Thomas is teething at the moment. Our poor little boy has a big tooth on the bottom left that's just cut through the gum and then there's another one above it and one on the other side too..no wonder he's not sleeping and gone off a lot of his food! He loves eating sweetcorn, peas, baked beans as he can pick them up with his fingers and they're pretty soft to eat. He gone completely off banana (his most favourite thing ever) and when at home just picks at his food, luckily when he's at nursery he's still eating lots! Tammi (his key worker at nursery) is always writing how much he eats and how much he loves to eat and that he has to climb on everything!! He is also her little shadow...very sweet! He has started to sleep a lot during the day (sometimes two and a half hours!!) as he's not getting enough at night, bless his little heart his teeth are hurting him so much that he's not sleeping well. We don't want to keep giving him Calpol or Medised every night but at this rate it's all we can do to make sure he gets the sleep he needs. Last night for example he went to bed at 7.115pm and woke up at 10.15pm and it took us nearly two hours to get him to sleep. We put Bongella on his gums and even gave him Calpol but he just wouldn't stop crying, he eventually wore himself out and we were able to get him back into bed at just after midnight. It's pretty tough at the moment as I'm back working full time and Simon's very busy with trials and totally stressed out at work so we both need our sleep too. We're going to bed by 9pm most weekday nights but we're still totally shattered when we get up in the morning as we've been up such a lot in the night. Fingers crossed these teeth will settle down soon and we can all get a good nights sleep!!
Some photos taken this week:-
YUMMY..I love baked beans!
I don't want the toast..just them lovely beans please mummy!
Sad little boy this morning, even though he was playing with my hair drier and making all the noises. New way of reading a book..on top of the table!
Sitting in his favourite chair snakcing on raisins, apricots and cranberries.
2 comments:
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Stella,
Don;t worry about Calpol in fact try Aclpol NIght R has not yet had a week without it since he has been born. And I found Bonjela is not good try Denitnox...R seems to teeth badly too he has had fever and heat rash...! I asked dr about giving so much paracetamol and they said as long as its every 4 hours and the minimum 2.5 ml its ok. There are many people who take that daily so don;t worry. He won;t get used to it but will thank you when he sleeps deep and is able to eat again etc.
As for sleeping yourselves we have gone through all that too..last night I was sleeping at 8pm. One does what they can don't we?
XXXX TO ALL OF YOU HANG IN THERE!
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