It's been a while

I'm back! I'm hoping to be a more diligent blogger from now on. I need to find a subject that I'm interested in I think, so that I feel more incentive to get on the computer and do my posts.

I've decided today to let Ben sleep as long as he wants to instead of waking him up after a 2 hour nap. He's been quite tired this morning and I'm interested to see how long he will stay asleep if I just leave him. So far it's been 2 hours and 42 mins! He has been getting up at 5.30 a lot of mornings though, and his normal wake-up time is 6, so his total sleep is not quite as impressive.

I haven't even blogged on here about Amelia! She is born! My little bundle of joy arrive on 12th September 2011, and she really is a joy! I will have to start a post specifically about her birth, because it was such an incredible experience for me. I will start that today!

Things are going well, she has started to get into a good sleeping pattern now during the day, and usually wakes up twice at night (which I define as around 8pm-6am) which is good. The first 3 weeks she was waking every hour and a half to two hours which was a killer. Now her stretches are more like 4 hours... mmmmm.... Things started to improve when I started putting her on her tummy to sleep. I know midwives tell you you must put them on their backs when they are tiny, but seriously, the night I first let her sleep on her tummy she fell asleep in her crib and slept a 7 hour stretch (8pm-3am!!!). She turns her head during the night and has been lifting her head since she was about 2 weeks, so I feel confident in her being able to handle it.

Yikes, 2 hours 50 mins, can I leave him longer than 3 hours?? Actually, I think I hear him... yep. Ok, bye!