Week 4

Something brilliant happened on Week 4. It started with something not so brilliant: Logan was waking up a lot during the night, and every time we were checking nappy, changing if necessary and feeding. It was exhausting. 

So that Tuesday the health visitor came and I told her about it, and what should I do? She suggested putting Logan in his own bedroom as it's right next door to ours and we have a baby monitor. Well since then our nights have been so much better! Yes I worry more than when he was sleeping right next to me in his crib, but at least we're not disturbed anymore every time he squirms so can sleep longer at a time. And the baby monitor is very good, plus both doors are open so we would hear him anyway.

I wasn't going to leave him in our room for the 1st 6 months as recommended anyway: I was going to keep him with us until I only needed to feed him once through the night. As I'm breastfeeding, him in our room was easier as I hardly needed to get up and we had a wee box with nappy changing stuff in it so didn't need to go to his room, where the changing table is. So now I do have to get up and travel a few steps to get to my baby in the middle of the night, but since we sleep better I really don't mind. And we're able to ignore him when he's struggling to fall back asleep after a feed (i.e. when he talks to himself. If he cries then we go regularly to reassure him of course).

Logan was quite sick that week and I was worried that he may be getting Reflux. I am scared of reflux because both my sister's boys have it and she went through hell as it wasn't diagnosed until her first boy was 11 months old. Again Facebook really helped as friends were able to give me some advice and share their own experiences. It was quite scary as over 5 days he vomitted 3 times what looked like huge amounts. Once through the mouth, and twice through the mouth and nose. Poor wee soul he didn't understand what was happening. But I was reassured, and one of the main things to remember is that if Baby has a lot of wet and dirty nappies, then he's getting all he needs. He was just eating too much, too fast and his wee stomach couldn't cope.


Week 4 also saw the arrival of my parents. They would be with us for 2.5 weeks, but thankfully they had decided to stay in a static caravan in a caravan park up the road rather than in our house. That was a brilliant move and I would recommend that to every new mum. As much as it's nice to have help, as a person with a certain amount of pride I found it really hard to let my mum do everything. I was trying to have the house sort of clean (at least hoovered!) every morning before they arrived, or I would give her Logan and do the housework myself. And also as new parents with a baby who at this stage was still not doing nights very well, didn't have a routine, and was still crying without us knowing why, it would have been incredibly stressful for both my parents and us to live altogether in our small house (right size for 3, wrong size for 5!).