See Piper Cee and Elliotte P: March Favourites

March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb? Is that what they say? Well I sure believed it this year!

As Piper grew we all agreed that she was absolutely perfect in every way but one...

her SLEEPING patterns. Or should I say lack there of.

I shouldn't put all the blame on Piper, since a large part of the initial sleep problem was due to early arrival and her lack of interest in eating that resulted from that. It meant that we lived on a very strict 3 hour rotation: 30 mins trying to breast feed (most often only being successful for 5 mins), followed by 40 minutes of pumping breast-milk, followed by an hour of then trying to feed Piper the expressed milk in a bottle. You do the math. That left me less than an hour out of every 3 hours to eat/sleep/shower/change diapers/clean bottles, etc.

By the end of February, I was crashing. Exhausted was not a strong enough word to describe how I felt. I was in desperate need of sleep and eagerly anticipating an upcoming visit from my parents, who I knew were anxious to help.

On the day that my parents were due to arrive in Yellowknife, issues with Air Canada caused a one day flight to turn into a THREE day journey. (I may have had a minor meltdown, locking myself in the bathroom and crying at this news, lol!) I am happy to announce that they did EVENTUALLY make it safe and sound to my house and I was able to get blissful hours of sleep while they did everything except hang upside down from their feet to keep Miss P from waking me up. Ha!

And as they say, March goes out like a lamb... well Mark's parents arrived near the end of the month without a hitch.

Oh, and by this point, Mark's Paternity leave started... and Miss Piper Cee started sleeping through the night (which meant so did Mommy)!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...