For the last few nights Baby has been "sleeping through". Now, apparently this term means that the baby sleeps from midnight through to 5am without disturbance. Like most adults, I think of "sleeping through" as sleeping for eight hours. Baby seems to think of it as falling asleep at 9pm and not waking until 6am.
On Monday night, Baby did just that - fell asleep at 9pm and didn't wake up until I woke her up, at 6am. Meanwhile, I was waking up every few hours because my boobs were so engorged. By about 4am I was silently pleading Baby to wake up and make those "I'm hungry" noises. At 6am, I decided I couldn't hold out any longer and fed her.
Last night, I couldn't get her to bed sooner than 9.30pm. Then I woke up at 2am and decided I didn't want to suffer from imploding boobs again, so I woke her up, fed her and put her back to bed.
Truly, I never thought I'd been in a position where I'm waking her up. On purpose. There's a good chance that this will change next week, after Baby's next course of vaccinations (they make her really unsettled). Until then, I reckon my best bet is to persist with trying to get her in bed by 7pm so that I can relieve my boobs before midnight.
5 comments:
far too much information Violet
I'm with kazzer - a little more than I needed to know ;-) And the other thing, you have to be careful 'cause you never know what sort of person you'll attract through a google search for 'engorged boobs'
So many things about motherhood I've never even considered!
Geez, way to pick on a poor defenseless baby..
Hmm...perhaps I should have inserted a TMI warning?
onscreen: if I get some readers who were searching for pictures of extra-large boobies then so be it.
happyandblue2: Baby didn't mind being woken up for a feed. She didn't really wake up, really - just drank and slept at the same time.
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