So Sahana slept through the night for the first time last night. Straight through, from 11:30-7am. She was squawking on and off starting a little after 6, but no full-on crying. I am not getting my hopes up for a repeat performance tonight -- Paras took a couple of weeks to become consistent, as I remember. Plus she had a pretty crappy feeding at 6pm tonight, before she went to bed. I was so mad at her for not eating that I swaddled her and put her in the crib wide awake, half-hoping she would start crying, which usually gives me an opportunity to get another ounce in her to calm her down. But she went to sleep, all by herself! I figured she'd wake up before her 10:30 feed, but it's currently 10:16 and I haven't heard a peep so maybe the routine is taking over.
Speaking of the routine, the 7-10:30 "nap" has been pretty consistent for a while now, actually (knock on wood), which has given me and Andy and opportunity to go on some dates. For our five year anniversary we went out to dinner at a restaurant we hadn't tried before, and last Friday we dashed out after getting the kids to bed to catch the latest Harry Potter movie. I'm pretty proud of us for being able to get out like normal people with a toddler and a 7 week-old infant...at least without leaving the babysitter (the au pair in our case) with her hands full. Both times we came home to the au pair letting us know that the kids slept soundly while she surfed the net and chatted with her family online. Thanks, Gina Ford!
Meanwhile, I've developed achilles heel tendonitis, which is really annoying, because it means I can't exercise. I had it in December, but got some heel inserts (as per the doctor's instructions) and it went away. I thought it was related to the pregnancy. But it's back, and as I went online to see what else could be done about it, I got really depressed because everything I read kept referring to it as a "middle-age" sports injury. I was under the impression that 34 was still fairly young, but I guess I'm officially middle-aged.
Anyway, I've got to go limp upstairs and feed Sahana. Keep your fingers crossed for tonight!
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