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December 2012: 8 hour sleeps and chubby chops all round

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WillYouDoTheBunnyHop · 25/03/2013 21:08

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WLmum · 08/04/2013 07:50

The sensor pad alarm just went off and only stopped as I reached her room 2 flights up. Impossible to know if there was a real problem or not but now want to squeeze her all day.

SpottyTeacakes · 08/04/2013 07:52

Argh scary! Maybe she just had a massive stretch and lifted herself off Confused

SeymoreButts · 08/04/2013 08:13

Seconds thanks for the tip about the Blighty channel, I will check that out! I've been watching a bit more TV since DS arrived. I like the baby stuff in target too, the clothes for older kids aren't quite as nice though. I hope the cat left you alone!

hales yay! I really hope it's the start of more sleep for you!

spotty you must be shattered, I can't believe DP said no. Sad

WL What is it with these babies, DS's sleep seems to be going wrong around 1/2am at the moment. I need to go to bed when he does Hmm

FOD I'm glad the service was nice! We had DD christened but haven't got round to the other 2 yet. DD was christened in the same village church that I was christened in, just need to organise ourselves to get back there!

DS is 18 weeks today and has been really unsettled for the last 2 weeks. Today he's been like a different baby though. I've done 2 school runs, a daycare run and a trip to the shops all with him in the pram, either asleep or awake and hardly any crying! Hopefully we'll get more of the same tomorrow. At one point last week I hadn't left the house for 3 days because he was screaming so much.

SeymoreButts · 08/04/2013 08:18

Oh WL that must have been scary.

WLmum · 08/04/2013 08:53

So glad ds is giving you a break seymour. Fx it lasts

Barbeasty · 08/04/2013 09:36

Seconds is it a wireless doorbell? MIL was convinced hers was set off by people's remote car keys.

Another not too good night, but could have been worse. I have a horrible headache though, which started last night. I'm not sure if it's lack of sleep or too much tea and not enough water.

A and DD just had their first bath together. A seemed to enjoy kicking away to splash DD.

SeymoreButts · 08/04/2013 09:41

barbeasty is there such a thing as too much tea?? I hope you feel better.

We've got a wireless doorbell that goes off in heavy rain, water must get inside the bit outside. One morning it started going mad at 6:30 when I'd just gotten DS back to sleep after a feed. DH rushed outside ready to throttle someone! Grin

HoneyMumandSon · 08/04/2013 09:45

Our wireless doorbell has a mind of its own so we took the batteries out. People have to knock loudly now

itsMYNutella · 08/04/2013 09:50

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!! DS is really overtired this morning! I almost had him asleep then I had to cough while singing to him so of course MELTDOWN the only time he did calm down was to do an incredible series of farts! Followed by probably all of yesterday's poo!Shock I haven't been able to change him because I have to get to my exercise class (if I miss too many ten the insurance won't repay us the cost, I've only missed 1 but don't want to miss another) so right now he is in the wrap with me on the bus...
If he is asleep when I get there would you leave him in the wrap as long as poss or change him??

SpottyTeacakes · 08/04/2013 10:18

I would leave him if he's asleep Smile

Secondsop · 08/04/2013 10:41

Ooh it is a wireless doorbell. Ah. Perhaps it is being set off by something else.

MaMaPo · 08/04/2013 11:04

Hello all! We're back from a successful weekend in Copenhagen. C was mostly a champion traveller, although she didn't sleep much on the way over there, got completely overtired, and I spent 2.5 hours getting her to sleep. Very unusual for her. But for the rest of the weekend she was good as gold. It was great to introduce her to friends over there. She slept loads in her pram as we walked around.

She must have been saving up her good behaviour because she's a right grumpy bum today.

Congrats on the christening FOD. We won't be doing anything like that with C as we're both staunch atheists, and I don't think we'd be into a naming ceremony either. Maybe we'll just have a random party!

So C is 18 weeks on Wednesday and I'm still waiting for proper sleep regression to begin. She is waking more, but only 2-3 times per night which is pretty good. I keep anticipating the hourly wakings that lots of others have described. And now that I have written this it will begin tonight!

Sorry I haven't caught up properly - hope everyone and babies are doing OK.

