June 2013 (3) - teething & not sleeping!

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I broke the old thread! Step this way, step this way.

Pinkapples you have my absolute sympathy, my dd is still broken from the 4 month sleep thing!!

Hourly wakeups/feeds here for the past 3 nights. I am sooo dead on my feet.

Same here with the hourly feeds...haven't gotten dressed today so far, have napped when baby does. Have to go out later on, but don't plan on getting dressed before then.

Growth spurts have a lot to answer for.

We have a broken baby here too.

Let's hope all the broken babies have been fixed by Christmas Day!

So I'm confused. I took DS to the GP this morning for a reflux "review". She said that now we're weaning, she wants to see him go back up 1-2 centile points. But I thought that solids were relatively low in calories compared to milk (I'm still BF) and weaning wasn't really about nutritional gain for while yet. Or have I misunderstood something along the way? Any ideas?

As far as I know milk is the main source of nutrition (and nutritionally balanced). We're doing BLW so I'm really viewing food as 'learning' to eat, experiencing flavours, increasing his dexterity and not as something with any nutritional benefit for a while yet.

Agree, there are bugger all calories in a few teaspoons of mash or the food that's sucked before being thrown on the floor. Maybe it was more she'd like the baby to generally get bigger at this point, the time you start weaning, not because of weaning itself?

Do you guys still room share? I see no point moving her out as then it's just further to go when she wakes up. Which she does. A lot.

Hmmm. Glad it's not just me who thinks there's little gain in weaning food. Absolutely brilliant for developing other things, just not weight gain. Anyway, she's passing us onto the local kids hospital (I'm in denial about scooping a stool sample out of a nappy...shudder) so they may be less confusing.

We moved ds into his own room recently. It does mean further to go in the middle of the night but we no longer wake him in the morning with the alarm clock.

Sarah we moved dd out, she broke, we moved her back in. Too cold and meant I lost even more sleep.
I do try to put her down in her cot for naps, so she's starting to get used to that and her room, but for nights for now still in her crib.

That's what I thought too, Mrs81.

We're still room sharing, Sarah. For the same reason.

Amy sleeps better in her own room than she did in with us.

We either get one or two night wakings, which isn't too bad.

And she has no choice where she sleeps at any point as she's grown out of everything except her cot bed. We've bred a giant!

Still room sharing here as I am to lazy to get out of bed to feed and luckily the cotbed fits against our bed with one side off so I just move him over for a feed. Will move him whe he wakes less.

Oh dear I'm going to buck the trend again.

Lil has put on tonnes of weight since she started weaning. In fact she's well above the 25th percentile line which she kept bobbing along below it before. Think it might be because the piglet hasn't really dropped any other feeds.

Also she appears to have dropped 1 wake up for the last week so we're down to 2 wakes a night. However the little madam didn't start the horror that was the 4 month regression until a couple weeks after her 4 month birthday. We're 6 months and 1 week so she could still turn into a terror soon.

I'm struggling today with friends being crap. I fully expected 2 of our mates to disappear once we had a baby (they're just crap and have no interest in children cramping their style - lo and behold they haven't invited us for a single night out since bubs came along) however 2 of my oldest friends have really hurt me today by arranging a night out without me, then when I found out invited me along as well, only when I said yes I'll come I'm told ooooh didn't expect you to actually accept and sorry there isn't room, can we catch up another time. I really really didn't expect these friends to treat us as if we had the baby lurgee. One day they will have children of their own and hopefully then they will realise how isolating it can be and how much your friends can make a difference.

We're still room sharing too for now we have considered it but we're staying 2 nights at the in laws for Christmas so when we get back on Boxing Day well be moving her out in the hope she sleeps better plus she's still not 100% possibly teething as she's dribbled lots today and had has practically munched down to her wrists still no teeth yet tho fingers crossed something comes soon

Well dd has rolled onto her front and appears really settled, this is ok now isn't it??

Madam apparently rolling is passe. Lying on your back like a slug and demanding your mother pass you that toy is sooooo 2013

But yes Im sure thats totally fine.

Sunny! We have a toy demanding slug too. He's never rolled and doesn't try either. I think he may bypass rolling in favour of other transport methods.

That's really crappy of your friends. I hope they get a grip soon.

DH showed me a brilliant blog post of what 10 month olds really want for Christmas...it's v funny. I'll get onto a computer later and post the link.

Hope you have good days Mummys and babies alike

OH MY GOD DD SLEPT 8 HOURS STRAIGHT :-)!!!!!

Amy can roll, she just chooses not to. She's preferring to try to crawl. Thankfully she's quite good at sliding around to her toys! And I figure she'll learn to move if I don't help her. :-)

Good to know other babies aren't that arsed about rolling though.

Madame, that's fantastic!

We had 3+5.5+3.5, so only one overnight feed at about 4.30. Could be worse!

Meh to babies that actually sleep. I was feeling good that dd was slightly less broken last night and we had a feed every two hours.

Violet will roll if she chooses, but she isn't that bothered either. She'll always do it when you least expect her too. We have legs going everywhere when on her tummy, not sure how close to crawling she is tho.

Finally last night we got her stupidly expensive photos we had done when she was 6 weeks old, in a frame and on the wall. They look much nicer now then when they were in a bag by the sofa.

Currently we are sharing a rusk with everything other than mouth. But I'm ok with that because today I am getting a newer washing machine, that might actually drain and do any wash quicker than 3 hours! Woohoo.

Here goes: theuglyvolvo.com/2013/12/10/a-ten-month-olds-letter-to-santa/

Hope the link works!

Time to persuade ds that it's nap time. Best dash.

That list is awesome, Mrs!

I think Amy wants a phone and the charging lead. :-)

Same as pink, slightly better night last night on account of waking every 2 hours instead of every hour...

We still co-sleep. Was planning to stop at 6mo but haven't managed to source a toddler bed for DS1 yet so the cot isn't free. And I don't really want to put DS2 anywhere other than next to me with these frequent wakings. Sometimes I need to pee in the night but I actually don't go because I'm too knackered to get out of the bed and downstairs...

Anyone else stressed about Christmas? I'm excited too, but stressed as have a family member coming over who can be a bit critical about things. And isn't very hands on with the kids so not even a chance of some alone time with DH Worrying in anticipation although if I worry enough then it probably won't be as bad in practice.

Hope all these babies will start sleeping.

We have dd in her own room and she sleeps much better. She'll wake a few times in he night but now I don't go to her, she'll settle back to sleep really quickly. I think when we were in the same room I'd tend to go to her straight away which led to her waking more. Mind you the in-laws arrive for Christmas tonight, so she'll be back in with us. We'll see how that goes.

We have a tooth though, just poking through. So exciting, very sharp though!

Sunny that is dissapointing about your friends. You'd think they could have at least asked. Sorry for you.

Christmas - yay yay yay, so excited. I feel vaguely ready, presents wrapped, online grocery order nearly prepared, menus planned. We have lots of family staying with us, so I felt like I needed to have it all in hand before people started arriving. I'm sure it will be fine Mostly though I am just excited about it all for DS who will be 2.8. He's gonna LOVE IT!! I have loved buying him stuff, including a bargainous fire station for £5 on ebay which he will love . DD on the other hand is getting bibs, cups, and snacks. Sure she'll love those too.

Theiah slept 7.25-5.35 last night woohoo sadly I don't think that will be repeated but I live in hope I hope you all get some sleep tonight x