Kecik’s Cozy Corner

Once again, I find myself waking up every few hours to attend to Arianna. I feel as if I am back to those newborn days. Apparently I am not alone in this crazy routine. Many mums in my forum are facing this problem and I really wonder what the cause is. One mum said that her bub’s sleeping pattern turned better after she cut out the custard that she was giving her baby and less sugar as well. For us, we hardly ever use sugar in Arianna’s food plus she has home cooked food for most of the time. I reserve those bottled baby food for when we are out and even then it’s very rare. I still rather scoop a few spoons of the moi I cook for Arianna and put it in a container to take with us. And that is also why she isn’t that fond of those bottled baby food – thank goodness!! We’d be burning holes in our pocket if she was. J

But what I do buy is those fruit purees and dessert like bottled stuff which is a hassle to make a small portion of. And those I give her sparingly too. I try to give her more dairy products like cheese and yogurt as well as fresh fruit. She seems to like bananas and avocado a lot. At first I was a little apprehensive about giving her avocado since I didn’t like it myself but I knew it was good for her so I did. Actually I never really knew what it tasted like and it was all psychology on my part since I associated avocado with all our beauty products hence, I thought it was just wrong to be ingesting! *lol* Guess I was wrong and the first time I fed her that, she pulled a face but I thought I should see it through and now she loves it. And me? After pinching a few pieces from her, I too have come to enjoy that rich creaminess that the avo brings with it. J

Anyway, back to this sleeping problem…..although she goes to bed in her cot at night, she will wake up like clockwork at 11pm for a feed and then goes to bed and up again around 2 or 3am, have one side sometimes and off to bed again. Then up again at about 6 or if I’m lucky, 7am. Sometimes if she gets up about 5am and has a feed, she will sleep through to about 8 or 9 am which is SUCH a luxury for me what will all the waking up I have to do throughout the night. This has been happening for the past 1.5 weeks or so. If Ted is home then I will try my best to get her back into the cot, otherwise, after her early morning feed, she comes into bed with me. I did try to let her self settle but that only got her more worked up and more awake after all the screaming and crying. L

We’ve been thinking about moving her cot into our room for time being seeing that this may just be a passing phase but we haven’t decided yet. I’ve kind of given up on letting her sleep in the single bed for now as I noticed that one time she had almost wriggled herself to the top of the bed and once, she even fell off the bed!!! *Bad mummy since I left on there for a minute to throw out the soiled nappy* No injuries but it freaked me out to the point that it didn’t effect me at all. How bizarre is that?!

So for now, I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that this trend will pass soon as I really miss that baby who would sleep from 7pm to 7am! Where did she go??? Come back bubba!!

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