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

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Haha spotty!
Think the dream feed and no more will be my approach too. It's cooler today so might start tonight but when it's hot I'd hate her to be thirsty or crying getting even hotter.

You should have said hello! how long did you date for??

I saw the GP last week and she was horrified that I'm still doing so many night feeds, she said he shouldn't have any! Even when he was completely knocked out from jabs he still woke up once starving!

barb poor you and poor A. I hope you can get a shower.

Umm nearly two years...I told him it was over the day before I went on a date with now dp

I did about a million feeds last night. T started the night really well though, in his own cot from 8-12 with 3 wake ups and no feeds in that time. I might try and go longer tonight before feeding and bringing into our bed.

Sorry others had bad nights too, maybe it's just something in the air? Spotty hope the blocked ducts/lumps go soon, you really do have terrible luck with them.

I'm still on talking terms with my exH, it's a bit awkward as his life went to shit once I left - depression, alcohol, redundancy and mid life crisis. Oops.

There is definitely something in the air Stacks - my baby's infected with it too! I echo the others with getting as much help as possible re allergies.

Spotty - ha! I had along Facebook chat with my ex of 6 years about having kids - he has a (de facto) 7 year old stepdaughter and loves it. I think he'd like to have a baby too but not sure if his partner is up for another child. She's just finished all her medical training! I don't see much of him when we both live in the same city, but I'm still very close friends with his sister so I hear his news. I still really like him a lot - maybe I'll see more of him when I move back.

Yay Seymore, you're here! I'm with you and WL and others - feeding when I probably don't need to in the night. Last night C woke for an hour at midnight (I think she woke when my husband came to bed) and another hour at 4am - and then up for the day at 5.30am! Terrible night really. I have been experimenting with no dreamfeed but she's so inconsistent. 10 days ago she went almost 8 hours without waking me overnight. I think she's still teething but I don't know what to do. If she were in a separate room I'd find it much easier to withhold nighttime feeds, but I will often get up and feed her in the hope it'll put her back to sleep! A bad habit of mine, maybe.

Anyway, if anyone figures out how to get a baby to sleep until at least 6am let me know! I am remembering with fondness 6.45am wakeups. We've had far to many 5am starts here.

I have a lovebite on my arm. C was really unhappy and crying, and latched onto my upper arm. She's never done that before. I thought I'd let her just suck for a little bit, thinking she'd unlatch when she realised that there ain't no milk, but she ramped up the pressure and kept going so I had to lever her off. She's a lot more 'sucky' since teething, but no longer gets a dummy - so I guess that's me!

MaMa bless little C latching onto your arm! Once or twice in the dark DS has latched onto the skin next to my nipple, it's so painful! DS definitely sleeps much better in the other room, I've got no idea why though. I'm not sure if we DH snoring disturb him or maybe I'm too quick off the mark when he starts to wake up.

Seymore, I bet both is true of us - my husband does snore, and makes so much noise just turning over, plus I react too quickly when she wakes. Although I have been trying to wait - this morning I let her babble for 45 mins before thinking 'I am over this!' and feeding her! It must be difficult for her too to hear us snoring/breathing/rustling and wondering when we're going to come and play with her.

I'm really tired today for some reason and I went to bed at 8 was up lots though... Ds has only had two 20 minute sleeps today it's a nightmare he will only have good sleeps in his cot so no chance today what with baby massage and nursery runs

Yay we have water!

hi all

its varied but been. between 45 min and 3 hours for 4 months now, usually every 1 or 2. reflux for a while now just habit I think. I'm cosleeping to cope but starting to think it might be continuing it (too easy to quickly suckle!) so moving to own room with bed guard and a plan b back up in with us. I'm going to.lurk for a while of that's ok

nice to read how babes are doing and hugs to those mamas in need of them

Good luck with that Clarella. If you and your DP are on the same page then you can do it!

Making mapo tofu for dinner - my namesake! Delicious. No idea where my husband is though...

Eek ten inch hornet in our bathroom

Hi all I'm finding it really hard to keep up atm. DS2 was a pleasure at the school sports day today, he even managed to crawl up on his knees a little bit. But mostly he commandoed round and made himself filthy. His teeth are really hurting him bastard things he still has none. But he spent most of the afternoon/evening crawling round shouting. Then at bedtime he clawed at his face and managed to cut/bruise just under his eye! :( poor boy.

I'm off for a bath and bed in a bit I think, I'm knackered!

MaMaPo I woke up this morning with a huge blister on my breast where dd had missed!!! (How did I not wake?)

SeymourButts
dd-6.5months, ds 3, ds 14, dd 16

I am lucky with this one, she sleeps well. About 8pm-5am then 5am-7am. I remember the pain with ds though he sleep no more than an hour until he was one. I thought I'd die. I'd take assemblies at work and forget things such as the rest of the Lords Prayer when I was halfway through or who was doing it....

seymour I feel your pain re dh,mine is the laziest. He can't comprehend his lack of contribution, the type that wants a medal for lifting his own socks, let alone the kid's. Dd can't sit either, but she's 2nd centile so I'd like to know her excuse! Her siblins crawled at this age.

I'm still feeding lots at night, don't really keep tabs on the times as find it a bit easier to cope with that way but I have a strong sense that we are a long way off sleeping through.

N celebrated turning 7 months today by cutting his 7th tooth.

ispy 7 teeth?! We don't have 1!

jeff my older 2 didn't crawl until 9mo ds2 is commando crawling already (started just after 6mo)

No teeth here either, but big 2 didn't get any til nearly a year so expecting the same this time.
Big 2 didn't crawl til about 11 months but Tabs got up onto her hands and knees today - them promptly fell over sideways!

Little monkey pooed on my arm today! Just after I joked about it with dd1 - she of course found it hilarious!

So we have water but the insurance co won't pay, I broke my fave vase, chipped the kitchen worktop and had my goggles nicked. And of course got pooed on. Not such a great day.

WL at least tomorrow can't be worse than today.

Ispy has N cross teethed or have they all come through in the correct order?

H had an eventful day we went to get her photo's done where she spent most the time crying or looking away from the camera. We wanted a few shots of her naked with her back to the camera playing with her bears. Of course she wee'd all over me when i picked her up and not a small wee, it was one of those really long warm wees yuk!

Oh and i hope we all have sleeping babies tonight although i'm still waiting for H to go to sleep

Thanks hales. Unfortunately we're onto our 2nd wake already so I'm steeling myself for a looooong night. I keep hoping nights will get better but this is worse again. At least the trend has to reverse at some stage. Have just suggested to my husband that he sleep on the couch, so at least someone in the house will get some sleep.

She is properly feeding. Greedy monster.

WL, yay for water but a hearty boo to everything else.

Is

Oops - meant to congratulate ISpy on impressive teething. No wonder you're up a lot at night. This is C's first real bout of teething and it is playing merry hell with her sleep.

I'm sorry to go on I'm in do much pain. Ds hasn't even stirred yet but I'm in agony I don't know if I should wake him or go and express

Oh spotty. I know it was a while
Ago but in that case id dreamfeed. Hopefully then he wouldn't need resettling. Hope the pain has abated, you poor thing.

Wow - we've progressed from 2 hour wakings to 1h45. Not the progress I'd like.

I can't get a let down and my nipple is bleeding. Dp running me a bath

Oh no, spotty. You're having a terrible night. I hope the bath does the trick.

This baby won't settle. Just wide awake. I'm so tired.