Mother and daughter get a nap together.
And Dad gets a nap too. This parenting lark is hard work.
Nicola returns!
Auntie Nicola returns from her world travels. You can tell from the tan that her travels focussed on the warmer bits of the world.
Enter the Crying Dragon
I’ve discovered that when Poppy cries, there’s a sequence. After she’s been crying for a couple of minutes, she does a longer cry. It’s more pained and up a pitch, but is still a cry. Then, a quick breath, followed by a silent cry, or at least I think it is. Dogs may hear something, but i can’t. Again, a quick breath, then the cry. It s really high, and sounds like Bruce Lee in a fight scene. From now on, Poppy will be known as Crying Dragon- her Kung Foo name.
The leprechauns made me do it!
The baby sleep yoga
Being a smart baby, Poppy has already invented her own form of yoga- for when you’re sleeping. The three first positions are shown below, and can quickly be emulated.
1. “The chimp”
2. “The disco”
3. “The strongman”
Waking from this form of yoga can sometimes be surprisingly stressful.
More to this than meets the eye.
I think it’s about time I write a short piece on Poppy’s crying. It’s horrible to listen to, especially when you can’t figure out what’s up with her. Let’s face it. Babies eat, sleep and poop. If anything gets in the way of eating, sleeping or pooping then they cry, and Mum or Dad fix whatever it is so that the can get on with either eating, sleeping or pooping.
So far we’ve identified the following cries:
- I’m hungry mum- get ’em out.
- I’m sitting on a full one here- would you ever change my nappy.
- Waaa Waaa Waaaa Buuuuurrrrrpp!
- Hey room service- I’m Too hot / too cold.
- Stop fussing!
- Who the heck are you? Hand me back to Mum/ Dad.
- Hey! Why’d you wake me up?
- A bath? just leave me dirty, ok?
Out shopping this week we met a mum who gave us a cracking piece of advice for when she was trying to get her baby off to sleep.
The hair-dryer.
The sound of the hairdryer comforts babies. It bugs the hell out of me, but for Poppy it relaxes her, and sends her off dozing. Since finding this out, we’ve tried a few other white noise-makers too. The radio tuned off-channel also works- and sounds less annoying.
Deirdie snoring has a similar effect, I’m sure!