July 2010: Weaning's in full swing, the kitchen floor's covered in ming

[CakeandRoses]

And voila: our 6th postnatal thread... which neatly works out roughly one a month [maths genius emoticon]

another wee in the potty, we're winning 6-2

my most dignified moment was fishing a sticker out of the wee-filled potty because Felix "no liked it"

Viksam potty training's not that bad, it's the first few days that are a bit hard work sometimes but generally if they're ready for it, they get the hang of it reasonably quickly.

Cake no I've never done dream feeds. I tried with A but she still woke at exactly the same times at night so I haven't bothered this time round.

Nights here, well G generally wakes once but the time varies. She goes to sleep about 7-7.30. Last night she woke at 12-something and had a feed then and went back till morning. Some nights her one wake-up will be at 2ish or 3ish.If we're unlucky she'll wake twice, say 12ish and 4ish - I think this happens when her teeth are giving her trouble.

By "sleeping till morning" I mean till about 5.30/6 am as she wakes then and simply will not go back to sleep. We get 6.30 if we're lucky.

dh I think it might work better if he's in his own room - G used to get disturbed quite a lot by us when she was in our room. She slept much better once she wasn't in with us.

cake did all the wees and poos go in the potty?

Well, J has discovered his willy. Best. toy. ever. He is currently lying naked on the floor (he does this most nights in between teatime poo and bathtime) watching ITNG and looking like he's about to pull his willy off.

Its just so hard to know what to do for the best.

Hes now asleep on me hes just had a feed, I might try and put him in his cot.

Hes in his cot asleep.

dh fingers crossed for you tonight!

woodlands

cake go F!

And he sleeps for a whole half an hour, wakes up and try to feed him but hes wide awake.

eveing everyone
cakes well done F!!!
dh stick with it it will be worth it in the end, just think the night before the wedding when your boobs are your own for the night!!!!
woodlands i think L is the same, for the past 3 days all he has done is to try and pull it off!!
chulita what you going to do about the house? would you live in it or rent it out? would your dh have to commute?
ive had the busiest day at work im shattered, dh is at work in the morning then got a visit from mil!! may slip out for some essentials or may even go to see if there are any puppies at the rspca, she will love that as she hates the thought of us getting a dog!!
on subjet of night wake ups normally L is asleep by 7.30 wakes at either 1.30 or 3.30 for a feed and maybe 1 dummy put in through the night and wakes evert morning between 5.30 and 6.30

memphis more like DPs for the night

I know mlic, Im going to feed him to sleep for now but make sure he sleeps in his cot then when hes used to that ill cut out the feeding to sleep.

After last night Ive seen he cant handle too much change at once.

You'll get there dh, it's trial and error a lot of time with babies.

mlic I'm the opposite, I'm a complete skinflint. I don't even like paying full price for L's clothes. Spending savings is the hardest thing for me! We haven't decided what to do about the house. I'm tempted to wait for a while and see if she'll come down, they keep saying it's a buyer's market and all that. We'd rent it memphis but we're aware we might not be able to sell when it's time to leave the army so we want a place that we'd love to live in iyswim. Honestly unless I chat up my grandad for a loan I don't think we can stretch to the 7k but might be able to add 5 on in a couple of months if we tighten our belts a bit.

dh I agree with mlic, if you just fed him 30 mins ago, he's not hungry. If he wants to play you need to decide whether to get him up for a bit or leave him to it. I'm of the 'once it's bedtime you don't get up til morning' school of thought but that's just me.

mlic 8pm? I always have L down by 7pm at the latest. I need my evenings! She's still wittering in bed takes after her mum but she's out of sight/earshot and that's the main thing!

DP is rocking him to sleep so we'll see how we get on with that.

I dont even mind if he needs to be rocked for now, I just want him to stop depending on the boob for sleep.

I'm so mentally and physically exhausted by the afternoon of potty training so i'm bound to type crap (which mlic which delight in jumping on )

i think it was a success, partially at least: he did 5 wees and 1 poo in the potty and had three accidents. We'll see how he does tomorrow.

The method is bloody hardcore. I literally did nothing other than talk about potties and dry pants and help him use the potty for 4 hours. You're not 'allowed' to do or talk about anything else and neither can they - so no music, tv, toys, mumsnet etc

i 'shouldn't' have had aurelia there but as she's so good i hoped it would be ok. It wasn't disastrous but there were some hairy moments when i had to sort her out (her first proper poo!) just as Felix needed praise so i wouldn't do it with another child around again next time when i train A.

Some children are literally completely trained after the first day (my step-bro was) whereas some have a few accidents over the next few days - i think F will be in the latter category.

wss A wakes up for her so-called dreamfeed now so i'm not sure if that was my fault or not. they didn't work with F eitehr so i kinda wished i hadn't bothered.

rocking's fine dh, you can wean him off that gradually more easily than weaning him off bf to sleep

hiya all,

Well done F with the peeps and poos, i'm dreading it cakes cos its been so long since i've potty trained.

chulita could you pay the 7k then save for a new car?

dh you have to do what you feel is right, maybe for D it has to be baby steps. Hope you have a better night than last night.

memphis have you thought about dogs trust? Thats were we got our dog and he's fab apart from being a doggy garbage disposal

viks how did your day at work go?

wss are the inlaws still with you? Anymore rudeness?

R found her bits too, she just kind of prods it. J used to pull his to the extent i thought he'd pull it off.

tsc how did it go today? Have you been able to take the job?

Dp is out tonight with his cuz who's wife who after 25yrs is having an affair so they are divorcing. He is in a bad way as you can imagine. Bit of good news is that dp may be getting a managers job, he's been applying to other places for ages. Its still 5days but its over 7days which is fine also better money. Fingers crossed for us please

Hi Ladies. Have I missed anything?

Cake Good on you for sticking with your day of hardcore toilet training. Do you think you've cracked it, or will you need a few more days intensive training do you think?

DH We went through something similar with Gwen about a month ago. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, but I'm so glad I did it. Bedtimes are so much easier here now.

TSC did I see that you'd been offered the job you went for? Congratulations! Have you decided whether to take it?

how are you needles? What you been up to?

it sounds sad tsc do you think you felt worse as your not ready to leave frankles?

That does sound really sad tsc poor little things.

i really think gut instinct is everything when it comes to choosing childcare. Keep looking at more nurseries and seeing how you feel, they're all different.

i really didn't feel ready to leave F when i went looking at nurseries and was fully expecting to hate everything but in the event, i looked round his current nursery and knew it would be right for him.

Every time i collect him now I spend ages chatting to the staff and looking around at the other children and i've honestly never seen anything like you've described there. the worst he's ever come over to me with is a slightly snottier nose than i'd like (this has only been a couple of times, on uber-snotty cold days when you have to wipe his nose literally every few minutes) but i have zero tolerance to snotty noses!