\nFirst day on my own with Ingrid. (Eric’s paternity leave ended so he’s back at work.)\n<\/p>\n
\nEverything went reasonably smoothly, including another trip to the breastfeeding support group, and even a bath for Ingrid.\n<\/p>\n
\nKnowing that I had no one to hand off Ingrid to if I got tired, made me more focused and patient with her. It also made me pay more attention – or maybe it was just that I was now obliged to notice her behaviour
\nthroughout the whole day.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn any case, I noticed something I should have picked up a lot earlier: I’m feeding her to sleep almost every time. Either she falls asleep during feeding, and we put her to bed. Or when she’s stayed awake for a while after feeding, she hasn’t been able to fall asleep for a long while, and after a while we’ve guessed that maybe it’s because she’s hungry, and then she’s fallen happily asleep. Either way, it’s already difficult to get her to sleep without a feed, so she’s probably already started to associate the two. Not good.\n<\/p>\n
\nFrom now on I’ll have to force her awake after feeding, somehow. But she is very good at sleeping when she’s sleepy! I have yet to find a reliable and non-violent way of waking her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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