March 2010 - Six months in - will they ever sleep?

[Arcadie]

Welcome to the latest thread for mums of babies born in March ( and a few in Feb and one in April!).

Come on in. Find out who'll be pg next and who's weaning onto what.

Elk You mean you have a PD altar too!? Wow - is your altar cloth embroidered with the Scottish & German flags as well? I thought it was just me.....

RKD yes both flags all along the hemline, interspersed with TTSP and FFFUY1...took me AAAAAGES.....i stole the Elk's fisher price stethoscope from her doctor's set and i've crafted it into a special icon centrepiece, using pictures of Jack Newman as artistic influence....I just really need a copy of that new software they have at her work now to complete the look

Wow some sage advice from Arcadie and Pixie

Had to laugh at the emotional lurve tank.

Poor Sariska. Me and DH don't get on that well now either (although it's grand at the moment). Think some time alone would be good but we've no-one around the babysit and any time family come DD decides to sleep badly.

Totally exhausted but she only woke up twice last night, and then only fed once so fingers crossed.

My heart goes out to all of you with non-sleepers, especially those with other kids and IWCAS (as she has no help in-house).

OOh what was PD's quote?

Has anyone any advice for me re [http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleep/1046333-How-to-Whether-to-wean-6-month-old-off-dummy dummies] please?

Sorry dummies

How stupid am I? Ha ha ha. I was always wondering who RKD was and now realise it's Arcadie. I mean there's baby brain and then there's just plain thick!!

Even I don't know what my quote was, aaargh, I am sooooo frustrated. 5 on demand or whatever the Channel 5 iplayer-equivalent is called, won't show it until tomorrow and I cannot find the thread in question on here!

I am now getting emberrassed by the fuss, ladies, desist forth with, I beg of you

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Right, even I am now stopping taking the pi** out of myself - really do not want to offend anybody's spiritual sensibilities.

Grubs up, byeeeeeeiiii!!

pacific. This is http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/what_would_you_do/1042174-If-you-were-asked-to-host-a-mixed-sleepover-for the thread

Sorry thread

IWCAS I think it maybe clashes with Mr Tumble so if we are home in the morning I can't watch The Wright Stuff as Cbeebies takes precedence chez Smac. I have a bossy little redhead don't you know

Dear Pixie. I was. For about 3 days. Imagine my surprise.....

Wow Arcadie, 3 days? That was quick work! We were trying for about 6 or 7 months, but mainly because that's how long it took my periods to come back after coming off the pill. Once they did, it only took one month. And we had made a definite decision to try; DH had to come off medication for his arthritis for 3 months before we could start (it was a fairly new medication so no definitive studies of effects on sperm). I felt bad that it took so long, since he was in some pain for all those months.

Pixie neither time here, though the second time we were planning to very soon... Does that count?

Glad to hear your DD's asthma is under control. I can't even imagine how horrid it must be for her. Fingers crossed she can pick up more days at school soon.

PD I too am in total awe. I am like my DD at nursery school when she sees the bigger kids in the playground.

Donttry I won't answer on your thread as tonight is the first time in months that DS has taken a dummy and I am sooo pleased. It means I don't have to rock/bounce/feed him to sleep every hour. If he continues to accept it, we will wean him off it before his third birthday (that is what we did with DD)

Siamese I hope the weather improves where you are. I might need to catch a 'Wright' show as I have never seen one so I feel ignorant when reading this thread (that is my excuse done).

Sariska Things get nasty at ours sometimes too (well, I get nasty to DH and he grins and bears it). We do try to make time to be together but it is really hard. When DD was 4 months (she is turning 3 years old next month), we went to Rome with the three of us and it was GREAT. We walked everywhere, the weather was great and we reconnected after 4 hard months. It was well worth the effort so if you need the address of the great b&b where we stayed, let me know :)

Evitas Fingers crossed that your LO sleeps the whole night through.

DS turns 6 months tomorrow. Time really has flown. He is doing well on solids, but his skin keeps reacting badly to new food. So we are doing babysteps.

