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StuntNun · 26/03/2013 13:40

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ChasingDaisy · 01/04/2013 10:24

No VQ, there should be no notification.

PetiteRaleuse · 01/04/2013 10:28

No she won't but when she realises if she is a big FBer she will understand it to be pretty much the worst possible insult. I defriended a cousin because she was a PITA and years later apparently she is still going on about it. :o

I hate FB and am thinking of shutting my account.

GTbaby · 01/04/2013 10:32

I know the formula companies send you crap as a marketing ploy. However very greatful for the weaning guide I got in the post!

Right got a lift to harrods! Woop woop. Won't be buying anything tho. Lol.

Clarella · 01/04/2013 11:05

hope lo is ok pr.

thinking of you lots chasing.

hugs to you too vq and everyone struggling.

so, this fucking 2 hour sleep regression shit. is it the end of the world to cosleep for a bit? we get so much more sleep but my dh thinks it'll never revert back. G goes down soooo well in his cot fir the first 2 hours including awake which I'm not stopping. :(

I'm staring at my wonder weeks app which says 12 days to go....

oh and he has thrush and I think I do too. fucking antibiotics.

Clarella · 01/04/2013 11:10

I'm having sweary Wednesday early Grin

on the plus side tongue tie definitely hugely better and seems to need so little burping since the snip!!

PetiteRaleuse · 01/04/2013 11:15

LO on her way home. Same as almost exactly two weeks ago. No explanation, possibly teething, possibly a sore throat.... So since the doctor has ruled about ear problems I shall expect a perforated drum in the next couple of days.

And round and round we go, like a bloody hamster in a sodding wheel.

Does anyone ever feel like they are a hamster in a wheel?

Pikz · 01/04/2013 11:25

I've just been on Facebook and I hear some rumours some sleep dodgers are sleeping through!!!

ValiumQueen · 01/04/2013 11:47

pr I am also a hamster. A fucking big hamster on a fucking big wheel.

Thank you for the feedback re FB.

Lesson for today : do not put potty next to bumbo.

ValiumQueen · 01/04/2013 11:48

Especially if they are the same colour.

YellowWellies · 01/04/2013 11:59

Is there anything nicer than cuddling a sleeping baby? I really don't think there is Smile especially now he likes to snooze with each arm around my neck. Am going to miss this when I try to get him to nap in the cot after we move. His smell, warmth, the sound of his breathing and how comfy he finds my cuddles - its magic. Smile

ValiumQueen · 01/04/2013 12:08

yw I agree Smile

PetiteRaleuse · 01/04/2013 12:10

Sorry VQ but I actually laughed out loud at the potty / bumbo confusion.

Three days til DH gets the snippety snip. He seems OK but I think he is quite possibly bricking it.

TooManyDicksOnTheDancefloor · 01/04/2013 12:34

That sounds so lovely YW, I wish B would sleep like that on me. She will only sleep in her cot which is great when we're at home, not so great when we're out and about.

Passmethecrisps · 01/04/2013 12:48

Hamster here. I am in a stinking mood today. No reason really. I feel hormonal. P is still a bucket of snot. I find t so weird that she seems almost completely unaffected apart from refusing to eat. I am sleeping really poorly listening to her shuffling and rummaging around her basket. She is asleep but I am not. Boo. How come the grandparents get smiles and full on squeaky giggles and I get crying and that bloody squeal?

Anyway. Sorry that LO is poorly yet again PR. It must seem completely endless.

Passmethecrisps · 01/04/2013 12:49

Same here toomany. Baby snooze-snuggles are a very rare occurance here

YellowWellies · 01/04/2013 13:08

Pass she's trying to make friends with the GPs hence the giggles whereas she feels so content and secure in your love she doesn't need to do that with you - she knows you'll be there to care for her whatever. It sucks but take it as a compliment Smile

ChunkyEasterChick · 01/04/2013 13:14

Another good night for me!! 6 & counting...

chasing - Luis stunt et al are v wise.[busmile]

VQ glad J slept well, sorry DDs did not & LOL at bumbo/potty issue [bugrin]

GT peas have lots of iron too. Welcome back.

PR not much to say except that is shit. Poor LO [busad]

YW I enjoy having baby in one arm & toddler in other. Feel squashed by love.[bugrin]

Catbag · 01/04/2013 14:14

pr yes, it did. I am not deaf, but I really struggle to hear if someone isn't facing me. I started lip reading as a coping mechanism when I was little and must do it still. This was from the glue ear though, and when I say recurrent I mean every fortnight or so for 18 months. I eventually had gromits fitted (they stayed in for about a yr before dropping out) and they helped be get through the worst of it until I grew out of it.

