routine

Sleep update (again) from Joanna79 ^Pro 47 days old

As I write this, I can hear G making a little wailing noise upstairs. She's started experiencing 'night terrors' - where she has a bad dream and starts ...

Routine ch-ch-ch-changes from Joanna79 ^Pro 47 days old

The house move has had an impact on the girls' routine. In the old house, the bathroom was downstairs and we had R and G's day pretty much nailed. The ...

Pj and duvet (Let’s get ready for bedtime) from Joanna79 ^Pro 74 days old

G has spoken (actually, she started doing her impression of an eel trapped in a handbag every time I tried to wrestle her into her baby sleeping bag) ...

ZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzzZZZZ from Joanna79 ^Pro 249 days old

Well we're still into the controlled crying regime, with mixed success. On Friday night G slept from 6.30pm - 7.30am without so much as a murmur and ...

A day in the life of G, age 1 year and 3 weeks from Joanna79 ^Pro 317 days old

6am – hellloooooo? Hellooooooo? Is anyone else awake? Ruuuuuuth? They may not have heard me. I’ll give it a couple of seconds and shout a bit louder. ...

Surviving a sleepover from Joanna79 ^Pro 383 days old

[ ... ] bedtime routine as much as we could (bath, bottle, story, bed) and the girls settled in the boys’ nursery (they were turfed out of their room ...

Weekend wilderness from Joanna79 ^Pro 413 days old

I’ve spoken previously about how ridiculously busy I am. I should have qualified it by saying that I’m busy from 6am Monday morning until 6pm Friday ...

Bathing from Joanna79 ^Pro 465 days old

It’s so silly. I take the girls to work/nursery, look after them, feed them, change them, play with them, manage their tantrums and often put them to ...

Are we too strict? from Joanna79 ^Pro 536 days old

[ ... ] the girls’ routine and what it involves. This leads me to wonder – are we too strict with them? Here’s a typical day (at home – working/nursery ...

Last night a routine saved my life from Joanna79 ^Pro 606 days old

[ ... ] without a routine now. If we’d had one baby I don’t think we would have gone in for a routine as much, or certainly not as rigid as the one we ...