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

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Good baby went down for a 2 hour nap at 6.45am- and so did I. She's gone 4.5 hours between feeds, though.

DP took the baby at

Oops, I tried to say:

Hi Jeff

Happy anniversary WL

DP took the baby down at 6:30 and I've just woken up , better go and take over! I spent the time dreaming my mum had died thpugh so not the most pleasant.

Hope everyone has lovely Sundays, off to my sister's for a BBQ in a bit.

Lovely lie in willyou - I thought I did we'll to get until 8! But awful dream

Well we've had a lovely sunny day but is it just DS refusing to sleep in this heat? He's hardly slept at all!

I got the baby bath out on the patio for him to splash around in which he loved and it cooled him down for a bit. And in going to attempt to put him to bed in just a vest no sleeping bag, as its so hot!

I'm burnt after spending a couple of hours teaching the kids to ride without stabilisers. DS1 (6) had great success, dd (8) ended up sobbing and pissing me off as she refused to try properly and kept shrieking about the bike leaning/going too fast/bees in the air near her thankfully ds2 spent most of the day in the shade of a tree with nanny so no sunburn for him :)

I have had a super grumpy little boy all day. He wasquite wakeful over night and then today he has been refusing most solids, chewing his hands and fiddling with his ear so I am assuming he is teething.

Unfortunately my DH is on a nightshift tonight so I have to cope on my own and I have to work tomorrow. I hope he sleeps ok.

The huge success though is that I decided not to feed him to sleep so we put him down, let him cry a bit, popped back in and patted him and told him to go back to sleep and I just looked in and he is curled up with his soft toy monkey. Result!

Been quiet on here today. We've not had great weather up here in Scotland, so no heat problems for us. Just wet washing after rain :(

I've had a bad couple of nights with T. Wondering if its dairy related again. I'm going to have to do a proper exclusion diet to rule my dairy/egg laced bm out as the source of all this misery. Not looking forward to it at all though, such a limited diet :( no chocolate, no cheese, mayo, butter. Doesn't sound like much in a way, but it's an ingredient in a million tasty things. Still, it won't be forever, and if it gives me a happy baby who sleeps through the night it'll all be worth it and I'll be happy indeed.

Glad some of you got to stay in bed this morning. First thing I did this morning was get angry at DH and T. T fed almost constantly from 3:30-7:30 this morning. DH woke up at 7:30, looked at the time then pulled the covers up and went back to sleep. I think I'll do the same thing tomorrow morning at 3:30! T isn't my problem if he's not hungry right?

Tbh my mood didn't get any better all day long. Not helped by T only having short naps. They were in his cot though, without too much fuss to get him down. However when he wakes up after a short nap (say 20 mins instead of his usual hour) he doesn't seem tired enough to go back to sleep, but wakes up grumpy and is tired again shortly after. Does anyone else have this issue? Can they be got back to sleep?

IsThat it's a shame your DD didn't take to stabiliser-free bike riding, but well done DS. We've not had weather hot enough for baby bath/pool for DS at all, and I doubt we will. It sounds like great fun though. T loves his bath.

Sorry about the bad dream WillYou, hope you had a good BBQ though, and feel tested after your bonus sleep.

Mama glad you got an extra sleep this morning, apparently a late night/early morning wake up can be normal around 6 months. Hopefully she grows out of it soon. T only ever goes that long during the day without a feed. I always end up feeding him as soon as he wakes up in the morning, hoping to convince him he's still sleepy ;)

Barbeasty I hope you started the day with some tea, cake and a sit down (in the sun?). You deserve a bit of weekend too.

Spotty, glad you had a (mostly) good sleep, though sorry about your sister annoying you. I guess she figured you and your DD wouldn't mind not getting a card, blaming no money isn't really a good excuse though, as you say it's not expensive to send a card. My sister is pissed off at my mum for the same reason (no card for her or DN, or even a Facebook post). I must say I don't really care about cards, though I would care if I was given a bollocks reason rather than the truth.

Welcome Jeff.
Happy anniversary WL.

