DECEMBER 2012: Please babies sleep, before you turn 1!

[halestone]

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[PurplePidjin]

R tries that but with his hand in his mouth! Also wibble with his fingers on his lips.

He can indicate yes and no, mama and dada in the right context, muh for more/want that with reaching, and we've had bee (ball) bah-bee (doll) vrrm vrrm (lorry) ta (thank you) gah (cat) and teddy plus attempts at names - noo for his friend (v recognisable name) and kay for aunty katie

[SpottyTeacakes]

I don't think ds will be an early talker like dd was. He says mama dada and ta (I think it's ta, I don't say it to him but my step mum does and he says it when he wants something )

[lazzaroo]

Whata long day. Baby lazza is knackered (as am I!), so I'm trying to keep her awake to get at least a bit of milk into her. She practically fell asleep at the sight of boob tonight! So, another early night & I'm mentally preparing myself for another early morning . DH can't come home soon enough this week!

spotty no clapping here either! And not such impressive talking pidg. I'm worrying (unnecessarily I hope) about it as dd1 has a speech delay & if baby lazza does too, maybe it's us.

So, tomorrow's another day & with dd1 in pre school I'm going to focus on reversing baby lazza's over tiredness....naps will be my mission! Sure early mornings are linked

[SpottyTeacakes]

Oh lazza I'm sure it's just one of those things! I know how hard it is not to 'symptom spot' when there's things in the family though! Good luck on the naps tomorrow. Dd has her pre school jabs and I have the dentist

[lazzaroo]

Hope so! and my car has MOT/service tomorrow....I think it's going to be an expensive one!

[SpottyTeacakes]

Now dp has just been told that his nan only has a week to live

[lazzaroo]

So sorry spotty. Hearing news like that certainly puts things in perspective. No more whinging from me.

[PurplePidjin]

lazza when i moved R's bedtime back to 6 he started sleeping longer - overtiredness made it hard for him to stay asleep. A friend of mine was putting her dc down when she seemed tired, only to be up every 2 hours all night. It was her birthday so i popped over after bedtime and dc was acting like R does when he's screamingly desperately in need of his bed - overexcited, giggling, bouncing, needing constant interaction - she started putting dc down at 7 after the dinner-bath-milk shenanigans and now gets 7:30-6:30 with the last part co-sleeping. That was within 2 nights.

[PurplePidjin]

Spotty

[FriendofDorothy]

We have a terrible wriggler too. I feel like I would rather put a nappy on the cat!

[SpottyTeacakes]

Do it fod!! Let us know which is easier

[Maryland2013]

Oh Fod that's so very funny. Although I fear you would get your eyes scratched out?!

[lazzaroo]

Thanks pidj, I'll try to get some decent naps in tomorrow & stick with an early night. I've kind of got to the point where I don't know what to tackle first! Today has been so frustrating as she has only napped for 40mins at a time, even though she's obviously still tired when she wakes. Long naps seem like a distant memory (apart from yesterday when she randomly slept for 2 hours in the pushchair!!? I was at work )

[halestone]

Lazza i hope it works out tomorrow and the naps lead to better sleep.

Spotty, sorry to hear about your DP's nan

FoD i agree do it then put the video on facebook haha.

[MrsNutella]

Hello all, I think you don't need me to explain the name change
Sorry, I've not really kept up, it's been manic her; but I've done my best.

Fod I think I would rather put nappies on a cat than DS at the moment! Honestly you would think I was laying him on pins and trying to pull his legs off or something the way he wriggles!! I've found distracting him with snacks works best - although it sadly isn't foolproof.

Spotty DS does that noise with his fist too. It's so cute! Not much proper talking going on. But when he is pulling up on DH (oooohh first time writing that ) he does go dadadada
And sorry for your DP and his sad news.

Lazza I have no advice, I think worry comes with the job as mummy. But it just shows you care.

hales thanks for the new thread.

Anyone want some leftover cake?

[lazzaroo]

Congratulations mrs! hope everything went as planned

[SpottyTeacakes]

Oooo congratulations Nutella! Hope you had a lovely day

[WLmum]

mrs squueeaalll! Hope it was all totally fab and pretty please may we have a photo on fb? Absolutely want cake!
spotty sorry about dps nan, so soon after his grandad too.
utopian dd1 was a particularly horrendous sleeper and in desperation I did full on cc at 6 months. It was so very tough but took 3 nights and then we had 7-7.
T has learnt to do a pig noise which I love so will post a vid on fb. No real words or particular attempts at words though.

[halestone]

Congratulations Mrs Nutella. I hope you had a fabulous day. I agree with WL please put a pic on fb and i'd like a slice of cake as well

[jackandjilly]

Congratulations mrs Nutella! Yes to cake and yes to a lovely pic! Hope it was a fantastic day.

We also have a wriggler and a climber. He wriggles so much I'm constantly getting poo on the carpet his favourite place to climb into is the fireplace will post a pic on fb

[WLmum]

Beautiful fireplace jack!

[WLmum]

I can't upload the T pig vid atm as my group fb is playing up b

[utopian99]

Hurrah and congrats mrsnut!! Yay to and wedding photos, I do love a wedding..

Dh has shaved himself a particularly rakish/dubious no for November. Is it wrong that it's a bit of a filthy awful to admit turn on?

Thanks for the words of support re sleep. Dh and I had a chat and decided we just can't be hard core enough to force cc. Feeling a lot happier again, we're just going to take it in turns to do cuddle to sleep as he's happily given up going for night boob. Sorry for all the whinging recently and it does mean a lot to have people who understand, even when we all follow different ways.

[utopian99]

Also spotty so sorry for your dp and his grandmother, thinking of you.

fod a few weeks ago I would have totally agreed with the cat-nappy scenario. Now we have tongue sticking out games/grab mummy's glasses, which helps no end (although trousers on is still a chasing game - we have been known to tour the house in the course of getting dressed...)

Solidarity on sleep lazza - we can hold each other's hands. They need a wrinklky eyed emoticon on mn.. Forprolonging naps have you tried wrapping/slinging baby lazza? That's my surefire way to get an hour+ from O. and I can reach round him to draw

pidj I think you have something on the earlier bedtime- when O gets to bed by 7.30 he seems to sleepbbetter than if he's very tired after.

[lazzaroo]

Up at 4.40, morning utopian! fed at 1am also. DH back tonight so am hoping we can come up with a plan of action to tackle early mornings! Even dd1 was up at 5.30 today....it's going to be another long one!

Re:naps, we never really got on with sling. Plus she will NOT give in to sleep with stuff going on around, just gets more & more overtired. So it has to be in her room when we're home really, espeially with dd1 around. I walk her round & then she goes in cot. It's getting harder though (not just because she is so heavy now!). I used to be able to re-settle her if she woke early (&grumpy!) but past few days it hasn't worked.