December 2012: This too shall pass, this too shall pass

[HoneyMumandSon]

keep repeating the mantra...

Utopian, is there anything you can put from the hammock into the cot, such as mattress? Y to swaddling or otherwise bolstering him.

Right, if 'sleeping through' is 5 hours, then achieved. C just did 7 hours. If she could sleep through to about 8-9am that would be fab. Ha hs ha, as if!

Fx you're asleep, utopian.

Dh woke up and started bouncing him which didn't do much except force me to give in so that Dh can sleep. Up again now so will try the rolled towel plan after this feed..

We're up earlier than usual too four hours 45. Bit annoying when you're used to six. I didn't wake ds for a dream feed last night so maybe that's why.

We've done well, but not as well as on DP's turn yesterday. The only problem with the 5am get up is that it can be hit and miss getting him back to bed after.

Hope the towel plan worked and you're deep asleep utopian.

Willyou we are hit and miss between 4-6 for getting back to sleep. He slept 7.20-5.50 so I assumed it was get up time, but after having his feed he looks tired and a bit grumpy, should have feed him in bed rather than in the living room.

Re money saving, call your tv/Internet/phone provider and threaten to close your account, they will always put you through to the sales team to negotiate a better offer. I have free virgin tv with my broadband and phone package.

Gah - after waking for first feed at 2 I was up at 4 and 6 as well. My stomach was giving me terrible pain so I haven't really slept since 4. Feel like death warmed up! And all I really want to do is have a whinge to my mum but I can't get through. :(

Sorry willyou, no luck so far. Am pissed off with O although it's not 'on purpose', and tired and miserable and now seem to have a cold sore coming.

He was fine in his hammock till he outgrew it; what the hell do i do now? They're too young at 12 weeks to be left to get used to it/cry, so do we co sleep till he's older? Won't that just make it worse?

Utopian is a crib bigger than a hammock? Mine's significantly bigger than the defunct moses basket

Ds fast asleep in his cot for morning nap. Twenty minutes so far, put down awake but drowsy. I just had a nice peaceful bath

Is there any way you can rejig your room utopian? Swap out a bedside table or set of drawers into the nursery for a few months? That's the only way we'll get our cot in.

I'm going to kill her I'm going to kill her I'm going to kill her

Weekend at mil's is going as well as expected...

Well 35 minutes until dd woke him up why did dp have to get in the bath then? I had just got out so had to get dressed etc so there was no one to entertain her. She makes me so cross sometimes

What's she doing honey??

Utopian does your travel cot have a bassinet with it? Like this one on ebay? Could you then suspend a sheet with the bassinet so it was resting on the mattress, but slightly supportive round the sides like a hammock?

Spotty, your Lo's sleep has really turned a corner in the last couple of weeks, hasn't it? Well done for naps too.

Oh honey - what's happened? The weekend ends today! Try not to get arrested for homicide. :)

I ate something! Feel slightly sick as a result but with feeding C I tho k I would have fainted if I didn't eat.

Yes it has mama until he hits four months well done for eating something it is important to keep your strength up

Sorry I guess i was being unclear - there's plenty of space for the cot when it arrives but I suspect he'll hate it just like the travel cot as it's just a flat open surface..

On the plus side Dh took him just after my last post at 8 so I could get some sleep so feel.a lot better. Can't do it in the week though.

How about doing asStacks suggested and stringing a sheet through the travel cot so he sleeps on that and is more enclosed but with a bit more space?

Ooh Honey we need details!

utopian I'd say do whatever gets you some sleep! If that means taking him in with you for a bit then so be it. Fighting with him will only end in tears - his and yours! You can always keep trying, sooner or later he'll get used to being less enclosed. Could he nap on your bed and you can move away once he's asleep so he can start getting used to more space?

I agree utopian. Do whatever's easiest for now and if you have problems still when he's bigger then you can cross that bridge when you come to it!

Dp's being a super housewife today I'm going to make a shepherds pie

I've got T into a bad habit of sleeping with nipple as dummy, then when I finally mange to extract, still sleeping beside me. I used to be able to put him down after a feed, either beside me in bed or into his crib. No longer though :( just tried to put him down and got the highest pitch, saddest squeal ever, then proper crying.
Feeding laying down is great, but I warn you all not do get into the habit of doing it exclusively day and night! I think I have some gentle sleep training coming up.

Oh, I find feeding lying down horribly uncomfortable! Don't know how you do it.

Come on honey! We need gossip!

T will only fall asleep with boob in or on the move. If she doesn't start sucking her thumb or fingers and learn to self settle we'll have to do some sleep training too eventually. Will wait and see what transpires.

I love feeding lying down but only do it at night. The Mister regularly wakes to find me asleep with The Little Mister still sucking on my nipple!