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Jan 2013: Part 5 - Food is for fun - Sleep is for wimps...
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Pascha · 03/08/2013 09:50
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lollipoppi ·
08/08/2013 15:29
Love it cupcakes!!!
Well DD is making up for the lost sleep last night she has been asleep for 3 hours!!!! 
She has never napped for more than 40 mins before!
Loveitall ·
08/08/2013 17:29
for bounty .. Sounds like you've had a real tough day today.
Ds is increasingly grizzly today...had a mammoth 3 hr nap this afternoon...never usually does more than 90mins.
But had a lovely time at my friends with ds playing with her trio :)
glorious ·
08/08/2013 19:25
Oh bunty 
I love that cupcakes .
Terrible mother of the year award goes to me. We've been travelling today and I was getting her out of the sling for a kick. When I lift her out I often fly her above my head for fun. I flew her smack into the luggage rack 
There was a huge thwack and she looked at me with her big round eyes as if to say 'mummy what has happened to me' then the tears started pouring down her face. Everyone stared and some horrible old woman tutted at me. It was all I could do to hold it together. She calmed down with a feed and is absolutely fine (I rang a relative who's a paediatrician just in case but no bump, no symptoms, just her normal self).
I have never felt so guilty and sad in my life . I know these things happen but I'm finding it hard to forgive myself.
lollipoppi ·
08/08/2013 19:48
Glorious i challenge you on that award by locking both kids in the car after picking up ds1 from nursery! They were locked in screaming for 25mins until DP turned up with the spare key - just in time for all the parents to come and collect their kids and watch 
do not worry she will be fine, and the old woman that tutted is a cow bag !
AppleCrumples ·
08/08/2013 22:38
pascha i have done that to 3 babies
Picking ds1 up from nursery once i put ds2 in his car seat next to the car while i sorted ds1 out. As i was driving away i wondered why someone had left a carseat just like ours in the carpark...
Ivy has spent the day trying to get moving! She pushes up on her knees then moves forward on her bottom :)
bunty that sounds tough. I hope you get a better night tonight. Those signs sound good. I had to tell one of ds2 friends to.shush when she was outside our house shouting his name. I had just got Ivy down in the travel cot in the boys room which she was standing under and the window was open. I shot out the front door like a madwoman! :)
Hormonalhell ·
08/08/2013 22:57
I trapped DS1 finger in car door when he was 2....his nail went black and dropped off! Still feel guilty to this day and he 11 now.
He doesn't remember it thank goodness 
woody2313 ·
09/08/2013 06:13
Well I spoke to the health visitor yesterday morning about this non-sleeping malarkey and she suggested two things:
- Making sure that DS always goes down awake; even if he falls asleep during his last feed, I'm to wake him up so that he doesn't think that he needs the breast/ the feed to get back to sleep in the night. DS is usually awake when I put him down but sometimes when he does fall asleep I feel relieved that I can just transfer him to the cot without any fuss. Still, when he did this last night, I woke him by winding him... He cried for about 3 minutes (with me in the room) then fell straight to sleep.
- Making sure DS is taking on enough food in the day. As he has only just turned 6 months old I have just being giving him the odd bit of finger food here and there so yesterday I made sure that he had something between each milk feed. She also suggested giving him more protein so amongst his snacks yesterday he had a breadcrumb free fish finger which he really enjoyed!
Anyway, this advice is really nothing knew but thought it was worth sharing...
DS went to sleep at 6.20 last night and is still asleep now
Time for me to try and catch a few more zzzzs before he wakes up!
Angielka ·
09/08/2013 08:41
Oh your stories are cheering me up - we are all only human and make mistakes. Be kind to yourselves.
Up at 1, 3, 5, 6 and finally 7 today. She's poorly, but still! Got a load of sleep books from the NCT library but think the only way is to get DH to settle her when I know she's just had a feed. It's the easy way to get them back to sleep isn't it? she's taking quite a lot each time, but then maybe she's not getting enough during the day. Your HV seems to talk some sense woody.
BLW stuff is going better and better - a whole banana at breakfast just disappeared. I'm just eternally optimistic naive and think that once the food has settled and milk reduces a bit more, Molly will go back to sleeping through like when she was 3 months old. She's totally playing me
Hormonalhell ·
09/08/2013 09:35
I gave Charlie a full weetabix and 5oz milk n he slept for 11 hours!! He just demolished two rusks n 5oz now tho 
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Meringue33 ·
09/08/2013 12:55
I did the same thing as you Glorious this morning, picked up baby from bed and whooshed him overhead, straight into headboard 
. Luckily it is mdf not solid oak as it was sold to us.
Bunty this LO has slept loads better since he started rolling onto his front. I put him down on his side now since he goes nuts if I put him on his back.
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