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

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StuntNun · 09/05/2013 07:25

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

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ChasingDaisy · 14/05/2013 21:31

Oh thank goodness.

ChasingDaisy · 14/05/2013 21:32

Ha, I may have missed post 666 today but without even trying I got 777 Grin

Passmethecrisps · 14/05/2013 21:33

Excellent stalking skills BP

BigPigLittlePig · 14/05/2013 21:34
ChasingDaisy · 14/05/2013 21:36

Off to bed. Wishing you all good nights.

Oh and kyz let us know how you got on today Smile

PurplePidjin · 14/05/2013 21:36

They're a lot less messy than rusks!

TheDetective · 14/05/2013 21:45

Guilty as charged!

Also breathed sigh of relief at seeing PR on fb!

ValiumQueen · 14/05/2013 21:46

Yep today I was wishing his rusk was a biccypeg.

He has just gone to bed for the second time. He woke with sodding wind the first time so he came downstairs for a play. He had 9 oz at 8 and just had another 5 the noo. Greedy little piglet.

Pass my lovely GP said last time I saw him that there was no reason whatsoever to refer him to Paeds. Funny how when he was 5 days old I had no fucking choice and was made to feel like a bad mother for considering refusal, but when I am concerned about my third child...... Grr! But yes. I could push for a referral.

LuisGarcia · 14/05/2013 22:00

TheDetective

"DS1 never did any of this! He slept through the fucking night. I am sure there were no regressions! I would remember!!"

"Please tell me when this will be over?!"

I've only learned about regressions etc with L. I never noticed them with J, but it was because he had nowhere to regress from. He was just this bad, all the time. And he has got much better.

One day you will sleep.

TheDetective · 14/05/2013 22:01

I've got an abundance of paed referrals. Well. Two. Come here and you can have one Grin.

I'm pissed off that it takes so long for a baby to be seen. Unless of course, they aren't gaining weight. Because that is the be all and end all isn't it? Fuck pain. Fuck everything else.

Dixiebell · 14/05/2013 22:04

I think ds1 would have ignored the Groclock if we'd used it earlier, but he's old enough now to understand the concept and respond to it. Eliza, I am jealous of your 8/8.30 settings...ours is on 6.15 weekdays and for a weekend lie-in, 6.30 Hmm. I did try for 7 last weekend, but he'd obviously been awake since 5.30, lying there, waiting for the sun, and I felt a bit mean making him wait another 45 minutes! Could just imagine him thinking to his little self 'any minute now, I'll be able to call for daddy...it's surely time soon...just a few more minutes...'!!

TheDetective · 14/05/2013 22:05

I find it really hard to get to sleep, my sleep is so fragmented it's ridiculous. O wakes a lot in the evening, so there is little point going to bed til he's not woke for about an hour.

So as a result I'm getting about 90 minutes unbroken sleep at the minute.

Even if DP does his share, makes no difference. I am awake. And feeling guilty that I should be doing it, and guilty because O might want me, and guilty because I should be fucking asleep and let them get on with it.

DP tries, in the morning he takes O downstairs if we've had a really bad night, and lets me catch up. But even that is fairly pointless. DP wants to know how I know what time O fed, slept and how he's been in the morning. It's because I wake to every little whimper he makes. Regardless of where in the house he is.

Last night O was screaming on DP's chest and he didn't move a fucking muscle.

I need that kind of sleep Hmm.

Dixiebell · 14/05/2013 22:06

Yes Detective, one day you will sleep until you have the next dc... Wink

TheDetective · 14/05/2013 22:08

My mum screeched down the phone at me how I was fucking insane if I wanted another after this.

I'm beginning to see, she has a point!

Dixiebell · 14/05/2013 22:08

Last night DH stayed over in a hotel. I need that kind of sleep.

TheDetective · 14/05/2013 22:09

That proper made me chuckle.

I've seriously considered it.

One full nights sleep for both me and DP.

Even going to stay at our respective mothers for the night.

