April 2011 - Food Glorious Food, Sleep Glorious Sleep <subtle key change> They're our babies, we'll obsess if we want to!

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Thread 4 - that's one a month!

JKS Can I tactfully join you on the 4am couch? We had a similar night last night, 4am wake up and no amount of shushing or dummy would help. Ended up feeding and then had lots of mamamama, dadadadada, lalalalala until she eventually dropped off again, she woke again at 7am but kept herself entertained until 8.30. Wouldn't be so bad but I never fell asleep until 1.30am :( stupid blocked nose and too hot bedroom! She never ate much yesterday so guessing she was hungry and that's what woke her. Unfortunately after a good start today she's hardly eaten a thing again so am expecting another broken night tonight, am sure work tomorrow will be fun.

Chilli R also thinks the sippy cup is for mouth rinsing, she can hold and tip it herself but just lets the water drip into her mouth and then doesn't close to swallow and lets it all run back out again!! Have reverted back to water in a bottle from time to time as she's also getting a bit constipated now she's properly on solids so need to get more water into her somehow. She's getting wise to the fact that it isn't milk though! Bought some prunes today too so will see if she likes them that helps.

Buck No rolling here either, she has done it once but never again! Am hoping that the restlessness and fussing this week is going to culminate in her commando rolling across the living room by the weekend [hopeful face] either that or maybe produce a tooth????? Although there doesn't seem to be any of the usual crying, gumming, drooling that goes with teething.

Beginning to think R is maybe a bit fussy when it comes to food. Up til now she'd eat anything you gave her, with the exception of broccolli and cauliflower but todays dinner was spag bol (from a jar ) and she hated it. Not really surprising as it tasted vile. Now slightly worried that on days when I'm not totally prepared or we're out and about it's not just going to be as simple as giving her something straight off the shelf!

Cycle Are the tip it up cups similar to the nuby cups? DSS had one of those but I can't seem to find another one for R. Have seen the doidy cups too ILTMI but I just predict mess with one of those!!

Ali Glad you had a nice holiday, sounds like you have your work cut out for you though!! I'm just getting to grips with R not having as many naps as she used to, god knows how I'll manage when she won't stay in one place either!!

Oh sorry dairy also meant to say, that's rubbish about the milk!!! Must be absolutely soul destroying. Hope you can figure out a way to resolve the problem.

4am seems to be the witching hour for the April babies! B poos at 4 am and loudly announces his need for a nappy change. It is then a hit or a miss for him to go back to sleep. Today we got til 7 beofre it was wake up time. Since then he only slept for max an hour in total all day today. Needless to say he was bedded by 6.30 tongiht. Who knows what tomorrow will bring!

Sassy & MrsW I'm on the insomnia couch too. I'm so tired, why can't I just sleep.

Dairy thats pants about the milk.

Ali Bs arm is as good as new. I'm just terrified of doing it again!

We were at a paed first aid class today which was really informative, the only thing was we all had our babies, which was a bit of a nightmare when the all started whinging at the same time. I just hope I never need to use what we learned today.

Right I'm off to bed in the hope that sleep will come easy tonight!

T went to sleep at 8pm, woke 45 minutes later and we gave Calpol for his teeth and then another feed. He started squeaking again at about 10pm, but by the time I got up there he had rolled onto his side and got his thumb in his mouth! And he is still asleep. Hallelujah, he has never settled himself back to sleep after emitting any kind of cry before.

Now I am off to bed!

Whoop. I'm an Aunty again. Lily Rose arrived at 250 this morning after a 2.5 hour labour. I said to Dh 'i can't believe how easy she had it, bitch' .

arch love docdete

sassy hope you've managed to get some sleep.

Ali welcome back. Glad you had a good time. And 9 teeth!!!

dairy what a nightmare!

So. I think, hope, pray, we've turned a corner. Night before last I put s down at 745 and he slept thru to 1210, had a bottle, slept til 450, fed and went back to sleep until 745. Then last night he went 845-855 / 859-1150 fed / then slept til 645. Yay.

That sucks Dairy

Yesterday H wouldn't nap after 1pm so crashed out at 6.15. I went out to meet someone about volunteering with a local mums' group and DP had to resettle him twice by the time I got back at 10. He then woke with an ear shattering scream and I had to feed him fir comfort.

He then slept til 5am but declared it wake up time, soooo tired.

dairy I have high lipase. Overnight is okay, more than that we scald. Apparently milk banks may take the milk because some mix it all up so the taste goes away IYSWIM. The lactation woman said it was more common with oversupply.

We're working on getting M into his cot fir naps. He's better now overnight - still wakes but feed and resettle quite easily and weaning is going really well. Today lunch was banana, cheese and Greek yoghurt. Very messy. I'm avoiding cleaning it up!

arch good luck with the potty training!

Ali glad you had a great holiday!

JKS hope nights improve soon.

