jan 2013- No, I will not have a new nappy

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Ta daaaaa new home feel at home already.

oh meant to add, took Ivy for haircut today. She can see again but think we are all traumatised by the experience!

Our routines similar to apples
Awake but happy playing at about 7ish

Up at 8 refuses offered water relent and give him a tea

Breakfast at 9

Try and give him a snack or something about half11-12 as he'll be sleeps by 12ish til 2 when he's back awake I'll see if he wants any more dinner bits, chopped egg/hampicky stuff.

Bottle at half three is

Tea atquart to sixish teeth straight after so we don't forget

Pj's about 7 then It's with iggle piggle

Bed about half past/quart to 8

Our routine now is

7-8am wake up , breakfast straight away (dd wakes up hungry!)

Sometimes has a mid morning snack eg fruit or bread sticks

Nap at 11 for 1-2 hours, lunch whenever she wakes up

Snack around 4pm

Dinner at 6, play in the garden, bath, story, milk then bed at 8pm

I think ours goes something like

6.15 wake up milk etc
8am breakfast
Still wants a morning kip 40 mins or so around 10ish. Thia gets pushed all over the place depending on what we're doung but he wont let go of it.
11.45am lunch on nursery days, otherwise its nearer 1pm
2.30-4pm long nap
5pm tea
7pm bedtime

Looking at that it seems we have very little routine outside of nursery runs and bedtime, just run with whatevers going on which works so far

Thanks everyone. Going to try to follow one of yours instead. She was up twice last night - 130am and then 4am for an hour. Then up at 650am. I'm wondering if it's the room temp - it's so warm at the mo so I put her in just a bodysuit and trousers (no socks), 23 degree room. When I went to her at 4am she felt cold but she felt ok at 130am. Room tempt had stayed about the same all night.

Has anyone moved over to sheets or anything other than a sleeping bag yet?

apple why traumatised by her haircut?! Was she wriggling about?!

Only disappointing bit about your routine is it's virtually the same as mine. But it isn't working for me!!! Although she's sometimes napped for 2.5 hours so I will have to cap it at 2.

Could it be teeth birdies? I'm never up for Dexter but I was a couple of nights last week, he's dribbling like a trooper, he's never dribbled before so these ones must be toughies

birdies she didn't like having the bib thing on as it covered her hands as she had a bunny in 1 hand and a buscuit in the other. She kept flapping and sobbing all the way through! Was horrid :(

Re the sleeping, routines etc i really think a lot of it comes down to luck. All mine have been good sleepers but i know others who have done similar to whose babies just don't.

Sorry just read that back, not sure its much help!! Fwiw most seem to just grow into sleeping better

DD goes through phases of sleeping and not sleeping and there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to it. She sleeps badly if she has a cold, and sometimes a bad night is the first sign she is about to get one.

Teething doesn't seem to bother DD so much these days. I have lost track of her teeth and have no idea how many she has now except that she has lots. She doesn't like me putting my fingers in her mouth so I have no idea when she is teething any more.

Thanks everyone. I don't think it's teething as she seemed to have new teeth coming through a few weeks ago and had her hands in her mouth/dribbling but I can see the little teeth now and there's no more dribbling. I think maybe it's the heat. I woke her after only an hours nap today though as we had to go out so I'll see if that makes a difference.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend :)

All I can say about those routines is that I wish E would sleep for longer than an hour in the day (and that's unusual). Sigh. She's just not a sleeper.

Oh it's such a lottery with the sleeping. Molly's been great for months and then two nights in a row this week she woke up several times. No rhyme or reason or I'm too tired to see it

What a bunch of cuties!

Dd sleeps well, in bed at 7 and fast asleep, but is an early waker, anything from 6am is normal

Latest problem is complete milk refusal, she screams of she sees her beaker has milk in it, she has had no milk for about a week, I've even tried a milky cup of tea but she's having none of it

Dan has developed a liking for chocolate nesquik (half a dessertspoon of powder to a beaker of milk) if thats any help? Otherwise I wouldn't worry at this age, just try and up the yoghurt & cheese in her diet to compensate. Dan hates cheese so we can't do that much.

I woke at 6ish this morning to find my husband had been replaced in bed by DS1 starfishing with the covers kicked off. DH had given up half an hour after ds1 sneaked into our room and I found him in ds1's bedroom on the floor with the spare duvet chucked over. He'd been there since about 3.30am.

Ohhhh thanks juniper, I never thought of that, I have some banana flavour in the cupboard must check sell by date I will give that a try

Ha ha, ds1 does this all the time too, I end up squished between DP and ds1.

This morning DP left for work at 1.30am, ds1 came into my bed at about 4am and did the biggest sleepy trump known to man.. BOYS!

Heh! I am surrounded by BOYS too. Even the cats are male.

juniper you must be a heavy sleeper if you didn't notice?!! lolli what does your DP do to have to be up that early?

Up three times in the night, including an hour at 4am. Tried her in our bed but she wouldn't settle so back to the 'sitting by her cot stroking her cheek for an hour' method. DH got up and I had a lie in so not tired but not sure how to change things really.

lolli when I stopped bf at about 13 months X wouldn't drink milk. She never has! She has cheese and things so I just hope she gets enough.

We own a florist, but we also import tropical and exotic flowers from Overseas so he has to collect the freight and deliver them to our customers. He will work until 6pm tonight now and then be a tired grump tomorrow on his only day off

The milk was strawberry flavoured, and in date she hasn't picked up her beaker to try it yet so I'm waiting in anticipation

Lolli what about food made with milk eg porridge, mashed potato?,

She loves mash potatoes and scrambled eggs too, so she is getting some milk and dairy I suppose, still watching the beaker of strawberry milk

Cheesy mash maybe? I am a heavy sleeper Birdies. I've cultivated the skill to ignore my children unless they're screaming in the night

My dd took some steps on her own!! She suddenly became very keen to walk ("mork") everywhere with me holding my hand and then off she tottered on her own in the library the other day! Very exciting

Glorious sorry you're having such a tough time at work. I second what others have suggested re asking for a job share or looking for something p/t. Really hope things improve for you soon.

Birdies my dd has been all over the place routine and sleep-wise lately. Can't put it down to teeth either. Some nights she'll go to bed with no fuss and others she's a nightmare and just refuses, regardless of how much she's slept during the day. She always ends up in our bed in the early hours though...

Regretting not getting in packers now - I'd forgotten what a nightmare packing is! We have sooooo much stuff and I keep discovering more and more. AGH!

Google tells me there is an 18 month sleep regression. Maybe it's that?

Yay tugs, you know you won't be able to catch her from now on!

Hope packing going ok.

We moved Ivysbedtime from 6.30 to 7 after a couple of nights where she just didn't settle to sleep and dd1 ended up oing to bed whilst Ivy awake. dd1 full of attitude and took great delight in keeping Ivy awake too..ohh they were long evenings!

Only 2 weeks to school hols now...slightly dreading it :(