Being Momma G: Day 29

3 nights in a row. Can it be too good to be true?

Sean woke all by himself at around 11.30pm last night, and after the feed and top up, he went almost immediately back to sleep. It was quite late by the time we finished up, so we headed straight to bed as soon as Sean was settled.

Sean woke again at 3.30am, and after his feed, he became a little bit unsettled and Jonathan jumped up and settled Sean, allowing me to go back to sleep. After Sean fed at 6.30am, he refused to go back to sleep, so Jonathan took over once again. Sean was so unsettled that Jonathan ended up feeding him some formula at 8.45am.

I climbed out of bed around 9.30am and breast fed our monkey moo. That seemed to do the trick, as Sean went back to sleep after this. Just as well as we had a busy day planned - we needed to visit Medicare and HCF and the bank, and do some grocery shopping as well as a visit to the hairdresser for Jonathan. We also needed to take Sean to the North Shore Private Hospital for a blood test for jaundice. Today was going to be a big day of errands.

Sean slept the whole way through our wait at Medicare, and at HCF, and at the bank. We dropped into Target to check out a special that we saw in one of their catalogues, and Sean slept through our little shopping side trip. Jonathan and I had seen a package advertised in the Target catalogue that included a Russell Hobbs food processor and electric salt and pepper mills, and upon closer inspection, we decided to buy the package as well as a set of electric scales for weighing food. All 3 pieces totalled less than the normal retail price of the food processor! Sean continued to sleep, so Jonathan went and got a haircut. All up, Sean slept for around 3 hours.

By 12.30pm, we were both hungry and wanted some lunch, and as always, he with the impeccable timing woke up just after Jonathan placed our lunch order at the bagel place at Macquarie Shopping Centre. Sean and I left Jonathan to wait for his meal, and to get mine into a takeaway container, and headed down to the only parents room at the shopping centre for a feed.

After lunch (for everyone), we stopped by Big W to get a window shade for Sean's side of the car. Sean did not seem interested in sleeping at all, so Jonathan carried him for the rest of our shopping trip. While we were in Big W, we also picked up a few other bits and pieces, and as it was nearly 2.30pm, we finished our shopping expedition and headed to the hospital for Sean's blood test.

Once we got to the hospital, the nurses went about getting the blood test done quickly. Sean was due a feed, so I started feeding him while the nurses got ready. Poor little man was not so happy about having his heel pricked for the blood test and screamed when the nurse pricked his heel. Thankfully, the milk calmed him down and we continued with the feed until he was done. Unfortunately, the little man was very unsettled afterwards and cried almost all the way home.

The little man was so unsettled that we fed him some formula after trying almost every other settling technique. The formula did the trick and Sean went to sleep for a while. Jonathan and I were able to enjoy dinner in peace again. Sean must have been so worn out, as he slept through what we thought should have been the time for his next feed (at 8.30pm). My boobs were so full and sore that I had to express a bit of milk to relieve the swelling. 5 minutes on each side yielded 70mL - I remember a time when it took me an hour to the same amount!

Sean woke at 9pm for a feed, and there was still plenty of milk left for him even after the short expression earlier. He still seemed hungry afterwards, so we fed him half of the expressed milk. The long and exhausting day had a major effect on Sean, for he was very very very unsettled and refused to go to sleep. At 11pm, we fed him the rest of the expressed milk, and Sean remained awake and alert and refused to sleep.

After almost 3 hours of crying, we are going to breast feed him again now, and hope that this will settle him down. Both Jonathan and I are exhausted, and we have Mina tomorrow, so please, Sean, please settle down after this feed and sleep for a few hours so Daddy and I can get some rest too.