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StuntNun · 15/01/2013 16:56

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1655656-November-2012-sleeping-through-yet

The answer to the sleeping though question was a chorus of "no"s but there were a few resounding yesses and a lot more keeping quiet because the rest of us would be well jel.

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PurplePidjin · 18/01/2013 20:36

Another 8 week old grotbag here, refuses to sleep during the day. Naughty mummy dumped him on daddy and shut all the doors to wallow in the bath for 1/2 an hour Blush think I'd go mad if i didn't despite the guilt at putting them both through it!

capedcrusader25 · 18/01/2013 20:48

Horsey I'm about a 10 minute drive so we must be close! Are you Staffordshire or Derbyshire? I used to work there from 16-19 cleaning the themes rooms on the top floor! I used to get 40 tickets each season, but with 4 friends working there too they were a bit wasted.
O is ff and isn't sleeping through. I don't think she will either for a while. She's 12 weeks on Monday but still very small. She does seem to get the difference between night and day though so that's good.
detective could you get a cheap bucket out there and just take a box of Milton sterilising tablets. That might be easier? We had to cold water sterilise when O had thrush and it was nice up have 24 hours worth of bottles ready to go.
Has anyone else's LO got a scar type thing around the widest part of their skull?? It can only be seen where her hair is wet bug it goes all the way around her head. Like a jagged circular scar Confused

StuntNun · 18/01/2013 20:51

You'll find bfing gets easier around three months Candy as your supply matches demand and your baby starts to go longer between feeds. So a target of 14 weeks sounds like an ideal time to assess whether you want to introduce formula. I added a bottle a day at 16 weeks with DS1 due to low milk supply from using nipple shields which I found useful as it meant I didn't need to express if I was going out but there wasn't too much faff with sterilising.

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Clarella · 18/01/2013 21:08

tiger Beverly hills getting me through today... really rubbish - constant feeding and screaming but I felt too crap to bung him in pram and go marching. after seemingly mastering the art if burping he's totally forgotten how!

reason for crapness: ribena withdrawal. happened last time. mammoth sugar come down

detective - dh used extractor fan, does work v well!

Clarella · 18/01/2013 21:14

this baby is going backwards - at 3 -4 weeks he was going 2 to 3 hrs dduring day and 3to 4 a night. not now.

my boobs are like spaniel ears.

KissysUnderTheMisteltoe · 18/01/2013 21:23

Similar day here too clarella! Didn't get to go out in the snow with DD1 and DP today as baby was being a grumpy boob limpet. Here's hoping tomorrow is a better day!

Evilwater · 18/01/2013 21:24

Well it has snowed here today, usally I'd be out making snowmen. Today I've been indoors thinking my son is WAY better than snow.

I'm still feeling very cold, most of the time. I think it's those damn contraceptive pills.

I first today, LO manged to go to sleep on his own. I didn't need to rock him or anything. Yay!!!! I love Saturdays I get to spend almost no time at home, I get loads of help plus my dad buys cake!

Evil

Clarella · 18/01/2013 21:27

Evil have you had thyroid checked? common for it to wobble post baby but the pill made mine wobble aged 20 too.

oh fingers crossed kissy!

Evilwater · 18/01/2013 21:30

No, not with everything that has been going on, I thought it was stress. I will try and get an appointment for the dr.s

Evil

Bryzoan · 18/01/2013 21:41

Sooo tired.

Eliza - I thoughtWeighing pre and post feed was outdated now?this lll article says it isn't that helpful. www.lalecheleague.org/llleaderweb/lv/lvjulaugsep06p51.html
My mum had that when she was feeding me - she found it very stressful and says she switched to ff because of it.

G is bf and often sleeps 7hrs. Not the last couple of nights though. Also he has hardly slept at all today and gas instead joined dd1 in running me ragged. Fingers crossed they are now both as wiped out as me and sleep tonight.

Crap eBay buys... Det I see you a coat and two babygrows, and up you a p&t sport double buggy. Paid 150 quid for it and got home and realised it really stank of pets. Stupidly left ok feedback though mentioning it needed cleaning (ad said ready to use) but have now washed it twice, soaked it in Milton and soaked it in bicarb and it still reeks. Don't want to put LO in it and can't relist it in any conscience. Am contemplating emailing the seller but fully expect to be told to get lost as I've already given feedback. Buggy is now glaring at me and stinking out our porch. I have no idea how it could have got so smelly!

pikz · 18/01/2013 21:44

Yep candy off to the alps. For the first year ever I don't think I will be skiing really but it's cool...I love the whole thing. Like you often give up my summer hols for this...

I have medela sterilising bags. They can be used 20 times each. I used two for a week in Yorkshire as they are smaller and also we have 8 bottles a day plus storage bottles and pump parts.

I have a grotbag 8 week old too. Just whinge and eat all day.

Bryzoan · 18/01/2013 21:45

Clarella - I love the term "boobs like a spaniel's ears". If only I couldn't relate to it...

FatimaLovesBread · 18/01/2013 21:48

My boobs/nipples are killing and I'm shattered.

That is all.

