Hello all, thunder and lightning here and dd upstairs refusing to nap so it's a pretty tempestuous place! Have just left her in the cot, she's chuntering away fairly cheerily but will see what happens
daisy, poor chap's bum, we used some 'method baby' nappy cream when she was having the runs, it's not a healing one but is quite cooling and soothing so it might give him a bit of a break from the ouchiness. So sorry you're having rough nights, doing it with two must be much harder.
indith you sound so chilled about the whole no sleep situation. When we were at a similar point I was on here ranting and raving and wearing the basket very thin Are you co-sleeping? as at least that would mean she could feed without you having to actually do very much, it has been my lifesaver during those tossing and turning hours of the morning (even if she has been pulling my boobs all over the place )
arti it's a tough call, as you're going back to work soon that will make a big difference to how you feel about things. If you're definitely going to do cc then probably better with someone who's experienced in it and will be ruthless (in a good way), rather than you who would find it much much more difficult, as you say it's got to be done properly otherwise dd will only cry longer and harder the next time. 4 days seems pretty swift and efficient, so if it works, great and you've got your routine sorted ready for back to work.
trace - I loved your wise words about just accepting the situation with P while on mat leave. We are their mums and we're lucky enough to have this time to be mums without having to go straight back to work down the mill/mine/whatever and they're not trying to torment us, even if it often feels that way. And go you for confronting the rowing couple! That's just not on. Any improvement with the mouth ulcers? they're horrid things and make life so unpleasant.
bisou you said a while back that you were working on an opera written specially for your company - who's it by? Anyone we'd have heard of?
olipop and nolda and pingu and sybil good to see you all
zj really glad you had a good night, makes up for the exhausting days
kayz how exciting about your friend! I saw your AIBU thread about her needing to just do a test, what a fab wedding pressie Paris - we stayed overnight in a hotel near Gare de Lyon on our last trip to France as we were getting the train down south, it was pretty cheap but there was so much going on in the area so we didn't need to go any closer to the centre, lots of restaurants and walking by the river etc.
veggie glad to hear you're making the most of your assets
Hooray for LadyT and arti for the new teeth
verso hope you had a good interview, they're being very thorough!! Fingers crossed for you very hard
well we're in a funny situation at the mo. DD has been napping pretty well at the weekends, we put her down and she'll often go for an hour and a half if she's been boobed off to sleep, but now refuses to sleep in the sling or pushchair. This is a total turnaround from before! and also means that if I want her to sleep in the day, we have to stay at home. And if she does get in a nap from say 9.30 to 11, that goes right through the time that all the mum and baby things are on Why is everything at 10.30? Surely babies are all going to be wanting a sleep or a feed around then or just after, so if you go out and meet other mums, the rest of the day is embuggered
And her night time sleep, end of last week she had two v crappy days of no naps and went to sleep on the first at 6, we put her to bed at 7 on the second (usual bedtime has been lights out at 8), and both times she slept til 4am [exploding boobs] then I went in to feed her, put her back in the cot and she played around for a bit then went back to sleep til about 7. so last night we deliberately put her to bed at 7 again and another remarkable night, first waking at 4. It seems that she really does sleep better without us there to disturb her, which means no more co-sleeping Though we'll have to see what happens when we try to move her into her own room, at the moment she's still in the crib next to our bed and we're banished to the spare room!
humph. Chuntering has turned into crying. Do I boob her to sleep (having hardly napped so far, this being an 'out of the house' day) and then have trouble getting her to bed, or get her up again and deal with crotchety baby for a couple of hours til bedtime? The best thing I read on this subject just said the best way to avoid this situation is to be more attentive to your baby's signals and get them to have a nap as soon as they are tired, so you don't end up with them napping too close to bedtime". Because it's that easy...