Changing Bedtime

For a fair while now Baby Bear has had a bath at six, bottle at six thirty and bed anywhere between 7-8.30pm, depending how long he fights sleep for. This last week has been particularly bad, he simply refuses to self-settle and needs me to hold his hands and pat his bum until he falls asleep, for anywhere up to an hour! He's suffering horrendously with the 4 month sleep regression and wakes anything up to 10 times a night, but the last three nights have been better, am just crossing my fingers it stays this way.
Tonight I thought I'd try putting him down earlier, as bedtome really couldn't get any worse, bathed him at 5.30, bottle at 6 and bed for six thirty. He was asleep in minutes. WHY DID I NOT TRY THIS BEFORE???? IT IS SUCH A SIMPLE SOLUTION!!!!!

He's still asleep now, at 21.20 *touch wood* and I am praying for a good night. For my own sanity.

So, back to weaning. BB has had nothing but homemade purees from the start, but yesterday he was out so I tried him on an Ella's Kitchen Apples, Pears and Babyrice pouch. The first thing that struck me was how smooth it was, a completely different texture to homemade food, almost like yoghurt. He wasn't keen for the first few mouthfuls but took about a third of a pouch. For around 99p a pouch and only making 3 servings for him, it would be too expensive for me to buy baby food on a regular basis but for emergencies it was fine. I like Ella's Kitchen as it was one of the only brands that had no additives, just the three ingredients listed. I was slightly worried today that he wouldn't be keen on his normal food after tasting packets, but luckily he was fine.

Praying Baby Bear sleeps well!
xxx

Night of the Living Dead

Do you know what happens when Mummy Bear has to get up all night?

She becomes a walking zombie...

She shuffles through her housework, tripping over her feet and taking twice as long....
She puts handwash on her toothbrush,
Nappies in the fridge,
Milk in the mug cupboard,
Forgets what she's saying half way through a sentance,
Dresses BB in bizarre outfits...

What happened BB? You were sleeping through the night? I thought I'd finally cracked it! I was beginning to feel human again, then all of a sudden I was waking every hour to put your dummy back in, we went back to nighttime feeds and MB went back to the walking dead.

Missing her sleep
xxx