November 2012 - Babies' first holidays: India, Australia, the world is their oyster

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1746351-November-2012-In-denial-about-the-six-month-sleep-regression

Det would gaffer tape do a simiilar job?? I had a similar experience with their next day delivery - it turned up 3 days later. It taught me not to leave birthday present shopping to the day before though.

I will be interested to see what sort of state Fs sleep is in when she's well again. Funny little moomin that she is, she's only fed once today, at 11 - but nommed a cube of pear puree at lunch. I keep offering milk but she's not interested. I look like I've got 2 bald men lurking down my top. DH face looks like this -> and then like this -> when I tell him to fuck off leave them alone.

I love amazon for everything but next day delivery. I have had orders lost or been late cos of their crapness. can you afford a trip to mothercare and complain to amazon about the swaddle?

we have the money for the extra it just could form.part of our spending money instead of the flight. 2000 quid for flights . luckily PILs paying half but hate thinking about what we could do with a thousand pounds

brockle you did not fuck up. You made the best decision at the time with the information you had available.

bp hope LO soon feeds again. I am sure you know to watch for signs of dehydration considering your line of work

when he was little he used to try it with my mum. highly embarassing!

You can't get the big sizes of swaddle anywhere other than online. :(

Fucking amazon. I would like to strangle people today!

Bedtime routine is laughed in the face of by O I suspect right now.

brockle where are you off to again?

Palestine

You can take a tired baby to a cot, but you cannot make them sleep. Except with drugs. Which is not allowed.

detective is your mum as good with a needle as she is with the knitting? could she fix the one you have?

Oh yes. Awesome! I would love to go there. Visiting DHs family IIRC? I would pay the extra for an easier flight.

Detective I think developmental leaps etc go by due date so O technically is 6 months old

I'm going to ignore this due date nonsense, because that means Fs 6 months will be about 5 days before I return to work. Head. In. Sand.

yes it is amazing if you could remove that sodding wall, and remove is the most pc way of saying it

yes, staying with PILs.

Det I hope you ordered O this swaddle!

Brockle L's took 10 days.

Det that sounds a lot like L (the waking, not the swaddle). We had pretty much the same due date iirc? So although they are almost a month apart it could be that they have hit the same dev stage.

Damn it! Will cancel and reorder .

VQ I will have a bash at making a straightjacket it. DP out looking for velcro. Will just sew additional velcro, and sew one of the flaps he escapes from up .

O is having a tongue out day! He's literally doing dog impressions! He won't put his tongue away! Anyone elses babies do this?!

Grrrr posted this ages ago! Fail!

Right. Crisis averted. Guess what?

Bloody Pramworld have got them in the shop! DP dispatched to get one!

In the meanwhile I've fashioned his old swaddle with a shit load of velcro. It's nap time in 5 minutes. Lets see what happens!

J is also having a tongue poking out day. How strange and spooky! I think it is a developmental stage. Blowing raspberries, sticking out tongue etc. wish he would put more effort into rolling or sitting or even sleeping. He has just gone off to sleep now at 3.30. That is nearly 9 hours awake. And he was not hysterical, in fact he has been fairly chilled.

9 hours? Most O has done is 5 hours and that was most definitely not calm .

He is trying to stick his tongue out as far as it goes! He loves copying tongues out, blowing raspberries, both with lips and with tongue out, but he doesn't normally pant like a dog .

YW I have a bone to pick with you! I am now addicted to Rightmove looking for a house as nice as yours. I have seen a gorgeous one in Clackmannan. Not sure about Clackmannan. Heard dodgy things. Then again the village I live in is not exactly Bridge of Allan.

He had 10 minutes at 11 before my mother exploded through the front door. It may have been just enough to carry him on. Or is sweet potato magic? It tasted beyond lovely. I could bath with a friend in that stuff.

Did you glue or staple the Velcro on?

DD2 has been clean and dry all day. Even with going out with Daddy. And she did a proper log as well. Very impressive for one so small.

Det- Can O sleep in a baby grow. N u leave the arms in/ or tie arms up/ cut off arm n sow up. (Obviously i mean arm of baby grow not O!) So kinda making ur own grow bag. Just thinking of a short term fix.

Det if I had twins, I would buy 2 of those swaddles, just so I could say "they're like peas in a pod". Yes, I am that sad.

F awake. Wet nappy, but then it hadn't been changed since 10am. One snacky-type feed. One choke-on-vomit incident where I aged about 10 years.

VQ I must try some of this mystical sweet potato, and see if it posesses the magical qualities you speak of.