Jan 2013: Part Six. Part SIX!

[Angielka]

As I so frivolously finished the last thread, I thought I'd better start a new one. Go!

And get well soon Xanthe as well birdies :)

Aw thanks tugs. She seems all weak as she keeps falling on her tummy when crawling, but I think it's tiredness as well. Is anyone else having trouble keeping baby awake for the extra hour? She wants to go to bed at 6am but I can't get used to 430am wake ups!

pascha croup sounds horrible. What do you do for your boys coughs? Annoyingly I haven't managed to get any Vicks yet. I have online shopped though. Of course!

lolli and lost I will definitely get the Vicks stuff tmrw though, thanks for the tips.

And thanks to whoever recommended the fisher pricer mirror (I can't go back a page to see), that's now on my list! And both my girls will love it so hopefully will get lots of use. Can't see that piano for sale anywhere though.

I use Snufflebabe which is basically Vicks. Annoyingly I have a Karvol vaporiser plug-in but it seems to be discontinued and can't find the refills anywhere. I had a Calpol one but it has a really annoying nightlight thing feature which we had to tape over to hide it.

Olbas oil dropped on a hanky under the sheet is an alternative if you have any lying about.

I feel very virtuous as despite feeling a bit crap myself I have made 2 cottage pies. One for dinner and one for the freezer! Go me Mrs Batch-Cookey-woman!!!

Hi everyone,

Just trying to catch up, so much going on! Hope your DH will be ok glorious! Hope your wee one gets better soon Pascha.

Well I'm at the end of my tether, my DS is still waking every few hours at night. No teeth yet but can see them beginning to come through. Keep wistfully remembering when he used to sleep through, what has happened??? Do you all think this is normal for teething? I stupidly thought it might just be before a tooth pops up that he might be unsettled but this has been going on for about 2 mths now and it's worse cos he used to sleep through.

I am feeding him when he wakes up as it's the only way he will settle again, am I doing the wrong thing? He does self settle as well as when he wakes I wait a few minutes before going through and occasionally he self settles but more often than not, I need to feed him.

Keep telling myself, it's a phase that will pass but beginning to wonder now?!

X

Birdies

www.toysrus.co.uk/.../Bruin-Pink-Piano-...
Fun musical piano so baby can compose and play their own melodies. Great educational toy for children ...

That's a shame Cupcakes

Newbie this LO acquired six teeth between four and eight months... His sleep was atrocious. We seem to be in a period of brief respite at the moment.

Managed to finally wear down persuade DP we should get the Little Tikes slide... Just in time for sale ending!

newbie are you giving him calpol?

And are you bottle feeding? If bottle feeding I would water down the milk more and more at each feed. Their tummies very quickly adjust to being hungry in the night if they get fed in the night. But I know sometimes its impossible not to. Have you tried jiggling to sleep instead as well? If breastfeeding you're meant to reduce a feed by a minute each time, but I don't get how that works as surely the rate if feeds varies as well so it would be impossible to work out.

I'm rubbish at going to her too soon but if she is crying I always go to her. If its intermittent crying, apparently that's when they are falling asleep.

Easy to give advice, but I'm still battling very early wakings so what do I know!

Thanks for the link lost

Ps am on a mission to find Vicks or snufflebabe today, couldn't find anything locally yesterday.

Have to share my little purchase yesterday (well, not that little) - have booked a little cake smash photoshoot for X's first brithday. Didn't get proper photos done when she was born so I feel it's justified I She will love it!

merignue I've also missed the sale damn it

I'm trying to get rid of our night feeds at the moment too newbie I've been on the case for a few days and DH is getting sent in when Molly wakes to try and settle her without being fed but more often than not he brings her to me after failing miserably she refuses to go down again.

The thing is they know what they want now, don't they?! I'm doing the reducing bf by a minute at a time, and surprisingly, so far so good. We've got from two wake ups of 10 min feeds to last night one wake up of 5 mins. I was totally unsure about it too birdies but I think it's just gradually getting their bodies used to not taking calories in, in the night. I'm away for two days and a night with work in a fortnight so I want to leave my parents and DH with a baby who sleeps through... HA!

Thanks for your replies, I'm formula feeding. I have also tried baby paracetamol but it makes no difference. He has just woken so waited and didn't settle so went along, picked him up then put him straight back down and just shushed him, gave him a dummy and he has gone back to sleep so am going to try that now rather than always feeding him. Hoping it is his teeth though that is causing the waking up so taken some comfort from Meringue, I pray his teeth will suddenly appear and normal service shall resume, for a bit anyway ;) x

Hello all, I'm back :)

We started sleep training last Friday when my inlaws we're down. It's hard. Tbh I'm now only doing it at naps if she doesn't settle with a quick cuddle (which is horribly bad and inconsistent), but I can't keep doing at least an hour of screaming for each nap, which sometimes means she doesn't sleep at all as she gets so wound up, and at night we were having at least a 2 hour battle to get her to self settle, and then it was getting to 3 hours in the middle of the night. The whole point was more sleep, not less sleep and more screaming.

