December 2012: 1st birthdays and 1st/2nd Christmasses

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It's my works Christmas do tonight. Only the second time we've been out since ds was born and he's been crying all afternoon not sure what I'm going to get ready...

Did you pick a dress in the end then spotty?

DP's is tomorrow but not sure if we'll make it. We're both still ill and Mil now has noro. We'd better not get it back just in time for Christmas.

Yes nutella I know what you mean. Made her have a late afternoon nap today so I could push bedtime back a bit & avoid over tiredness. Easier to do when dd1 not around. She's just settling now o we'll see. Had planned a wrap-a-thon tonight as DD1 at my mums but an early night is SO tempting!

Hope you have a good night spotty

Have a good night spotty

A "passed" his 1yr check today. He weighs slightly over 8kg, so still on the line he was on at 6 months- just over the 2nd centile.

Hoorah for his little cottons beasty
spotty I hope you managed to get ready and that you have a nice time tonight.
I'm exhausted so gentle pushing for self settling and reduction of night boob has resumed. More sleep is definitely on my new year resolutions list!

Lazza we were out late morning (not that long after his morning nap) and DS had a cheeky 10 minute nap in the buggy might have been longer of the neighbours hadn't woken him up when I was trying to lift him out of the buggy so I pushed back his afternoon nap and he slept an hour, woke, was settled and slept about another 20/30 minutes.
He took a while to get to sleep tonight but I think he is a bit overtired fighting off this virus.
Anyway, I hope you get some more sleep!

spotty I hope you had a nice evening out!

beasty awww A must be a teeny little man DS hasn't put on much weight in last few months. He seems to gain a bit and then either gets a bug or grows a bit. He is quite a lean baby...

I think DS is about to cut some more teeth at the top, he has three at the top at the moment and I think there is another one about to break through and then possibly the canines will follow shortly... Well that's what it looks like. It's weird how they sometimes teeth a bit differently isn't it?!
hales I think H must have the most teeth out of all the babies, how many does she have?
DS uses his front teeth to pull bites of bread off of a big piece of bread, I love the way he chews. I think it looks really cute, with lots of sort of lip smacking

Lazza H has dropped a nap as well at the moment. But i'm not sure if thats because we're busy and she's so nosy she stays awake to see everything.

Nutella shes got 13 but has 2 more white tips i can see just under her gum. Hers came through by top middle 2 then bottom back molar, then bottom middle 2. Then the 2 bottom outer middles. Then the 2 top outer middles. (So she had her 4 front top and bottom middle teeth IYSWIM) then came her top right middle molar, then her bottom right middle molar. Then her top left middle molar, then her bottom right middle molar. I can see her 2 bottom Canines now. Its weird though because some days they seem bigger than other days. H has a cracking bite on her and is good at chewing most foods.

Pressed post to soon.

Spotty i hope you have a lovely night out.

WL good luck with the gentle sleep training tonight.

Beasty aww A must be a gorgeous little dot. H is a huge thug shes above the 99th centile for both height and weight. I got her weighed yesterday and she weighs 28.6lbs.

Willyou, i hope you manage to get out tomorrow.

He's in that awkward cusp between 6-9 and 9-12 month clothes.

I was carrying him at my Dad's today, and did a swap for Dad's girlfriend's granddaughter, who was born in April. She was heavier!

But, if he's sticking to a line I'm not worried.

Big or small it's just who they are. Babies like everyone else come in all lovely shapes and sizes.

hales that is a lot of teeth!

Grrr keep posting before I'm ready.
T has got 3.5 teeth now, front top and bottom 2. They've been rubbing a bit as she feeds but I think it's getting less as she gets used to them. She's given me a couple of cheeky bites on the nip though when she's finished feeding but I'm still laying in position (usually early morning). Blighter.

We've got a new tooth here today, just to add to the misery of the ear infection. That's 9.

Sleeps a fucking nightmare here at the minute. DS crashed out at 6, woke at 6:45 and only went back to sleep at 10 after 30 mins of DP trying and then 15 mins from me. It was hard work.

My dad keeps saying that WL. I was really worried that i was doing something wrong and thats why she weighed so much but she seems happy and has stayed the same for both height and weight. Like Beasty says as long as shes following the line i'm happy. They all fall somewhere between the lines or in H's case just above the line haha.

Oh no Willyou i hope tonight gets easier for you all.

DS is going mental. He's not in pain, he's topped up on drugs. His temp is back down to normal. He's just massively overtired as he hasn't slept for 2 days and doesn't know what to do with himself.

He screams if he's on me, he screams lying next to me, he's currently crying in his cot as he seemed to be getting wound up because he could see me.

I don't know what to try next, he's way past car seat territory and will just scream more if I try to drive him around. The buggy might work but it's hammering down and stupidly windy outside so that would probably wake him.

My stomach's churning, I feel like a terrible mother listening to him.

Oh Willyou, i hope your ok. Your not a bad mum at all. We've be known to throw H in the pram and just push her up and down in the house.

He's cried himself to sleep. I had to do cc, I know you're not supposed to when they're ill but he was making himself worse because he was just so tired. I can't sleep now, I'm too wound up. Fucking mother's guilt! I love him but I couldn't bear to hear him making himself so unhappy and getting worse and worse. We all need some sleep.

willyou hope you got some sleep in the end. It's hard. I have let baby lazza cry far more than I'd like to over last few nights but sometimes it feels like you're all out of options.

Last night she woke at 3. I ended up getting her a cup of milk just before 4 & then she went back to sleep....but only till 5am & I didn't get much sleep as felt guilty that maybe she's been hungry these past few nights . although I can't possibly get more food into her in the day...she's always eating!! Growth spurt maybe?!

Oh no WillYou I hope you've had some sleep I've left ds to cry a bit and I hate it but it's always a last resort to keep me sane and sometimes he just will not go to sleep otherwise.

Ds has had all four teeth at the top come through at once so now has six

I did find a dress thanks I'm knackered now though after going to bed post midnight and four ish glasses of wine!

willyou sometimes that's your only option. Poor all if you. Hope things calm down a bit today. There's a whole lifetime of guilt ahead!

I'm feeling better about it today as he cried for 40 mins (cc) and then slept for 5.5 h. During that time he self settled once too. Up for a bottle then down for another 3.5h. He'd slept no more than 20 mins at a time for 2 days before that! Took me 2 hours to get to sleep after though as I kept waiting for the crying to start.

Thanks everyone

'Dp you need to put that jumper in the wash'
'Why? I'm wearing it when I go out tonight'
'Well you haven't discussed going out with me?'
'Oh don't start this again you know I'm going out'
'Well you haven't discussed it with me'
The end.

So he still hadn't discussed it with me

He's off again. If every nap and bedtime is going to be like this I'm going to go insane. He started rubbing eyes at 9:45. We've had 2 hours of wailing with his eyes shut. This is just horrendous.

I've told DP that I will not be sending him to sleep at grandparents tonight. There's no way i can inflict this on someone else. He's and saying "oh but you need a break". It's not about me having a break at all, he just wants me to get pissed with him at his Christmas party.

Oh spotty and WillYou

A is just waking up. He fell asleep in the car at about 10!!

But he did wake roughly every 2 hours through the night, although he went down in the cot for the first 2 hours, which he hasn't done for weeks.

I've done the farmer's market, constructed the chocolate and gingerbread sleighs, made lots of sausage rolls to have with snacky meals over the next couple of weeks, and made and eaten lunch. Trouble is, I know he's about to want a feed and I don't know if I'll get going again once I sit for a while!

I've just got back from a 4th birthday party. One child vomited.