How many hours is sleeping your baby?

My question is for you dear mums, how much is sleeping your lovely baby?

First days I was thinking that my baby is not sleeping at all, but actually I was not sleeping at all :D. I was reading that newborns have to sleep almost 14-18 hours per day. So, as not sleeping mum (I think that almost all of you passed through these tough days) I've begun to count the hours one by one while he was sleeping. My big surprise was that Damian was sleeping almost 19 hours per day, the only problem was that these hours were not followed, it was like he was sleeping half an hour, then he was waking up por another half an hour, then he could decide to sleep just 20 minutes, so I couldn't even to make some stuff for me. Meanwhile he was sleeping I had to make a shower, to dress up, to eat... and all these just in 20 minutes. It was very interesting, even in the night he wasn't sleeping more than 1,5 hours followed. BUT, this happened just first days of his life, and now I remember it with a smile on my face, and if sincere I'm very happy that I passed through these tough moments as I've begun to appreciate all the moments that I am free.

Each month it becomes easier and easier as Damian began to sleep followed and during the night I had no problems with him to wake up. He woke up just for feeding and nothing more. Till 4 months during the day he was sleeping as much half an hour followed if we were at home, and as much one hour if we were outside. As all this time I was thinking why my baby is not sleeping followed I was calculating his time of sleeping and it were almost 16-17 hours a day, not bad at all, but if you think that it could be followed and you could arrange to do a lot of things during this time... but no.. it wasn't followed, no way :).

Now, he is almost 7 months, just 1 week left to have this big number, Damian is sleeping very well, during the night 10-11 hours, and during the day 3-5 hours, depends on how much he is tired. I am happy, as now he begins to sleep more followed. During the day he can sleep sometimes almost 3 hours followed, it is just WOW... not always, but at least he is sleeping 1,5 hours followed and this is just great.

Nobody and nowere is writing and telling you that babies are not sleeping followed first months. I found this information asking other people with babies and almost all of them are not sleeping followed a lot of hours.

I adore him while he is sleeping, I think that every mum that is reading this understands me very well and not just because you have some time for you, but as well to watch him sleeping. Me and daddy could not resist not to take pictures of him while he is sleepping. Here you have some images from all the times...

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How to chase the cold from your babies.

Another week passed, and I have a lot of things to share with you, but, in this post I will share just the problem that I had last week with our lovely baby. Because I think that this happened not just with me and Damian, but also with your babies.

From the beggining I want you to say that I´m outdated and I choose naturist treatment versus drugs. And I appeal to the drugs in the last moment, in case that I see that nothing good happened.

So, Damian got a cold. It is told that you don´t need to make baths when children are sick, because in this way they can have fever. We, me and my husband, decided to make the bath, because Damian likes it so much. We were careful and made a litle bit colder the water than we make it usually. The good news that nothing bad happened.

 

The next step was massage, not just a simple one, but with special cream. I was reading that it is good to put in the bath some drops of eucalyptus, but till 7 years you don´t need to do this. I am very thankful to the pharmaceutist that he told us about this and advised us to make massage with the cream that is in the picture. It is a gel enriched with 100% organic essential oils and vanilla from Madagascar and you have to apply just a knob of gel once or twice a day (I used twice, in the morning and in the evening) on chest and back ( I also used to do on the feet) massage gently until full absorbtion. 

I want to say that this gel made wonderful thing with our baby.

 Another tip is to give him a little portion of food oftenly than usual, it helps his organism to fight with the cold. As well it is really important to give him a lot of water, that his body doesn´t dehydrate.

In just one day the cold had gone, I was really happy, but I asked the nurse to make the same procedure with water and food as I was doing at home. When I was to pick him up, he was very good.

I felt relieved and I thought that I am very lucky and Damian as well. But few days after he begun to have snot, so the cold didn´t go so quickly as I thought. I didn´t use any special treatment, I just tryed to spent more time on fresh air, and it really helped. As a tip, when I was in the hospital first two days, the nurse told me that were made studies and it is really bad to use nasal aspirator for babies. In case that you use it, you can notice that the problem doesn't dissappear for a long time, and the nose of your baby is making more snot. A friend of mine told me that she used it and snot dissappear for a short time and for a long term she needed to invent something.

I'm happy that Damian is ok. I want to say that all the information that I shared is my own experience and every child is different, so you can choose to treat your child in the same way or differently.

xoxo

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