December 2012 Babies Half a year already and still kind of sane.

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Hales I'm impressed! Did he realise what you were doing?!

Loving your work hales!
Actually spotty it is helpful that the weathers nice as T really enjoys being in the garden whereas she's bored indoors. Will take her for a walk down to the charity shop for her sleep in a bit - have to get rid of stuff when dd1 isn't looking!

And a little bit of sun seems to be lifting the cradle cap off nicely! She was scratching at it this morning for the first time - spotty I think you mentioned ds doing it a while back?

Yes, I did, he was making it bleed! But it's clearing up too? DS is asleep for the third time today, I think he's under the weather, been grumpy and has a runny nose.

OK I am officially a student gain which means I get a discount at Nandos

No he didn't notice so i'll be doing it again

hales
Oh spotty whatcha doin? I might be a bit jealous!

Oh nothing exciting! I'm doing a Diploma in Business Administration, I thought it was about time I got what I could do put onto paper! I'm more excited about the discounts....

Good Luck Spotty but you won't need it you will do great.

Good going hales! I have also been playing DH at his own game. Last night we were round at a friends because it was her birthday. When DS started getting grumpy around his bedtime I gave DH two options: I feed him now before you go home or I come home with you to feed and put him to bed before I come back. Of course he chose me putting him to bed but they live just up the road so I was only gone about half an hour then went back and had a great time. I still did the night feeds and got up with him at 5.30 when he decided that was a good time to start the day so it didn't really affect DH at all apart from not being the one who got to stay which I think he was expecting to.

Ooh Spotty I milked student discount until I was 25 when I did my phd then my sister started her nursing so I've only been without it for 2 years.

Glad you're having a nice sunny day with T WL.

J just slept for 2hours baby sensory knackers him out! I've hoovered, mopped, pegged out aNd worked out how to use the steamer that's been in out cupboard for 6 years Carrots and parsnips all round! Can I freeze sticks or would I have to purée them?

Good for you Ski, there's got to be some give and take.

Good work ski
willyou you should be able to freeze sticks - think frozen supermarket veggies but I've never tried it. Prob best to drop in iced water straight from the steamer. Let us know!

I'm on it WL!

Fantastic news spotty, I'm sure it will be well worth it.

I hop you get some good sleep soon WL, I know it can be soul destroying when you're tired ALL the time.

I was wondering the same thing about freezing veggies and asked DH (who's a chef) he looked at me like him stupid and said "of course you can." Although he might have been starting to get annoyed after a thousand questions about steaming and boiling etc.

Congrats Spotty! Discounts are great but I am so over the student days.

Just realised I forgot to renew my professional registration and of course now I need to re-apply for registration. I wouldn't bother as I won't be practising in the UK but it'll help my application for Australian registration. God, registering in general is a pain in the arse!

Baby asleep for 3rd nap today - all 45 minuters, I think. Need to wake her up if she doesn't awake in the next 10-15, so she can have her dinner and be tired enough for bed. I think this is the time of day when the sleepy part of her jetlag kicks in - by the end of her feed around 6.30pm she is absolutely knocked out.

Not sure if jetlag is really improving. She woke and snuffled and wriggled at 1am, so I got myself ready to get her up nd take her into the other room to play quietly, but by the time I went to get her up she was asleep. After her 3am feed I left her to 'sing' herself to sleep but after singing for 45 minutes she was still awake so I rocked her... only for her to wake on transfer. My mum suggested considering sleep training but the problem is she just isn't sleepy at that time yet. If we still have lots of trouble with her sleep once the jetlag has fucked off I will be considering doing something about her sleep. What, I have no idea!

T seems to be feeling a bit better today so we better have a decent night. I'm sure it's unfounded but I'm a bit worried that this spell could result in bad habits! If it doesn't start to improve we might have to consider sleep training too mama. Last time I threatened her she got better so fx!

ski I was interested to read that DH can put ds down after you've fed him - I still feed to sleep which of course is not great for night wakings. Did he just do it or did you work at it?

I am really struggling today nothing i do is right. I know its because shes ill but she just keeps crying and hitting me or crying to be picked up so i pick her up and she fights me till i put her down, then the whole cycle starts again Her breathing sounds terrible but i know a dr would do absolutely nothing for her as i'm keeping on top of Calpol and shes not got a temperature. She just sounds really bad IYSWIM i feel like an awful mother who can't do anything to help

Aw, hales that sounds tough of course you are helping just by being there and giving lots of cuddles even if it feels like she's fighting you off.

WL he will only go down for daytime naps by feeding to sleep but he will often put himself to sleep at bedtime provided he is in the right mood - sleepy enough but not too grumpy. It is still quicker for me to just feed him to sleep though which is why I just did that instead of leaving DH to it.

hales it's awful when they don't know what they want as then we have no ducking chance. Big hugs to you!

Well DS loves mash potato, and brocoli florets. Although he much prefers feeding himself to being spoon fed. He just doesn't open his mouth for spoon feeding. But his self-feeding skills are hit and miss and frustrate him a lot

Today he has mostly been practising sitting, which he's ok at and starting to self correct so that's cool. And getting up into hands and knees and rocking, which is not so cool! Where's my baby gone?!

Oh and to answer you're question, he pretty much just did it. It was gradual though, I would put him down at almost asleep then awake but v sleepy etc.
Night time wakings are always fed back to sleep.

Poor baby hales. Try sitting in the bathroom with her with the shower running on hot - the steam should help. If she's sounding awful and you're worried I would go to the dr even if just to be sent away. Is she coughing?

I think part of Ts upset is teeth - although there's no sign of any, this afternoon she got grizzley and one cheek popped up bright red! Once dds are all settled I'm heading straight to bed. Got hospital apt for dd2s ezcema tomorrow.

Dp's off work tomorrow but going out at 2:30 and won't be back until midnight my first night putting both to bed on my own! Think I will put ds down first then dd....

The weather is looking lovely for as far as they forecast

spotty you'll be fine putting both to bed, you're superwoman!

Well DH has just gone out to play squash. Leaving the kitchen in a state. While I was cooking all 3 dcs dinner, then sitting with them feeding ds2 I asked if he could load the dishwasher before he went out. That was 2 hrs ago, and he just walked out the door without doing it. Argh, sorry it's really petty but he had a dog the other day at plates being left on the side and I should load the dishwasher as I go along. To which I pointed out that for the last week I've been working 8/9 hr days with 3 children in the house. Usually with ds2 superglued to me, and tbh I couldn't give a flying fig unless we were expecting visitors. And today I specifically ask him to do it!

I think I'm going to finish feeding DS to sleep, finish work (45 mins or so) then get myself a shower and an early night.

You'll be fine spotty - it's never as bad we think! I do dd2, then feed dd3 while dd1 does her reading. If she falls asleep she goes next, if not I tuck dd1 in then put dd3 back on the boob until she submits!

When dd2 was little I had to put dd1 down first otherwise she would keep popping in and asking me things and waking dd2 up. You'll be fine but good luck nonetheless.