October 2011: our growing, rolling, sleeping (we hope) and growing more gorgeous by the day babies

[LittlePebble]

Our third thread!

ditto on the knees tally . We have a changing mat upstairs on top of a waist height unit, but during the day I'm too lazy to go up and down the stairs so end up doing it on the floor.

welcome back sound

I have my change mat on the floor in the lounge, I don't mind doing it on my knees though. We only have a single level house so no need to have an upstairs change area as well!

Re naps, A tends to have three a day now - morning, early afternoon and late afternoon. He's taken to waking twice a night now though for the last 2 nights and am tired, was used to only having to get up once! Maybe it's the 4 month regression thing as well?

in fact he's having a nap now, so should probably go and try and have a snooze myself instead of spending it all here!

I've had Gran comments about ebf too Engels, think it's an age/generation thing :( Good way to get rid of your FIL though by getting your boob out!

Sassy EIGHT bedrooms!! Good I would be loving that. Having lived in a smaller house in a better location I now firmly believe location is the most important though. My pay a premium to live in our current village (for the trees/hares/pheasants etc) in comparision with what we could afford where we used to live (the West Midlands).

Sound welcome back :) Is that what that was last week - Sleep Regression? What's the hell was the point in that??!! I think /hope it has passed now. Don't want to jinx things but P is 16 weeks and went to bed at 10pm, has just woken at 2am, fed, gone staight back down, here's hoping she is good until 7am

Tally 4 days before P was born I fell over on to both knees on the laminate, bloody killed and I still cannot kneel to change/put in car seat. I am like an old biddy

cheshire I agree about location - we pay more for a place in a good location as well. Especially important to me is not to far from the centre of the city and good bus links etc - it makes day to day life much easier and nicer to be somewhere lovely

Morning all! Hope everyone's ok?

Reading people's comments about change stations with interest. We use the worktop in the utility room - perfect height, running water etc but I'm just about to relocate Boy to the floor because he's getting too good at rolling. I had to put his bedtime nappy on sitting on the floor, legs either side of him and using my toes to pin his shoulders to the floor. He's a terror!

I also put him down in his cot for a nap today which worked a treat. I waited for an eye rub, scooped him up and bundled him upstairs and he slept for an hour or so which gave us some time with dd. I don't get the chance to do it very often because we spend so much time out with dd. We're in this'd morning so i'll try again later.

Need advice - I think Seb has a cold. He's snorting and seems to struggle to breathe, like he's got snot... What helps?

Morning! Sound welcome back
Sassy 8 bedrooms sounds amazing!
Cheshire hope the packing is going ok.
Fuzzzy saw on fb S in her door bouncer (so cute) we've been given one but no instructions etc how old was she when she first went in it?
So for first time ever last night I put e down in cot awake and he didn't cry straight away. I even got to go downstairs and have dinner before he started. He was frantically sucking his fingers so think that might be the difference but whatever it is it might be progress....? hasn't happened since though

Tough night here :( poo at 2, vomit at 4, poo at 6.30.

Ahh rubbish Scheh, have you not spoken to C about doing EC yet ?

P kicks off if I chang her nappy in the middle of the night (don't know why she never bothered the first few weeks) so now I just put loads of Sudocreme on her bum at bedtime and leave her until morning.

Getting to eat your dinner, minus baby, is pretty good Pebble :)

Tally we have had the snot issue for months now. TBF the best thing is the Saline Spray up the nose, P hates it but if I hold her head and do it quick up each nostril, then dab under her nose (because it drips) she seems to be coping with it better. After that I could tell you a million things we have but we are just having to put up with it. I currently have a thread running in Sleep about it as it's gone on for so long. Hopefully yours is just a quick cold, in which case try the Saline Spray and Baby Snuffle Rub (put on the baby grow).

Feeling quite chirpy as P only woke at 3am and 6.30am, which is a vast improvement on the last few weeks.

I have been terrible at keeping up here. Sorry all

L is doing much better but the ABs are definitely increasing the poos and he is more colicky in the evening. I hope that's just the affect of the ABs in his tum.

He's in cloth and I'm now worrying about what to do if he gets thrush - anyone know anything about this?

On the cloth note I too try to get L through the night in one nappy but it usually leaks. The alternative is awful, he wakes too much to easily go back down. Anyone have a good all-night diaper recommendation?

I second the saline up the nose, we didn't have to use a squeezy bulb, L just sneezed everything out on his own. Not pleasant but better out than in!

Catching up slowly!

For night.time nappy changes I just give c the other boob and he falls asleep. When he was newborn feeds would ho straight through so at every single feed I'd do one boob, nappy, other boob.

He's just woken up after going back down at 7, I put him on and he's gone straight back to sleep!

I.e. as long as he's had one boob he's happy!

