DECEMBER 2012: The start of crawling and the end of maternity leave

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Oh spotty that's shite fx your supply ups soon, sit and pump every hour in the evening? Rubbish but might just imitate cluster feeding.

Well phase 1 of nursery has started. He went down perfectly nicely. I've put a desk fan on in his room (pointed away from his cot) and left the door slightly ajar. Lets see how the middle of the night goes

Nutella, C has started dropping her 3rd nap of the day - more often than not she won't have it. Her morning and midday naps are good and have lengthened from the usually dependable 45min to about 1.5-2 hours. All done without any input from me. This is in the cot though - in the pram it's much more hit and miss.

I guess I mean to say that your LO may be naturally dropping naps at this stage. Not sure what you can do to lengthen the existing ones though.

just had a v frustrating conversation with MIL. She thinks everything is about her. Usually I manage her well but tonight I just want to yell at her. She decided she wants to know the exact date we will be arriving back in Aus but my husband and I haven't planned it exactly yet. She won't just let it be!

Seymore we're very lucky DS will go 10 hrs after his last bottle although its often a struggle to get him to drink it!

willyou glad you enjoyed your birthday , I love cocktails but just can't face them with 5am start the next day!

wl I did 5 hours of pushing (!) hope all is ok with your sil

nutella DS only used to do 30-45 mins max for a nap but someone talked to me about sleep stages, and that at 45 mins they either fall into the next stage or wake up. They usually wake up if things are not as they were when falling asleep- ie being fed/rocked/patted etc So I've tried really hard with the self settling and there must be something in it as he sleeps much longer if self settles..

Any tips on cooling rooms down ? It's a ridiculous 27degrees tonight and he just won't go to sleep!!!

wl good luck to your sil; any news yet? (Cause I'm sure we're high up the list. )

spotty eating anything oat based helps your supply-il I have granola and yoghurt for breakfast which is yummy and hopefully diabetes friendly?

No tips for dramatic room coolingMary land, but if you can open a window in the room and another you can get good cross ventilation going. Also a large shallow bowl of water will help create evaporative cooling to an extent?

8lb baby boy delivered by c section this afternoon.

My word you all pushed for an extraordinary amount of time! The little dude had his chin up instead of down, no luck movi g him so cs it was. It's in the bloody genes I say - dd1 was the same but I didn't get a cs I got ventouse, forceps, 3rd degree tear, epesiotomy and a life time of continence problems! (Hence other 2 were cs).

Ts room was 29 but I've taken down the blackout blind and opened the curtains to let the air in and got it down to 27.
She was hard to settle tonight as she was a bit sick after her feed and it really upset her again. I think it must be a bit refluxy. I didn't want to boob her and fill her up even more so cuddled and rocked.

DH has been at work the entire weekend, came in to eat and went to the pub. Thanks for that. Harumph.

Congratulations Aunty WL

I keep my bedroom windows open all day, and all the doors as well Mary, it seems to keep our house cool.

Congrats on your nephew WL.

Willyou - belated happy 30th. Sounds like you had a great night.

Spotty - hope your supply increases soon.

Isthat - sounds like the move to the nursery is going well. All the best for the rest of the night.

Mama - you have my sympathy with the fussing MIL. Although, to be fair mine does seem to have improved a little of late have probably just jinxed it now

I must admit to being a bit of a suncream obsessive. At the moment, both DSs are coated each morning as part of their getting ready routine. I think it's because I am ridiculously pale and pretty much need Factor 50+ myself in this weather. They are both fair as well,so am paranoid about them getting burnt. I also try with sunhats - DS1 loves his, but unfortunately N has become a complete hat refuser. As soon as it's on he just pulls it off again. The only time he will wear the thing is if he's asleep.

Congratulations WL! Best wishes to their new little family.

Thanks ladies, glad to know I'm not the only one with nap problems. It just doesn't seem right for him to only sleep for an hour through the day... If his naps start to lengthen out that would be awesome.... I'll have to find out how to barter with the nap gods....