My daughter (the 5 yr old) has gone gradually very hard of hearing since being ill over Christmas. Turns out she has glue ear. She was referred to a paediatric audiologist last week who said that there is a clear loss of hearing BUT it is as a result of the fluid blocking the sound. They put some funny device on her head behind her ear and measured her hearing behind the fluid and it is perfect. So far, no damage. She needs to be seen again in a couple of months, but haven't given us anything to do in the meantime to help as apparently the fluid will go on its own. It is very common in little ones as their pipes are very short. They grow out of it as the pipes get bigger.

ChasingDaisy · 01/04/2013 14:22

YW I currently have a snoozing baby cuddling me with his arms outstretched around my tummy. I half heartedly try and put him down for some naps but he loves it and so do I Smile

PetiteRaleuse · 01/04/2013 14:25

Thanks cat that's useful to know. The last time it perforated was just under two weeks ago. She was on antibiotics and drops til last Wednesday and I think I noticed her fussing already on Thursday. Suppose I'd better wait this out and see where it goes. Will take her to her regular paed in a couple of days if no progress. Am kind of hoping it pops again as last time she was so much better and painfree afterwards, but that can't go on forever. If it does happen again andkeeps going how many times before I insist she sees a specialist?

TheDetective · 01/04/2013 14:37

I'm in a right stinker of a mood. I'm feeling fed up today.

Back to work in 4 weeks. Not fucking helping.

I still haven't got to grips with this whole baby thing. Confused

And now I'm crying, and DP has had me screaming at him to fuck off down the phone.

To be fair he had woke O up 4 fucking times texting me for no fucking reason when I'd literally just put him down with the white noise on in the cot. As soon as he rings or texts it goes off, and O would wake and nothing would settle him til I picked him up. My back is fucking aching from standing rocking and swaying, shushing and patting. And now O will have had a shitty afternoon sleep, be grumpy the rest of the day, and thus be another shitter of a night again tonight.

I don't want to blow my own trumpet, but the best days here are when DP is not here. And when I do all the night feeds, and get up with him in the morning. DP just seems to mess it up somehow. I feel so bad saying that, but it is true.

He never thinks to try and put him back to sleep when he wakes, and gets him up. In the morning when I have been putting him in his cot he has been sleeping 2-3 hours, but sometimes wakes in the middle, and needs resettling. DP gets him up after an hour. Then I get the meltdown from overtiredness.

Add to that the crappy feeding again. We are back to 3oz, then fighting to get another 1-2 oz down him frequently.

Woods. Trees. Help! ARGHHHHHHH!!!

BTW. The dream feed seemed to make fuck all difference. Last night he fed at 6.30, but was tired at 8. So he went off to bed easily enough. No wakings til I picked him up at 12.30 to give him a feed before we went to bed. He sleepily took 6oz, and took it well. Went back down in the cot. Lovely.

So why the fuck did he wake at 3am? And wouldn't settle. I didn't want to feed him as he had taken a good amount less than 3 hours before! So he ended up in bed with us, and woke frequently til we gave in at 5.30 and fed him. Then he did the same old shit of waking frequently til we gave in and got up just before 8. It feels like sleeping and eating are just one big fight some days.

Yet some days he is an utter dream.

I DON'T FUCKING GET IT!

Sorry. Feel better for a self indulgent rant! I know he is just a baby. It is just highly frustrating!

YellowWellies · 01/04/2013 14:45

Det I don't bother with dream feeds for that same reason - Jonas wakes at his usual time seemingly none the wiser!

TheDetective · 01/04/2013 14:51

I'm not sure why he has stopped his longer stretch - he just wakes 4 hourly for feeds in the night regardless now! We used to get some 5-6, even 8 hours! Waaaaah!

Mind you, I suppose he did do 6 hours last night, but his last feed was not before bed, so had he fed at 8, he'd of probably done 6 hours. 2 and 6 seem to be his waking for feed times. Or at least they have been the last 2 weeks.

ChasingDaisy · 01/04/2013 14:54

Detective are you in regression land? When is it supposed to hit?

TheDetective · 01/04/2013 14:56

I have no idea. I think we have been regressing since 10 weeks when this crap started!