December 2012: Sunshine, saliva & sleeping more...we hope!

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New thread ladies

And dd didn't eat any lunch and ds is starting to cry as might I

Could you ring a locksmith? Or are you in the car could you drive to DP's work? Sorry i know you've probably already thought of those ideas

No car keys either. I'm sitting in the shed luckily it's a brick one and nice and warm!

Oh no Spotty can you pop in to a neighbours for a cup of tea while you keep trying dp?

Does anyone else have a spare key?

Nope no one! None of my neighbours are in (and I don't know them really ).

I got hold of dp. Can now add the shed to my list of bf places

Hello, sorry I've not been around for ages. Hope everyone is well. spotty i wouldn't want to have to bf in my shed - I can barely go in there without trying my hardest not to make direct eye contact with all the spiders!

The babies are getting so big now! I just put on cbeebies for Z (a slight creepy programme called baby jake) and blow me down if he isn't completely utterly transfixed by it! He's on the jumperoo but all jumperoo action stopped the minute I switched from cricket to cbeebies and he's as still as a statue watching the tv.

Glad you're back in spotty. When dd2 was a few weeks old I got locked out the front door with dd1&2 in the conservatory at the back (and in my pjs). Luckily a neighbour came and jumped over our locked side gate and unlocked it so I could at least see the girls. He also brought me a phone so I could call my mum to bring the spare key. Thankfully she only lived about 10 mins away.

seconds thanks to dd1&2 T has been a cbeebies fan since birth!

Dd just made ds giggle so much by tickling him. Super cute

That is cute spotty. Dd2 is really ticklish and I used to get the best baby giggles, still do but her flailing limbs are dangerous now. I so hope T gets ticklish - no sign yet.

Hope for a better night is fading fast - first wake up just 1.5 hours after going down. :-(

Ds was up before 8:30 too

I've taken to letting him sleep on me while we watch tv on an evening, so any wake ups are mer with instant boobage. It gives dh and I time to catch up/chat/watch stuff together but maybbe creating a problem for later. He goes down fairly easily atc9.30/10ish after being asleep from 8, 30ish for now..

Hi all. Well today we're off on our road trip to Yorkshire to introduce Erhan to my nan. I can't wait. But we're also in the middle of having the boiler replaced as ours was leaking carbon monoxide and was condemned!! I didn't need this right now! DS has done a couple of great nights but last night was 3 wak ups and we've been up now since 4.50 and he's just not quite dropping off :(

Ds woke at 8:20 (?!) 11:30, 3:30 and up at 6:30 so a good night for us. I think dd is ill as she slept 90 minutes yesterday lunchtime, went to bed no problems (usually if she sleeps she takes hours to go to bed ) and is still asleep now even though we're all up. Think we will stay in today.

I got my giant play mat yesterday it's great it's this one

Hello! Just checking in.

pidj we're up to 3 meals now and still breastfeeding round the clock too.

mama I hope the jet lag improves soon. This time last year I took DS and DD back to the UK, DS had horrible jet lag and apparently the key is to get them out into daylight early in the morning. Because he was up all night I was letting him and me sleep in until mid morning. Apparently that's where I went wrong. I hope you can start to enjoy your trip soon. I left DH here in Aus and was desperate to get back to him/the house/the right time zone by the end of it!!

We had one 5 hour stretch of sleep this week but apart from that it's 2/3hrs and I'm feeding every time. I feel utterly shit by 5am, 6 months of this is starting to take its toll! DH got home early last night and could bath the big kids while I got DS to bed, it felt like such a luxury to have that bit of help!

I'm confused by the weeks thing now. DS is 22 weeks now so 5.5 months, but he was born on 3rd Dec so really 6 months. But he won't actually be 6 months until he's 26 weeks (when I should have waited to to wean) in 4 weeks time.

Actually he's not 6 months at all! All these night feedings are bad for my IQ

Seymore I was just counting on my fingers looking like this -->

Seymore, R will be 6 months on sunday, he was born in November :o

Although he won't be 26 weeks till Monday

Babies don't read books, if they're ready you'll know - and if they're not then there's no shame in being happy with milk! If you've got an exclusively milk fed 9 month old, then you might want to start pondering pushing things otherwise it's just like everything else - barring serious impediment, they all get there.

And you'd know by now about pretty much any serious impediment affecting eating

Pidj are you going to cook with cows milk ones R's six months?

I have a maths degree you know. I've been telling loads of people he's 6 months, now I know why they were giving me sympathetic smiles.

pidj I wish babies did read books, I was given a copy of the contented little baby book. I've been pointing out sections to DS, I'm still waiting for the 2 hour lunch time nap and the 12 hour stretch at night.

Dd was a gina baby I didn't even have to work at it she just did it. I can't see it working for bf babies though.

spotty did you try it with DS? I wish DS would fall into some sort of pattern, he was more predictable as a newborn!

D is on 2 and a half meals a day and we've had 4isg hour stretches of sleep the past few nights... He's 29 weeks.

Tabs doubled her sleep time last night so was only up every 2 hours. Here's hoping she doubles it again tonight so we get 4 hourly wakes - yeah right!

Good news is dd1 is back to being a delight after a couple of days of boot camp. That and that I'm munching my way through a packet of Jaffa cakes with my cuppa.