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it’s already 12.30 and matt still seems like he doesn’t have any plans of going to sleep. he slept a bit this afternoon that could be why he’s having trouble sleeping tonight. it’s so frustrating though cos he’s fallen asleep while nursing but he wakes up a couple of minutes after latching off. i feel all touched out from all the carrying and nursing, i just want to go to bed!!! we gave him a bottle and now my mum is trying to get him to sleep. lucky it’s a long weekend and my brother and cousins are coming over, i get to have a break from all the carrying!

anyway, good news, we were able to get tickets from expedia and we are flying to LA on thursday! it’s very good timing cos we get there on the 27th (they’re a day behind) and that’s my MIL’s birthday. my birthday is on the 28th so i get to spend it with matt and butch. i’m really hoping that matt isn’t difficult on the way there.

as i’ve mentioned in this post, i have bought a few stuff that i thought would help in taking care of matt. if only i knew formula was the answer, i wouldn’t have spent all that money! LOL

anyway, i’m selling some of the stuff on ebay. it’s probably better to sell them rather than let them gather dust in the cupboard, at least i can get some of my money back!

• hug-a-bub baby sling carrier
• safe-t-sleep sleepwrap prem/pram
• 2 x snug-as-a-bub swaddle wrap small

i bought a baba sling as well but i don’t want to sell that yet just in case i find it useful for when matt and i travel to LA later this month/early next month. there’s so much stuff available out there for babies, i’m sure sleep-deprived mums like me buy anything and everything just to help make their bubs sleep

yesterday was a pretty good day, matt was able to sleep during the day for periods of 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. at around 6.45pm he fed and then i tried to settle him but he wouldn’t have any of it. at around 8pm i gave up with the settling cos he seemed like he was hungry again so i fed him again, after feeding i tried to settle him for about half an hour and again nothing! i was thinking and dreading that my new settling method might not be working anymore, after only a day so anyway i got tired from settling matt so i got butch to carry him and try and rock him to sleep. at around 10pm he was still awake but quiet. we moved the bassinet from the lounge room to the bedroom and matt started fussing so i fed him again up until 11pm.

anyway i tried settling him again (i didn’t want to waste my efforts with the new method by rocking him to sleep) and finally at 11.20pm he slept. i had dinner at around 11.30 and then stayed up until around 12 and decided to go to sleep just in case matt wakes up to feed in a couple of hours. when i woke up butch was still awake so i thought maybe it was only around 2am, but when i looked at the clock it was already 4.30am!!! matt had been sleeping soundly since 11.20pm

he woke up for a feed at 5.40am which meant for the first time ever, he slept for 6 hours and 20 minutes! after feeding i put him back in the bassinet and wrapped him (while still awake) at around 6.30. i haven’t tried to go back to sleep in case he needs settling, but it’s already 7am and he hasn’t made a fuss yet so fingers crossed he’s gone to sleep by himself i just checked on him and he has gone to sleep! yey!!

i’m really optimistic about this new settling method. i guess the only reason why matt wouldn’t settle last night was because he was cluster feeding and preparing himself for a good night’s rest. i hope tonight (and onwards) he’ll sleep like this at night, so that we can both get some rest i’ll just have to remember that if he won’t sleep in the early evening, then that probably means he wants to cluster feed.

matt really cannot settle on his own! LOL matt and i went to the breastfeeding clinic today so that i could get some tips on feeding matt. when it was time to put him to sleep he just wouldn’t settle! even the nurse admitted that she felt like she hadn’t done anything today, so she kindly booked us in for a day stay on the 13th of march.

well we’re home now and i’ve tried some of the techniques that the nurse taught us. matt is still not settling by himself but he isn’t crying as much as he did while at the clinic. i think it’s because he’s more familiar with the bassinet and also maybe because i put a worn shirt over him as a blanket (the nurse’s suggestion lol).

i’d better go now cos he’s crying again!

whoever coined the phrase “sleeping like a baby” obviously doesn’t have any kids. tomorrow matthew will be one month old, and yes i have been sleeping like a baby - not getting any decent sleep! matt has self-settling issues but at 8.30am today he settled on his own!!!!

he woke up this morning crying, we co-slept last night because i was too tired to have to get up and feed him and do the whole wrapping-rocking-laying down the bassinet routine. anyway i had a pretty good sleep but when he woke up he just wouldn’t feed while we were lying down. so i fed him in the cradle hold and he was feeding pretty well.

at 7.50am he finished feeding and yawned so i wrapped him up, expecting a violent reaction but there wasn’t any so i thought i might as well follow that sleep group paper that the nurse gave me yesterday. so i left the room and surfed the net for a bit and at 8.12am came back to the room hoping he was already asleep. when i get back, sh*t! he’s got hiccups! so i sat quietly next to his bassinet, and was waiting for him to cry so i can try patting him to sleep. i didn’t want to look over his face just in case he decided he wanted to be cuddled. so i sat and waited and at 8.30am he is already asleep! i couldn’t believe it LOL

well it’s already 8.45am and he’s still asleep. i’ve checked on him twice (sneaking in quietly of course) just to make sure i’m not imagining it and yes he is still asleep! i’m so happy hopefully this isn’t just a one-off thing hehe.