I had a week off work last week. The main purpose of the week was to have another go at nightweaning LB. I'd gone back to feeding him when he was ill and then D was too ill to go to him at night for ages and LB just screams the place down if I go to him but don't feed him, whereas he settles for D, and it all went very 4.30ish again. In the event, ( Read more... )

Weds night ( Read more... )

The No Cry Sleep Solution has a preliminary section where it asks you to think carefully about whether you really do want to change your child's sleep, and talks about some of the pleasures of middle-of-the-night breastfeeding. Yes, I am entirely sure. I really, really do want to change LB's sleep, just as soon as I have enough slack for the ( Read more... )

Will somebody please tell LB that we are no longer on BST?

( Saturday )

I was going to start at midnight of the day I went back to work, but it was a disaster of a night, and that's not actually representative of how my nights are these days, so I'm starting with when I woke up yesterday:

( I went to work )

I have a new camera. A Sony A380, for those who are interested in such things. It's not, perhaps, what I'd have chosen if I was starting from scratch but it takes all my old film SLR lenses, and that pleases my frugal soul. And it's very good anyway. I'm having lots of fun using it.

When I went on the photography workshop, they asked us what we most ( Read more... )

Before I charity shop these, it occured to me that some people might want some of these books from my godly past:

I( Mostly feminist theology from the early 1990s )

I am having a patch of experiencing LB's sleep as very hard to cope with. This is partly because it is actually quite bad at the moment, but largely because I go back to work in 2 1/2 weeks, which is going to be very tough on this little sleep (and indeed less, since I will have to get up earlier).

Since I'm a semi-empiricist, one of the ways I've ( Read more... )

LB was 9 months old on Sunday. A symbolic milestone, since he's now been born for as long as he was gestating (well, give or take a bit, since you're not actually pregnant for the first 2 weeks of any pregnancy, and he was born at 41 weeks). There's a pleasing symmetry to this moment, with his birth as the central point. Or a fulcrum if we imagine ( Read more... )