Saturday, December 12, 2009

That'll be a D-

Okay, so can someone please tell me when it's supposed to get easier? This parenting lark? I've barely scraped a D- this past week, which was capped last night by Louis pushing his firetruck round the living room at, I kid you not, 11pm, screeching "nee nor nee nor". (At 9.30pm, I'd got so bored trying to persuade him to go to sleep that I took him downstairs to watch Gossip Girl with me. My hope that he'd crash out backfired: he watched agog, and this morning was telling DJ - who'd been at work - all about "Goss Goss".) He then proceeded to wake hourly from 3am....

If that was the cherry on the top of my bad mum week, I cooked the cake on Wednesday when I broke every mummy rule in the book after Louis hit his head. Well, before, really given that I shouldn't have let him escape from the swimming pool in the first place. I was just about to scoop him up when, obviously, he slipped backwards, smacking the back of his skull. Ooops. Mistake number two was deciding to get back in the water with him, whereupon he was promptly sick, then thereafter they just kept on coming. Let's just say the NHS Direct nurse clearly thought I was nuts when I told her he was asleep during our phone call. In my defence, it was nap time and he'd been awake since half five.

I then ignored her advice to take him straight down to A&E in favour of going to Chloe's first birthday party. Only to spend the whole time stressing out that Louis was way below par and did indeed need to get checked out. So for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to wait until his dinner time to break my A&E duck and take him along. Turns out the rest of south London had had a similar idea. The upshot is I didn't even manage to pull off a successful A&E trip: the wait was so long that once we'd seen the triage nurse I decided to scarper.

As it turned out, my initial judgment that he was probably okay, was probably the right one. Well, I'm guessing it was because he was clearly back to his old ways last night. Unless insomnia is a sympton of concussion that I don't know about? Perhaps it's just as well that we've had to cancel the babysitter tonight because DJ is sick. I'm thinking this evening just wouldn't have been the best time to attempt to leave Louis (asleep) with someone he's never met before. Though it is a shame about our evening out.

4 comments:

Iota said...

It doesn't get easier, but the sleep thing comes right, and that really really helps.

I think you do fine. I reckon anyone who is a blogger as well as a parent is A grade material...

Hot Cross Mum said...

Oops - sounds like a rough few days. If it's any consolation, my 4 yr old now goes to sleep brilliantly. No questions, no delaying tactics just stories, a cuddle and off to sleep. The 2 yr old however is an entirely different story....!

danyulo said...

I am feeling your pain Susie.
My stomach actually ached when I was reading...

Dan is trying to put Yoppy into bed for the last 10 days. She is screaming for 1.5 hours and both of them traumatised (&me in the next room). Very hard and I am feeling bad too....Sonokox

Babies who brunch said...

Thank you, although my secret fear is that I (we) start sleeping, and I still feel this rough every day!

Hmmm, not sure I can wait 2 and a half more years though.....

And, ouch, Sonoko. Am so sorry. I am totally sharing your pain now!