New tricks

Well,

It’s been 4 days since we got back from New Zealand and I’m slowly finding my feet again after the kaos of travelling.

The first two days I did absolutely nothing. It was good but I was feeling anxious about all the things I needed to get done.

I had a pep talk with myself and got my arse into gear, cleaned the whole house and did, I don’t know ….6 loads of washing. (With Lucas’s help of course)

I needed to get stuff done before I started my journey at Sleep School.

As much as I love to say being a mother is the best thing, I’ve never really gone fourth and said that I suck at teaching my child to self settle and fall asleep on his own.

Instead, I breastfeed him to sleep and I also Co-sleep of a night.

So I’m here to learn new tricks and get guidance on this part of parenting in which I’m not so confident with.

Since my sons birth, I didn’t have trouble with breastfeeding which was a blessing but in order to get some sort of sleep with all the wakings & constant feeding times and after he out grew the bassinet, I started co- sleeping.

I was worried that Lucas would hate Maks being in the bed but in true Lucas fashion, he just went with it and wanted me to do whatever was easiest for me.

But it didn’t make things easier, I didn’t have a reason to put him in his own bed at night.

8 – 9 months down the track, Maks is getting bigger and I’m starting to miss being in bed with just Lucas. I missed him. I missed his night time snuggles.

So here we are!!

By the way, this really isn’t easy for me (hence why sleep school is my only option). As much as I’ve created a habit for Maks, I grew a little sleep attachment to him.

I’m actually going to miss my bed time cuddles and early morning wake up smiles from Maksi, but I know this is the best for us and our little family.

P.S I don’t regret co-sleeping one bit, it gave us both peace when we needed it.