December 2012: the little monsters continue to surprise us.

[MaMaPo]

I for one have a very surprising baby.

We do bath, bottle/boob bed every night. Only do a book at the mo if he's still awake after the feed.

How is ds spotty? Temp still high?

Ds is in our bed already! Tried to put him in his own once he had fallen back asleep (dp brought him in to me about an hour ago) but he just stood up and started babbling. He's now at the boob having an occasional suckle...

It's come down but still not normal he's just crying again now. Managed an hours sleep

Spotty, that's grim. Is it teeth? A bug?

Utopian, we have baths every 3-4 days, and no book most of the time. C feeds to sleep about half the time, otherwise she's still awake at the end of the feed. In that case she gets 2 pages of a book, her lullaby, and put to bed.

I think it's too high for teeth?

Seriously bloody ikea why text me at 5:45 in the morning telling me my delivery date?? I'm already awake but that's not the point!

Okay, not always bath then.. maybe I just need to stop him falling asleep on the boob and put him in his cot feeling snoozy rather than fast asleep then..

Spotty i hope DS's temperature is coming down and that hes ok.

Willyou i hope you and DS are feeling better.

Mama i hope C's teeth pop through soon and that your night was ok.
Utopian we bath every night at 7:30pm followed by a bottle it normally doesn't settle her though. But she starts getting really narky about 7:20 and only calms down once in the bath.

2blessed we also had H in our bed early last night. She woke up crying but cuddling was the only thing that settled her.

I'm taking H to see the GP today as i'm convinced she has something wrong with her ear she keeps shaking her head and rubbing her right ear. FX i get an emergency appointment.

I've also decided that this week i am going to tackle her naps and try and get her to sleep after shes been awake every 2 hours following advice from you lovely lot. I feel abit more positive now i have a plan.

Hales it's law that they have to give you a same day appointment for a baby under 1 hope she's ok

Well DS woke at 1 and 4. So not too bad a night.

We still feed to sleep here. For naps I put DS down with his light show until he starts crying, then I go in and feed to sleep. It takes a couple of minutes. For bedtime, DS has dinner at 4.30, a bath after as he's such a mucky bugger at around 5 (he has to have a bath every day because of the eczema), he then plays etc until 6.45 and then I feed him to sleep, I'm out of there by just after 7 normally. I used to juggle him until 7.15/7.30 after stories with the others, but it's just too late for him and he gets grumpy.

We always feed to sleep at bedtime, no routine, bath or book! She gets a bath about 3-4 days and she just tries to eat all books!
isthat I've always been told not to bath dds every day due to ezcema!?

Hope all the poorly babes (and mamas) are feeling better

Oh and we're off camping today and after a year and a half absence, af has decided to come too. Super.

WL the bath helps get rid of irritants off their skin, he has organic sunflower oil in there which helps retain the moisture in his skin. (Apparantly better than olive oil as olive oil can strip some of their natural oils). And then aloe Vera gel straight after. His eczema has almost gone, but I'll keep with it to try and stave off flare ups.

That's fab that its working. Tbh I think there's a lot of conflicting advice and you just have to try to find what works best for you.

WL, I also went from daily baths to every 2-3 days on the advice of the doctor due to eczema! TBH I think the biggest help has been keeping her slathered in Aveeno - it suits her. She only gets tiny bits of eczema on her tummy and chest, and if they flare up I use a bit of steroid cream.

Have fun camping, by the way!

Utopian, if feeding to sleep is working for you then maybe that's OK? When we were sleep training C (to fall asleep on her own) I made sure I didn't feed her to sleep for a couple of weeks - we would feed, then bath, or feed and then change her nappy etc to wake her up to go to bed. Now she's quite good at self-settling I don't bother with this, and only half the time will she feed to sleep anyway. She now also tells me sometimes she's had enough of me, and seems to want to be put down to sleep. I guess if you wanted to try you could gently rouse her before putting her in her cot, by singing to her or reading a book. Something nice and gentle.

Hales, I hope H's ear is ok and you get it seen to today.

