November 2012 - They WERE sleeping, what happened?

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Thanks garden. He goes to bed at 7:30 and tends to wake for a first feed at midnight. I guess I could try a dream feed at 10 in the hope he may then sleep a bit longer. Although I have started going to sleep at 8:30 ish anyway so may not result in any more sleep. Hmmm.

By forcing him to finish a bottle, I guess I mean that if he stops drinking before the end of the bottle I won't keep offering it over and over again until he takes the rest. Writing it down I'm sure that's what most people do as well so just ignore me

Just trail different things and see what LO likes best. I tend to give things 4 tries before giving up on them. I hope it works for you and that you get more sleep :)

Shit, trial!

Woah got back from weekend away a few hours ago lovely time! there is no way I will catch up though!
highpoints of weekend going for pub meal with view over one of the top 10 beaches in the world! (also featured in torchwood). and dd just slept the whole time (despite slamming door to beer garden).
also took dd swimming she was non plus!

Ooooh, horsey if you don't mind? Just want to know if its still for sale, and can I collect it this evening or tomorrow?! I'll PM you my email address so you could give it to the woman if it's for sale still?!

Think it will just be another thing O whinges in til I pick him up, but if it gives him 5 minutes of fun, it will be worth it!

Thanks!

can anyone summarise midday Friday onwards!?

Sweet pea you asked all the questions I wanted to know so thank you!

The only other one is when is their last feed before dream feed at 10ish?

Thank you everyone for all you advice... If be so lost without the quiche!

No worries send link and email

Done! Thank you!

I got a Tigger door bouncer at a nearly new sale today. £2.50. And four baby grows for £2.75. Nice Next ones and all!

And i made an Easter chick hat for him to look silly in :o

Baby massage tomorrow. What nappy should he wear? I've narrowed it to: cow print minkee, spotty minkee or Cat In The Hat cotton/minkee...

contra lots of really awful excellent jokes were told yesterday. A couple of us had pukey toddlers but they're ok now. eliza is still in hospital with her LO and tests are being run. There is a debate ongoing about dream feeds, and something about door swings or bouncers or something.

Oh, and some of us slept well, and are being silently cursed by those of us that didn't :)

Pidj Cat in the Hat gets my vote!

Spotty minkee!

Jumperoo: may get one if can afford it, but have a door bouncer and surely it's the same/similar?

Dream feeds: I do one. Without it he will go 12 hours sometimes, or sometimes not. I do not like sometimes not, so I do one because I find it easier. He is offered the usual 8oz, in my arms like normal. Sometimes he takes it all, sometimes he takes as little as 2oz. I change his bum before I feed him but rarely does he even open his eyes! I do not wind him, he won't bring it up when he's asleep so I don't even bother. He brings up his own wind mostly now anyway (16 weeks)

Thanks all, I think we are unlucky and she was one of the 1 in 1000 who reacted badly. Calpol and cuddles last night and she was fine (calpol knocked her out for a couple of hours too!) We bathed her in porridge outs today as an experiment. Anyone done this? Has worked wonders on her skin.

Guess where I spent all afternoon? Can you? No? The sodding hire car company place Pixcee the fiesta got a flat tyre after I gashed it on a pothole . Robbing bastards tried to charge my card £500 . After a bit of ranting questioning them, turns out I should only have had a £50 excess, and a much bigger car. 3 hours later, a free tank of fuel and many apologies (and a trip to the airport in an AA van after I refused to wait another day without a car) and I have a 2.0 diesel astra. Not my first choice but it's big and comfortable. I preferred the fiesta though for parking

And in my fit of rage I took grumpy baby with me to pick the bastarding car up. And fed said sleepdodger in the hire car cabin to many raised eyebrows

As Morrissey once said, the luck that I've had would turn a good man bad!

I've just spent the £50 I'd earmarked for a jumperoo

I think if you have a door you can hang one off fine!! We don't have a suitable door to hang it off.

Glad she's ok mm please go to the gp tomorrow so it's on her records. Porridge oats? I desperately need to do something with ds head scratchy skin. It's cut to shreds. He just scratches it and it bleeds :(

horsey try La Roche Posay cicaplast. Definitely available over there but not sure where you'd get it.

Or calendula oil, but not where the skin is broken.

mm that sounds shit. Hope tomorrow is kinder to you.

CitH on the way in then, changing to spotty minkee after - blue/turquoise or orange/khaki? (Realeasies) :o

Bugger about the time wasting, MM, but an excellent result - respect for public feeding!

We dream feed. Sometimes he does waken a little but is fairly chilled. Get him up at 10. No winding. No new nappy. He then sleeps through till about 7.

Not sure he will tomorrow. Both boys threw in the towel at 6:30 tonight. They were knackered. We took DS2 up to bed rubbing his eyes an trying not to fall asleep and DS1 grabbed his ducky and followed on up. RESULT. DH and I cried. We are knacked too.

Popped a pic on fb. A lot of the skin is broken :(

pikz I give O a massive uber tea, half at 5 an half at 6. This is a GF she who must not be named method and she advises you stop doing this around 12 weeks but I find it a good idea as if you then follow her weaning programme they have tea at 5 so you just replace the milk with food and still give then a 6pm bottle. So I keep it going like that. as well as the fact I seem to have greedy boys who can not wait until 6 for their tea

LO's cheeks are like that at the mo. Paed recommended the Cicaplast cream - it apparently helps skin heal and moisturises too. It works but then I forget once it works and it comes back after a while.

Can you provide the porridge oats recipe please mm?