We had a terrible night last night. Mia woke at 1am. When I went in she was burning up and not a happy bunny. After a feed she went back to sleep, but only for an hour! This time she did not go back to sleep. After trying unsuccessfully to put her down, I took her downstairs for a ‘play’. Before this I dosed her up with good old Calpol.
This seemed to work as she was much happier. I put her on the floor of the lounge with the nursing pillow surrounding her. I got out three toys and when she got bored of those replaced them with another three. She loves her Elmer ball and takes great delight in alternatively trying to eat it and batting it away from her. This ‘three toy’ technique worked well. Between this and an old episode of Total Wipeout one and a half hours was gone. I thought that by now she must be tired and ready for bed.
I took her upstairs but again she was unsettled. This time I placed my hand on her back while she grizzled. It took about 10 minutes but in the end she drifted off. By this time I, of course, was absolutely shattered. I was due to be up at 5.15am in order to cycle into work. Needless to say this didn’t happen and I spent the day working from home.
While I’m here let’s see what she has been doing. Well, she now says ‘nannannannnanna’, especially when she gets cross! She still says ‘dada’ and ‘hed’. Her crawling practice is coming along. She kind-of pushes herself forwards by manically rocking and kicking her legs out. This takes a lot of energy and she gets puffed out in a short space of time at which time she bellows ‘nannn!!’ or ‘niiiin!’. She has been doing a lot of face pulling. Things like sucking in the lips or my favourite, screwing up her face and blowing repeatedly through her nose.