Free pies!

Had a bad night with Niamh last night, don't get me wrong, by comparrison to some other babies she was still angelic, but for her, it was not a good night! She took over an hour to settle initially. Then I had abad first half of the night, with pain and complete inability to get comfortable. Just as I found the correct pain killer combo and actually managed to get comfy, Niamh squeaked, Chris went to check on her and she was standing at the end of her cot staring at us! I don't really know much of what went on after this, only that Niamh ended up in and out of bed with me a lot. She would go back to sleep on me, get put in her cot and wake straight back up. Eventually I told Chris to leave her to see if she would settle. She wasn't crying just moving around a lot, and she did. This trend continued for her morning nap, she took nearly an hour to settle, again. To be honest I was seriously stressed and worried by this point. Chris was on a late today and I didn't know how I was going to cope if she was like it all day.

Lucky for me however, she woke up from her nap much happier, so we went out for a short walk. Needed to buy Niamh a coat it turns out. Mum bought her one, and as the weather has really taken a turn, so I tried it on her, it swamps her and she can barely move in it. So I had to put her in a snow suit, I was worried that she would be too hot, but she seemed to like it!

When we got back it was lunch time and we both had egg mayo and salad sandwiches, and Niamh went down for her nap, not as easily as normal, but so much quicker than recently! Then a delivery man buzzed the buzzer, which is LOUD! I was very worried that it would wake Niamh but, but lucky for me (and possibly him) that it didn't! It was Chris's breakfast pies from O2 for the next rugby match. Basically, because they are playing in New Zealand and obviously the matches there are at night, so first thing in the morning there. To encourage people to support England in the rugby world cup (which they are sponsering) they are giving out "wake up for England" breakfast packs for each match. This consists of two pies, two beers, some postcard pictures and an England flag. All in a box with England ice packs!! Good idea in my mind, and I'm looking forward to the pie!

Dad popped round whilst Niamh was in bed and it was really nice to be able to just sit and chat with him. He agreed to bring mum back after work to see Niamh (and dad would get to see her too as she literally woke up when he left) and hopefully tire her out a bit. In between dad leaving to pick mum up and returning me and Niamh went for a very short walk as I was up to it:

It was nice.

Mum and dad came round and played with Niamh, and stayed whilst I fed her so I would be able to run her a bath. She ate all her dinner, had a calm bath and then got ready for bed. She settled ok, pretty much the same as lunchtime. So i'm hoping to finish writing this and to have a rest, a bit of a chill out and an early night. Hoping that it is a better night than last night. Chris will be home soon!