A night in the life
by dr-nick
Wednesday night, 26 April
- 9.30pm
- Jessica settles in her moses basket.
- 9.50
- Ros and Nick head up to bed.
- 10.10
- Everyone is asleep.
Thursday morning, 27 April
- 12.10am
- J wakes, hungry for a feed.
- 12.25
- J finishes feeding and is winded and put in her basket by R.
- 1.00
- J is still gurgling post-feed (not in a cute baby way, more in a sounding-like-she's-trying-not-to-drown-in-milk sort of way).
- 1.10
- N picks her up to wind her.
- 1.20
- J quiet again, so put her down.
- 1.25
- Having started to gurgle again, N picks up, winds again, and puts her down, still gurgling. N massages her in her basket.
- 1.30
- J falls silent.
- 1.34
- J starts gurgling again.
- 1.45
- N picks J up. She needs a change.
- 1.47
- N washes her bottom end, and dries her off with cotton wool.
- 1.48
- Fresh, clean and naked, J concentrates hard, and poos on N's arm.
- 1.49
- N cleans her (again), puts a nappy on (her) and washes his arm.
- 1.53
- N puts J down.
- 1.55
- J decides she's hungry (again) and needs a feed from R.
- 2.05
- Briefly fed and winded by R, J is put down.
- 2.13
- Silence at last. Lights out.
- 2.14
- Gurgles start again.
- 2.19
- Since she's fed, pooed, been changed and winded, R and N decide there's not much more they can do, so ignore J for a bit. This time, she falls quiet of her own accord.
- 6.20
- Blimey, it's morning. Must be time for a feed (again).
- 6.35
- Fed and winded, R puts J down. She gurgles.
- 6.50
- R resorts to letting J sleep on her for half an hour until everyone is awake and 'ready' to start the day.
Yes, it's time for Nick's first day at work after paternity leave!
27/04/06 07:55:02 pm,