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Welcome to todays diary entry! We are currently in the midst of one of those really difficult periods of parenting at the moment where his sleeping is just absolutely awful but that is, to be fair because he is pretty unwell. The problem is that he loves his dummy and when he has a blocked nose he cannot enjoy his dummy so he wakes up because he doesn’t have it then has a meltdown in the night. When i say meltdown i mean a full scale 15 to 20 minute crying episode where he is just inconsolable.
He is unwell to be fair but i find it difficult being woken up in the night and not being grumpy. I am great in a morning but not in the middle of the night and then you get grumpy with your spouse then try and not have a barny. You soon recalibrate and realize it is only a 20 minute thing but in the middle of it it feels like an eternity. Although it wasn’t just 12:30 it was then again at 02:30 and then again at 04:30 and after that he seemed to settle but i was up and out at 7am so it definitely takes it out of you.
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What makes it more frustrating is that there is absolutely nothing you can do to try and calm him down even if you try peek a boo or something like popping his favorite bit of TV on he once again just will not settle down. Also made worse by the fact that you cannot communicate properly with him and ask him to tell you what is wrong with him so you can quicker work out what to do to make him better. We also gave him some vicks on his back and on his feet as well to try and unblock his nose.
After that 04:30 bit he slept then like a baby until about 9am and you sit there and think bloody hell…. How is it now I’m at work and the motorhome is fast asleep like nothing has happened just little old me in the cold moving awnings around. That seems to be the time when everyone gets the best sleep once i have left. It must be something that i am doing myself to prevent them from sleeping. Although as everyone always likes to point out we have been so so so lucky with how he has slept pretty much his whole life and you could count on two hands i would have thought the amount of times he has had a bad nights sleep.
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