November 2012 - Any words yet?

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Fruit it will get better and better. We started with being held instead of rocked. That has eventually with small steps ended up in complete self settling. Well done x

Oh dear pr hopefully they will tire themselves out soon.

Thanks pikz

That sounds like good work for the first night fruit. I found the first night was ok, second worse then the third was very upsetting. Then all fine! Good going.

The death of my colleague is extremely sad although it is not my sadness - she has a teen son which makes is particularly tragic.

Sounds good for a first night fruit. I am taking tiny baby steps. Last week I started by putting him down slightly awake. This week I am moving onto holding rather than rocking to almost asleep before transfer. Next week I will move to putting him down completely awake. Just think of it as a short term struggle for long term gain

Oh no pass really? I hope it doesn't get worse. I wonder how long it'll take when she wakes about 9....... Fingers crossed it won't be 2 hours again.
Yes chasing that's exactly the way I'm looking at it. It's getting to the point now where I'm not sleeping properly with her in our bed, neither is dp, the whole point of her being in our bed was so that I could get some sleep in the first place and if that's not happening then what's the point. Might as well try and crack it now.

pr OUCH! Glad she is ok

pass that's horrific news :(

fruits sounds like a fantastic job for first night. Well done.

Posted to soon then..... You always take things at O's pace and it always works out really well, so I reckon he will have cracked it in no time.

Fruit it sounds as though you've made a brilliant start. I don't wish to piss on your parade - but we have always struggled to get her to sleep in her cot again once she's woken. BUT I suspect this is also because I am too tired to tackle it head on and cave too quickly. I wish you luck, and suggest [caffeine] over the coming days!

Evening quiche! Horrible day here today, everything going wrong, £120 vet bill for one of the rats, E is poorly, either teething cold or general cold. Meh. Nothing massive just, meh.

Gosh sounds like some bad nights last night :( hope you've all had plenty of

glad you had a good night sophia

hope you're feeling a bit better now zamboni?

FC apple

eek lots of poorly quichesters, hope you're all feeling better soon hugs

Love the soup talk, I like soup, but it has to be a really nice soup and I like just lots of soup and am too fat for too much bread there's a really lovely very easy SW tomato one I'm dying to make

pr I have no advice for you but it sounds like you're doing the right thing and your poor dd1 bless her :( it really must've upset her for such a reaction!

chasing cups wise, E has a sippy cup, the tommy tippee one for meals, or the monster cup (it looks like a monster, no idea who made it I forgot) just in general when he's playing etc as it's no spill. He has his last thing at night bottle still though

Am doing ok with eating healthy, did a SW bubble and squeak for lunch, was yesterdays leftovers, and did a egg, chip and pepper bake for tea but wasn't too impressed with it. There wasn't alot and it wasn't tooooo bad but I wouldn't rave about it iyswim. Sounds like you're doing well with the eating healthy tits

I didn't know there was such thing as a soup maker!

E can also drink bath water brilliantly from a stacking cup, no idea why I hadn't thought to try a normal cup again! Or just the TT one without the lid

ditsy i'm not sure if it's 'right' but I get E up if he's ever awake in the night, unless it's because he is ill/teething

Oh that makes no sense lily why won't she just use the one you got?!

eeek pr poor LO, hope she's ok! Bedtime doesn't sound like very much fun at all :(

pass so sorry to hear of your ex colleague

fruit I think that is brilliant progress, well done :)

Meant to say that the above post was intended to share the worst case scenario, so you are prepared. Hopefullyyou will get a magic sleeping baby

I'm not counting on it bp S is also a nightmare once she's woken in the night, I too crack very easily. I'm fully expecting to be up all night with her. But I'm determined to not let her in my bed.

£120 kyz bloody hell! hope the rat is ok! I must say, I'm glad I'm not an animal lover, I'd hate to have to worry about vets bills and such.

