It's Friday night and the Pip is in his crib, hopefully settled for a few hours (fingers crossed). Hooray, I've survived a week on my own and everything was OK. It's still very early days but I'm a lot more relaxed and feeling really optimistic about everything.
At the moment, I am trying to implement Gina Ford's routines. She's quite controversial because she puts babies (and mothers!) into strict routines from the day one. Some people think that it's a bit too extreme - and some mothers believe that it's cruel to put a baby only weeks old into a routine i.e. that feeding/sleeping etc should be completely flexible in the first few months. Having said that, if a baby is hungry - of course you have to feed him/her...the routine is just to set some structure into your life.
I'm still feeling some self-doubt though - am I being a good mother? Or a bad one? Oh well, if the Pip has issues when he is a teenager, he can always blame Gina Ford.
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- Katie-Ella
- lives in London, far far away from Brunei Darussalam where she grew up. She likes Italian food, Hugh Jackman and disco dancing round her living room. She doesn't like men with greasy hair. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is too scary for her - even the afternoon children's version. If a genie could grant her one wish, she would love to be Beyonce. If that is beyond all magical powers, then she wants world peace, of course.
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2 comments:
Katie, I don't know who Gina Ford is and her methods (yet) But I am a believer in routines.
I'm sure you'll be fine - you survive week one with no help, that's no easy feat. Of course, Junior must be a very good boy who listens to his mama :-)
p/s As long as we try to be, we are all good mothers :-p
Thanks Jewelle. "Junior" does drive me crazy sometimes, but he is still my little angel.
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