Day: 18
Feeds: 3 since 1am
(incidentally he had 8 feeds yesterday, the 'guidelines' say he should be having
5!)
Nappies: 4 since 1am
Hrs sleep: 4.5 (for me, 'love of my life' still snoozing)
I've never been one for doing things by the book. And, maybe this is my comeuppance (as my grandma would have said).
I very rarely turn up on time, if there's a quicker, more obvious way of doing things, even if it's ever-so-slightly illegal, I will. I have points on my licence (because I'm always late, I have to speed), I pay over the odds for concert/comedy/event tickets because I never actually buy them when they go on sale, instead I encourage touts to rip me off through the likes of EBay. The author who wrote 'How to Make a £1m On Ebay'...I probably funded that book alone! And, when it comes to motherhood, I don't breastfeed, I heat bottles/food up in the microwave and I don't boil the kettle 30 minutes in advance so the formula milk hits the water at exactly the right temperature. (BTW, how do the formula milk people figure this out - my kettle does not necessarily boil at the same temperature as the other 30 people living on my road. Surely it depends on the kettle?)
So, doing things within the boundaries of the 'red tape' has never been my thing.
HOWEVER...
When I read the guidelines on the side of the Aptimal box that said something like, 'when your baby is 2-4 weeks old, he should be feeding every four hours', I was positively excited. That meant I could go to bed at 11pm and get four hours sleep until 3am. I couldn't wait, I even treated myself to clean pyjamas. I was so convinced about my four hours sleep, that when the moaning started at 1am, just two hours later I didn't hear him. 'Love of my life' kindly woke me to see if I wanted him to do the feed?! (Why wake me if you want to do it?.
FreddieB then wakes again at 4am for more food and doesn't sleep until his next cry for food at 6am! Hence my early morning post.
Is a breaking all the rules attitude hereditary? Have I created this?
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