I would be beyond angry lily. I have come to a compromise with my parents that they use ours, but as is it is such a fecking faff to transfer it, they've agreed to buy one of my choosing. Only took 6 months

Hope everyone's feeling better. I am slightly less snuffly tonight, although coughing like I have a 40 a day habit

Sorry to hear about your colleague pass How very very sad for everyone involved.

fruit I am watching with interest. Bedtime here has descended into a nightmare again here. Not too dissimilar to what you described. Tonight we had 3 hours. I expect to see her again before midnight. Last night DP ended up sleeping on her floor with her. I feel awful that I only saw her for an hour today (30 mins between work and freelance work while I wolfed dinner down and she bathed my carkeys in the dog's bowl, and then half an hour of tears when I got home from there ) and most of that was me shouting at her and then her crying.

Sorry to hear about your rat kyz. Seriously ouch on the £££ bill though!

I have just applied for a MIP for myself, totally negating DP's income. Should have a figure by Wednesday although already know what that is going to be, but cannot arrange my own mortgage eep!

I should add, the shouting was only when the car keys were dunked. And was at the situation not her. I did not make her cry by shouting .

Don't feel bad isles it's only one day that you haven't seen her for long, and as for shouting, well we've all done that. So far so good, she has normally woken up by now...... Still 10 mins to go until 10 though which is normally the latest she sleeps until in her cot.

isles that sounds like our Christmas here. Shouting. Crying. Shouting. Crying ad infinitum. I wonder if she is feeling poorly? Or leaping?

I got home from work tonight for and met, for the first time ever, a totally relaxed DH and a very happy p. DH has been so keen on his P days but it always seems to descend into chaos and stress. Awful to walk towards the house hearing crying. Anyway, lots of giggles and fun tonight. Apparently everything just fell into place. Slept well and ate well and had lots of fun together. Tomorrow's lunch has been prepared and all ready in the fridge courtesy of DH who was also debating how best to encourage a better brekkie. It is wonderful. I have never mentioned before but I had my concerns about how this was working. They abated today.

Yay pass I bet that was so relieving nice for you. I haven't left S with dp for more than an hour. I honestly don't think he'd know what to do. I do everything. Not his fault..... Mine for taking over and not giving him the chance to.

Isles do not worry my love. Three days a week I see L for 1-2 hours max depending on how long he's awake when home from nursery. The crying shouting thing is rubbish but quickly passes

Fruit 6 mins to go!

Pass that sounds properly lovely. Ready brek and honey was our breakfast break through here

Kyz hope the rat is fixed

kyz hope your rat is ok. I've had several pet rats, they are such lovely misunderstood animals.

pr ouch. Hope she's ok.

E still has milk out of a bottle. I spent so long trying to get her to take one that I'm in no hurry to drop it. She has water out of a sippy cup, occasionally has a carton of juice and can use an open cup with me holding it. Well she can use it without me holding it too but chances are it will end up all over her/the floor/me. She's also an expert at drinking bathwater from a stacking cup. Why oh why do they do that. Warm bubbly water, gross.

Actually writing that down makes me feel terrible. I always moan that he doesn't do anything, but actually any time he tries to I always tell him I'll do it myself, knowing that I like things done a certain way, or that S likes things a certain way, he will never learn if I don't let him.

Pass I too had had the same wibbles. Days start off with good intentions of adventures and always descend into chaos with a missed lunch or late nap. But today I came home to two happy people, a scolded dog who'd just finished digging up the garden and dinner/lunch/washing/etc all done. Must have been the day for it.

Eliza I have no idea why warm bubble water is nice but one here does it too!

Fruit could you give him a part of the routine that he learns and does often so you both feel confident? DP is excellent at bath and milk and also breakfast clothes and nursery drop off. He wouldn't know what to do a whole day though. A few hours is fine.

Well she's still asleep. Wonder how long it will last. I'm off to see if I can grab an hour before she wakes up.

That is me all over fruit. I have such a controlling personality when it comes to p. I couldn't give a flying duck about most other things but try to give p something 'wrong' for lunch?!? He has her two days a week so he is just starting to exert his dad authority

Was the weather better isles? DH was proper gooey eyed today. I mean, he always is but he just seemed so much more in charge today rather than seeming to be waiting for me to get home to take over. If the sun shines everyone feels better.