Nine months and one week, this week was all over the shop. We have had on-off sleep at night time, mostly to blame for a snotty nose earlier last week and if you have had a snotty baby before, you know that week is absolute hell. It isn’t as bad as when he was a tiny baby with a cold and he had no clue on how to breath at night that I had to sleep in on my bed in the bouncer (remember that week?). At least despite me walking in and out of his room all night most of the week, he still was able, each night, to stay in his cot and not come into my bed. I always give it around 5 chances, if he goes over that then I am willing to have him with me in bed.

I know you will ask me what I do to resettle him right? Well I try a few things, first I turn him on his side, find the dummy, put it in and pat him. Then if he fights it, I pick him up and rock him until he is nearly asleep then I put him back down. If he keeps fighting it, I will offer a bottle and if he seems unwell, I give him panadol and bonjela. Usually the bonjela helps him drift to sleep, so he must be teething also.

I also have the Gro Ollie Owl that turns on white noise when he makes a noise. It stays on for 20 minutes and only turns on again if he makes another noise. If he goes longer than 5 hours without waking then Ollie wont automatically turn on again.

In other news, I have noticed his development is similar to Aston. Freddie is really switched on and will work out how toys work, how to make them make noise, what to spin, what to push etc. He is crawling around like a crazy guy and picking things up and putting them in his mouth. I don’t want to re-cap it but last week you would have seen on my IG post about me calling an ambulance because he had something stuck in his throat. My best advice to you is firstly to do a first aid course, secondly just call the ambulance straight away at any scary situation. I knew Freddie could actually breathe, but if something lodged seconds later, than I would have missed out on seconds of getting help here. He sorted himself out thankfully and the ambulance was cancelled but what I know about having kids and one that had severe asthma attacks for his first two years of life (Will), is to never feel bad to call an ambulance or go to hospital.

I have had many requests about Freddies food and I promise you I will work on that blog post for you, I just have a super busy week this week but I will get around to it. Freddie hates me spoon feeding him so there is a whole lot of tricking him to put food in his mouth going on, as well as trying to make non-finger-food, finger food!

The worst part of my week (apart from the choking, the lack of sleep and snot) is the fact I have to carry him out of his cot at 2:30pm and into the car to collect his brothers from kinder and school. I feel soooo bad doing this as thats his last sleep for the day.

Oh, he has actually been waking a few mornings at 5:30am! I have a trick I did with Will when he did that and I started it with Freddie. I go in his room, turn light on, put safe toys in his cot and just let him play until 6:30am/7am so I can get a little more rest! Naughty mum!

Freddie is yet to work out his talking noises, this is something he takes after Will about, Will didn’t really speak until he was 2yo, Aston was very advanced in everything.

Freddie has six (or seven?) teeth with definitely more on the way due to his behaviour.

Freddie had his first swing at the playground and loved it! Since I am totally scarred of the HFM incident, I am not yet allowing him to crawl around on the equipment as yet and I find I am dettol-ing anything he touches like a crazy woman!

All up, a pretty good week really. My disgusting baby fringe hair is annoying the hell out of me, why is it so random? Why can’t it be really nice and even bangs? Why does it have to grow in the most obvious spot?

I also think I am ready to exercise now. Not sure if I have spoken about this, but my pelvic floor muscles are shocking and have been since my natural birth 7 years ago and since having my first caesarean, I have a hernia in my belly button so I am a bit of a mess. I get so worried I will wreck my body if I run, jump, do sit-ups but it is time to try and figure out what it is I can do to ‘sweat’ and feel really good. Any suggestions would be great!

FREDDIES ROUTINE

Wake (between 6am-7am) bottle

breakfast (toast, weetbix, fruit)

9:30ish or 2.5hrs after he woke, sleep

wake- lunch

milk

sleep

wake

milk

5pm dinner

bath

bottle

bed (around 7pm)

 

He is usually awake 2.5-3 hours before his two day sleeps.