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November 2012 - What are your New Year's resolutions for your baby?

999 replies

StuntNun · 27/12/2013 04:32

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1937565-November-2012-The-run-up-to-our-babies-first-proper-Christmas

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

fruitpastilles · 05/01/2014 17:57

Haha pass quite right too!

Oh and we have been together for nearly 8 years

Lily311 · 05/01/2014 17:59

zamboni I mentally quickly drew a list of my exes. None suitable .

fruit what did your parents say when they found it out?

PurplePidjin · 05/01/2014 18:02

Dp an i met on a car forum. I was interested in someone else who'd asked me to do some sewing for his camper. I joined the forum, and asked for advice on a long-running thread for the purpose. The thread starter was a mod, who is now df. The other guy is still a mate, more to df bizarrely but it's not like he was ever a threat he's a bit of a knob

Our first date was Winchester Christmas market 4 years ago :o

Tv-ignoring hippy baby was entranced by Edward Scissorhands earlier. Have i bred a mini Goth?

fruitpastilles · 05/01/2014 18:03

They weren't bothered in the slightest. I think it helped they already knew him and knew he was a decent bloke and that's all that mattered to them.

Zamboni · 05/01/2014 18:06

lily I didn't think DH was "suitable".

chasing that sounds like a good plan.

pass nice that you had lots of time just you two, and if was based on being chums.

fruit presumably all ok after the big reveal?

PP lovely first date!

Nice stories

Pikz · 05/01/2014 18:29

Chasing I have an uber geek too... Geeks rule.

I met DP soon to be DH in 16 weeks!!! On a ski lift in the alps. I made him work for it though as I lived in London and him in SA so it took 6 months and a trip to a game reserve and I was smitten. He emigrated 5 months later and that was 5 years ago.

Zamboni · 05/01/2014 18:43

As an aside from the stories of romance, I have 2 12-18 month sleeping bags which are destined for the charity shop unless anyone here would like them in which case I will happily pop them in the post. One is slightly thicker, tog wise, than the other.

PurplePidjin · 05/01/2014 18:53

Yes please Zamboni pm me you're pp and let me know how much you want for them :)

ChasingDaisy · 05/01/2014 19:00

Can I also divert from the romance topic for a moment? So, tomorrow is the day that I start to teach Oscar to self settle at bedtime. At the moment, our routine is: Bath, into bedroom for pj's and sleeping bag, milk and then I rock him to sleep. This has been his routine since about 3 months old and he definitely knows it is bedtime. He can self settle during the night so can do it. How does this plan sound? Follow routine as normal, rock so he is nearly asleep and is relaxed, then transfer to cot and leave the room. Allow him 5 minutes to self settle. If he is crying after this point I will go in, pick him up, rock until almost asleep and repeat. If he is just mumping and not crying after 5 minutes, I will continue to leave him.

BigPigLittlePig · 05/01/2014 19:04

I met dh at work. Saw him by some bins snd spent the day smirking to myself about the beefcake at the bins. A mutual friend did some stirring after I drunkenly confessed my amorous feelings one night. A few icecream dates later in quiet moments at work, and we were both smitten. Engaged 5 months later, much toeveryones I was not exactly the settling down type

BigPigLittlePig · 05/01/2014 19:07

Sounds good chasing. Or, after milk, a story? So he also disassociates milk with bed, which we're apparently meant to do.

You could akso just not rock him at all. Go cold turkey and see what happens?

Lily311 · 05/01/2014 19:07

chasing introduce bedtime stories too?We have bath, than milk and stories in mummy's bed, than back to her bedroom to look at the fairy lights and say night night. Fairy lights off and that's it for her.

Zamboni · 05/01/2014 19:07

"Beefcake at the bins"

BigPigLittlePig · 05/01/2014 19:13

ChasingDaisy · 05/01/2014 19:16

Pig

Good point about the milk/bed association. OK, so I will add a story after milk. I was thinking about going cold turkey with the rocking but I have always taken things slowly when making any changes so I think I'll do that again this time. I'm dreading it, but am going to fully focus on it for one week and re-assess then.

Sophiathestormfairy · 05/01/2014 19:22

I think it sounds sorted chasing that is a good plan.

