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Apr. 18th, 2024 08:41 am
Was just going through some photos from earlier in the month and I
continue to be regularly surprised at how photogenic Sophia is.
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Apr. 18th, 2024
Over 6 months ago, back before we started rebuilding the house, we started getting Gideon used to the idea of sleeping in his own bed. Jane would put him to sleep in it, and then he'd come through at some point in the night, when he woke up. This tended to mean we got at least 4 hours sleep in one block, which was a big step up from how things had been before then. And on two or three occasions we'd get a whole night's sleep in one go, which was amazing.
And then we moved into our temporary home for 3 months. Which became 5 months. And it was all a big change, and Gideon was having to share a bed with Sophia, and I'm not convinced we got more than 2 complete night's sleep the whole time we lived there.
And then we moved back home (about 6 weeks ago). And it was all change again, and we ended up with Gideon in our bed a lot. Particularly when he spent 10 days with a horrible cold that then turned into an ear infection that woke him up hourly every night and only improved when his eardrum perforated (the first we knew of what the cause was was when white gunk was all over one of his ears), relieving the pressure and making him a much happier chap.
By which point he was just *used* to sleeping in our bed all of the time, kicking each of us in the head repeatedly as he slowly rotated. So he'd go to bed at 8pm, wake up at 1am, and just come through to us, and commence the spinning kicks.
So on Friday evening we sat him down and said "This is your bed, and that is mummy and daddy's bed, and this is a clock that changes colour when it's time to come through." - and we then had 3 amazing night's sleep in a row, the first time that's happened since Sophia was born almost 6 years ago. And then he had a cold that brought him through with coughing and a sore nose at 1am. But the next day he slept in his own bed. And last night he woke up at 4am, clearly unhappy, so I got into bed with him to give him a hug. At which point he pushed me back out of his bed, gave me a grumpy look, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
I'm beginning to think that this might be a long term change for the vastly better, and sleep will become the norm rather than the exception. Fingers crossed!
And then we moved into our temporary home for 3 months. Which became 5 months. And it was all a big change, and Gideon was having to share a bed with Sophia, and I'm not convinced we got more than 2 complete night's sleep the whole time we lived there.
And then we moved back home (about 6 weeks ago). And it was all change again, and we ended up with Gideon in our bed a lot. Particularly when he spent 10 days with a horrible cold that then turned into an ear infection that woke him up hourly every night and only improved when his eardrum perforated (the first we knew of what the cause was was when white gunk was all over one of his ears), relieving the pressure and making him a much happier chap.
By which point he was just *used* to sleeping in our bed all of the time, kicking each of us in the head repeatedly as he slowly rotated. So he'd go to bed at 8pm, wake up at 1am, and just come through to us, and commence the spinning kicks.
So on Friday evening we sat him down and said "This is your bed, and that is mummy and daddy's bed, and this is a clock that changes colour when it's time to come through." - and we then had 3 amazing night's sleep in a row, the first time that's happened since Sophia was born almost 6 years ago. And then he had a cold that brought him through with coughing and a sore nose at 1am. But the next day he slept in his own bed. And last night he woke up at 4am, clearly unhappy, so I got into bed with him to give him a hug. At which point he pushed me back out of his bed, gave me a grumpy look, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
I'm beginning to think that this might be a long term change for the vastly better, and sleep will become the norm rather than the exception. Fingers crossed!
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