DH accepted dinner invites fir tonight and tomorrow. This is fine, I like the people, our nanny lives in and is available to babysit BUT telling me yesterday hasn't really given me any time to work out the logistics of expressing etc Especially as I have to work Thurs and Fri so I'm spending my 2 days off alternately feeding, wrapping and pumping. I felt like one of those harassed mothers you see on TV with the whingy baby in the highchair, mess and bottles everywhere, the shopping not put away.... Feeding him now and ignoring tge disaster zone.

We have a tooth! Discovered this morning when b bit me!

Cheers for B Fizz !
9 Ali !
No knashers here TG! (Yet..)

Really interested to learn about the BM content issues. Sounds very frustrating :(

Welcome Lily Rose!

I have a strange family relations incident come up. [http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1328453-A-jem-has-come-up-is-it-unreasonable-and-what-do-you-all-do-Warning-I-consider-it-petty Analytical logical brains welcome to propose theories to solve the mystery]. Warning you might snort your tea up your nose.

I think we had a marginally better night last night, though I did resort to "just go to sleep" at 5.30am. She then slept til 9am. Not sure what the problem is but I'm trying to cover all bases - she's getting a boob in her face every couple of hours today, I've put a tissue with Olbas oil in her room as she sounds really snotty at the moment and I'm going to go back to finger foods for tea instead of purees. I think less of the finger food goes in and the purees might have been giving her wind in the night. Mrs W I specifically fed M an Ella's kitchen pouch containing prunes yesterday - though after 3 poos (before the prunes) nothing so far since .

No teeth here, lots of drooling, red cheeks, and chewing but it's been like that for weeks and nothing to show for it. Similarly, still no crawling but still trying very hard and sometimes going backwards, whilst getting very frustrated :(

Arch surely your dad would have been thrilled with the card? Maybe if you'd sent 2 cards she'd have wanted 3 - one from each of you? Thankfully I didn't have tea to snort up my nose, but I'll go make one now

(I spend far too much of my time entertaining myself reading the AIBU threads )

Arch your MIL sounds nuts. Anyone in our family is lucky to get any kind of card at all - we're crap at remembering occasions, and even worse at remembering to get and send a card in time. And it's not my job to send a card to my FIL, that's DH's job. My dad wouldn't expect a card from DH!

My sis went through a stage of sending everyone one card from her & DP and one from her DS. It was cute, but very unnecessary. I think she's stopped now.

And we don't do Christmas cards. At all. Unless we remember to send them to the family/friends we don't see very often. I.e. if we're going to see you in person, I'm not going to send you a card when I can wish you Happy Christmas myself! (and as for people who turn up at work with a huge stack.... )

                         (wow, that turned into my own little rant, didn't it. Sorry!)

Buck I'm afraid I'm blessed with a Christening Dress Changing MIL and a card mystery related step mother :(

I'm still outraged for you re the christening dress arch

Arch! Your stepmum sounds like a right nutjob! Do you really think she's hidden the cards from your dad?

We are having a sleep battle again today. would it be really that bad to give him a nip of whisky in his next bottle

Fizz I don't know what to make of it TBH I'm trying to think of a sensible likely explanation.

Fizz :( about B battling the sleep. R has decided that her usual nap spot isn't up to scratch and will only spot crying and nap if she's on my knee.

Sorry, misread stepmum for MIL.

How old is she Arch? Do you think she's "mad or bad" (to quote my A-level psychology)? In that, do you think she could, as others are suggesting, be purposefully manipulating your dad for financial/other gain, or do you think she's unwell?

Are there any other unusual behaviours/stories?

Buck She's 61. I'm not sure perhaps a special cocktail of the two?!
She has in the past driven wedges in the family by winding Dad up and pointing him in the direction of a fight (words, not fisty cuffs) whilst watching it play out for her entertainment.

My Dad has just retired and to my knowledge is not in the least bit wealthy.

I remember her mum going a bit funny for the last couple of years before she passed away. I wonder if it's a strange combination of mad/bad?!

I was really looking forward to that weekend. Now I'm not so sure.

Ohfrak we are near the end of our thread!!!

Wow Arch, she sounds like a bit of a witch. I'd have lost it so well done you if you didn't.

H is full of beans again this afternoon. He's refusing his naps but last night wasn't too bad and he refused yesterday too so fingers crossed.

This might be a stupid question but is nearly 7 months too young to go to a fireworks display?!

I don;t think so sassy. The younger the better in my books, that way they shouldn't be scared when they are older.

B went to bed at 6.30 totally wiped out after a day of sleep refusal. He has also refused any food on a spoon today too, but quite happily gnawed on chicken baby corn and pear. Would that be the teething?

personally I wouldn't take a baby to a fireworks display. Partly because babies don't tend to like sudden loud noises and also because I always had the fear of God put into me by my DM as when she was young she saw a girl get badly burnt in the face by a firework .
If you really want to go maybe get some of those baby ear protectors like they use at the music festivals.

Arch Your MIL sounds like a right [henvy].