Work It

This week has been the husband's first week back at work - I was very lucky that he was able to take four and a half weeks off work.

Monday went well - I got up around 9 and we headed out to do some groceries - I wasn't sure how the baby would go, because if she isn't in my arms or asleep then she is usually cracking it, but she had a delightful time sitting in the baby seat of the trolley. We also went to the chemist (to get ear plugs for the husband so that we can all continue to stay in the one room together at night) and the shop assistant thought she was a boy - I told her she just looked like a boy in her tracksuit. I managed to do some washing and tidying and had finally got her down at 7pm when the husband got home.

Yesterday I went to a work friends house just after lunch - she meets up with a group of mothers from their prenatal yoga class each Tuesday. It was pretty amazing to suss out these giant babies (born from January onwards) - not only how much bigger they were, but also how much more interaction (smiles and laughs!) and development (laying by themselves! self settling for naps! holding heads up!) there was. I had a friend come over for a few hours after that and then there was three hours of awake/whinge time. Not so awesome.

Today I finished off the chores and felt pretty great, having got her to start waiting four hours on average between feeds (*knocks wood*). However, at 7pm she kicked off her crying/awake time - it's 11:30 and she's definitely overtired, and definitely staying awake.

The hardest part so far is that the husband finishes work on the later side, and has had sport on two of the three nights this week so far, so he's only able to duck in and then duck out - and both nights she's only just settled before he gets home so dinner is nowhere near ready, and then she cracks it not long after he gets home, so the only time he sees her she's being feral, and he's tired from work and sport and late dinner and squawking baby soundtrack.

Hopefully the rest of the week/next week we can get more in to a rhythm - I don't want the husband to feel like he needs to change his routine, but then I don't know how 'fun' it will be if she's planning on keeping this sort of thing up in the longer term.