GiGi Was In Town

Well Ruby has had quite the exciting first few months of life with visitors coming and going to meet and play with her. The last visitor we have had was Ruby's Great Grandmother or Gigi we have decided. Lola was in town for a week and we showed her the sights and had a lovely time. 

Ruby was weighed again and put on another 300grams. She is now 3.9 kilos and the midwives have said dont bother coming every week we can cut it down to a fortnight for weigh ins because she is going fine. She has almost caught up to where she should be (newborns should put on about 150 grams a week average) and she seems to be thriving. New formula seems to be working but I think it is making her very gassy so might invest in some wind drops on those fussy days. 

We now have the night time feeds down pat. Since Ruby was born it has been a struggle to get her down at around 7pm. Lots of crying (on both our parts) and then by the time she stopped screaming it has been 3 hours and its time to get her up again for her last feed of the night at 10.30. Now I have instigated a routine where Ruby bathes around 6pm, get her last bottle in her room at 6.30 with nice dim lights and no noise and then she gets put in her cot and she drifts off to sleep. I no longer wake her at 10.30 for a feed as she is going strong weight wise and she sleeps straight through till midnight -1am. Feed her again in her room with dim lighting and then she sleeps straight through until 6-7 am. It has gone from one extreme to another. You can put Ruby in her cot wide awake at night and she will know its time to sleep and drift off. Sometimes a bit of crying but no longer then about 15 mins. 

The days however, she will not sleep in her cot! She will sleep in the car, in the pram, in the swing, in your arms and even just sprawled on the lounge chaise. If she is fast asleep and you pick her up and put her in the cot within 5-10 mins she wakes and just loses it! I have now tried everything and am just letting her cry herself to sleep ( Ruby if you are reading this when your older, I'm not a terrible mother!)  She is so stubborn and can cry on and off for up to 3 hours when then again she needs to have her next feed and so on and so forth. I put her down (asleep) at 8.30am and it is now 9.23am and she still has not let up. She needs to be up at 10.30am for her next feed. I will persist with this because she needs to learn to sleep in there during the day because at the moment I have no day naps and am exhausted and  unfortunately she will start daycare for a few days in January when I return to work and she will have to learn to sleep there too.