November 2012 - Don't forget the tummy time

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pr have you tried a dream catcher?? Dd1 had such trouble sleeping in her own room when she swapped to a big bed so we went shopping for some new bedding and a bedside light which still resulted in bad nights so my nan suggested a dream catcher (I bought her one years ago) and it worked - even now she still has night terrors 2/3 times awake which I put down to her over active imagination and desperate desire to be a dog??? and she'll wake up and ask me to shake it as its full of bad dreams lol

I'm not sure she understands the concept of dream catching but I'll try anything.

She chose her bedding and even the actual bed (she started trying to vault out of her cot). She was really excited when we put it all together. But won't sleep in it. If we try moving her once asleep she wakes up. And screams the house down.

She went through a lot within a few months: moving house, new nursery, new baby, illness in hospital...

It's ruining our evenings and nights. It doesn't help that DH has completely different opinions on everything, so there's no consistency, no routine, nothing. I have always been against co sleeping for this very reason, but read stuff on here (MN) about how brilliant it is and the rod for own back brigade are wrong. Ha! Never again. And rant over.

That said I am sure it works for some people.

DS doesn't sleep in his bed either, he always slept in with us. Then he got a big boy bed and spends half the night in that and still comes in with us.

DD sleeps in the cot during the day (when I can be bothered to settle her, if not she sleeps in my arms!)
She sleeps in with us at night, I should try her in the cot now though.
She goes 9-3ish most nights now, sometimes better/ worse.

Meant to say glenda As others have said, men just don't get it. You have to spell it out, unfortunately. Men are from mars...

I'm eating a donut for breakfast. Is that wrong?

The new bedding idea is a good one chunky. Perhaps you could involve her in making her own girlie room that she is excited to sleep in pr

IMO I do to know how you do co sleeping. On the few occasions I have slept with DD1 she drives me crazy and takes up the whole bed. I have always been scared of doing it too much in the baby days as I am wary of getting stuck in a rut.

Ha ha glenda .i realised something was up when I cried for two days at a coach crash at my DDs school, one of the teachers died and the press were crawling all per the village. I wanted to go and take my girls away from the madness and being exposed to something like that.

We had an eventful week. I proposed on 29th of Feb, BFP on 2nd March, then we got our planning permission for the house.

Pass me a donut chunky? Currently walking up & down on attempt no 2 to settle DD after having to express because reflux meant she wouldn't feed. It's been a morning.

Still, chatted to DP and just wanted to add a voice to the 'they just don't get it' brigade. I actually said I missed him as my friend and I want to be a team with him. He reacted much better to that and stayed while I expressed this morning and made me a sandwich in case she's in my arms all day. We actually hugged! First physical contact we've had in months. So hang in there ladies and demand the best- you and LO deserve it

Going to try baby yoga later. Hoping it might help poo watch that officially commenced at 0;00....

Q: if you express but v little comes put, will the action itsf be enough to stimulate supply?

But she loves her room. When we moved in she chose it, her books and some toys are there. As I said she chose her bed and bedding. I often find her playing in her room. But she won't sleep in there.

The afternoon nap neither, though she will go to sleep on her own for the afternoon nap (very recent).

I do feel undermined though as DH and I are on a completely different wavelength. So afternoon naps on the weekend turn back into the nightmare they were before. She sleeps through the night, never had much of a problem with that until literally the last few days. I'm really bad at functioning on lack of sleep. This is why I'm so lucky both of them slept through early. But now I want my bed and my evenings back.

Attempt no 2: confused look, big grin, giggle and coo, confused look. Cry

(Facepalm) attempt no 3 then I bust out the sling

hello. Y is asleep for first nap of the day. The house is a pig sty but I am having a cuppa and doing bugger all.

Night terrors are awful. DS2 has them and I too think it is his vivid imagination. Although now he only seems to get them when he is ill.

Question. When can babies stop lying flat in a pram? Y hates it if he is awake and so I am thinking of popping him in the stroller on a bit if an incline so he can see. With two school runs a day it would be easier without the pram.

Aaa and we're in the sling. Made her fall asleep in bedroom listening to Ewan atleast

I think they need to be 3 months or sitting??? I'm not sure. Will LO do a sling so they can look around?

This mornings poonami was so bad it soaked through the following.
Vest. Babygro. Sleeping bag. Our bed sheet and mattress
The whole house smells of poo. And to make matters worse I believe the cat has just deposited a little gift in his litter tray. Oh and MIL is due round in 30 minutes.

Hopefully the above can raise a smile for those struggling with dps.

Morning ladies! Hugs to glenda. A screaming baby, lack of sleep and no help amounts to mental torture. I hope your 'd'p improves soon xx

I don't remember sleep regression with dd1, the only time she had trouble sleeping was when teething. In those days you could use calpol night or medised, I don't think they make them any more

Can I join the 10 hour club PR? 8pm-6am

Welcome TooMany it feels good doesn't it.

I've decided I will go sleep elsewhere. DH gets enough sleep, LO and DD too. It's me who wakes up the most and sleeps the least. So I'm going to try the spare room.

J has a sodding temperature of over 38. He took his calpol like a pro, and off a spoon. No holding down and clamping mouth and nose shut like we used to have to do with DD1. He is feeding little and often, and has a very pitiful cry. He is smiling inbetween. He is very brave. Unlike his father who reckoned he was well enough to go to work, I said no, then he refused to take anything for it, just wanting to sleep. I said he was fucking taking something, and when he was well enough he would be helping me too. How come I do every fucking thing when I am ill?

Perhaps we should set up a Nov 12 commune and leave the men at home.

My house smells like poo all the time.

The DSs poo in tandem! Am like a crazed nappy changer rushing from one to the other.

"Next....."

Someone stole both my lovely babies and replaced them with two babies that WOULD NOT SETTLE! DT2 cried screamed pretty much from 4:40pm-6:30pm. I thought something terrible was wrong with her as it was a in pain cry. She did stop crying when I put her to bed, I think she was over tired. She would not settle for more than one hour at a time ALL NIGHT! Each time she cried, she woke her sister. I was going between the two cots like a mad woman trying to pacify two cranky babies. What a shit nights sleep. I am thinking of putting a travel cot in spare room for nights like this. As soon as one settled, the other woke and so this continued from midnight to freaking 6am!!!

Both madams fast asleep now and look like angels while I washed & made 8 bottles & did a mountain of washing. Pass the match sticks.

Wow that is amazing to read the first thread. How funny that I had the same original EDD as Det and yet our babies were born so far apart in the end.

I was so convinced I wasn't pg I went out for a friend's birthday and consumed about a dozen mojitos. Turned out to be an implantation bleed. I'll never forget seeing that little line come up, so faint I thought I had made it up. What an amazing year.

garden that sounds like a plan, but even with two closed doors between them mine were waking each other. Of course they do not wake DH

I called Dentist. April. Said it was important and we were due to see emergency dentist at weekend. End of February. I took that as it was the best they had and will take DD down there and wait until she is seen once she and everyone else are well enough. I have say there and folk who are not even registered have been told to sit and wait, and been seen before me!!!

It is transpiring that we have very strange growth spurt behaviour indeed in the Fairy house.

Every time we have a growth spurt week O has a cold
He gets very cross and goes rigid when you try to feed him and cuts back on his morning feeds by about half
He is very weary

Then he goes back to normal but bigger

Blonder. It really was an amazing year

VQ DP slept through it all, all 6 hours of it! They have very selective hearing.

Right. Refusing feeds. Is this normal? LO had first feed of day at 5.30. A little fussy but drank all. Should have had nxt feed by 9, but cried n refused n fell asleep. Is still asleep.