I change J before 10pm feeding and that's it till she wakes properly, which is in about 10 minutes I reckon. She's usually quite dry in the night but of she's wet she wakes anyway,

Colds all round here too.

C's poo at 2am was so explosive loud it woke both me and DP up!

He's miserable and tired now, just wants to be held, won't go on mat or chair.

Taking him to docs this AM.to try sort out the vomiting. Trying to put him down for a nap now as he's not a happy baby :(

Sorry for all sick babies.
I've started potty training today, it's not going well Anytime I suggest to sit on potty/toilet he says he's scared, we've had one accident this morning so far. I have the reward chart on the fridge and have explained it o him, and he also gets a choc button for every "attempt" (I'm aware this will need to change when he's more confident) can see a long few months ahead and I'm exhausted already
any tips??

Another tough night here too. I just don't understand what is causing her to wake.. She is having full bottle at bedtime, that's after bath and nappy, clean clothes etc then into sleeping bag. I was thinking it was getting to cold in my room through night do I left heating on over night as temp did drop to -2 here!! But still she started grumbling at 4.30am. She isn't fully waking but enough that she starts to cry and wont settle again without dummy. I don't want to feed her if it's not needed (don't want to get back into the habit of it) but can't see what else it could be..? Ended up at 6.30 bringing her into my bed. She lay for a while then nodded off again do I did too and only just woke at 8.30am for her morning milk. I guess it's not helping with the fact I can't sleep at night before 1am so really, I'm gubbed!! Maybe tonight I'll try a dream feed at 1am, just a few oz to see if it tops her up enough to sleep right through again.

lp yesterday was the first time having her in the door bouncer. She is 4 months today ()!!!! Ours was from a friend so no instructions either. I couldn't get it any lower, hence why her feet don't touch the ground!! Was it on my page u saw it or the group page? I tried to upload there but didn't think it worked..

edin nursery when we done toilet training, we took kids to toilet at 20 min intervals. Even if they just sat for a min etc, still we're rewarded. It's just keeping consistent in your effort with it. Also, trying just having him in pants, no trousers, do that if he does need to go quick, it's not to hard to get them down. I hated doing it in the nursery, give me multiple nappy changes with babies any day!! Gd Luck!!

Fd I saw it on the group page, went to comment and it had disappeared! Assumed you had deleted it. Her face is priceless!

Took 13 minutes to get C to sleep, he's sleeping nicely and the bastard dog barks at postie and wakes him up and he's screaming again now :( he never used to bark, learnt it off MILs horrible mutt.

Fd it came up in my news feed from your page.
Scheh my dog does the same grrr!
Put E in door bouncer and he loved it! He hates lying down and even the bouncer is too reclined for him so I've ordered a bumbo seat, and with that and door bouncer hopefully he'll be happier to be out down!
Jnice sorry no idea on cloth nappies but if you want disposable for overnight pampers baby dry are great.

Hi Ed, we did potty training with ds last year - we found that for three days we had constant accidents and I thought he would never crack it, he was so stubborn and hated the potty, but then on day 4 or 5, when I was about to give up, he just got it. We had him in pants all day, and he hated being wet so eventually realised he had to use the potty. It took a week for him to get the hang of it (and we didn't leave the house unless he'd just been). Chocolate buttons helped. He is still even now stubborn about going and leaves it till the last minute, and bizarrely only seems to need to go about 3 times in 24 hours. Contemplating ringing the health visitor about that as it can't be normal!

Also - one of my friends warned me that it's quite common for them to regress a few weeks after they've cracked it just to test if you mean it (when the novelty's worn off!).

And another vote for pampers baby dry.

Pampers baby dry here too

Potty training - we bought ds2 pants he liked but he really didn't want to sit on potty. He was by this point putting poo in loo as when e did in nappy we'd go to loo and flush the poo. Do more warning for poo so able to encourage him to put it in loo or potty. Once hed mastered pooing there was a gap between being dry. I never pushed him. What we said was "if you want to wear your pants you must put wee in loo". On Christmas eve (3 days before 3rd birthday) he decided he definately wanted his pants on. Since his has had less than 5 misses (accidents). But in first few days when he did miss I drew a sad face and when he got there in time a smiley face. I was amazed and very proud he did it himself. When I was trying to get him to it was upsetting him and he's very stubborn. Also no regression ever and that's over a year on. Because it was never a control thing he's never felt the need to test me. Same with weaning, did blw ish and never argue over eating, he will try all food but if he tries it and doesn't like it, he doesn't have to eat it. Bit every child is different so what rots for one, doesn't another.

When J is o her bouncer she is straining to sit up/forward. Not been strapping her in but I'm going to now. Also on her back she pushes herself around and now wakes us up by lifting her legs high up and banging the down. Very funny anyone else's little ones doing funny things?