So, 3am and Cooper is ready for a play. He's not hungry, not sad or in pain, not even needing cuddles... he just wants to play.
He hasn't had this for a while. So I'm gonna do my best to record our food and sleep for the day, and if it happens again, see if there are any correlations. (When I was little, artificial food colouring would make me pop up, wide awake, in the wee hours of the morning for a play time - maybe it is something similar with Cooper?)
Cooper slept more than normal (what is normal??). And before you read the embarassment of my supper, there was a really good spread at home group tonight and I couldn't resist - please don't judge me! :P
5:45 Breastfeed and Heather rises
6:20 Cooper rises
7:00 Porridge for both (usual brekky)
8:30 Cooper sleeps for close to 1 hr 45 min
10:00 Heather: choc muffin
11:00 Heather: 2 mini hot cross buns, Cooper: 1
1:00 Cooper sleeps for ... an hour??? 1.25hrs?? Heather: leftover sweet & sour pork
2:30 Cooper: yoghurt, touch of leftover porridge
4:30 Heather: pear, 1/2 banana w/ peanut butter; Cooper: nectarine, 1 piece rocky, 1/2 banana
5:45 Cooper sleeps almost 2.5hrs, Heather: strong milo, lots (seriously, lots!) of marshmellows, 2 mini easter eggs
6:30 Heather: leftover stirfry, lamington
9:00 Cooper: yoghurt
9:30 Heather: slice of choc sponge roll, small piece of cake, 1 pikelet with honey, 1 tim tam, 3 skittles
10:15 Cooper goes to bed again
?1:00 Cooper wakes for feed? (Not really sure of the time, but sometime between me going to bed at 11 and him waking at 3, he ended up in our bed for a feed)
3:00 awake and happy (Cooper happy, that is!)
3:30 grizzles, feeds and awake and happy again
4:00 getting sleepy?
Maybe it was the amount of sugar I pigged out on, rather than colours. I deliberately only had 3 skittles, as I think some of that bright stuff might still affect my sleep a bit too.
Good to see you got some fruit in there as well. :P
ReplyDelete:P Yep, we have fruit every arvo at least. He would get it more frequently, but he is just SO messy! After eating fruit, I have to bath him and clean his high chair and the floor within at least a metre radius!
DeleteNo, surely not your diet...sounds like perfectly healthy "busy mum" food!!
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be a lot of day sleep, mayby he had enough sleep? (*or mayby it's just sleep envy on my part)
ReplyDeleteIt is a lot!! I just can't work him out... sometimes he has lots, other times not. (One 2hr nap today, although he did sleep in, so that could count as day sleep too??)
Deletei hate to say it, but have you compared the quantity of chocolate you have normally with what you had this day? I know if I have too much chocolate Lizzie is much hard to settle after her mid-early morning feed (ie 3 - 5am). but that said, some days you just NEED the chocolate!
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