With IDOB and STT ready to go, the Wagon rumbles along!

[Kayzr]

Here we go new thread. Sorry for awful title!!

Morning . Thanks for the good luck wishes for the house - if they delay yet again I'm going to scream the wagon down. I really think they think they're (the buyers) living in a bubble and have no conception of the fact that there are other people anxiously waiting to find out if they're moving!
IDOB, sounds like dd is doing well. I think it's hard if they have slept very well and suddenly start waking, but it is usual for newborns to suddenly 'wake up' and the pattern you describe at present is actually pretty good! The only thing I might myself start to do a little differently is to make her bedtime a little earlier, accepting that she's going to wake 2/3 times anyway in the night. At least then you get a few hours in the evening to recharge. Bear in mind I out ds into a gf routine on day 3 though, so coming from a (not especially popular) viewpoint!
Hi TINKS! DD4 has been test-driving bug - tis great on the laminate . Will def put away till June as she's 4 and doesn;t look too small!
SES meant to ask, what is this KIT day you talk of of?? Have visions of you laden down with army surplus stuff and a heavy rucksack
Hi KAYZ, STAR and everyone else!

DD4 ???!!! A Freudian slip there perhaps . Well they do say 'new house new baby'

Oooh Diege, I needed to ask a favour. What age do I need to change DS2's routine. He is still on this one:

Breakfast at 7
Sleep at 9
Bottle at 10
Lunch at 11:45
Sleep at 2
Wake at half 2
Bottle at 2:45
Dinner at 5
Bottle at 6:30
Bed at 7

Not sure if I should just leave it as it works quite well.

Morning all,

feeling a bit more human today. I took DD to bed at 8.30 and she woke to feed at 12.30, 4.30 and then 7 then she dozed in my bed until 8.30 when we got up. I didn't give her a dummy last night and although she fussed/cried for 5-10 min each time I put her back in the moses basket she stayed asleep once she nodded off. So far she has been much happier today as well so all those naps yesterday must have helped. I'm going to stick to the 3 hour 'baby whisperer type' routine again today and hopefully we will have another good night.

Diege - sending completion vibes your way. Your buyers must be driving you batty by now. LOL at DD4!!

Ses - hope today goes well, I'm sure DS and DH will be fine. Hooray for suit feeling loose.

Morning Kayz and Tink.

Hi KAYZ! Is it the 9-12 month routine you;re after? Have the book in front if me now so will post it as soon as I know it's the right one

Yes please Diege.

Glad you had a better night IDOB.

Ok, 9-12 months as follows:
Feed Times: 7am, 11.45, 2.30pm, 5pm, 6.30pm.
Looking at the 11.45 one think this relates to food rather than milk as she talks about alternating solids wth beaker of well-diluted juice or water. Think the milk at that stage is only given at 7am, 2.30, 6.30. HTH.
IDOB, sounds a better night and good going on the self-soothing; will pay dividends in the future I promise

hi kayz - bracken is 10 mnths and i am following 9-12 mnth routine

7am - bottle
11:30pm - food plus water to drink
12pm - sleep
2:30pm - milk
5pm - food plus water to drink
6pm - milk

Thanks.

So do we have to drop the 9am sleep? Not looking forward to that.

No, the 9am/9.30am sleep is kept for now. To quote '9am: settle baby in the dark with the door shut no later than 9.30am. He needs a sleep of 30-40 minutes.

Thats good then.

Our settle in the dark is 'put in pushchair in kitchen and shut door'

Morning all - good luck vibes your way for house, Diege. Ses is talking about "Keeping In Touch" days. Under new guidelines (since about 2008), you are entitled to be paid for up to 10 KIT days where you go into work during your maternity leave and are paid for the hours you normally work, without it disrupting your maternity leave. You would be entitled to them too

I am going on a course on 14/15 December in London - was supposed to be on it last year, but had to cancel due to staff shortages and then the postponed date was when snow hit London and everything stopped, so I'm being paid those two days as KIT days - aka Christmas spending and a chance for me to meet my best friend for dinner on the Monday evening (am leaving DD and DS with DH at home on their own for all of Mon, monday evening and then all of Tues... [biting fingers emoticon]! Hence tonight, we are trying DD on a bottle of expressed milk at bedtime!

