April 2004 Babies.....the 3rd installment!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Work was a shock to the system...I was totally shocked that I made it to work only 5mins late. It was totally frantic and my morning (only doing 1/2 days this week) flew by. I can see my weight loss starting to work now as I can't snack like I can at home.
I feel totally guilty but I think it'll be worse next week when all we'll see of dd is getting her ready for nursery and then the bed routine basically.
Did give her tooth a wipe with baby toothpaste and my finger tonight...it was after bath before last feed but at least it cleaned off her dinner.

Well, dd was so exhausted the day after that awful night, she slept all the next day and from 8pm til 7am without a peep. Poor little cherub, I shouldn't moan really she doesn't create much, I am sure she had good reason,
I know she is happy this morning because she was chirping away like R2D2 this morning as I was getting ready for work.
Hope you had a good weekend away HD, you haven't missed anything here.

Hello! Blimey - I take a couple of days off work and it takes me the best part of a morning to catch up on this thread!

We gave ds some 'lumpy lentils' yesterday which went down well - lumpy because they didn't take kindly to being whizzed up! Anyway, he seems to eat whatever we put in front of him at the moment..! And finally this morning he slept until 6am instead of his usual 5am...! Every hour counts...(of course I was awake from 5am worrying that something awful had happened 'cos I put him in 2 sleepsuits last night...)

we would like to know how many of you have d's that sleep through purlease? (we live in hope, or i do at least!)

ta muchly xxxxx

Egypt. not sure whether to post or not but yes, some of our babies do sleep all night. dd3 does 12 hours a night solid.
bad news is she slept through from a month, but I guess if you've got a may baby you need someone to say that they have started doing it in the last month!

yes please! although a very very end of may babe, so shall give myself 6 weeks or so!

thats great for you fennel. i know all babies are different but can't help but compare. perhaps i feed her too much at night, and should try and stop. but its a sure way to get her back to sleep quickly, and she does really wake and shout her head off, grabs but hand and shoves it in her mouth, etc. she must be hungry!

anyway, better go, am bumping your thread up! you'll be beating us soon

Egypt, my dd2 was more like that. having had 2 very good sleepers and one who didn't sleep well at this age I tend to think they can't really be hungry at this age, it's more habit, and so they aren't likely to grow out of it without some "encouragement".
we did CC on dd2 and it did work, she did start sleeping through. But age 3 she's still by far the lightest sleeper of the 3, the last to fall asleep and the first to wake.

I should say we didn't try controlled crying before about 6 months. and I did notice before that, the more I fed her at night the more she woke.

hello E - sorry to hear that you are not getting the sleepd ds went through from 10-7 from around 6 wks , but that was when I changed from bf to formula cos he was waking every 1 1/2 for food I know it was the cowards way out , but I needed my sleep !

Hi everyone. Was a bad mummy this morning and left ds too near edge of bed and he rolled off I felt so guilty but luckily he landed on his back not his head. He screamed for quite a while and he hardly ever cries really badly unless he's very hungry or very tired. Also we finally got around to getting him a highchair at the weekend and yesterday I was putting him in it and squished his poor little leg and he screamed! He must think we're doing our hardest to injure him
Egypt - it took ds 3 months before he slept through.

No way near sleeping through!
Ds is a right royal pain in the butt in relation to sleeping at night. He wakes two to three times in the night and feeds like a dervish. Apart from last night when the little blighter shrieked his head off whenever I waved the boob near his mouth...What was that all about!

Poor you Lowryn. Actually my ds hasn't been sleeping through just lately but I don't get up and feed him. He doesn't cry just makes a lot of noise and I'm sure he would feed if I offered it. He eventually goes back to sleep but I can't until he has. We often have to get up to roll him back over still too

I keep squishing dd3's limbs in her highchair too but she loves sitting at the table with us all in it. Mrs D did you buy a tripp trapp chair in the end? dd3 is enjoying hers (passed on from big sister). apart from being squished into it that is.

Lucyjones, there's something in the catalogues which stops them rolling off their backs in their cots. sort of cloth with two bulges. I don't know what age it's for, having not had babies that rolled.

Reminds me! I gave DS some fennel tea to drink, I put it in an upended avent bottle top and he slurped at it. It was so funny.

dd was doing 9-7 at 6wks, at 3mths started waking 4x a night starving eating her hands etc. Started on some solids and now she does 7-7 with 1 or 2 wake ups. Am trying to only feed once and try to get her to sleep the other time without feeding. Sort of a softies way of trying to get her to stop waking up if she doesn't get a reward for waking.
The novelty of working has worn off already, can I be an SAHM now? Where can I find a money tree to get the difference between nursery and salary, it isn't a lot?
Enough moaning from me...may you all have a good night's sleep.

