Last night, I was up till 4am uploading stuff for sale. At around 1am, the fireworks were still blasting away and from our home, we could actually see some spectacular fireworks on display and wondered who was responsible. Nevertheless, one of them nearer ones blasted really loudly and woke baby up in shock! She was inconsolable, I was tired and wanted to finish up my uploading as soon as possible. The last thing I wanted was to spend another hour putting baby back to sleep. Grrrr……

I had a choice. Leave her in her cot and ask her to go back to sleep or pick her up to console her and hope for the best. I chose the latter and she felt safe and secure and actually calmed down and smiled. Then before I knew it, she was up and excited about the fireworks! *faint*

She kept pointing to the window where the noise was coming from and going, “OOooohhhhh…..” with that darn cute face and I couldn’t help but smile with her. After a few minutes of chatting, I put her back into her cot and she slept back. She was safe and happy.

Later at around 430am, JUST as I’d fallen asleep, she woke up again and I just wanted to clobber her. But I saw that she was pointing to her diaper and crying so I forced myself to get up to check her diaper and there was a poo! Oh, who in the world poos in their sleep??!!!! For goodness sake!!!

I turned on the lights and again and forced myself to believe it was morning, bright and cheery, and changed her diaper with lots of patience, even though I was fighting inside to behave grumpily. I was tired. Very tired. Thankfully, after her diaper change, she was happy to go back to her cot after some kisses and cuddles. Give your baby enough love and security and she starts getting easier.

On hindsight, had I gone the other way, I would have had to struggle much longer with a strong-willed baby and lots of crying. And eventually wasted time.

I’ve tried this approach a few times and it works. Babies cry for a reason, even if the reason is just to get a bit of manja time.

It’s exactly the same between you and your husband. If you were feeling like you needed some attention and your husband was too busy for you and told you to go back to sleep, how would you feel? But if he came to you and explained that he had to finish up his work but gave you lots of kisses and promised you that he would give you that attention at a later time, how would you feel? I learned this from the breastfeeding support group at Mamalink *wink*

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

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