Amy has been looking after my nieces for the week down in Worthing during their school half-term holiday. I have been doing the mammoth commute from Worthing to Staines which means a 5.30am start. Ouch!
Young Jakers has started teething this week and has been rather unsettled. Amy has been frazzled with the extra demands of three young children as well as Jakey but she is doing a fine job. The nieces are lovely but it is added work on top of the demands of a new-ish born!
Jake woke at around 2 am last night with a different type of cry than usual. Instead of the usual constant cry it was a bellow then a few seconds of silence followed by another bellow. Amy requested that I go and see to him as she was exhausted after a long day with the girls. I picked the lamb up and gave him a cuddle before giving him his powders(as recommended by Frones) or as Amy calls them, his ‘salts’. These are in fact nelsons teetha powders, which are completely natural and very effective. As a second line of defence I gave Jake his teething gel. This stage was probably redundant but I was paranoid about Jake’s crying waking the girls in the next room. He still was crying after his powders so I cuddled him which had no effect :-(. I think he had got himself into a state and didn’t know how to calm himself so I popped in his dummy. Actually the instructions for the powders say that they take 10 minutes to have an effect so when we are back home I’ll see if he will calm down himself without the need for the dummy. I stayed with him in his room and stroked his hair until he fell asleep. After maybe ten minutes I popped out the dummy and waited to make sure he was fully asleep before retiring with a Lemsip to bed.
Matters have not been helped by the fact that I have another stinking cold. It has been quite bad with night-time fevers and aching bones. The Lemsip seems to be keeping it at bay. Well that’s all I have to say for now. I hope next week will be more relaxing. 🙂