Hope everyone else had a good day. T is stirring so I'm going to run and try and resettle him, then do something with my evening. Going to have an early night tonight after the bad sleep of the last couple of days.

Thanks for all the hellos.

DD today proved that although she hasn't mastered solids ice-cream is worth a special effort and she hoovered it quite efficently off my cone when I wasn't looking!

Stacks if you go dairy free I recommend 'Oatley' milk, especially the chocolate one. Hate to say this must if it is dairy it's likely soya would be a culprit too.

isthat T hasn't slept much at all in the day over the last 2 days and it is pretty hot here. She seems happy enough and at least ate a bit today. She wouldn't eat the brekkie DH made her with cows milk instead of boob juice.
We've had masses of stress trying to teach dd1 (6) to ride her bike - it's SO frustrating! Bless her she's not very physically confident and she's 95./. If the way there but just can't relax and go for it.

Had a lovely day, picnic in the park after dd1s swimming lesson where we watched some very impressive marching (and formation dancing!) bands practicing for a big competition - it was amazing! hales I love watching a spot of Morris dancing too!
Tonight DH and I had a take away pizza and watched a DVD he bought me for Xmas by way of a date in the lounge!

stacks can you push for allergy testing?

Stacks could you go to the GP and explain about the allergies and hopefully they'll test for them. I had to be really insistent about getting the lactose intolerance test done and told them my HV said that it needed doing.

Happy Anniversary WL, we didn't end up watching DSD morris dancing as she goes with MiL who told us to get there for 11:30 and then rang us at 9:45 to tell us that DSD was dancing at 10:15. So there was no way of getting H ready in that time. Tbh i was abit gutted although i don't like it, it would of been nice to see DSD dancing. Hopefully they'll have another competition close to home soon.

Isthat i'm glad DS enjoyed learning to ride his bike hopefully DD will enjoy it next time.

I know most of us seem to have grumpy babies who are refusing to sleep properly. Do you think its a developmental thing or a heat thing? Although it hasn't been sunny here today it was warm but with a few showers.

Ds needed settling at 11 and again now. He's not hungry just starts this annoying whine when I move away from him which turns into a cry after a little while. Not sure what I can do other than stand here patting his bum

What's best to do on a gorgeous day? Go ikea of course! First time there with dp. Cue arguments galore... And we need to make another trip there in a few weeks.
Ds has been a delight this weekend. First trip out of london for my friends dd party on saturday and ds did really well being passed around.

Ds back to sleep after a lengthy feed.

hales I think the heat got ds grumpy yesterday afternoon and maybe another tooth coming through.. Do you give H water to drink?

Hello ladies! I've missed you lot! I'm totally out of the loop now but I've been checking all the lovely FB pictures regularly. I'll post now and catch up on this thread after.

Quick update: DH is being an arse of the highest order and I'm basically running the house and looking after 3 DCs on my own. That's a whole other post though! DS is 7 months on Wednesday and generally waking every 2-3 hours at night, although there were 2 nights last week where he did 6 hour stretches. I just need him to do it once more to claim "3 time's a habit". We've had plenty of nights recently where he's been waking every hour, although he's had a few colds and a nasty cough for a long time so that's not helping. He's still on the 97th centile for weight and height and on account of being on the large side he's not even sitting unaided yet, let alone rolling or crawling! He has started saying "da da da" though, little traitor!

When it was 45 degrees here DS was 6 weeks old and didn't sleep ALL day! You have my sympathies. For the last few weeks DS has been napping for 20 mins at the most in the day, anyone else having this?

stacks you also have my sympathies. I've been dairy free since the start of the year, it's not fun. I've heard oatley is good too, we don't have it here. I reintroduced soy into my diet though and he's been fine with it. DD was also allergic to cows milk, they wouldn't do a patch test while she was baby though. It was diagnosed after she had a really bad reaction to formula. She was given pepti milk on prescription until she grew out of it around 2 years old. Here I have to buy DS's hydrolysed milk over the counter, it's the same price as normal formula though (£20 a tin, I kid you not) he's mostly breastfed though.

