Wednesday 1 November 2006

Rosemary woke up at 6am. She had a good feed until about 6.30am, then I tried putting her back in her crib to sleep, just in case. I thought she might actually sleep there for a bit, but she got more snuffly and awake, so she came out. She obviously did a wee while back in her crib, because she had a large wet patch, which wasn't there when I was feeding her. So we went and changed her and put her day clothes on. She then said good morning to Chris for a bit, while I fed the dog, made tea and changed the battery in her bouncy chair. We then came upstairs to the office where she had a bit more of a feed - more of a drink really - then went in her chair and had a quiet suck on her hands before falling asleep at about 7.15am.

She then slept until about 10.30am. Had a feed, change, feed, change (thought first change was poop, but just wet, then second change was huge explodey poop!). Then we went into town to get some shopping, and supposedly to take the DVD back, except I forgot it. She was awake most of the time, but got grouchy near the end and almost screamed the veg shop down. But as soon as we were moving, she fell asleep and slept all the way home, including stopping into Sunshine for bread and stock cubes. She woke up when we got home, though. She was awake then until 2.20pm, when she had about an hour's sleep, then woke up and had a change and a feed and a little play, then went back to sleep at 4pm and slept until about 7pm.

She then had a good feed and we went back into town to take the DVD back. It was very cold, so she was bundled up in a furry jacket - so bundled that her hands were well inside the sleeves, meaning she couldn't suck her hands at all - and a fleecy blanket. It would appear that she is scared of the dark, as she cried whenever we were out of the reach of a street light. Or, of course, it could have been separation anxiety from not being able to see me.

We came home and sat in the living room watching West Wing DVDs (that's me, really, not Rosemary) and playing and singing and reading, with a bit of feeding mixed in, while Chris watched the footie in the bedroom. Chris very kindly missed the last 15 minutes so I could watch Atlantis, which was a bit of a silly episode, really. Rosemary got changed into her bed clothes during the second ad break and I ate my dinner (vegetable stew, which I cooked while she was sleeping earlier in the day) in bits between feeding her - the last bit was stone cold.

We went upstairs at 10pm, where she lay on the bed and chatted to her reflection in the turtle mirror for a while and played with Chris, while I put out the bins. I then fed her some more and tried putting her down at about 10.30pm, she surfaced a couple of times and had some more 'snacks', then was properly asleep by about 11pm. She did wake at 4am and fed until about 4.30am, then went back to sleep until 7am.