I met DH at work. He worked in another office and we had to chat on the phone a lot. I was invited to a meeting in Belfast with him and two others, we all flew in and stayed in a hotel the night before the meetng DH and I met in the corridor just before dinner and something happened. Just right then. Nothing actually happened until a few months later iykwim, my marriage was crumbling at that point. We would meet just once a month initially. The day he stood in The street in Windsor and told me he was in love with me will never leave my mind. Then Every couple of weeks and the. Every week.......

Misslaughalot · 05/01/2014 19:28

We now do milk before the bath for the disassociation thing. So for us it's weetabix, milk, bath, pjs, story, lights out (I carry her with me to turn them off) then kiss goodnight and into the cot, then leave the room. She might moan a bit as I put her down but is usually silent once I leave the room.

Our problem right now is her not getting into a deep enough sleep in the evening. Once it gets to the early hours she can self settle fine (in fact for the last two nights when I've gone in to her in the morning she's been the opposite way round in her cot to where I left her so she's definitely waking and going back to sleep) but from 7-11ish she can wake quite often and needs a settling hand to get back off to sleep.

Fruit was it you asking about Breaking Bad? Series 5 is the last. I'm jealous of you seeing it for the first time. We're going to leave it until the end of the year and then watch it all over again, can't wait!

Passmethecrisps · 05/01/2014 19:28

Lol @ beefcake!

chasing we stopped rocking by just sitting in the seat in her room having cuddles until asleep.

Our routine used to be:

Bath
Bedroom for jammies then downstairs for half bottle
Upstairs for remainder of bottle to the strains of Ewan sheep then rock to sleep.

Is now
Bath
Bedroom for jammies then downstairs for half bottle
Upstairs for story to strains of Ewan
Remainder of bottle is offered
In bed fully awake

We went from rocking to just sitting until asleep. Then went to sitting for a few minutes until very sleepy then into cot. Now she goes in as soon as she has had enough milk. She doesn't always take the remainder of the bottle so I don't think she has a milk association for bedtime.

ChasingDaisy · 05/01/2014 19:37

That's really helpful, thanks pass. I'm hoping that the story after milk might encourage him to fall asleep whilst sitting.

BigPigLittlePig · 05/01/2014 19:40

Fs bedtime story chills her right out. She's all wobbly and swoony after it. We hsve the best cuddles then because she's too tired to run away

PetiteRaleuse · 05/01/2014 19:48

What's the milk association theory? LO doesn't have a bedtime bottle but DD1 does still

BigPigLittlePig · 05/01/2014 19:49

I think it's so they learn how to fall asleep independently. Or don't associate milk or food with sleep. Or just so the hv doesn't nag.

Pikz · 05/01/2014 19:55

We still have milk cuddles and then bed. He only has his bedtime bottle now though so I don't want to drop it.

We did the same as pass chasing. Cuddles in a chair and then we have done a tiny bit of helping him learn to self settle again after it all went wrong with travelling.

Evilwater · 05/01/2014 20:25

Congrats chasing
big

Our bed time routine is:
Bath
Change of clothes,
Bottle - most times he's still awake,
Dummy,
Story,
Then he's usally gone. If not I cover him with his blanket and leave the room.

Today has been a challenge, as the weather has been so bad, we have not gone out. So N has been full of energy, and I mean a lot. Lots of shouting and screaming with excitement and frustration.

Oh, I forgot to add the stamping of the feet too,

I'm just at a loss, he just seems to scream louder!

StormyIsles · 05/01/2014 20:26

Hope stunt is surviving il dinner

we met while I was serving cocktails and he was pulling bodies out the forth. I was a flirt and he was my friends boss. A strange sequence of events and it was only ever meant to be a bit of fun. Nearly 4 years wow.

Regarding the landlord situ, I appreciate you are all looking out for me but I have been advised by several people to with hold rent until some of the more serious issues are ironed out. I am not happy about doing it either but if it is the only way that will get him to fix things then I am all for it. I will think of it as pay back for him doubling our rent the day before we were due to move in

Did I mention I have possibly bought a house? It won't be finished until September at the earliest and mortgage still has to go through but I have a mortgage in principal approved and a reservation on a gorgeous new build (can those words be used in the same sentence??)

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