He was with the CM for half a day again yesterday and sleeping was ok, but he totally refused the bottle. Thankfully the CM managed to get a whole pot of solids in him.

I had a job interview yesterday and it went soooooo well. I like the company, the people and I think I would be great at the job. The only problem is that it is full-time and I would prefer to work part-time... I heard today that I am through to the next round. Exciting!!!

Is anyone with a toddler at school working again? What will you do with your DC during half-term?

Nightie, night

Pixie - I was. It happened within 3 months first time and 1 month second time. I am very lucky.

Rome, you say, Dizzi? I've never been but it's quite an idea. I will mention it to DH .

Am another one who's never seen the Wright Show but am v impressed that One Of Us was quoted on it.

Right, early morning caffeine needed. And poss also calpol - for the sleepless, snotty baby. (Why did they ban Medised for the U6s??

V quickly before The Elking starts...
pixie coil removed at 5.15. Quick "well we may as well" attempt at 9pm. ..... I mean, we gave it a good bash for a couple of weeks after that and I don't even know if that is physically possible but scan dates and her actually arrival tie in with that date.

Anyone else find tho that the actual SWI thing is, well it's not the right word, but quite a turn on?!! Tell me to make a baby and I'm jumping on DH the whole time........just as well though, not as if it happens much for for the following 18mth...?!!

Right the morning is flying.

Pixie I was SWI and it took maybe 3 months. But it took me that long to figure out when I was ovulating. Was very lucky, what with being 36 at the time.

Dizzi I'm probably such an ingrate as DD has only gone in her cot awake for a few weeks with the help of the dummy. Maybe I should count my blessings and stop wanting perfection.

Mummyelk getting it on DH you say within 18 months ...nope...can't see that happening. Getting the kettle on maybe.

Oh yeah congrats on interviews Dizzi. Any clue as to the type of job? Also boo you've got me yearning for Rome now!

Went there with my Mam years ago. She lost her passport the morning we were leaving. Cue a m,ad dash to the gendarmos (very flirty and tut tutting at us in that paternalistic Italian male way - yep racist I know). Then mad dash to Irish embassy for a replacement. Back to the apartiemento (fluent aren't I? Not) for a cuppa whereupon she found the passport under the pillow where she put it for "safekeeping". Oh how I shouted laughed.

Thanks everyone. DS is a little bit better and he was awake just a couple of times during the night. DH also has a cold, so I'm at home babysitting taking care of the boys.

Pixie it took me 3 months to get my periods back after stopping the pill (Depo provera) and another 3 to get pregnant.

Dizzi well done with the interview! Hope you can get the job and have at least flexible working hours.

Back to work while DS and DH are asleep.
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Yes, brilliant news on the job interview, Dizzi. Good luck with the next round.

Can't believe anyone could get a replacement passport that quickly, donttry. Mine - complete with visa - was stolen once in India and it was a bit of an assault course to get a new one.

Have had a very nice day with DH, both DC and a friend and her toddler DS. The toddlers played surprisingly nicely together before we went out for tapas and the park. DH has now taken DS off to see his grandparents, DD is asleep and I am enjoying the peace and quiet. Bliss.

Pixie we were TTC both times, and both times was month 4 when we conceived. And melk I agree about the jumping on DH thing - but as well as the excitement about making a baby I put it down to not having any contracteptive hormones messing up your own natural hormones IYKWIM? Don't know how scientific or accurate that is, just my own personal theory - and one of the main reasons why I'm reluctant to go back onto contraception quite yet...not that DH is getting any much action at the moment anyway [guilt emoticon]

PD how cool that you were on the Wright Stuff! I don't actually mind him too much - he's certainly better than the toxic personality-vacuum that is Jeremy Kyle!

