Sleep Issues

Now, I’m not daft, I knew that there would be what you might call “sleep issues” with a new baby, I was expecting that. I thought it was something I could cope with, and in general I am, but for some reason I was expecting a fair degree of stability.

I thought well he’ll wake this number of times at night, and then he’ll go to sleep easy when he is tired during the day.

So as you can see, I may not be daft, but I am a complete idiot! Read the rest of this entry »

Second set of injections

Not much fun the other day when we took the baby to the doctors for his second set of injections. The first time we hit upon the fact that straight after the injections we stick a bottle in his gob and he calms down quite quickly.

So we were all ready again this time. He reacted with much louder crying as the needles went into one thigh and then the other. As the plasters went on the bottle went in. He gobbled at it hungrily and that really did help him calm down.

Unfortunately while I was holding and feeding him one of his thighs was against me – the one that decided that a little bit more blood than normal was coming out. So there I was a father with his child’s blood on his jumper. We got him cleaned up and covered up again, but this is a first – he’s deposited a number of bodily fluids on me, but this was a first time for blood!

Week 8

So two months down the line and it’s true what people say about your life never being the same again.  I know these are the early days when to a certain extent the baby rules your schedule, but you do end up seeing life as a whole different thing.

And I’m happy with that – not that I was necessarily unhappy with how things were previously but I am happy with the change, and the changes.  I can understand how some people struggle to move from one life to the next and feel frustrated at the move, though I can never understand why they would take it out on the child.

So this week we had the 8 week check-up with the health visitor then to the doctor for some more checks and finally a nurse for injections.  Two nasty looking injections in the thighs were bound to produce tears and screams, but we had been feeding him a bottle beforehand, and we got that straight back as soon as possible and all was good quite quickly!

As for me, the work continues to move ahead, though slower than my conscience feels happy with – though I am expecting for a big push today and this weekend.  And then – more work is lining up!  This CreditCrunchDad may be getting on his financial feet finally!