Although staying up late to do the dream feed is killing me, nothing beats that sleepy little face on my shoulder. I could kiss it for hours !

Just a quick post as I'm on the shockingly bad MN app! We've had terrible naps for while now, around 20mins three times a day. The last few days have been much better though. I've been religious about putting DS back to bed between 90mins and 2 hours after he first wakes up (around 6am) and he's settling faster and sleeping for longer. That seems to make all the other naps better too. I think I was just letting him get overtired. I've also started making the room darker and give him a comforter which he likes to stroke. Of course when the school run starts up again the whole thing will be out the window.

Well DS was up 10 and now (2) but I wasn't asleep at 10 and 1 'night feed' wouldn't be too bad. Especially with the weather like this. I'm waking up thirsty so why shouldn't he?

I can't believe it's mon already! 7 months today. Where does all the time go?

Congratulations aunty WL

6.5 hours :o:o:o

Congrats to your SiL WL

After no sleep at my mum and dads last night, J has slept 7-4! Now if I'd gone to bed at a reasonable hour that'd be great not sure if he'll go back down now though.

Ds slept through again. He woke at four but I just left him to it and he went back to sleep after a little chat.
I'm going to get him weighed today

WL yay for new baby! I only pushed for an hour with dd before they got the forceps out and ds was out in less than twenty minutes generally they don't let people go over two hours round here.

Wrt naps I put ds down two hours after he wakes and he sleeps up to 2.5 hours then I will put him down after another two hours and he will do up to 2. He's only started doing it recently though.

Same here Spotty 2 hours awake then down for a nap. Some days you could actually set your watch by it!

Off to buy a travel cot today so DS can sleep at the back of the house where it's not so hot at night. Crazy last night even with supposedly amazing dyson fan and window open..

Well DS woke at 5.20, which recently has been when he'd either play because its light or go back to sleep in bed with me if I let him use me as a dummy. He went back down really well in his own room. He's just starting to stir now. A roaring success I think. I did have a hankering for a video baby monitor last night but I think it's make me more neurotic not less lol.

maryland ds's room was 27 for most the night. I left him in cotton pyjamas with no sleeping bag, that seemed to be ok for him thankfully.

Sounds like a good night IsThat will have to think about moving ds soon but it means us swapping rooms and I don't want to!

Congrats WL, wonderful news
And yay to a good night Spotty

H just threw up his entire bottle if milk on the carpet! He seems fine now, wondering if I should give him more or just move on to breakfast

Congratulations to your sil aunty WL
spotty I echo the suggestion about pumping at a regular time. I also swear by oats.

Our flat was up to 29 degrees at 9pm last night!

Ds slept in a vest with a cotton cellular blanket, which was kicked off. Must sort out a summer sleeping bag. He woke up twice as usual and is feeding to sleep on me now.

T woke at 2 ish and I fed her straight away - as someone else said I thought she might be thirsty in this crazy heat, then again at 5.30. Not surprised as I'd had to move her blackout blind to let the air in. I fed her and put the blind back but no good so sent DH down with her!

There's a van with a decontamination unit attached visiting next door! Not sure that I want to know!

Googled it - it's an asbestos removal company. Nosy neighbour alert!

WRT naps, all those with good nappers, when you say 'put down' do you mean that literally? can they self settle if put in their cot? it's just I can't get C to nap without feeding, walking or driving and I'm thinking there must be better ways.???

I have been putting The Little Mister to sleep in a nappy ond babygro. Then I have been putting a cellular blanket over him before I go to bed.

It was about 24 degrees in his room last night. I was using a vest and sleeping bag but then he ends up in our bed and it all seems a bit warm.

Prunella - we're still very much at the napping only during/after feeding, driving or walking stage too! He does at least seem to be developing a sort of pattern - snooze about 90 mins after getting up, another after lunch and sometimes a third at about 4.00ish especially if it is a nursery pick-up day for DS1. I think he might gradually be dropping his third nap in favour of a longer post-lunch snooze though. Will be very handy if I can persuade him to stay in his cot throughout.