Sleep is for the Weak Reunited

[gingerninja]

As we're officially not the weakest of other posters on the sleep boards anymore, it's time to move on. So, here is the new home for those of us that have been on SIFTW so long we can't bear to leave and who finally, can think about other stuff to talk about.

So my SIFTW sisters, this is where the kettle is always on and we can talk freely about sleep, no sleep or anything that takes our fancy.

Hello Meg and singular bump.

Hope everyone's well, and that all with bumps are blooming. You must all be quite far along now. Am I right in thinking that EP is due fairly soon?

We've moved out of London to Manchester. I am not working at the moment, which is nice in some ways, but I'm not entirely sure that I'm cut out for full-time SAHMing. Will start work as soon as I have CRB clearance. Which could be months yet .

DD's well, yabbering away to all and sundry she meets, and spends most of her time "cooking". She's dropped her nap though , and is generally a nightmare by about 5pm. Still sleeping through though so I can't really complain.

Looking forward to hearing all your news.

hi lovely ladies

dd sounds VERY cute perkin!! I mourned (and still am mourning) the nap thing and dd also gets a bit 'fretful' at about 5 and then has to plug on til bedtime. she fell asleep mid story last night at 6pm!! bless glad to hear that lo is still sleeping thru tho.

i'm another to be joining you bumps, although still at tadpole stage so nothing to see yet!!! cant believe i'm doing it for the 3rd time!! not due til june, so a looooong way to go yet.....

hope everyone fine and dandy and enjoying those lovely autumnal colours out there

TIBSY!!!!! Congratulations m'dear. very pleased for you. hope you are keeping well, and not too knackered.

Congrats Tibsy!!

How are you feeling, not too sick I hope?

Congratulations Tibsy

How are you feeling Meg?

I'm huge and uncomfy, but due in less than 6 weeks (hurrah!)

thanks ladies!!!

meg yes, i most definitely AM mad!!! dp is thrilled and i suspect would love even more. i think he's secretly hoping its twins got my scan on the 3rd of dec, so we'll find out then...

perkin not feeling too sick, thank god for small mercies, but am feeling INCREDIBLY knackered. i just want to go to sleeeeep. this is where dd's nap would have come in really handy

EP - i cant believe its only 6 wks to go. The final countdown!!!

anyone heard from amber or ginger?

How was your scan, Tibsy?

We had the 20-week scan this morning. All fine... and looks like I'm having DS2!

congrats meg thats lovely!!!! i watch my friends little boys play together and its so lovely to see that relationship, although not always harmonious!

scan was good thanks, just the one!!!!! slightly further along too, by 2 wks so now due june 13th she also found an ovarian cyst which she thinks is a corpus luteum?? theyll check again at 20 wks. hopefully itll just go on its own. i'm looking forward to the 20 wk scan to see how much baby has grown and whether it'll be a boy or girl!!!

Oh my goodness what great news. Congrats Tibsy.

Meggy, how exciting to be having another little boy. I have left finding out until the big day. I like the idea of two the same sex but I'm not sure about two girls. It'll just be fighting all the time won't it?

EP, you really are on the home straight now aren't you. Hope it's still going well. You were thinking of moving at one point. Did you shelve that idea?

Well, I'm 26 weeks and it's all going very quickly. I feel absolutely fine, just fat. Don't think I'm enjoying things as much this time around. I suppose I don't think about it much. I'm probably more nervous about the birth though as I'm hoping to have a home birth and I'm slightly worried that this one is going to be a monster baby. DD was 8lb 11oz and I'm pretty small. I'm convinced this one will be over 9lb. Largely because I'm eating for the entire population, not just for two!

Hope you're all OK. Mumsnet doesn't seem the same these days does it. Lots of people have left and it's got very very bitchy.

Perhaps when we're all on maternity leave we can meet up? I'm looking at the prospect of redundancy at the moment so my leave may be extended.

Hmm, well in my family it was my brother and sister who fought all the time, my sis and I have always been very close.

Anyway I'm past the ravenous hunger/nausea stage thank god, but my immune system seems to have gone completely up the spout, I am on my third cold in as many weeks. I'm sure it's since I stopped breastfeeding DS, I was never ill when I was feeding him!

ginger to hear about possible redundancy. i hope it works out for you. good luck with the home birth, i had dd at home and i have to say it was a lovely experience and i'm hoping to do it again this time all being well. i'm with you on the eating for the entire population!! am thinking about food ALL the time. mostly mince pies atm

meg i think thats another endorsement for bfing, boosts your immunity as well as the babies!!!! i think your boys will get on just fine. must be nice for you to have that relationship with your sis, i never really thought about having a sister as i was growing up, but as ive got older and had children of my own, and watched friends with their sister's, i think it must be quite nice to have that relationship. not that i'd be willing to trade my bro tho. i love him to bits

hope everyome else is fine and dandy and looking forward to christmas.

Just a quickie to say good luck EP, I think you're due in the next few days? Hope it's quick and easy!

