January 2014 babies - The Teething Twilight Zone

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Have you got an inhaler for her my three? My DD had bronchial it's at about the same age and we were given an inhaler plus a little spacer thing to administer it. Definitely helped.

Book, at least your days have improved! Hopefully the nights will follow in time.

Poor Lucy mythree. I hope she is back to her usual self soon. I have no idea what the right thing to do when they are ill is, so I reckon go with whatever makes you feel most comfortable.

Everybody cross their fingers please. DH just managed to settle P in her cot for the first time ever. It took him 10 minutes! I assume this means I will reap the whirlwind when she wakes up later and realises what has happened, but still, this is a good start

Yaaaaay! Fingers crossed, book!

Poor Lucy :(

Oh poor Lucy my three. M has had bronchiolitis several times and has it ATM too along with dd2 so not much sleep here. The best thing I found was to sit for 15-30 mins in the bathroom with the shower on full and the hottest setting. Really helps at night. Day 3/4 is the worst for it apparently so hopefully she will be on the mend soon.

Small steps book you will get there, even if it feels like one step forward and three back sometimes.

mythree apparently that's what they diagnose asthma as when they're under 1 (although our doctor didn't mention it being viral) and the inhaler is helping h. Although I'm trying to avoid the brown inhaler so have been trying to de snot him this week (calpol plug in, saline spray etc). I've only kept him off nursery one day and that was more for my benefit. Nurseey give him the inhaler if he's bad. But completely up to you and what you feel comfortable with

Woo book great news :)

H is still sleeping through most of the time but will wake 45 minutes after going to bed and decide its time to get up. I'm now understanding the whole letting them cry thing. He is frustrated cryinh rather than sad cryinh and nothing I can do helps so he might as well cry in cot, after 15 minutes or so he'll fall asleep. This is very different to the hysterical sad cry we used to get which is why I could never understand people keep telling me to leave him to cry. Just proves we know our babies best and to ignore everyone else!

Yeah, three steps back! She woke at 9.15 and was inconsolable, so ended up back in bed with me for the rest of the night. Who knows, maybe tonight she'll manage more than an hour and a half? I'm starting to think that maybe sleep is a bit like walking and crawling, a developmental thing, and that she just can't do it yet.

Mythree & another, hope everyone is feeling better soon. Sounds awful

Getting that's great news! Well done H!!!

Weirdly, I don't remember getting up last night but I'm sure I did once. Unless she slept through?! I have no idea. She's still waking up around 6-8 times a night so that can't be right.

Is anyone else struggling with ideas of what to do now the weather isn't good? It's been raining here on and off every day since last week and I'm so bored. We are watching a lot of TV and poor S has been dragged around the shops a few times. I don't mind going for walks when it's cold it's just when it rains that I hate going out in it. Any suggestions?

Yay Getting hopefully he will continue sleeping well

Book how did last night go in the cot?

Mythree hope Lucy feels better soon

We had two really good nights of sleep and then BAM last night was the worst night ever! O slept 7-12, took two attempts to get her back into the cot, then she slept till 3 and then that was it for the night! Didn't matter how much I let her comfort suck, stay in our bed, cuddle she just would not go back to sleep! Dh got up with her at 4 and took her downstairs which usually gets her back to sleep but even that didn't work. She wasn't upset though, just chattering away to herself (although got shouty if we put her back in her cot!). It was like she had insomnia! So Dh and I are struggling a bit today! Fx she is back to normal tonight. I really don't know how you have all been coping with babies that wake all the time I really don't, hats off to you.

Oops cross post!

How about swimming felix? Or soft play can be quite fun when they are crawling. They like watching the older children and it's usually pretty cheap when they're tiny.
We've got proper Irish weather here now. I feel about ready to hibernate.

I settled A to sleep last night in his cot too, book. He also ended up in my bed in the early hours. I'm holding out for when they can have a pillow and quilt/duvet. I can't really blame him not liking sleeping in his huge bare cot. Only a few months now. If things go to plan I won't be bfing in 4 months time and that will have to mix things up too.

Oh dear book I agree with you. I think it's just one of those things that they won't do until they're ready unfortunately.

felix I'm like then when h sleeps through!

Soft play around here is £2.75 off peak and good to get them playing without much effort from you lazy mummy or baby groups? I struggle with the rainy weather too but luckily only have 3 days a week to think of things to do. H has got a waterproof puddle suit so the others at just put him in that and put him in garden (I was there too!)

I have a bit of a water phobia so I'm not keen on taking her swimming. I think id go if DP went too so we might try it one weekend. I wouldn't feel confident enough taking her on my own!