Sorry to all those having a tough time with non-sleepers. Here, it's not so much that she won't sleep - just that she won't do it in her OWN BED . Cue me being a mattress ALL evening and then a milk bar/sleeping partner all night. TTSP, TTSP, I know and I'm just kind of going with the flow for now, but I have this niggly fear that I'm just setting myself up for some nasty sleep training to come soon. I'm a bit worried that now she's doing this so often she might find it difficult to go back to sleeping on her own. I'm supposed to have a night out with friends tomorrow but I'm really not counting my chickens....I have a feeling if I even make it out the door I'll be summoned home again fairly soon . Am I being paranoid? Over-protective of her? Possibly. Perhaps I should just hand her over to DH at 7pm and switch off my phone for a couple of hours...!

I'm sure there was lots more I was going to say and more shout-outs to do but I've forgotten them all. DH has taken the DDs out for an hour or so so I'm 'making use' of my spare time to MN and lie ALONE in the bed, instead of cutting the grass as I should be doing . Och, it's too windy for that anyway....

Sorry about slightly bonkers use of emoticons in this post BTW

Evening all,

Been lurking and very impressed with famousness of PD!

Contests DIZZI on interview.

Wow at the speed of some of your conceptions. Took us ten months- after that length of time SWI isn't soo much fun. Working opposite shifts doesn't help in making babies though.

Saw consultant last night at fabulous new PFI nhs centre. Was just like going private- no wait, brand new, treated there and then rather than return 6 mths later. Can't speak highly enough of it. Sadly the upshot was a steroid injection in mr nerve- agony today. Can barely pick up ds :-( x

Also saw PD's famous thread. I have to say I don't know that I'm liberal enough to allow a mixed sex sleepova with hormonal teens. I know it's wrong but may be persuadable for an son but I know I wouldn't be able to bring myself to allow a daughter to have one or attend one. Hormonal teenage boys let loose on a daughter??? No thanks!

Evening ladies, well, another melt-down (mine ) was had here today. I am really not enjoying life much and for the first time in life am seriously asking myself whether I am depressed . I just do not seem to manage to shake off perfectly normal minor aggro (toddler resistant to getting dressed, poos into new nappy just as we are about to leave to school, in the rain natch, several bowl of cereal overturned this morning, Joe is usual unsettled, fidgety, hyper self etc etc); nothing earthshattering, but just cannot deal with it and be calm in the face of boys bickering/fighting/name calling like I normally can. And the count down to work seems to be speeding up...

Kids are off school here for a few days and we are going to Crieff Hydro. Never been before and am looking forward to it. Might be all relaxed and happy on our return. .

Anyhoo, that's my whinge done.
Pixie, you nosey mare, re TTC: took 1 year for my cycle to return after I stopped the pill, then took 4 years to 'make' DS1. DS2's arrival was rather faster . And the other 2 were conceived within 3-4 months of trying... so inspite of advancing years, having been successfully pregnant once, seemed to make the process easier subsequent times. Disclaimer: no scientist was harmed in the making of this statement .

Dizzi, exciting about job interview. I hope the next step is a successful one.
And I am v re your DS being keen on his solids. Joe is still not bothered (now 28+ weeks old).

donttry, at 'getting the kettle on'; I hear you, woman, same here... And your passport story, oh my !

heckle, we seem to have gone backwards on the whole co-sleeping thing again as well. I am sure, well, I am hoping it is teeth that are making it so much harder for him to sleep on his own. We are 3 teeth down, only 17 to go

scooby and everybody else who has read the sleepover thread, I feel the need to justify myself . And also to express my disgust at Mr Wright's sneering/pervy take on it all, sniff : I do think that 12-13 year old kids could be allowed a mixed sleepover; depends on the children and the parents and the house. I would feel v different about 14/15 year olds... . But then again I also do not like it when preschoolers are being asked/teased about their 'boy/girlfriend' and the whole girl=pink/boy=camouflage thing and feel hard done by when I am expected to wear a swimming cossie in the sauna... . From memory was the OP of that thread not saying they'd have seperate rooms on seperate floors of the house??
And Mr Wright can just get right lost - I couldn't bear to watch the rest of his show .

Sorry about the massive post. Over and out.