After our horror weeks of little sleep, my lil Mushroom was being such a trooper since we implemented the swaddle and the night time bath ritual. He was even going into his hammock half asleep and settling himself. I was stoked! We were introducing a 'dream feed' at 10.30pm when I went to bed also to push his wake up time for a night feed to 2ish in an attempt to get him sleeping until 6 again, but that was a work in progress. I was so confident, I was so happy, I was so rested... I was so STUPID!
To recap: we hit the big 6 week mark on Monday, and we had our first vaccination on Tuesday. Which could be why he's being such a grizzle guts. Or a growth spurt. Or both. Whatever it is, snap out of it already! You hit the big 6 weeks, you had a needle, it hurt, now suck it up Mushroom! I thought I was going to bawl my eyes out when they stuck him too, but managed to keep it together and only shed one little tear. I kept thinking if I lose it, then he'll be even worse. They had a little room set aside so I whisked him away for a feed straight away and he settled right down immediately. No reactions and he was calm and alert when we left. We even visited the girls at work across the road!
All day Wednesday the Mushroom was smiling and happy, and I thought that we'd gotten away with zero grizzliness but alas, come Wednesday night my lil Mushroom turned into a monster again. I have no clue what is going on. For nearly a week there, we were doing fantastically. Then boom, enter Mad Max, the maddest mushroom of them all.. honestly! All this fussiness can't be from two little needles, 3 days later?! Obviously I have no idea but he's only catnapping now, for an hour tops, and is grizzling or feeding the rest of the time....
We had our new parent class on Tuesday and they mentioned the importance of trying to get into a routine. Baby loves routine, get them into a regular feed, play, sleep pattern... try to do the same things around the same time every day. Which is what Save our Sleep says, and all other damn baby books. Yeah. I get it. Get into a fucking routine! Unfortunately if you can't get your child to go down for a sleep when he's tired, standing there and sh sh patting for hours on end, then how the hell are you supposed to make a routine work? I mean if it takes me 2 hours to get him down for his 1pm sleep, then am I supposed to then wake him at 4pm anyway? Even though he's only been asleep for an hour? I don't get it. Me and another girl were the only one's who have terrible sleepers... unless the other 10 Mum's were lying. Which, judging by their hair, skin and general alertness, is not likely. I stupidly also advised that we were coming to the end of our sleeping issues. What a moron.
Last night I finally got him to sleep at quarter past 9. 2 hours after his bedtime. He then slept until 2am. Which was great, but then he wouldn't go back to sleep. Finally fell asleep on top of me for about 45mins, went to move him into his hammock, bang. Awake again. That was at 4am. No sleep again until well after 9.30 this morning... argh! I even drove the Juffin to work in the hopes that Mushroom would pass out in the car like he normally does. No such luck. Juffin tentatively broached that maybe it's time the Mushroom moves into his own room but I think that's just a ploy by him to get more sleep as I'd be feeding the Mushroom in his room, not ours... so onto him.
So here we are. He's been out to it for nearly 2 hours. The longest stretch since his 5 hour sleep last night. I was going to head out to the shops and get some Christmas shopping done but I don't want to take my chances on him as he's been so grumpy. I can only hope he sleeps for another hour and wakes up cheerful, grizzle free and ready to conform! I'm the damn boss and he's gotta do as I say dammit!
On a lighter note, we are getting many more smiles now. So that definitely makes up for it! Bit bizarre that he'll be mid grizzle and break out into a full-on gum smacking grin then scrunch up his face and continue grizzling. Just makes me wanna call bullshit on the whole thing but that gets me nowhere... you can't call bullshit on a baby! It has zero effect whatsoever!
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| "I am Mad Max! The Maddest Mushroom of them all!" |
On a side note, I know there's a lot of media coverage re whether to vaccinate your kids or not and there seems to be so many reasons for and against. Either way, there's no guarantee. In the end I made the decision to vaccinate because I have been, my siblings, my partner, my friends, my parents, so on and so on, and we never had any adverse reactions. I have also visited south east Asia where some of these diseases that we're vaccinating against are still a reality. This, amongst other reasons, are why I chose to vaccinate. It's a personal decision, one that I respect, and I made mine.
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