Evening All (am guessing everyone else has disappeared for the night). Am struggling to get on here at the moment and missing it! Still, am sat here working at the mo and thought I deserved some down time too.
Ses - I'm exhausted just reading all you've managed to get done today . Belated Happy Birthday to you. Sorry DH didn't get you a card. We have an agreement in our house, no cards for each other (mainly because DH doesn't do cards), then he went and got me a valentine's card - I felt mean, but we had agreed it. Now we've agreed just birthday cards and on no other occasions. Hope you enjoyed all the treats you had organised for yourself. I would prompt him re. mother's day card in advance. Last year I got one from DD even though she was in NICU (the nurses did them for all the babies Mums - and they were on shift, so no excuses re. work from DH I think! )
Rugby - the sleep deprivation of 4-6 months is the hardest I think. I have no tips for you as we're not there yet with DD and she was 11 months yesterday. With DS we started settling him in evening at about 8 weeks and used to sit there next to him holding first dummy and catching it as it fell out and then thumb and catching his arm as it fell (otherwise that would jolt him awake) and he was a pretty good sleeper from about 6 months, but then I did give up bfing at about 22 weeks with him He is such a good sleeper now, not sure we're going to get there with DD [sleep deprived emoticon - why isn't there one of those on here?!] From what I know of CC, 45 mins sounds about usual for first night. Also, I wouldn't expect a bf baby to sleep all night with no feeds, but could expect her to have a feed about 3.5-4 hours after going down and then do a ca. 6 hour stint maybe?
MMM - sorry for headaches. Now, I don't want to put scary thoughts out, but would rather say this than not - have you checked your gas if you have it in the flat. Just that your head always seems to be worst when you're in the flat/house, so would be worth checking there is no leak. Am sure it is dehydration or maybe eyes instead, but would hate to not say anything having thought it and then hear that there was a problem later.
Can't - yay for shopping - is DD2 nearly 1 already - where has the year gone?!
GBL - if you're lurking. Don't know if I said, but glad my thinking out loud helped and you have continued bfing.
Gruff - thinking of you and your Mum regularly. Hope she is doing well. Not long 'til you hear about your course I think? Yay for GC walking too - how exciting!
Cosmo - good to see you back on here. Sorry for poorlies, similar here - is rotten. Roll on nice weather as I'm sure this driek weather is just encouraging the bugs.
Diege & Tink - go girls on the shopping. You truly are shopping queens. I even find internet shopping too exhausting at the moment!
Kayz - triathalon sounds impressive. That's not just one sort of exercise, it's three - I bow down to you lady!
Sorry for anyone I've missed...
All struggling with some sort of cough/cold/not quite right tummy virus here. Is just not shifting. And as I can't bring myself to get tough on sleep with DD while she's ill, we're 11 months in and still no sleep through the night... Ah well, I am mostly just feeding once during the night, but last night she wouldn't settle back into her cot, so I brought her in with us and she settled herself and resettled during night too without feeding. Think she just likes sleeping in our bed . Do amaze myself that every night, I wonder - "ooh, maybe DD will sleep through tonight" - don't know where that unfounded optimism comes from!
Right, must finish work and go to bed. Sorry for extraordinarily long post