2blessed yay Ikea! It's usually empty on a lovely day. Sorry about the arguments though.

Happy anniversary WL!

isthat sounds like a successful day! We still need to get DD (7.5) riding her bike without stabilisers. She sounds exactly like your DD though, she gets so worked up!

barb I hope A is feeling better soon.

FOD I'm glad your first week back went well! I'd love a bit of grown up time!

Welcome jeff how old are your other DCs?

Woo hoo welcome back Seymore! Sounds like ds is improving on the sleep front. Sorry your dh is being an arse. Do I remember rightly that you'll be coming back to the uk somewhen?

I fed ds at 3 and he slept until 6 when dd kindly came in being very loud

Think I've got two blocked ducts in one boob, is that possible? Had done good advice in the feeding topic though so fingers crossed... Last baby massage course today I've really enjoyed it

Welcome back Seymour, sorry DP is being an arse. H naps about 2 maybe 3 times a day and that can be anywhere from half an hour to an
hour. I can't remember who but i'm sure someone else said their baby only napped for 20 minute stretches. Also i have a very chunky baby like you except shes off the charts for weight now and wearing 12-18 month clothes but 9-12 month sleepsuits.

2blessed i offer water quite alot shes still a grump at the moment. I just wasn't sure if they were all grumpy at this stage or if it was because of heat. Sorry you had a crap day in Ikea but yay to the good time in London

Oh no Spotty i hope your blocked ducts clear soon. You've been really unlucky getting them so often but you've done really well to carry on breastfeeding the whole time

H went to sleep at 11:45 last night yay at least it wasn't 1am like it's been the last week or so. We're getting her 6 month photos done today i'm so excited. I love seeing the result hopefully she'll smile for a change.

Checking in. G wakes hourly too tired to read threads sorry but want to keep up!

Oh Clarella i hope it gets easier for you soon and that he lets you get some sleep

Thanks spotty yes hopefully we will be back within 18 months, but it all depends on DH's employer. We really need to wait for them to transfer us back because the flights and shipping are very pricey. Sorry to hear about the blocked ducts, is it just lumpiness or is mastitis setting in now too?

Hales we're on 9-12 month sleepsuits now too, stupidly I put them in the dryer and they are a bit too small now. I never learn!

Clarella You must be shattered. Does G wake hourly all night?

Just the lumps, not had mastitis yet luckily!

By midnight A had woken 5 times. At 2am I gave him neurofen (that was the medicine in my room and I wasn't traipsing to the kitchen at that time!)

That gave us a 2hr stretch, but that's as good as it got!

He really isn't well. I'll dose him again later, but I think calpol seems to work better probably because we have the full sugar version

The breast milk certainly cleans the eyes well. But he hates anything touching his eyes or nose, and wriggles far too much for any sort of squirting. So I've taken a bit that I expressed and I'm using it with cotton wool like I would water.

Now I just need him to let me put him down before I wet myself and so I can shower and get us all up.

Goodness there's some pesky babies at the moment! T is not too bad comparatively, she tends to wake 11ish and 3ish for feeds - we seems to have taken a step backwards with the self settling/settling without a feed and last night it took me an hour to settle her after a feed. When the hot spell is over I think I'm going to get harsh and stop all night feeds - even an early night feed at 1 or 2 means she's not hungry enough for a proper first thing feed. She messes about then, has a later feed and then won't eat any breakfast. I go back to work in 6 weeks and need to get mornings a bit slicker.
Builder is coming soon to take up the floor/drive and hopefully repair the water pipe - we might have water soon!

Oh he's here and In my pjs, very obviously not wearing a bra!

When I feed ds at 3/4 he seems starving WL but like tabs he then isn't particularly hungry in the morning. Not sure if I'd be better doing a dream feed then gradually withholding feeds until he can get to six (would be eight hours from dream feed which he regularly does fine).

I think my ex just walked into the cafe I'm in....you know that first proper serious boyfriend (not the one you think you love at 15 but the one you really love at 18) I may have hidden behind ds and my iced coffee )