She's been up 2 hours at this point. I am losing the fucking plot. TBF she's been better the last few nights with only one awakening and back down within an hour but she's had a stinking cold so she's probably been so bloody zonked even she can't fight it.

Hv back next week. Can't wait to tell her, "started off really strong, but by day 4 it all went tits up because I refuse to let my baby howl for at least 4 hours a day".

It's not even as if I bloody leave her! I'm say where she can see me!

ARGH.

sorry. Hope everyone is ok. I'll have to go and read everything I've missed, so apologies if I've missed something big from someone - will extend congrats/sympathies in advance.

to glorious and creepy. :(

Is anyone else's little devils- angels taken some steps? C took her first ones nearly a month ago, and is still being a lazy wee shite and not bloody walking. Really hacking me off tbh as she stands there unsupported and then very casually squats then sits down. Ds wanted to wall everywhere after his first steps (although he was taking them now). Just want to encourage her to stay on her feet so I can get some peace from her moaning she can't run

Hugs Bunty

Do you think it would be better if you did leave the room? We haven't had to do sleep training yet but friends who have say its better to be out of sight. They swear its half an hour of crying max.

Very snuffly baby here :( Poor one was standing up in the night in his cot howling hysterically, DP thinks its because he was so snotty.

He has just learned to pull up to standing on furniture but hasn't taken any steps along it yet.

Bunty this worked for me, hope it helps .....
DD would only fall to sleep on me so for the first day for naps and night we lay with her on the bed, not snuggled but just next to her, shushing and patting
Day/Night 2, still on bed but with only my hand on her back shushing and patting
Day/night 3, on bed just shushing
Day/night 4, in cot, shushing
This part may have gone on for a few nights, just to let her know I was there
Now she self settles, goes to bed awake and falls to sleep and if she wakes in the night she self settles back to sleep
Don't know of this will help at all, if not maybe this will

Oh and Bunty, dd is the same with steps, she has been cruising round furniture for over a month, and walks all round the house pushing her walker, just no steps!! Lazy like mummy!

I've left her before with white noise. An hour later and a wound up baby and she didn't sleep the rest of the day.

She's currently SCREAMING in her cot. I have the music on the iPhone and headphones in, volume up full. I can't do this anymore. She is wrecking my marriage.

She won't settle in our bed at all, lolli. She climbs all over us, and I've tried shushing her in bed, in cot ... She just screams to get out.

She is fucking demon spawn.

ok, I have no other wise word of wisdom then, sounds like you've tried everything!
Have you looked into silent reflux?

Thanks for trying

I did say to dr I thought she had reflux as she is/was sicky, but because she's happy and gaining weight they won't investigate. :(

That's bollocks, DD was happy and gaining weight too and she had silent reflux!
I'd go back to the doctor and ask beg for a course of gaviscon

I think I still have infant gaviscon somewhere - it made her terribly constipated but she did sleep better - any tips on how much/when to give/how to avoid constipation when she is now prone to it anyway, please??

Welcome back bunty, so sorry that sleep is still so bad for you. I have no suggestions, but hopefully the gaviscon will work for you.

Hope DS is better soon meringue

Newbie, my wonderful sleeper turned bad sleeper for about 2 and a half/3 months. She seems to be getting better now but we haven't really changed anything, I think she's realised more sleep is much better. Hope things get better for you soon.

No steps here, and barely any pulling up either. She's happier to pull all the DVDs off the bottom shelf. I think she's been watching the dog too much too, she's been crawling around this morning with a toy in her mouth.

She was sobbing in her sleep this morning. I thought she was awake, but she was fast asleep. Bless her, it was horrible. And the night before last, she bit me as I was feeding her. I said ouch and she started making weird noises, like she wanted to cry but couldn't. That was horrible too :( I wonder if maybe she realised she had hurt me...

Hope X is on the mend too birdies, and your entire household pascha

Bunty, DD is FF so we just add a sachet to a bottle, is your DD BF? I think cupcakes has just gone on gaviscon and BF so maybe she can give you some advise? I think it does say on the back of the box how much to give and how to administer

It does make them more "solid" but dd adjusted to this within a few weeks.

Hope it works!!

On copying the dog!