Random Updates

So – what’s happened recently? Well, Jack has had some bad nights and some good nights. The bad nights have been where he’s cried until fairly late and then ‘grizzled’ between crying. The good nights, or should I say ‘night’ in the singular rather than the plural, was night whereby Jack went to sleep around 10pm after a feed and only stirred around 12am but stayed asleep until 6am when I had to get up and go to work. 8 hours straight! Blimey – he’s 4 weeks old and already sleeping longer than I do!

Jack is also 4 weeks old now – it seems like he’s much older than that when we look at him, but then looking at the calendar it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, we were bringing him home from hospital! When I got back from work on the Wednesday that made him 4 weeks old, Claire had dressed Jack in a pair of black/grey/white urban combat-style jeans and matching t-shirt, as opposed to the baby-grow outfits that he’s worn every day so far. The jeans and t-shirt combo instantly made him look more like a person than just a little baby.

I have the whole week off work next week, which is great in one sense, as time off always is, but Claire is actually looking forward to having a few nights that I can look after the baby when he cries and wants feeding! Doh! To be fair to Claire, she has let me sleep whilst she tended to Jack in the night, as I have been going to work. During the weekends, I’ve tried to help.

Swaddling – Claire’s read in a book that as of around 6 weeks old, babies shouldn’t be as tightly swaddled at night to sleep. At the moment, for those of you that don’t know, we ‘swaddle’ Jack, which means that we lay him on a triangular shaped blanket and tightly wrap his arms in towards his body, which not only keeps him warm at night, but it stops him flinging his arms about in the night, which tends to wake him up in a state of panic! I kid you not. But as of around 6 weeks, there’s the worry that they’ll overheat, and so the swaddling can carry on, but only half-swaddling, as his arms need to be free. I just hope that he will have grown out of the arm-flinging thing!

Watch out other drivers, Claire is back on the road! Claire called her insurance company (as they’re not paying me for an advert on this blog, I am therefore not going to tell you who her insurer is!), and they told her that providing her doctor had not said that she is unfit to drive yet, they’re happy for her to do so. So, Claire then booked an appointment to see her doctor, and must have flashed a little leg or something, as he’s allowed her to drive again. Being cooped up in the house must be bad enough, but when there’s a car outside doing nothing but you’re not allowed to drive it, must be like being a 17/18 year old lad again who’s not allowed to drive their parents car!