WL I think you're right, and as eczema has such a wide variety of causes and is really a very individual thing I think it is mostly working out what to do for the best. My doctor didn't say anything about baths, as we only had an emergency appointment they just wrote a prescription and sent us on our way. But when after 5 days of using the emollients religiously it had got worse I started searching the Internet and found the national eczema society (I think it was called that) and then had a brain save with the aloe Vera and googled that to find lots of people had had success. DS has an appointment with the skin specialist at our docs on the 15th aug. so I'm going to see if I can get his stuff on prescription. Especially the suncream as the only one he doesn't react to is aloe Vera and its £11 for 200ml! Eeek. It's all trial and error though, I'm hoping they'll just prescribe what we're using instead of trying to find a 'real medicine' that will work.

Oh no WL! I hope you have fun camping anyway.

I'm so tired, ds is so grumpy. It turns out our local pct don't endorse the minor ailments scheme so I've just spent all my money in boots

Hi! I know I'm a bit late to the party but can I join you? My dd2 s almost 7 months & I have a 3.5 yr old dd1.

So relieved to read that I'm not the only one still being woken several times a night! She's a happy little bunny in the day (we do the 2-2.5 hour wake period thing too!) but still wakes in the night & seems to think 5am is a reasonable time to start the day.

Actually waiting to take her to dr this morning. Took her fri as she had temp of 39.5. Dr suspected ear/throat infection. Temp finally settled down yesterday but today she as a rash. She's really out of sorts & currently sleeping on me as every time I tried to put her down she woke....and screamed!

Welcome lazz 5am is common wake up time in this house too

Hmm sounds like a viral rash? Hopefully that means it's on the way out. Temps over 39 always scare me hope you get everything sorted.

I've just found cereal in dd's pyjama drawer

Thanks spotty. I'm sure (hope!) it is nothing to worry about & am probably wasting their time but I'll get it checked to be sure. Her temp was high for 2 days! And she is miserable!!

So many things that you guys have been posting about ring true in this house too! It's easy to forget when you're pacing the floor at 3am that hundreds of others are doing the same!

I must have a really lazy baby... I think his natural wakeup time is around 7am but I often find if he has had a particularly bad night or went to bed much later than normal he will sleep until 8 or 8:30... but then when he sleeps late that does seem to bugger up napping

Ah well "this too shall pass". Or as my mother says "don't worry, it's just a phase" and then she adds, a little too gleefully for my liking, "once he's done with this phase there will be another phase".

Utopian I think was asking, we also feed to sleep. Although last night we fed to sleep, he woke up about 20 minutes after I put him down and then we had crying and whinging trying to settle him again until we gave up. He self settled about 10 minutes later - although I think we had tired him out because he wasn't crying then, just a bit whingey.

I think we are going to have a little vampire... His canine teeth on the bottom have little white bumps on the gum today!

Oh and he slept through last night until 5:45 ish! I woke about 5:30 with really painful boobs and was actually trying to express some out and I was so happy when he woke up poor boy must have been full to the brim when I put him down again.

Hi all, sorry for the very intermittent posting. I don't get on MN anywhere near as much as I would like now. Pesky children and their constant demands!

I see I'm not the only one still getting very broken nights. A really good night for DS involves 4 hour stretches! The only things settles him is boob/bottle.

Anyone got any advice about what to do for the best with my poorly baby? He hasn't been sick but 7 watery poos since 2am. I have a thread in children's health. Not sure whether to stop his food or carry on as normal? Do I need to ring the docs or HV or ride it out alone?

Willyou I would keep up fluids & food because he will need the energy, but really gentle foods that will also help his tummy: rice, bananas. But I'm sure other mummies will have better advice. I would also take him to the Dr/HV if you can. Hope he settles down and feels better soon!

I forgot to say in my last post, I got engaged on Saturday :)

How could you forget that nutella!! Big congrats to you and the lucky man.

willyou I would keep offering food and drink and let him have whatever he wants. Just make sure he is taking fluids. Dioralyte is really good.

Home after half hour wait & then dr calling a colleague for second opinion, they decided it's roseola. A viral infection, which will hopefully now subside. Feel terrible now though as it's infectious & we went visiting friends yesterday and they've got new little baby . From what I've read she's not infectious once symptoms appear so hope we don't make him poorly.

Lots of poorly little ones about at the moment. willyou, I'd probably phone someone fr advice, but as you can already tell, I'm a bit of a worrier!

Congratulations nutella

DS won't nap because the kids are home! Urgh this will be a long 6 weeks!

He's also started to pull up in his cot, oh the joys!