November 2012 - GTbaby is back! Hooray hooray!

[StuntNun]

And she only missed 10,000 posts!

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That's brilliant VQ, I'm delighted to hear it!

She is asleep. Some crying but no different to Moses basket and easier to manage because i could get my face right next to hers to stroke and shoosh to calm her down. Left her awake and now she is asleep. Is twice enough to conclude that P think Moses baskets and now cot beds are for sleeping? I will be so glad to rid my living room of that basket.

I am now in a dilemma about bedtime #1. She is swaddled so I wonder if Moses basket down with us is better. Hmm.

In the night I had to move her up the basket at least twice. She shuffles such a lot and the basket is tilted.

5th attempt at napping. Every time i leave, he wakes up and i stupidly took the wrong bit of monitor with me so didn't hear the hysteria the third time round I've spent more time trying to make him sleep - he's clearly tired - than anything today. It's because i was too exhausted to take him out this morning from being up all night

Hooray for lurgyless house YW

Boo for continual lurgy Pr

VQ Soo jealous. Do you think we could hire him to give F some sleep tuition?!
PRWow. Well done to your OH.
Stunt Thank you so much for the sleep training advice, really clear and seems doable. Is it always you who does bedtimes or does your OH ever do it? I do it all the time because of feeding, only now he will only go to sleep with me.
Thanks also to PP and Bry for front sleeping advice. Will give that a go.
We have in laws here til Sun now and Im so ashamed of tbh state of the house, I want to cry .
Thankful that LO has learned to roll from back to front! And that he is generally a smiley giggling little thing, and that we are cuddled up nice and warm inside when the weather is so horrendous outside!

Thank you for your message this morning PR, it really helps to hear the POV of someone who has been through it and escaped. Well done to your DH for the snip!

stunt your plan sounds very logical and it sounds as though you are already making progress.

Tits Seriously?! Did he realise the error of his ways?

pass I didn't get chance to watch your facebook video, did you figure out if it was a happy or sad noise in the end?

pig how did last night go? Did you manage to get much sleep?

In light of O's eczema and family history of allergies (strawberries - me, peanuts - his dad) and asthma, do I need to be more careful when weaning? What about dairy? Will be avoiding peanuts and strawberries.

VQ yay! Well done J not jealous, not at all

chasing I got given doublebase for S, I didn't think it was working to begin with but it seems to have cleared her skin up now, I use oilatum in her bath as well, think that's helped too.

Well done to the sleeping ones!

Chasing, yes, I would. I'm going to be carefully weaning too. I am normal but DS1 has bad eczema, and DP is sensitive to certain foods and has IBS.

O is starting with root veg, basic fruit. Will keep it simple and potential allergens til after a year most probably.

I'm fairly certain he is going to have problems given what we have had so far.

O1 is also a player of push the bottle

O thinks the word no is hilarious. Full on giggle fits as he rips my face and hair off. Everytime I say no, he just laughs.

I have a huge scratch on my face. It has broken my skin. Thanks child.

Well done sleepers, now come and give F a lesson. She went to bed at 9, by 9.15 she had rolled from side to front, and rotated by 90 degrees - so I straightened her up ubt left her on her front. 12 o clock, dh came up to bed, and woke me to inform me that she was on her front. 12.30 she wanted feeding. Back down for 1.15, then up again at 4.15, 6.30, 7.30. So not as bad but still shit by comparison.

I just don't know what to make of the daytime feeds though, she's still tearing off and fussing. She's just had her first decent feed of the day.

Bought some weaning stuff today - a sippee cup and some spoons/bowls - although I suspect it will be weeks months before we need it!

I spoke to dh about my low mood today, and asked him for some more support. I think he gets it at a push but doesn';t understand that there really isn't a quick fix. One bottle of formula, one afternoon nap, one meal cooked, is not going to fix 4 months of sleep deprivation. We'll get there eventually

Well done Mr PR - hope things aren't too sore!

Thank you for the congratulations I actually slept 9 hours straight, and feel like my head is made of marshmallow.

