On week 7 my parents were in Iceland so we got back to life with a newborn without any help. I was dreading it after 2.5 weeks of my parents coming over and helping out with this or that. But we were fine, and it was actually better for Logan.
Week 7 is when I started this blog!
We decided that we would take turns getting up with Logan at 7 or 7.30, as the nights are still quite broken and even if we go to bed early, only getting 2 or 3 hours sleep at a time is exhausting. Typically he would feed one last time around 7.30 then go to bed at 8 pm. He would then wake up around 2.30 am for a feed (but we don't go to bed at 8, we go to bed at 11 pm!), then again at 5.30 and then wake up anytime between 7 and 8.
My best friend Alex from America was over in Scotland for her work so she managed to make time to come and see us, and meet Logan. We had a brilliant day doing... nothing! She needed the rest from her 2 week walking tour of Ireland and Scotland, and the weather was atrocious so we spend the day talking babies (she has a wee boy who's 18 months old) and we went for coffee while Mike watched Logan. The only downer was that she had a cold, and of course Logan caught it.
Well trying to ease a baby's cold is not easy as they can't take any medicine! So for 5 nights in row we would steam him up by one of us sitting with him in the bathroom while the other one would take a shower. Then role reversal, then we would give him his bath. So all in, about 45 min to 1 hour in a steamed up room. That helped a bit.
Another thing that we did and helped, but that we don't recommend doing, is squirting saline solution (i.e. contact solution for example) up his nose. He hated it, but it did help. However for it to work, he needed to swallow some. I had something nagging me at the back of my mind about newborns and drinking water. The doctor (who we were seeing for the 6-week check, at 7.5 weeks!) also asked me if he had been sick when I was telling her about him having a cold and what we were trying to help him. I thought she was asking that to find out if it was something worse than a cold.
The day after he was really sick. Only once, but he brought back a lot of stuff. And again for the next 2 days. And then I thought it must be the saline solution because he'd only been that sick since we'd started using it. At last it clicked with me: babies that age can't digest water!
So DON'T use saline solution to help your baby when he/she has a cold as it WILL come back out, with a lot of food.
I'm glad to say that at week 8 the cold is over and Logan is fine again!
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