November 2012 - Four months? Oh no, the dreaded sleep regression!

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1698894-November-2012-BFPs-Already-You-girls-are-going-to-have-some-fun

Instead of marking place, please could those of us with older siblings post something (positive) they are looking forward to as our babies get older. I think it would cheer us up since so many are struggling at the moment.

Great news about going home eliza

I'm also not googling sacral dimples.

DH has gone to work and the kids are asleep. I was going to clean the bathroom and change the sheets on DH's the spare bed. Instead I am MNing and have eaten a whole tub of some Ben & Jerry's. I'm thinking about going to bed.

Oh and sorry to hear about E having reflux Eliza, but v glad you've got a diagnosis and home is in sight xx

Ok, well I'm going to have to google sacral dimples. I have no idea what they are!

Hmm. First page or two of results were ok on google images; I had to step away by page three

Good news, Eliza.

I took O to Gp and I made a real fuss. He said she did not have reflux, and she seemed ok. I was standing at point rocking her on my shoulder so I stopped and she screamed blue murder. He kept saying she was fine, I kept telling him she was not. While she was screaming. He refused infant gaviscon and gave me daktarin for her thrush. Which she does not have. I told him I was going to make an appointment with someone else who actually listens. At that point he went out and brought another dr in who listened and suggested we try infant gaviscon and refered us to a pediatritian. I mean wtf? I burst into tears and walked away with the prescription. O at that point had been screaming for 20 min ( we were right after feed). So first dose given, I am hoping it will make a difference. I only got enough sachets for 3-4 days so I guess I have to go back this week once again. Those of you on infant gaviscon, do you get it on repeat prescription? How many sachets do you get at one time?

I am exhausted, it was a tough day. I have an Ou assignment due tmrw but asked for extension. My fault but I am so tired mentally.

eliza Yay! The end is in sight. So pleased that you know you are going home together soon x

detective Hope the GP ups O's dose tomorrow and O is fixed again

VQ Sanitary towels out of vests? How?

No word from apple today? Hope you are ok. We are here if you want to talk x

Massive hugs to everyone having a god awful time by the sounds of it.

LO has a horrendous cold. All he does when not eating or sleeping is scream :( god knows about me getting any sleep tonight.

Think we found a nursery today. Very glad I don't have to take him there til nov though. It made me very sad just at the thought of it.

I have just read the entire days thread and can't think of all the things I wanted to say.

Night.

I just had to make DP take over putting O to bed. I was close to breaking point. He refused to go in the cot. I spent over an hour trying to put him down. He woke up every single time, and nothing would settle him until he was picked up and rocked to sleep again.

Must calm down. Ridiculous. But my arms were about to drop off.

Sounds awful 311. Well done for sticking to your guns though. That first doctor sounds like he is the 'dismissive of mothers cos they are all paranoid wrecks' type. Grr. Hope the IG helps.

Sympathies detective. I am cheating at the mo by not having the babies in a cot, but I am aware that I may be making a rod for my own back there. Well done for being somewhere else and making DP take over. Go and have a brew.

Woooo light at the end of the tunnel Eliza

Sacral dimples are only a worry if with a light you can't see they are closed. When I came back with LO from the hospital I was pretty angry they hadn't pointed it out and reassured me but had pointed out a couple of very minor things which I would never have worried about. So I spent days googling and panicking before DD1 went to the paed for I dn't know what and I happened to mention it. Paed looked, laughed and reassured.

apple thinking of you

Detective, have you tried him on his tummy? O sleeps on her tummy, she never settled on her back. I used to turn her over after she fall asleep but not anymore. Have a movement monitor though.

lily I have tried him on his side practically in the cot with him but as he is swaddled, I don't put him on his tummy. If he isn't swaddled, he just wakes himself up all night long, pulling off his own face.

Re: GP. You do need to stand your ground. Bloody idiots some of them. You almost have to know what it is you want when you go in, or what is wrong!

I've worked with enough trainee GP's who were total numpties god help the members of public they were let loose on to have reservations over the care offered. Of course, I have met some utterly wonderful ones, total credits to their profession. It's pot luck though, isn't it?

Am calmer now.

Just frustrated, I realised not at O, but at being sat in a dark bedroom for over an hour. It was the fact I was pissed off at being sat up there alone and bored while DP swanned around downstairs doing whatever the fuck he likes.

D'oh.

bplp DD1 had a sacral dimple that was noticed by the HV straightaway. Complete scaremongering and I didn't even really use the Internet then. We have to go for scans and all sorts as they said it could be a sign of spina bifida. It turned out however that she just has a really thin sacrum.

Later on I found out that it is common in babies whose mother are epileptic, and is often shown Up by a birth mark over the sacrum. By coincidence my exDHs mother is quite severly epileptic and he has a birth mark in the sacral area.

Can hear DP attempting transfer. Eeeeek.

Please go the fuck to sleep!

I should not have googled. Like a moth to a flame.

cat I have yet to make any, but having seen reusable ones, the closure looks very similar to the bottom of a vest. I will post a pic when I have made one. Perhaps that could be my WAHM business - memory pads

Good luck detective

I've never noticed the dimple before, but when she was born, she was so weeny that tbh I'm not sure they would have picked it up plus there was lots of excitement about her genitals poor mite I'll mention it to the hv (new one, seems quite nice/good) and see what she thinks. Almost certainly nothing, but an aunt does have occult spina bifida so makes me a bit nervy.

Who are the other south westerners? Is it lily or lilliana who's in Bideford?

Apparently hairs in the sacral area are a warning sign too. Don't worry just mention it next time you're seen

What do your inside them vq?

Well done for standing your ground lily Hope the gaviscon works.

YW that sounds awful :( I can't imagine what makes people do such things.

detective Hope O has settled now.

Eliza yay for a diagnosis and a release date :)

N threw in one of her mammoth naps today - 3.5 hours I'd have slept myself if I'd known she was going to do that.

O in cot. Thank fuck.

*I just had to make DP take over putting O to bed. I was close to breaking point. He refused to go in the cot. I spent over an hour trying to put him down. He woke up every single time, and nothing would settle him until he was picked up and rocked to sleep again.

Must calm down. Ridiculous. But my arms were about to drop off.*

I would hifive this as it describes my evening so far too, but my arm hurts too much.

Can I lofive it?

Finger tap it!