The 8th Broadly Gemini Bus- The one where the babies refuse to sleep!

[bringonthetrumpets]

Numero 8!

Hoping for some actual sleep tonight!

[peardrop2]

I don't know if I can sleep. Can't get the picture of placentas hanging from the ceiling out of my mind :-)

[bringonthetrumpets]

Hahahaha, I don't think my DH would be up for letting me go that far. Try to put it out of your mind. I promise I won't come after you with a placenta.

I pray that tonight (night #2 sans partner in crime) will go better than last night. I wanted to cry last night

[peardrop2]

Ahhh you should tell him that work have requested that you start storing them in a new way and that they now need to be hung upside to preserve more efficiently You'd have to have a brilliant poker face for that porky

[AGnu]

Just checking into the new bus! Hope everyone manages some sleep tonight! Even Runt has decided that sleep isn't necessary! I think he's hit a growth spurt phase. He must've fed at least 4 times between 9pm & 9am. I definitely remember 3.30am & then there would've been the evening breastfeed, the pre-bed bottle & the early morning feed...! He seems to have decided that from about 5am onwards he has to be either attached or just tucked into my armpit. If I try to shift him the foot or so to his area of the bed he'll wake up & grizzle until I feed him back to sleep! I don't mind too much really. I still get to sleep in until at least 8.30 most days! But then we rarely get to bed before about 1am!

No idea what's upsetting him now - he's been fussy all evening. I thought it was because we had a few people from church round & he was just a bit disturbed but he did 2 really smelly tiny little sicks on me while they were here & now DH is trying to settle him upstairs & he's really sad! No temp or anything though. Maybe we'll be seeing teeth soon! Calf was 10 months I think. He seemed to do everything at either 8 or 10 months! I remember being concerned that everyone else's babies had numerous teeth & mine didn't even have one! Runt's far too busy developing in other ways to worry about teeth though. He spent most of the evening tilting his head from side to side to get one of our visitors to copy him! Sooo cute! Calf has only recently learnt to do that!

[bringonthetrumpets]

No worries, M doesn't have any teeth yet either (thank god!).

Must be an age thing then. This too shall pass.... I must keep telling myself that...

With DH being gone, our whole normal schedule is off-whack now and she falls asleep in the car on the way to drop them off at 8 instead of her normal nap time at 10 and then she wants to sleep again over lunch instead of after lunch and she's a grizzly bear until bedtime at 6:30, of which then she finds other things that are more exciting like pulling on my poor nipple than going to sleep.

[kittykatsforever]

Just checking in with my two coughy snotty kids, le sigh indeed!!

[Lorelei353]

New bus!

Well, a bit more sleep last night. DS went down as normal until 9.30 when he woke up screaming crying. Wouldn't be settled at all. Eventually fed him at 11.30 and he went back down until 5.30 for a feed and then 7.30. So not bad over all. Just could live without the screaming. Think it's partially upset from he teething and partially developmental? He finds it hard to switch off at the best of times and there might be stuff going on in his head now.

[bringonthetrumpets]

Totally developmental. I now know why I blanked this part out of the lives of the other two, it's kinda hellish! Stupid mother nature making us think we want more kids and make us forget the shit our kids put us through!

How bad is it that I'm actually really really liking the time off from DH?

[kittykatsforever]

Managed to get kitten to have her long nap today, atleast 2+ hours this morning so very pleased!! She was pretty good last night too and woke a few times but not for long and I didn't need to get up, can't wait to get rid of the illness!

[peardrop2]

Yay for the good sleepers on the bus!

Baby pear has been feasting on fish pie after an action packed crawling day in our lounge

[kittykatsforever]

Kitten, last night brilliant, heard a few coughs nothing else, tiger decided at midnight that she needed new Jim jams and a new nappy she hadn't wet them, just decided!
How was baby pear last night?
Can't believe all the babies are crawling bar kitten I think? She just spins round and round lol

[Lorelei353]

Phew! Better night here. DS went down at 7.40, got up precisely 30 mins later for another feed (as usual) then went down for the evening. No screaming. Unfortunately he then got up at 12.15 and then 4.30 but not a bad night overall.

[peardrop2]

Kitty ~ I do love hearing your tiger stories even though to you they sound like a nightmare! I wonder whether baby pear will demand the same thing one day

I'm very proud of baby pear today. Last night was night 5 and he cried 3 minutes at 7pm and 1 minute at 3:30am. Great improvement!

Frus ~ ouch your night sounds painful

Lor ~ really confused. Sounds like your baby goes down fine so why the concerns the other day? Or was last night just a fluke?

[kittykatsforever]

That's a great time pear! He's really got it now hasn't he did you still feed him the once?
Frus that boys got you just where he wants you hasn't he little monkey
Lor the wake up quite soon after they go down ( usually 40/45 mins ) is when they are making the transgression from a light sleep to heavy sleep, that's when they learn to self settle rather then want anything,
Kitten has just allowed me 30 mins on my own while she was in her jumperoo!! This is unheard if while asleep, I'm lucky to make it to one room before she squeels, I got to clean the kitchen and have a shower although the cats were with her and she does love those cats!

[Lorelei353]

pear he actually usually goes down fine! but at night is fed to sleep and then has to be held until in a deep sleep. During the day must be bounced on a fit ball or rocked to sleep. Again he has to be deeply asleep before you can out him down.

This week he's been a nightmare so I was worried this was the start of a bad phase. Every time something like that happens it just frustrates me that he can't go to sleep by himself in his bed.

[peardrop2]

Yes Kitty, day 5 and he's finally learning TG! I've seen such an improvement in his mood during the day too (yesterday). I'm so pleased for him. It's really lovely not to be frustrated with him and actually be able to solve his problem rather then battle with him in the day and then resent myself for giving in and not actually helping us both long term. I'm feeling really relieved today as I guess there was a big part that thought it wouldn't work for us. Phew Awww you see it's a plus that kitten isn't on the move yet! Since being more active baby pear refuses to go in his jumparoo. I'm not sure if it's the norm but I guess it makes sense. Why would you want to jump up and down when you could be practising your crawling skills?! Enjoy your free hands while it lasts

[peardrop2]

Oh and yes I did still feed him at 3:30am. I need to tackle that one next He didn't even take much. It was a definite comfort thing and when I collected him at 6:50 his nappy and clothes were soaked through so I really should have changed him too. I think there is a tiny maybe big part of me that is clinging onto this 1 last night feed

[peardrop2]

Lor ~ ahh ok I understand now.

[peardrop2]

Now I just need to go to be earlier then 11 so that I'm also in a good mood come morning Perhaps someone needs to put me to bed