Another one here who's dd sleeps through, although you wouldn't believe it - I really harp about it when she doesn't!!
I think soemone must have changed the tape inside dd, she had been really vocal today I was chuffed to bits when I went to pick her up from nursery and I got a huge smile and outstretched arms, so maybe she did miss me
We haven't bought the Tripp Trapp yet Fennel, but we hope to. Dd is not sitting yet so I haven't felt the hurry. Our five week nursery fees this month has hit us so hopefully we would be better able to afford it next month.
I also have a question?
Dd only took 2oz of her afternoon bottle this afternoon so when I came around to feeding her tea I thought I would give it another go as she was demonstrating rather loudly that she was hungry. However, she refused the bottle again. She only had eyes for her little plate of sweet potato and greek yoghurt and sat looking at me with big eyes and mouth wide open. Well, she chomped that down no problem and continued to refuse her bottle. Anyone any ideas? Annabel Karmel says thst she should still be taking more milk than anything else.

Hi all ? have not been posting much as Ds waking 2-3 times a night (like baby Lowryn) and I?m shattered . Guess it?s not surprising really as he?s the youngest baby here I think? (4 May). Sorry cant be more encouraging, Egypt.

Have thought about starting on solids but baby doesn?t seem interested yet so will preserve with the Bf. Will go out and get the Annabelle Karmel (sp?) book that several of you have recommended. I guess this will be my last baby (sigh) so I might as well enjoy him. Dh seems to feel that 5 children is enough?unreasonable man. As I see it, DSD just left home yesterday so we have a spare room, so what?s his problem????.

Had very busy weekend as it was the baby?s Christening and we had HOARDS of people here. I?m such a bad housewife ? it took me about a week to clean and tidy the house to be fit for visitors . I only clean the house properly for other of course, not for kids and DH.

How are you all coping back at work? Is anyone still on maternity leave like me? I?m lucky that I don?t have to go back to work for ages yet. Suspect that the lack of adult conversation will get me in the end though???

Kristina - I am exactly the same - it is actually really good for me when we invite someone round cos it gives me a deadline to make the house habitable. Otherwise, there is just stuff all over the place. My sister is an interiors stylist, and even aged 10 I would pay her to tidy my room for me. Shame she now lives in Melbourne

DD2 is still waking once in the night. I haven't actually tried just letting her lie there, but reading everyone's posts I probably should!

So glad its not just me, Tickle

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Mrs D - how many ozs of milk is your dd having? Ds refuses a bottle every now and then - and definitely more so since weaning, but HV said no problem - as long as they're getting a minimum of about 20 oz a day (we make up 33 oz a day, + put milk in all his food!), so I don't worry if he decides not to have all a bottle, or refuse one altogether! Ds1 decided to give up milk completely from about 9 months of age - worried us like mad and we spent months trying to get yoghurts down him, and milk in his cereal. He's nearly 3 now and still doesn't like milk but is nice and healthy - can't make them eat/drink what they don't want to...!

Well dd is the oldest and probably almost the worst sleeper by the sounds of it - not too happy about that. Are the 12 hour sleepers still bf at night? Do you think it makes a difference?
dd hardly takes any milk from her bottle/beaker during the day. She is lucky to actually take 8oz all day with a bf in the morning and evening. She is still putting on weight so the hv doesn't seem worried.
I'm another house cleaner when somebody is coming to visit. I do try to vacuum once a week but often fail miserably.

My ds is on 4 x 6oz bottles a day which is 24oz but often he doesn't drink all of it so I reckon he's probably on 20 oz a day. He's definitely getting more of an appetite for food. Do you offer pudding after his main meal now? He's over 6 months now (just) so I guess I should start trying him with chicken etc.

Hi Chuffed! I'm terrible at housework - I mostly just do it when things look really bad, like the bathroom!! Or when people come round. I'll have to hoover more once ds starts crawling I guess

Mrs D - my dd3 has been refusing milk sometimes and hanging on for solids the last couple of days, and she's only been on them a week. I wasn't planning to feed her 3 times a day yet but she keeps looking hopeful when the rest of us have a meal!

Dot1 - dd1 would drink loads of milk but only from a baby bottle, eventually we chucked out the bottles when she was 3.5 and since then she doesn't really drink milk. guess it was the bottles not the milk she liked. but at 3 I didn't really care about milk consumption.