SpottyTeacakes · 08/04/2013 13:42

Dp texted me 'hey, how are you feeling? Tired I bet'. You think?! Hmm

Potty training going so well no reminding needed she doesn't even tell me just goes off for a wee Smile

Ds constantly munching his thumb still not sure it's teething though!

itsMYNutella · 08/04/2013 14:32

Thanks spotty I did leave him and I started the class with him still strapped to me Grin it's a midwife practice where the class is (the course instructor is a midwife and so we are constantly reminded to do lots of pelvic floor exercises). Poor DS, his poosplosion was everywhere and I had no clean clothes in my bag Shock I always have a change of clothes for him! When we got home I gave him a quick bath fed him dressed him and now better go because he has just pooooooooed again! He must be empty now!

And spotty if that was my DP I'd probably reply something like "well guessed captain obvious" and tell him that if he writes anymore ridiculous texts like that he will receive the smack he is asking for Grin

SkiBunnnnny · 08/04/2013 17:52

Sorry your dpi is being so rubbish Spotty. Make sure next time he asks you for anything you just say no.

Glad you had a good trip mama, sounds like a lot of fun.

I think either LO is having a growth spurt (do you get one at 4months?) or we're going through the sleep regression. Seems constantly grumpy and gets really frustrated when feeding. Like he is too impatient to wait for the let down and keeps chomping and pulling (ouch!). He is also not wanting to stay asleep in his cot very long at all, ended up co sleeping with him last night for the first time since he was about 4 weeks old.

SpottyTeacakes · 08/04/2013 17:55

Well dp bought me the new malteser block thingy and I said that could be for last night and he went 'oh here we go again you're always having a go at me for not doing anything' which is not what I said at all!

WLmum · 08/04/2013 19:28

Oh dear spotty sometimes they just don't get it do they. It is def true that left to men the human race would die out - there's no way they are tough enough!

MaMaPo · 08/04/2013 21:22

Ski, I think my baby is having a growth spurt - she will happily feed in short bursts every hour, whereas she could survive off a short burst for a few hours about 2 weeks ago. She also tanks up more in the evening. I also have the same grumpiness and frustration, esp with feeding. Difficult to work out what is teething and what is boredom/irritation when feeding.

We haven't had a big problem with napping and sleeping - the opposite if anything - but I do anticipate this will change.

Secondsop · 08/04/2013 21:30

mamapo sounds like you had a lovely trip. Hope your flight back to Aus goes as well!

So, it's been approx 2 days since I stopped breastfeeding, and I now appear to have a bit of spotting. Is this normal?

SpottyTeacakes · 08/04/2013 21:51

Well ds is up for his first feed already. I sense another bad night ahead Sad

MaMaPo · 08/04/2013 22:07

Oh spotty. You had such a good stretch going there!

Seconds, yes, I hope the Aus flight is ok - 1 month today! I must have missed that you're stopping bfing - I hope the transition is ok for you and Z.

Researching high chairs...

Had to give C some calpol - woke herself up crying which I think is teething related. She has a very bright white spot on her gum.

Secondsop · 08/04/2013 22:24

mamapo, y we were down to only a couple of feeds a day and I didn't have enough to give Z a whole feed, so it was a frustration for him rather than being a comfort, it had stopped working as a go-to method of settling him and he'd stopped rooting for the breast when hungry. 2 days ago he started to refuse the breast so I knew the time was up.

Secondsop · 08/04/2013 22:27

We're looking at high chairs too. Much as I am drawn to a Tripp trapp because of my natural urge towards the fanciest thing possible regardless of logic, I'm finding it hard to justify not getting the £12 IKEA one instead.

HoneyMumandSon · 08/04/2013 22:43

spotty what's this malteaser block?!!

We've got a very nice, very posh kuster k1 high chair which we got second have (barely used) for £30 instead or the £285 rrp. We were gonna get an ikea one but we saw this one and liked it then found out how much it would have cost new!

Secondsop · 09/04/2013 00:40

What is HAPPENING to my hormones?! I've now got a crazy hot flush - feel like I'm on fire. Those that stopped breastfeeding, did you have things like this? How long did it take for your body to act like something approaching normality?