Happy Xmas to everyone else

Hello everyone! I have ben lurking about but haven't posted for ages (I think I'm a bit scared all this getting pregnant might be contagious ).

Life with 3 is certainly very busy. DS2 is gorgeous but has turned from a terrible baby to a VERY demanding high maintanenece toddler. It's a good thing that I love him to bits. It just gets a bit wearing when only mummy will do.

Good luck to all your preganant ladies I am sending you happy peaceful labour and sleepy contented baby thoughts.

STILL HERE

grrrrrrrr

Hope you pg ladies are all well and enjoying the holidays

Merry Christmas everyone and good luck EP.

I feel the like the size of a house. 28 weeks but look more like 208 weeks. I think I've overdone the mince pies! Hope you're all keeping well.

Some exciting news on this thread

hi all,
i hope ep and family are all enjoying getting to know one another and ds1 is enjoying being a big brother

hope everyone else is well?

just wondered if anyone been experiencing wonky sleep?????
dd been very erratic, night before last, slept 7.30pm til 9.30am and then last night, same bedtime but was awake from 3.30 to 5am and just woke now at 9am (she's with dp, i havent abandoned her!!) this seems to be happening a lot at the mo, we've been having some great nights and then some shockers. its not like shes upset, quite the contrary, she crawls into our bed then attempts to sing 'i could fly if i want tooooooooo' from toy story??? or just laughs out loud to herself??? its just a bit knackering thats all.....
am attempting to start her at playgrp, but we've missed one session cos she didnt wake til 10.30am and i dont really know whether i should just wake her and put up with a grumpy dd or just leave her be???

Hi Tibsy, I still go to bed not knowing what the night will bring. Mostly DD sleeps about 8 - 6ish give or take half an hour either side. However I'd say it's rare for a week to go by and we don't get woken at least once. I think DD is starting to dream a lot more vividly too because we've had a few nights of her being hysterical for ages and then dropping straight back to sleep. Can't understand it. Personally I'd wake her in the morning and then try and get a bit of routine back. If she's at play group she might not be too grumpy. Is she still sleeping through the day? My DD is resisting daytime sleep more and more but it means that by 4pm she's absolutely shattered so some days she'll have an hour and other days nothing, it's all a bit confusing at the moment.

Hope the new addition isn't keeping you awake too much EP. How's all the other preggy ladies doing? I'm exceptionally fat now. Only have about 8 weeks left which is a bit of a worry because I think I've been living in denial. Doesn't feel real somehow and I'm dreading the introduction of a new sibling as I think DD is going to take it very hard. Despite adoring babies and all things dolly, she is very protective of her position with us, especially her daddy so I'm not sure how she's going to react to a new addition.

Anyway hope you're all well.

DS2 sleeps. Well, not at the moment cos he's going through the 3 week growth spurt but hey

hope for those of you expecting no. 2. Might all change but we're enjoying it while it lasts

ginger, dd gave her up naps aaaages ago (sob!!) i have really missed them, esp being pg. thanks for that re. the sleep thing. yep, i think i'm gonna have to bite the bullet and wake the minx if she carries on. really want to get her settled into playgroup before this baby comes, although not due til june i know, but it soon comes around. cant believe its only 8 wks for you. i'm finding it a bit daunting already and i'm only half way there!! its just the idea of having a toddler and a baby, much scarier than when i was facing the prospect of a teenager and a baby i think we can probably expect some ups and some downs for sure....but it'll all be ok, remmeber our old siftw mantra, its just a phase

ep, am very for your sleeper. i wish you many more sleep filled nights! after the 3 wk growth spurt obviously!!

Ginger, i'm already following this for ideas!!!

DS's sleep can still be erratic, he'll have a week of sleeping through every night then a week when he's awake once or twice every night. But I can cope with it much better now!

More of a problem is getting to sleep myself -- I've got restless legs, aching knees, reflux and starting to get a bit too big to lie anywhere comfortably.

I too am panicking about what I will do with two -- I seem to recall not having enough hands to cope with DS half the time as a newborn and of course all those long feeding sessions

Still, EP's DS gives us all hope!

well, dd slept beautifully last night. i of course was awake for 90mins plus+ just thinking. had to write it down in the end to get it out of my head blardy gregnancy!!!!
hope all you lovely ladies and your dc's are well

oooops that was obviously pregnancy

Well, we have had some bad nights from DS recently... he's going through a phase of not wanting me to leave the room, but then if I stay with him while he falls asleep, then he expects it in the middle of the night as well!

Last night he took an hour of grizzling to go to sleep (he kept standing up in his cot so I was in there every five minutes laying him down again) then awake for an hour in the middle of the night... today he has taken half an hour to settle for his nap (again of me going in and out of his room laying him down every time he stands up).

God knows what will happen when he moves to a bed, at the moment those cot bars are the only thing between me and losing my sanity!

And it all starts over again in 12 weeks! I must be crazy...