Out of Character, Out of Routine?!

Julien has proved to be hard work these two days. If you never believed in the fact that saying something affirmative can jinx things, believe it now. Right after my entry of how Jules has fallen into a routine, he goes straight into getting out of routine. 

Yesterday, we did not manage to get to our routine in time, because we came home later than his nap time (4pm). He was fretting a bit, when we were still out and I knew he was tired. The minute I put him down at home, he fell right asleep. But he would not stay asleep for long. He woke up about 45 minutes later. And would sleep no more after that.

I tried again after feeding him and giving him his bath. And still he refused to sleep. In fact, he seems full of energy and would protest by crying once put in his Moses basket. He seemed to want to be carried or be engaged. So, for a while, I played peek-a-boo with him and other games. And he was giving out peals of laughter. I was afraid he would be overly stimulated and would find sleeping even harder, but it was jolly good fun and so nice to see him so happy that we played a while more.

But even the mum with the best intentions could not last forever. And before long, I was tired out. I wanted some time to myself in the evening, and I have grown quite used to that "me" time, so I was really a bit put out that Jules suddenly wanted so much entertaining!

In the end, he only fell asleep around 1am after his formula feed and I was thoroughly exhausted.  And he slept for a stretch of hours till near to 5am, then waking up for his feed. And after that, it was just trouble through the early morning - he woke up almost hourly and wanted to be fed the whole time, until I gave up sleeping altogether after the feed at 9am. and for the rest of today, I felt like I had burning eyes and a rather irritable mood indeed.

And I am just praying that tonight will be better. At 4pm, I popped him into his Moses basket for his nap. He fell asleep after a bit of a protest. I almost wonder if he is objecting to his Moses basket now, or perhaps he doesn't like lying down anymore?  But again he did not sleep for long and was up about half an hour later. And it felt like yesterday all over again, as we went through the same rubbish ...

He just would not stop crying unless he was carried! And we went through so many attempts to feed and not doing well - it felt like he was snacking, since he would only take a little each time and would not have more, but then would be hungry again in a short while.

At 12 midnight, after lots of playtime, he finally fell asleep after a feed and out of exhaustion. But it was a fretful sleep - he kept emitting bursts of crying while asleep. And I thought I could decipher his cries... these 2 days of crying have left me baffled. Sigh, there are still lots to learn yet! Now, I am climbing gratefully into bed, and hoping really that he would sleep better tonight, so that we can all catch up on our sleep!