November 2012 - In denial about the six-month sleep regression

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1740697-November-2012-Starting-weaning-what-does-your-baby-eat

That's interesting vq re the different bugs. DD1 picked up her first and only, until nursery started at 18 months, cold during our trip to England. I put it down to the germ fest which was the plane journey. But our last move was from the next but one village, a couple of miles away so I don't think it had an impact.

Morning. Half 7, a right proper lie in. Woken up by DD1 who went to get the ipad and is watching Katy Perry videos. Oh well, better than gummy bear

Snuggly duvet day, Pig?

I had a wake up at 4:30 but my internet was down again fucking BT 3rd time this year with no warning by 5 i popped him down still twitching and stropped back in dp checked him/shush patted/something and he went back down till now. Dream feed can dance the fuck fandango, poor baby's clearly tired too!

Thank fuck after DP coming in at 1am and deciding to have a shower LO woke at 5 took his bottle and went back to sleep til 7.15am.

My head and ears hurt

Though I am thankful for my DP and my gorgeous boy x

A lot of babies have their soundest sleep in the early evening Pidj, say between 7 p.m. and midnight (unlike us adults who most need sleep between 2 and 5 a.m.) so if you wake them in the middle of that block for a dream feed it can screw up the whole night. I know when I dream feed J he doesn't really wake up, just stirs a bit, and it's worth it to get him through to 4 a.m. so I can get a solid five hour block of sleep myself. But if there's no advantage to it don't bother. I skip them every so often to see how J does since eventually he won't need them anymore.

Morning
Hope everyone got lots of sleep
DS was up from 3-5 yawn.... Normally he is quite good and does 7-5.30 with a couple of dummy disturbances.
Last night he had a lot of loud noises to make not to bothered as his big sister was away so wasn't crouched shushing him like a maniac trying to prevent him waking her up.

DS is another who gets up at 5.30 and is then ready for a nap a couple of hours later.

Im very lucky with DH as he gets up most mornings at 5.30 and lets me sleep til 7.30 when he goes to work.

Morning all

P said that O slept really well last night. Of course he fucking did, he let him sleep in the bed ALL night and didn't even try to put him in his cot

And he woke at 6am whereas with me he sleeps until 7. So rather than doing me a favour he has made my life harder as now it will be more of a battle to get O in his cot. Lazy sod

Oh and now he's gone back to bed. When do I get to do that?!

He's a twunt, Daisy, you know that he'll have done it on purpose - now he can legitimately say to the world he does nights and is a model parent

To be fair, he does his fair share of nights but is lazy about settling O.

Anyone having nappy issues at night?

LO hates being changed at night and will stay awake for an hour or two easily if changed. If we don't, she's soaked through and wakes early. We're using pampers so its not like we have crap nappies!!!

I always find with both of mine that Asda and Aldi nappies are much better than pampers.
With pampers both would wake wet but with Aldi and Asda its a dry night

Dixie I had the grand total of...wait for it....40 minutes. Duvet day will be initiated soon. F is currently asleep in her car seat as had to take the car to the garage. Fairly sure she grossed out all the men in their nice clean suits, with her copious snot and sneezes. Hey ho.

Katie a good friend whose daughter is nearly 2, used to put 2 nappies on, eg. a size 3 then a 4 on top. It stopped the nappies leaking and meant she slept through without needing changing. Slightly bulky but whatever works I guess!

Chasing he's a nobhead. Nuff said.

Pidj dream feed makes no difference here either, just makes my bedtime even later.

I'm with Roo we find pampers make for wet nights. I love Asda little angels nappies - we've never had a leak at night even if the nappy weighs a tonne in the morning! Not tried the Aldi ones but I've heard good reports. I don't rate pampers, Sainsburys or Huggies as was.

Tell you what, I'm bloody well starving. I was a bit peckish at 4am, having been up for 3 hours, but couldn't move as F was asleep on me. Had some flapjack pre-garage, just had some toast. GIVE ME CARBS PEOPLE.

Urrgh have a napping bear and the fucking shit biscuit of a cat was wandering around the house doing his 'I need a shit' miaow so I've shut him in the kitchen / conservatory where the floors are cleanable and his tray and cat flap are. He's now screeching to be let through so he can shit in the shower again. Why do I feed him?

Oh that's interesting! I liked Lidl ones actually but got in habit of bunging pampers on the online shopping order. Huh. Will see if I can get to an asda near here too.

I hate huggies- after 4 blowouts in a row I said never again!

Well, the trousers that were 1" too big at the waist last week and had to be safety pinned to keep them up are now only 1/2" too big. So something must be going right? His Sainsburys vest is looking fitted rather than baggy too :o

Bamboo fitteds boosted with microfibre and lined with fleece under wool longies or soaker do 12 hours here with no leaks or grumbles

Pig have lots of Your night sounds really rotten. I hope you manage your duvet day today.

I use Pampers Baby Dry at night and have never had a leak.

Pidj I don't df. O has his deepest sleep between 7-11 and I don't want to disturb that.

We had a disturbed night, not as bad as some here but loads of wakenings. I have wondered if a DF would help but he seems so asleep bearing out what Stunt said. L, DH and I each had a nightmare but mine didn't wake them up . Like RooPoo I am fortunate that DH always takes L for an hour or so which means I can catch up. Think it should become law for partners to do this!

We use pampers with no issues Katie (hi btw), sorry that's not much help. haven't used reusables for ages. He might have grown into the OSDNFAs by now so I should try them. I really wanted to get some fitted ones with wraps but I got really confused about what to spend my money on.

I've got yet another nonspecific illness, guess it must be from being run down but every few weeks I get a really bad sore throat, cotton wool head and aching limbs. No runny nose or owt but sometimes the other end sorry tmi.

Why is it that every single puree in my freezer is on the beige-orange spectrum? Have just added some mango to complete the orange palette.

I would have loved reusable but she pitched a fit every time no matter what combo I tried. I then got used to less laundry.

In compensation I just set up the compost bin? I try to be Eco but she hated the sensation so I couldn't do it to her

The police have been next door all morning and now our neighbour has just shot off in his brother's car. His brother turned up about an hour after the police. His wife's car has been away all morning (quite unusual). I really hope everything is okay, they are very good friend's of DP and a lovely family.

MM sounds worrying, I hope it's nothing too serious.
JJ I shall inform dh of his new duties, unsure how well it will go down though!