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Lostbobbles · 08/08/2013 14:37

Triple espresso's all round

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!

Tugstonia · 08/08/2013 16:23

Wow there must be something going on with all these non-sleeping babies! Mine was up 3 times last night, including 2-4am again but this time I refused to feed her. Going to try to resist again tonight until she stops. I think it must be habit because the longest she'll sleep in a row at night is 3 hours. She's had 15 mins of naps so far today. WTF is going on??

BuntyCollocks · 08/08/2013 16:26

creepy my husband is the same "she won't settle for me" because you don't fucking try! He assumes feeding her is the cure for all as opposed to a lot of rocking patting and ssshing.

lolli thanks! Today is also going fairly shit. She was exceptionally unsettled from 8 when she finally went down, until 10:30, had a feed, had a good sleep until 12:30 and then was up and shouting for three hours.

Back to sleep at 3:30, up at 4, back to sleep at 4:30, up at 5, into my bed, slept until 'd'h asked if I was taking ds to nursery at 8:15 as he was running late. He got told to fuck off, the baby was finally sleeping, she woke up, ds and dh had a shouting match culminating in tears all round, and to this minute she's slept for about 90 minutes because arseholes keep knocking the door and waking her up.

I'm getting signs printed which will promise dire happenings if people rattle my door when this baby is sleeping.

I am not in a good mood.

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 :)

Loveitall · 08/08/2013 17:56

Bunty!

LetThereBeCupcakes · 08/08/2013 19:05

Bunty hope you have a better night tonight. Your DH sounds a bit like mine. He didn't drag himself out of bed until 8.30 this morning, even though he knew we had to leave the house at 9.30 for DS' swimming lesson. He then decided he needed a cooked breakfast. Meanwhile the dogs were waiting for their walk and I was running around like a mad thing trying to get everything ready. I think he realized he'd annoyed me though, as I later found him doing laundry. Don't know where he learned to do that.

Rubbish napping again today so don't have high hopes for tonight...

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 !

LetThereBeCupcakes · 08/08/2013 19:48

Oh glorious I know what you mean. I have trapped my little boys leg in his high chair, caught his skin in a buckle and caught his finger when cutting his nails. It breaks my heart to hear him cry anyway, but when it's my fault it's even worse.

I try to remind myself that he won't remember it, it was an accident. And I highly doubt that old woman is perfect. Be kind to yourself.

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Pascha · 08/08/2013 20:17

I chopped the tip of Dan's thumb when I was clipping his nails. It bled for about an hour. I had to sit down, felt really rather sick.

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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! :)

Lora1982 · 08/08/2013 22:51

Dp gets the look if he dares to eat his food like a chomping loud pig on the other side of the room when dexters sleeping. He did take him off my hands so I could have an hours sleep earlier, good boy.

The nerve of your dh bunty!! And cupcakes I hope your washing came out better than the whites dp decided to wash a cheap purple sheet with...

Really am concerned about how much he doesnt seem to be drinking. I offer it all the time but hes not interested. He's more than interested in my tea and juice though

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

EagleRay · 08/08/2013 23:49

Pascha I did exactly the same thing to DD a couple of months ago. I screamed so much DP thought I'd found her dead. I was in such a state and couldn't believe I'd done it. Took her to a walk-in centre as worried about how to dress the cut but it had stopped bleeding and they said it would heal quickly as it was.

My mum accidentally ironed my hand as a toddler - I keep reminding myself that everyone has accidents!

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!

woody2313 · 09/08/2013 06:14

Nothing new, oops!

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

Meringue33 · 09/08/2013 08:52

Up at 1am, wide awake after feed. Took him into our bed and he slept to 6.30am. Yay! Luckily we have a superking bed so plenty of room.

We had a BLW win yesterday too - roasted sticks of butternut squash with the skin still on. Only problem was resisting eating them all myself!

Birdies · 09/08/2013 09:02

Poor glorious it's horrible when you accidentally hurt them. But it is accidental! You should only not forgive yourself if it was deliberate!!

pascha hope you have recovered from chopping his thumb to bits!

hormonal that sound awful!

eagle how does someone iron a hand haha?!

lora men do eat loudly don't they?!

bunty I know what you mean about people knocking the door. I hate the persistent door bell ringers too - surely if I don't answer then the best thing isnt to ring the bell AGAIN and AGAIN.

woody my hv said the same about the putting them down asleep but I need to be braver to try it as I know it'll throw her whole routine out.

angiel hope Molly feels bette soon.

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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Pascha · 09/08/2013 09:43

There's something to be said for living in a rural backwater after all - no random door-knockers.

Daniel's thumb is fine, a bit tender I should think. Is there anyone on here who hasn't accidentally injured their baby in some way?

Hope all bad sleepers improve soon.

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BuntyCollocks · 09/08/2013 10:03

angeil :(

pascha I also live in the sticks and I still get knockers. Yesterday was delivery I wasn't expecting and my idiot landlord, who given he has a new month old grandchild living next door to us, should know better. But he's a twat who accused me when ds was small of flushing nappies (fairly sure that's physically impossible)

My lovely friend came for dinner last night whilst dh was out, and saw c at her best - refusing sleep and smiling whilst she spewed everywhere. Her dd, born the same day as ds, has gerd, and apparently Cameron sicks up as much as she ever did, so she's fairly confident we have reflux going on, though it doesn't bother her.

However! We then got to wondering if that's why she's so unsettled at night. So, took her advice and put her to sleep on tummy. Had the best night in ages. Going to get some baby gaviscon and continue practising my tummy sleep technique.

I really hope this is a turning point.

Sympathy to all the non-sleeper sufferers!

happyhow · 09/08/2013 10:15

We were just up once last night which was fine. I can just about cope with that.

Have refused to feed him this morning though - don't think he's happy with me... He took 50mls of formula though and had half a banana mixed with an apple/pear/apricot purée and some formula and baby cereal.

Have put him down for his nap but he's resisting...

I cut Bailey's toe with nail clippers when he was little and then I let him play with the toaster the other week which resulted in his cut fingers.

HV cancelled our 6 month review this morning which I'm pissed off about as wanted to ask her about this formula malarkey.

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.