Sorry, that should read - "hours you work on those day(s) at your normal rate"

Ahh lightbulb moment STAR . Techinically my ML has finished now anyway, as on annual leave from 10th Nov and full pay, yay!!!
Enjoy your KIT days!!! Sounds like you'll have a bit of a break too, and well deserved it is!
KAYZ, my 'dark room' is blanket over pram hood as still on way back from school run . Usually try and tie it in with trip to PO to get my 'nap's worth' as minute we get back home his eyes flick open. Long gone are the days when I could lift him from pram to cot.
DH has spoken to EA and he's expecting to hear more at 3ish when the ES boss can get in touch with engineer who was involved in original house construction. Just hoping this doesn;t mean more searching for plans etc etc...Will of course update! I think IF we get the house it should be an offical wagon abode for all those passing through the North West It's called 'The Retreat' too so quite appropriate!

hi ladies

i am going to drop brackens 9am sleep soon as she isnt sleeping long @ lunchtime!!
just got caught in downpour

Arghh!!! The buyers are apparently 'sick of the whole thing' , meaning the delays etc etc...All I can say is that it's a good job I wasn't on the end of the 'phone So calm thoughts and hopefully a resolution when the builder they, yes THEY, are waiting to hear from about a non-existence problem that the insurers have laughed them out of the office about and the solicitors are also having a chuckle about deems to get back to them about . I think I need to go into the wagon spa room, or failing that cook up some brownies...

oh no diege how stressful!!!

sending over :-

an adul sized tiger wheely bug to whizz around on and have de stressing time
a load of chcolate, hot chocolate
a blanket
a toy punch bag

that should make you feel less stressed!!

Diege - those buyers are unbelievable Seems like tink's put together a good rescu pack for you! Wagon spa sounds good though. I'd like to join you and book myself a facial and a manicure

KIT day was ok but glad to get back to DS & DH. They coped v well.

Must go and catch up on the rest of your chat...

Diege at your buyers - they are fed up?!?!?! You so deserve a trip to the Wagon spa - can I come too? Agree with Ses that Tink looks to have put you a good stress relief package together.

Well, tried DD on a bottle of ebm this evening.... After 50 mins, she gave in and went to sleep instead and has been asleep for just over an hour now in her cot...

So, one expressed bottle of ebm to waste and no further forward on getting some me time. Ah well, am off to Mum's the week after next and she will happily give it a go, giving DD a bottle (DH only lasted 15 mins before he could take her crying no more this evening - but saying that, he did his fair share last night when we spent 2 hours trying to get her to go back to sleep with no feed, to no avail and I gave in at 4am and fed her ) Think we might be trying too much at once with her and she is only 8 months on Sunday, but I would like a couple of hours off. She is such a happy little girl though that I can't complain - she is pulling herself up all over the place and today she was holding on to my legs and let go and stood up on her own for a second before grabbing them again!!! Looks like I may have a reason to buy her some lovely booties I've seen in Clarks for Christmas after all

Diege - thanks for info on DD's condition and likelihood of further child having it. Is it wrong that I have already worked out that if we tried to conceive after we run the half marathon in March, we could have a December baby next year and then s/he would be 6 months by the time I'm 37, which isn't too old?! Is still a pipe dream, as DH won't go for it and I'm not 100% convinced, but the idea is there....

Glad DH and DS did well at home today Ses - is fabby news, well done to you all.

Kayz - re. your status on FB, have you tried giving Freddie a wetwipe or two to "clean" with, while you clean the bathroom. Might keep him occupied and they can't do any harm to anything.

Right, off for a snuggle with DH, while we wait for DD to wake up...

Morning,

Star, I will give that a go next time. He got into our bed but as soon as I left he was yelling that he needed tucking in and a cuddle so I gave up in the end. Hope you are able to get DD to take a bottle. Have you tried using a cup instead of a bottle?

I can not wait to get to London. I am hoping I will sleep past 5am but I doubt it. Maybe I can watch the sun rise over London(saddo)

Hope you all have fab weekends.

Morning! Feeling refreshed after TINK's rescue package . Couldn;t manage the bug but the choc and blanket went down well! Our EA agent is going to gently remind the 'buyers' that our sale to them is dependent on us still having a house to move into...hopefully this may jolt them back into reality!
STAR, your ttc plans sound very sensible to me and age wise you are but a spring chicken! I'll be 40 in May and still fancy another one It's really only the sickness that puts me off.
SES glad the day went well and that dh coped
KAYZ so today you leave for London? Enjopy yourself you lucky thing FWIW I have seen many an early morning in London, usually when I have a child-free night away with work and still wake up 6am Have you got any plans as such or are you just going with the flow?
Anyone else see that octoplets programme last night? Really liked the woman, didn't think I would but did warm to her and think she's doing a tremendous job under the curcumstances.
Hope everyone is ok

yeah our train is at 10 past 1. We are going to Westfield tonight. Going to have some dinner there. Then we are going to a dog show at Earl's Court tomorrow. Then we leave London at 4 tomorrow afternoon.

I think we are going to go for a week next year. 1 day just isn't long enough.

Oh and we might pop to Chelsea's football ground to get some pictures for my brother.

Diege- i watched the octomum in a different programme done for a different channel (can't remember which) but it showed her in such a bad light- i can't believe she let them film all that and then show it on TV- that one did her no favours. Have sky+'d the one from last night and off to watch it this morning.

Sounds great KAYZ. Agree, a week (at least) is what you need for London, but you'll still have a great time .
CANT, that's interesting about octomum (not forgetting the other 6!). Looking at thread in tellyaddicts this one has been generally well-received; you should enjoy it! Certainly makes my life seem easy (for a few minutes).