Last night, Nick whispered to me gently, "What kind of magic dust have you sprinkled over Kesia?". Baffled, I asked him what he meant. He was incredulous as he remarked that she had slept beautifully two nights in a row! (Can you sense the underlying implications... we have been battling with sleep problems for about two years now! And have tried many strategies!)
"I made her a sleep book! I showed you!"
In a nutshell. It turns out I DO know my kids quite well, and I have a reasonable knack with finding solutions. This makes it so much harder when I need to seek help for them, and those new people don't listen!!!
Anyway... Kesia has been enjoying night time foods high in tryptophan ( a sleep inducing chemical). Warm milk with honey and nutmeg is a favourite, and yesterday she cooked some "sleepy muffins" with banana, oatbran and walnut. Tomorrow we will make sleepy oatmeal in the slow cooker for dinner time, and I have a tuna salad recipe ready to go into her sleep book at the weekend.
I have added to the photo gallery in my previous post for those who are curious to see what her sleep book looks like!
We now have to tread carefully into term time. Zack has now gone back to school and the peace is palpable. But school starts tomorrow, and Kesia has such high hopes that I fear she may crash at the first sign of trouble.
I'm so pleased that I finally got some concrete advice from CAMHS about drinking and eating. It was simple and not rocket science, but whether all I needed was direct guidance to help with my anxiety and that rubbed off... goodness knows, but she's done really well over Christmas. With Zack home, her eating has been better too...
The worries about statementing, school and CAMHS are clamouring for attention in my brain, and I am trying to keep them at bay, or at least in some sort of order...
However... Nick and I have a holiday to look forward to first, thanks to Maman and Cherry Trees... I won't believe it till we're there, and I hope my poor mother can forgive the sorry state of my house!!
"I made her a sleep book! I showed you!"
In a nutshell. It turns out I DO know my kids quite well, and I have a reasonable knack with finding solutions. This makes it so much harder when I need to seek help for them, and those new people don't listen!!!
Anyway... Kesia has been enjoying night time foods high in tryptophan ( a sleep inducing chemical). Warm milk with honey and nutmeg is a favourite, and yesterday she cooked some "sleepy muffins" with banana, oatbran and walnut. Tomorrow we will make sleepy oatmeal in the slow cooker for dinner time, and I have a tuna salad recipe ready to go into her sleep book at the weekend.
I have added to the photo gallery in my previous post for those who are curious to see what her sleep book looks like!
We now have to tread carefully into term time. Zack has now gone back to school and the peace is palpable. But school starts tomorrow, and Kesia has such high hopes that I fear she may crash at the first sign of trouble.
I'm so pleased that I finally got some concrete advice from CAMHS about drinking and eating. It was simple and not rocket science, but whether all I needed was direct guidance to help with my anxiety and that rubbed off... goodness knows, but she's done really well over Christmas. With Zack home, her eating has been better too...
The worries about statementing, school and CAMHS are clamouring for attention in my brain, and I am trying to keep them at bay, or at least in some sort of order...
However... Nick and I have a holiday to look forward to first, thanks to Maman and Cherry Trees... I won't believe it till we're there, and I hope my poor mother can forgive the sorry state of my house!!
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