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Friday, January 6, 2012

New year, New start.

Well, since my last post I'm pleased to say my mood has improved immensely! Things are certainly looking up, and I'm determined to stick to the changes i have made and the new routines we have.

I am actually buzzing with excitement over how things have improved! I've been keeping a record book for Isabelle for the past two days, where i have literally written down everything we've done IE Activities, baths, nappy changes, naps, medication as well as writing down details of what sort of nappy's we are dealing with and how often she's sick.
I'm doing this for two reasons. 1) So i can look back and see if theres a pattern between different things and how well she settles etc. 2) So that if she is particularly unsettled (as she has been lately) i can take the book to the hospital with me to show how often she's being sick etc.

One thing i have changed during the day, which has made an incredible difference, is I've started to put her upstairs in her crib for proper naps. I used to put her down in a crib in the living room, and she never settled, but i think she's used to the fact that her bedroom crib is where she goes to sleep now. It's working brilliantly! Before, i was lucky if i got 20 minutes to myself during the day, now, I'm getting an average of 90 minutes throughout the day with her being completely settled upstairs.

Two other things have changed too. Isabelle is really good at sleeping through the night, and has been for about the past 10 weeks now. When she wakes in the morning, i used to feed her and put her back to bed and try and get another hours sleep myself. I have now stopped doing that, i put her back down for another sleep (and on average she does tend to go for about another hour) but i get up and dressed and crack on with housework. I have found that this completely motivates me for the day ahead, and it means that even if she doesn't settle well for her naps later on, I've still at least had some time to get some jobs done.

Tonight has been a different night for us too. Adams been out (he's just got back) and Isabelle has spent two hours with her Nanna. I fetched her at 9pm and got back at about 9:30. Usually we spend the evenings with her downstairs, we bathe, feed and change her and get her ready for bed, and then just let her sleep on us until we go up to bed. I know this isn't a good routine to get in at all, but we've found the thought of her being upstairs on her own really difficult. We have some baby monitors, but we cant quite get them working properly yet. I am determined to start to get her into a proper bedtime routine now. Tonight is the first night i have put her upstairs and left her. We have just taken her breathing monitors back too, which has made me feel a little nervy again but her breathing has been fine so I'm sure i have nothing to worry about. She took about ten minutes to settle, but nodded off at 10pm. It is now 10:46 and its a case of so far so good! (literally just after i typed that she's started squeaking. Adams gone up so we'll see if he can settle her back to sleep).
The monitors we have are video ones. We've just about managed to get the picture working, its very 'crackly' though, and theres no sound. So we have all the doors open and we can hear her pretty easily.

I'm doing really well with my diet too :) I am literally so happy at the minute. I haven't seen the house looking this good for a long time, and I'm not struggling with it at all. Every time she settles, i crack on with some jobs and its looking fab. I been cooking nice dinners for Adam and I each night this week too. Having that bit of extra time while baby is settled means we can have better meals than just having to grab something quick, as quick food always ends up being unhealthy food!

So things are going really well! (She's asleep again now by the way).

Love love love from a Happy Mrs Elce :) xx

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