Trying to be a green parent

Alexander’s first tooth has broken through the gum! On Monday (7th May – 5 months and 2 days old) in the evening as we were on the train pulling out of Wimbledon station on the way home from visiting his grandparents, we first noticed a tiny tooth tip – since then it has started to grow slowly upwards, although there’s still no more than a millimetre or so showing.

Interestingly after a week of extremely bad sleep (see below) the night after the teeth broke the gum (and every night since) he’s woken just twice a night. There have been a few other changes too – 1) the weather – the temperature has dropped 2 degrees and it’s started to rain, and 2) the aeroplanes – with the change in weather the wind direction has changed and there are no longer noisy aeroplanes flying over every minute and a half until midnight. So his sleep depends on planes, temperature or tooth problems – and not on anything I do as I have made no changes to how I put him to sleep.

(Of course, he’s still not sleeping 12 hours straight – or anything like – but for me sleeping 7 pm to midnight, midnight to 4 am and 4 am to after 6 am is good enough. Especially since he’s gone back to falling back to sleep after a 5 minute feed rather than taking 25+ minutes to go back to sleep after each of 4 or 5 night wakings).