It’s been ages since he last post now – something I never intended – and it feels like so much has happened…! First of all, I have to let you know that Conrad isn’t colicky anymore, actually not since we had that lovely evening on the 14th (blog entry from August 16). He will still cry, of course: when he’s hungry, bored or tired. (He used to cry sometimes when hiccuping too, but he hasn’t hiccuped much the last couple of weeks.)
We have a bit of a bed-time routine now: after Jessica has gone to bed (Ian puts her in bed every evening nowadays), I change Conrad into his pyjamas and gro bag, warm a bottle of formula for him and then bring him upstairs to our bedroom, where the curtains already are drawn since earlier. The idea is to start ‘night time’ by sitting somewhere darker and quieter, and not too far from his cot, for his bed time bottle. At this point, Conrad’s usually quite tired and it’s a bit difficult to try to persuade him to have at least most of his bottle so he won’t wake up too soon from hunger. I sit on our bed and feed him, and shift position every so often to stir him a little, then after a while I have to resort to more ‘cruel’ methods, like tickling him: under his foot and big toe, on his chin or ear are good spots… When he’s definitely not going to have any more, I wait another 15 minutes, so he won’t stir and throw up, before I put him in bed.
We’ve had a few more nights with Conrad sleeping from 8/9pm to 2/3am, which has been lovely. When he has a feed during the night, he tends to doze off again after having had a bout half a bottle. Like always after a feed, I sit with him on my lap for about 15 minutes before tucking him back in bed.
The last weekend of August, my sister Malin came to visit and became the first of my side of the family to meet Conrad. Malin arrived on the Friday evening, when both Conrad and Jessica were tucked up in bed, but the following day (Saturday 30 August), Malin and I took Conrad with us into London for the day, as Malin wanted to take the opportunity to go shopping in Upton Park while she was here.
A bit of a set up, I must confess – Conrad doesn’t deliberately hold his own bottle, it was kind of placed in his hands…
It was a hot day and the tube and Upton Park area were noisy, so perhaps not the best first experience of London for Conrad. He slept through the journey on train and tube and some of our time in Upton Park, and had a nice, relaxed feed on a bench in the shade while my sister popped into a fabric shop. But Conrad became restless after then – probably bored by lying in the pram and not coping too well with the heat and the noise (some of the shops were pumping out loud music and the streets were bustling with traffic and people) – and started to cry. I walked him up and down the street in the pram, while my sister popped into various shops, but Conrad found it hard to settle more than intermittently. In the end, it was a bit of a relief to be on the train back home to Horley, although Malin managed to get a good amount of shopping done and it was nice for me to be out and about for a bit.
Malin took a few photos of me and the kids while she was here, too:
Gabriella
Just letting you know that I pop in and out every now and then and I’m always cheering you on. The photos on cute Conrad getting bigger by the minute are lovely to see. Great to hear that he’s feeling better!
Ett par uppmuntrande hejarop: Heja heja! 😉
Love,
Mia