But how can I if he doesn't even wake up when O is screaming on his fucking chest? Angry

ValiumQueen · 14/05/2013 22:10

Agree totally detective. All they see in J is a fat baby. They cannot see that his fatness is a symptom.

Knicker DD shit said knickers during dinner tonight, and DD1 peed on the toilet lid again. I only realised this when I went to check on her and saw that she was knicker-less. And smelt of wee. We know how to have fun in Valium Castle.

Hoping to not see you until the morning, sweet dreams all x

LuisGarcia · 14/05/2013 22:14

Yep, I get that. In an empty silent house I can't sleep for more than 3 hours at a time any more. The guilt of not sleeping and the pressure of feeling you are needed 24/7 are an awful combination.

What if he took O out rather than downstairs?

Passmethecrisps · 14/05/2013 22:16

Night night VQ.

Elizadoesdolittle · 14/05/2013 22:18

Dixie She rarely wakes up before 7.30. Normally 7.45 is her usual wake up time and she is happy in her room for a bit. If she woke much earlier I couldn't do a late sun up time. As you said it would be awful, poor mites.

Just watching the news about Angelina Jolie, wow.

jakecat · 14/05/2013 22:23

Hello all - delurking (again again) to say thank you to whoever recommended mashed banana on toast. Went down really well with LO today.

Sympathy to everyone having trouble with sleep and naps. Only realised this evening how badly affected by sleep deprivation I am when discovered that I've booked our tickets to go on holiday for wrong dates. Eurostar and French TGV. Can't believe have been so stupid. DP has been lovely about it but feel sick from having screwed up so badly Hmm

YellowWellies · 14/05/2013 22:25

BPLP Jonas moos at my boobs too - and chuckles when I unclip my nursing bra. When he's really hungry or grumpy he mutters with a mouthful of boob whilst feeding so it sounds like om nom nom . He's rather delicious at the moment, big smiles, beaming eye contact and dimples and chuckles. When not wailing from reflux.

TheDetective · 14/05/2013 22:35

If he took O out, the racket made in him getting ready blow drying and straightening his hair would have me up for the day.

He pulls old clothes on and takes O with him on the school run on days when he does that - and I have the soundest sleep for that hour. But as soon as he's back, ping! Awake at the slightest noise.

He won't go out properly without being tarted up Grin. He doesn't have to get out the car at school, so he doesn't care like me!.

LuisGarcia · 14/05/2013 22:41

Tell him everyone will fall in love with him if they see him pushing a buggy in the park in his pj's.

Kyzordz · 14/05/2013 22:55

Evening all,

I have read everything, and want to reply to it all but don't have time and am forgetting it all as I type!

vq very brave of you with the finger food! I know you usually prefer to feed puréed. Wish I were so brave

det it will pass :)

pass how is miss p feeling? Hope she's ok and sleeps well tonight!

FFs. Erm.

chasing o won't always do the screamy thing. E does it to people he sees infrequently but they are just little babies and if they don't deserve a little indulgence and the feeling of safety and comfort then I don't know who does! You're his source of those things, it's natural he wants you.

E has had an uppy downy day. He went to the doctors and has amoxycillin? Which he hates :/ he has drank over half again today with some persuasion. He had some yoghurt at lunch as I thought it might cool his throat a bit. Then at his 2pm bottle mum had late lunch, and e would not drink for love nor money. I probably did the complete wrong thing and gave him a little break from his bottle and a little tree of broccoli. He ate a bit!!!!!! What's more is he then ate some carrot!!!!! My heart was in my mouth the whole time and I did take some bigger chunks of carrot from him but he ate veg! He gagged once on carrot but stuck it straight back in! I am on one had worried he is only drinking about 24oz but pleased to bits he ate some veg and did so well too. I'm so sad!

I am going to get some airtight containers and try to do finger food veg regularly.

One question though. Actually, two. The carrots turned to mush easier than easy. Is that too soft?

When you do toast how wide do you do the soldiers?

Actually, more

What are these porridge fingers and oat cake flap jack type things people keep mentioning?

How toasted do you toast the toast?

FC to a good night for one and all :) need sleep! E has seemed brighter today so tentatively hoping for a better night