Swimming and sleeping

After keeping you waiting for nearly a week, here's the update on how Michaela's first swimming lesson went. There were maybe 8 babies there and all but one (Owen) cried at some point during the lesson. Michaela's points were when she had to lie on her back floating (she hates being on her back in or out of the water), when Mom had to pour water over her head (she hates that part of getting her hair washed) and when Mom dunked her under. Now, Mom knew all those were going to be points for tears, so really it wasn't too bad, especially since there were one or two babies who cried for most of the half hour lesson. In some ways it's maybe even good that she cried, so that by the end of the lessons, we should hopefully see an improvement. Fingers crossed! We were told during the lesson that it would be good if we could take Michaela swimming in between lessons too. So, yesterday Mom bought Dad a pair of swimming trunks in the hope we'll go as a family to the pool at the weekend. It was also really good going to the lesson because it was in the big pool, so the water temperature was far cooler than the Hydrotherapy Pool. Michaela was a bit cold, but she coped well, so we'll try to take her to the pool at Sandwick. And as you can see from the first photo, Michaela does like her baths, so maybe liking the pool isn't too far away?

And now for the sleeping part of this blog. What has happened to Michaela's sleeping?! She keeps waking in the night, but then going for a long nap in the morning. And now she's even taking to falling asleep in her high chair while Mom and Dad clear up! We just don't get it. And today she actually had a nearly two hour nap in the middle of the day, when usually we can't get much more than half an hour out of her. Maybe we'll get some sort of normality back soon. If not, she'll just have grumpy parents for a while.