i can't think of? is she still settling into the idea of sleeping without a dummy. i'm patient, but only so patient...
so we want more sleep. paul took the option of sleeping on the lounge last nite while percy and i had the bed to ourselves. this also is not to continue! i hope paul is better rested today.
another score:
baby: 0
food: 1
percy is happy to chug away baby cereal now. (yippee!) however she acts like we are trying to posion her if we give her anything else. we've tried; apple, pear, avocado, banana and sweet potatoe. each time she gags and sticks her tongue out, her eyes water, her back arches, her arms flail... if it wasn't upsetting it would be comical.
i managed to get her to have three spoon tips of sweet potatoe last nite by concealing it in a larger helping of cereal. when the ratio on the spoon increased in favour of the sweet potatoe the posioning act started again. of course if i do it too often she doesn't trust me and refuses to have whatever is on the spoon, even if it's just cereal.
we'll have to persist because it will be hard to explain sending her to school with a bottle breast milk and a box of farex.
2 comments:
A couple of comments. Firstly, yay! It sounds like sleep sans-dummy is working out really well. It's funny how tough stuff is sometimes easier than hard stuff. And the ordinary days can be the worst. But... I don't want to rain on your parade, but an early childhood nurse and my brother and sister-in-law say that the absolutely worst habit to get a baby/toddler out of, is the habit where they want to sleep with you. I'm only saying this as a note of caution because you did mention "why did no one warn us about the dummy". The other thing I wanted to say was that Rose would only eat baby rice at the beginning, but we finally managed to get her into real food by hiding it in the baby rice, then altering the concentrations. So I reckon you're doing it the right way. Anyway, loved your post on the bbqs.
Oops, I meant tough stuff is harder than easier stuff.
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