It was bliss to have the day off yesterday. It does make a difference to have a long weekend. I went with Amy to the drop-in clinic to have Jake weighed. He is piling on the pounds and is now 9 pounds 11 which is just above the weight his should be on his weight chart. Afterwards we popped rounds Emmas. Her son Samuel is a pet! He was suffering with a cold and was a bit fractious and blocked up. Jake seems to have the loudest and most piercing cry especially when he gets going. He usually starts with small bellows then his whole face goes bright red and he opens his mouth. A few seconds later he will let rip, with his little tongue quivering in his mouth. What a lamb!
We decided to make a day of it and went to Bluewater for late night shopping. It was great to be there without the hordes of shoppers and attendant chavoids. We bought some new outfits for Jake for the upcoming summer months and also Ames treated herself. Jake was perfect all the time, just liying there in his pram and sleeping. We popped into Startbucks for some Chai Tea Lattes and Ames spied a lady feeding her daughter. I think this gave her confidence to whop out the boob and give Jake a nice feed. It was a nice atmosphere to do it with the big comfy chairs and the low-key lighting.
I think, for only the second time ever, Jake slept for six hours straight. This morning he was in the most perfect mood. Just playing on his mat making little happy noises while looking at himself in the mirror. I felt quite sad to have to go to work :-(. I wonder if the sleeping marathon last night was a one-off and whether he will be back to the two hour sleeps tonight. Ames seems to think that maybe he is waking not with hunger but wanting to comfort suck. The test would be to pop in the dummy while in the moses basket. I am reluctant to introduce it as he may become dependent on using the dummy to get to sleep. We will have to play it by ear, I suppose a one-off isn’t going to hurt.