Oh there's a soft play place just across from my house. I might try that then

O loves the soft play near us

Just noticed the 8th tooth is through! He's only 8 months! Looks very odd

Book, I really think sleep is something they just do when they're ready. Sure there are things you can do to help things along a bit, but I really think it's developmental. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but my daughter was a pretty awful sleeper and we tried just about everything we could. One day when she was 14/15 months I felt like something had changed, and with a bit of coercion she started sleeping through, 10pm until morning.

It will get better

I agree Becca. S woke literally every hour from 4-8 months old then suddenly one night stopped doing it. She still wakes quite often but not near as much as she did. We did nothing different and it was just like a switch flipped. I know a few who have really benefitted from sleep training, but I think sometimes you're fighting a losing battle if baby just isn't ready to do it. I don't mean that in a horrible way or anything Book all you can do is try, and don't blame yourself for doing anything 'wrong' if she just won't sleep. You have to do what you can to keep yourself sane. I hope things improve for you soon

Getting 8 teeth! S has no teeth yet and she's 10 months next week

The sleep/developmental thing sounds plausible. I hope that's the case!
M wasn't too bad last night. Bed at 8 (she went down awake and put herself to sleep but I was in the room). Woke briefly around 9.30 but settled with a quick cuddle. Woke for feeds at 12, 2 & 4. Up for the day at 6.45.

She only just has her first tooth coming now, felix, and she was 9 months last week. They're cuter without, anyway

Anyone who has a bad sleeper has my full sympathy...Lucy oddly, has been text book baby from eight weeks in. (My other two were not). But these last ten nights getting up every two or three hours for her, and putting the other two back to bed (suddenly they have started wandering into our room at any o clock and trying to get into bed with us) and now I am truly tired. So tired I think if I stopped I would pass out and sleep for a week. So, hats off to everyone. This period will pass and we will all get old and boring and have plenty of sleep in years to come. Hee hee ps put Lucy into nursery this morning and was called two hours later to collect her as she had been really upset. She seemed fine most of the day tbh but now is unsettled and refusing to eat anything other than tinned peaches.

'Tis true. This, too, shall pass. DS will be 15 on Sunday and he's rarely awake :o
9 months of waking between 3 and 10 times a night has made my state of exhaustion basically normal. DH got up at 6am with M on Saturday, to try to give me a lie-in. But I couldn't get back to sleep because she'd only been up 3 or 4 times in the night and it felt like my version of a full night's sleep! My body has obviously adjusted, which is sad.

Hope Lucy is ok, mythree.

I bet P is still waking 6 times a night until she goes to uni. I'm used to the mental effects of sleep deprivation now, but my whole body is falling to bits. I was never ill before I had P, but since I've had her I've had colds and bugs galore. I need a serious sports massage as well. That wasn't a euphemism or maybe it was

Well, she's asleep in her cot again. Not holding out masses of hope tonight as she's clearly teething badly. It seems to be giving her sinus-y problems because she keeps rubbing her nose and eyes HARD, and her nose is streaming. Poor little thing. I haven't been this sympathetic to her all day though . I've turned into an angry, shouty mum

Looks like O has more teeth coming. I saw two definites coming through and possibly another 2!

Going to be an early night here tonight, fx O doesn't think 3 am is getting up time tomorrow.

Is anyone else getting ready for the clock change? I've started delaying O's bedtime by a few mins each night so hopefully by the time they change she'll be used to the new time.

to those with ill/non sleeping babies. I also think L will never sleep through, Keep telling DH that her uni room mates are going to have to put up with it!

She's been doing really well walking today, taking 3 steps on her own between us then clapping, very adorable! Going to try and remember how cute she is when she keeps me up all night!

Does anyone else have an immobile baby??? Or is it just Lucy! She is now attempting to crawl and can get from sitting to tummy, and then can rotate a full 360 on her tummy but can't move purposefully, so gets cross. She tried eating both my phone and the tv control today. She is also off her night time milk...will not drink milk in there evenings, turns her head and spits. Initially we thought uh oh she is going to wake in in hype night looking for it, but she doesn't. Really odd. Never knew babies would give up their night bottles so young.

I've been really shouty this week too, book. I was properly ranting while trying to make dinner with M actually hanging on to my feet on the kitchen floor. Full marks for safety. I must've been loud because DS stopped dicking about in his room and came to take her for a bit.

We're doing tumble time tomorrow, book, if you need to get out!

I might do that toby, I've decided that I need to get her out between her two naps, and then again in the afternoon, or I'll go a bit mad. I was planning a thrilling outing to the garden centre in the afternoon to buy bulbs - woo!

nature you've scared me with the clocks going back thing. I need to think about this - maybe the sleep consultant will tell me what to do, because I'm clueless!

Well done L on the walking mrsg! P only manages to stagger two steps before falling over. Doesn't stop her trying though, which is doing my blood pressure no good at all!