Monday, August 8, 2011

Tricks to keep babies awake...

Leo, day 6


During pregnancy we were debating whether we would have preferred a baby that does not sleep or a baby that does not eat. We both agreed that we would have preferred a baby that does not eat.


We should have kept our mouths shut. Destiny in these circumstances is in fact often spiteful. It in fact made us believe that he listened to us - and in fact we got a baby that (so far) does sleep like a stone. But the price for that is that he does not eat as much as he should. The irony is that Leonardo does not eat as much as he should because he falls in a sound sleep during breastfeeding.


Giuseppina, who you met a few posts ago, taught us a few tricks to keep Leo awake during the breastfeeding. Unfortunately after a few successes, Leo seems to have understood the tricks, and to have become indifferent to the various stimuli.


So every day we need to rack our brains to find out a new way of keeping him awake.


Today we were pretty successful by pumping music in his ears (the authors that he seemed to prefer were Giuliano Palma and the Intillimani).


And tomorrow?

4 comments:

  1. pauvre bouchon ses cousines et plus particuliérement hortense compatissent elle elle ne mangeait que dans les bras des hommes à chacin son truc :-)
    pleins de bisous portigaus et bon coirage poir cette seconde semaine
    les 4 le Gac

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  2. metti un po' di peperoncino sul capezzolo di Mathilde...e vai con "Rock around the clock".

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  3. Ciao Matteo!
    Non passavo sul blog (a suo tempo segnalatomi dalla nota musa d'artista e modella Chiara) da qualche settimana e pensavo che ancora mancasse un po' alla nascita.
    Che dire, come vola il tempo.
    Tantissimi auguri a tutta la nuova famiglia, con la speranza di conoscere prima o poi i due terzi che mi mancano.

    Theo

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  4. @ theo: grazie mille per il messaggio. in effetti leo e' arrivato un po' prima del previsto. spero di poterti presentare i due terzi che ti mancano, e di conoscere i due terzi (tre quarti?) che mi mancano, presto. roma-firenze e' a un tiro di schioppo; cerchiamo di crearci un'occasione...

    @ M2: questo sa di pratica sado...

    @ les 4 le Gac: merci :)

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