Jacob's secret? Not being in pain. I think if his intolerance had been identified sooner, he would have slept sooner. I am exceedingly grateful to detective and pikz for pointing me towards lactose overload and lip tie.

pass I think P would cope fine with a first bedtime in cot. How about trying with the gro bag, or you may feel that is too many changes at once. I think she will do just fine as she is a good sleeper. I think it is time the basket went in storage for her future sibling, as it is getting a bit dangerous now possibly? It will not be long before she escapes it.

hugs kyz , pr and chasing. a friend had a relationship that hobbled along for several years with him 'only' verbally abusing her by chipping away at her self esteem. it ended in physical abuse. he could never change and it only got gradually worse following the 'I'm sorry I'll change' phases.

thanks stunt! tbh that's very similar to my own thoughts including ' naps by any m
means'! when did your sleep regression. end? are we going by wonder weeks or when they go back to a 4/5 hour stretch?!

wow vq! congratulations!.....................

oh hugs purple. could sling carry sleepy dust?

And remember J is one of the oldest at 23 weeks.

I saw the HV today. Went to baby clinic with my 6yo and left J sleeping with Daddy looking after him. I enjoyed telling her I told you so that things had improved greatly, and she advises keeping him on LF for 4 months, and to avoid dairy whilst weaning until we have seen the dietician. She also says 6 days is fine for constipation, so I ignored that and collected the suppositories from minor ailments. I also collected my book start bag, toothbrush pack, weaning books and Tommee Tippee sippy cup! In purple.

mm very jealous of your frog.

pr when I used to work in theatre, they did snips under local anaesthetic. General is much kinder.

apologies I'm shit at squeezing the bold type in. dh bought a tablet with some remainder wedding gift vouchers - its sitting down stairs. I might be better there. (he decided it would help me upstairs. - he apologised for all the sleep/ feed pressure stuff)

I'm really struggling to feed g in day due ti him just not interested. not tongue tie stuff. Ifeel he is feeding more at night as a result. is that normal? do I just go with flow?

My baby has forgotten how to sleep through, self-settle, do regular naps, occupy himself and generally be the easy baby I had. :( I'm looking at you VQ & stunt and all the others who have stolen the sleepy/happy baby dust

Thankful that we now have vinyl on the hall floor so the wet buggy can just stay there for a wee while while it dries off. Not so fucking thankful for the wankbadgering snow though

Grrr, why are men so annoying, all except Luis of course

Dp is off work this week....... all week has been the same for me as if he wasn't here, today he took S for a bit and said he was going to give me a break, he fed her (after I got the bottle ready because he wouldn't have a clue) and was holding her, after 15 mins he handed her back and said "I'm going for a lie down now I'm tired" how the fuck does he think I cope all day every day
15 minutes does not a break make!!

Clarella that is exactly what's happening here as well. Not sure how to try to remedy it, as if I try to feed her more often, she just shreds my boobs for 2 minutes before shrieking Go with the flow it is then...

VQ I believe it is often done under local here too but DH's surgeon prefers general so they don't move everytime they see some scary instrument. He was having something else done at the same time too so it was just easier to put him out.

fruit a lady at baby group cried yesterday - her dp is in the forces, and she said that when he is home, she has more work. When he's away, she does things in her own time, ignores the ironing etc; but when he's home, rather than her workload halve as he helps out, it increases, because he's "tired". He gives her a break...so she can do the ironing.

luis couldn't possibly be annoying, and in fact his nocturnal comments make me giggle.

I feel like a mean mummy because I've left DS to grunt & groan & whinge in his cot so I can sit down for 5mins. I want him to nap (DD is in bed too and he only had maybe an hr & a half total nap time today since 7.49) so I've left him to self-settle & if he ups the pitch/noise, I check on him. So why do I feel bad??!

bplp that's exactly how I feel, I have got the grand total of fuck all done this week, he just creates more mess, there is a weeks worth of clothes on the bedroom floor, not even dirty, just what he has taken out of the wardrobe and then changed his mind about wearing fucking girl but do you think he would put them back, oh no, the floor is seemingly a suitable place for them. I'm refusing to pick them up, pathetic I know but I'm not his mom!
I've just dumped S on the bed with him so I can at least go to the toilet have a shit in peace!

Ahh I feel a bit sorry for him now, I can hear him singing stupid made up songs to her to make her laugh!

You can thank O VQ if it wasn't for his piss poor attempts at feeding, I'd never have come across it! :)