Bryzoan · 18/01/2013 21:59

Here is that link www.lalecheleague.org/llleaderweb/lv/lvjulaugsep06p51.html

Dixiebell · 18/01/2013 22:06

We're going to a campsite in France at beg June. 5 hrs on ferry then 4.5 driving. More worried about ds1 being stuck in the car that long tbh. It'll be his first time abroad and we've only ever done long drives after bedtime so he sleeps. Except for one nightmarish journey back from Cornwall when he was about 9 months, and he cried for about 3 hours solid.

horseylady · 18/01/2013 22:11

Caped - derby.

Detective an ex colleague Of mine deleted me. A he. I think our relationship ended when he told me to show him more respect and I told him to fuck off. It was very nasty. I'm not a nasty person and I think I cried for about three hours. Randomly he messages me about two weeks ago saying congrats? I said thanks. That was all. Knowing him he probably expected a friend request. He didn't get one!!

Sooooo much snow!!!!

Passmethecrisps · 18/01/2013 22:13

Is there something about 8 weeks? p was a total horror last week - completely awful. She woke up on Tuesday morning - 9 weeks old - like a completely different baby. Last week all she did was cry now she only cries if I am faffing about changing a nappy or she is over tired.

I didn't notice anything different when she was 6 weeks so maybe the growth spurts vary.

My sister has been using the baby whisperer book as has noticed a difference in just two days. He is 9 weeks as well but had night and day totally topsy turvy. He could sleep 6 hours during te day then be awake absolutely all night. She is now seeing light at the end if the tunnel.

PetiteRaleuse · 18/01/2013 22:13

Oh skiing. I have always been scared of going, and a succession of French boyfriends always said they'd teach me. And I always avoided it until I got married, and figured that This French man would have to teach me. Then a year after we got married I fell off a horse and broke my back. Wasn't enough of a broken back to stop me from living a normal life, walking etc, but enough so that I have an excuse NEVER to go skiing.

Which is real proof that every single cloud has a silver lining Grin

PetiteRaleuse · 18/01/2013 22:14

Dixie where are you going in France? (don't worry, I'm not going to try and persuade you to go to Metz Ikea for a meet up)

Passmethecrisps · 18/01/2013 22:18

No snow at all here. What's that about? I can only imagine how tiresome it must have been at work today. Trying to teach teenagers when there is any adverse weather at all is a bit of a trauma. Choruses of "SNOW!!! When are we getting sent home??" I am not sorry not to be thinking about Doing that drive every day.

CandyPop · 18/01/2013 22:29

Another grumpy guts LO here . When she's in the mood she will smile and talk to me , most of the the time she fusses for nothing. I must say, my best efforts to entertain her still isn't good as a random shadow she catches whilst I change her! A lot of the time as I'm changing her she laughs and coos at something.

Hmm sounds like the sleeping through the night is individual to the baby regardless how they are fed. gt I have tried the peek test but then most of the time by the time I take her to her changing mat, take off gro bag to have a peek , I always think ah might as well change her now. detective how do you so the sniff test without picking LO up to smell and avoid waking her up?

I know all of you are right re bf. I think if I can make it to 14weeks I will most likely to continue. The main thing for me is no more mastitis. if i get it again i will stop. it made me feel really low last time. LO has had formula before 2 lots with my first bout of mastitis and then another 2 bottles recently with my second lot of mastitis. She also periodically get fed with expressed milk . She doesn't seem to be at all bothered whether its breast/bottle, bm/formula! Genuinely I think she is a greedy guts and would take whatever whenever! I mean when she had her jabs she was sooo sleepy, yet she still woke bang on 3 hrs for a feed but just fell back asleep straight after!

kirrinIsland · 18/01/2013 22:30

It's trying to snow here, but it's a bit half hearted.

Fatima I feel how you feel. N has just fed all day. I'm telling myself she's filling herself in preparation for an all night sleep but I suspect I'm setting myself up for disappointment.

PetiteRaleuse · 18/01/2013 22:33

LO hasn't, erm, shat during the night since about six weeks. Doesn't anyone else do the finger test? Nne times out of ten you're ok, but one in ten times you wish you'd done the smell test.. Does no one else do that?

pikz · 18/01/2013 22:36

See I don't take off grobag to change just unzip and slide a pampers throw away mat in...but I use the mat until there is a accident. It means LO isn't as awake as I have to change after a feed as he still poos during feeds.

Probably the lazy mans way to do it.

daisychain76 · 18/01/2013 22:37

Lots of snow here. Really worried we might have to cancel dd?s birthday party tomorrow. She has been counting down the days for ages, so would be gutted Sad

Fatima we are going to Majorca too, in June. Whereabouts are you going. First time abroad with dcs but feel silly for worrying having seen some of the trips you ladies are planning Smile

H had his last injections today. Think he has started teething too and using my nipples as teethers He has only just started doing the odd 3 hour stretch at night (norm is feeding every 2 hours) so really hoping this doesn?t make him regress. Oh and he gets one bottle of formula a night but it doesn?t seem to make any difference to how long he sleeps sob