October 2014 // thread 4 // a lot of night feed chatting!

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Welcome everyone. You're doing a good job by the way. Remember that.

I've just bought a dummy which I thought I'd never do, just to see if he is after comfort or milk... goats it's a gd point about them being tired as sometimes if we are slow getting his formula bottle ready at 9.30pm we turn around to find the poor little sausage has nodded off in his bouncer. Did you find your little girl sleeps more hours during the night now she has gone to bed earlier? I mean M goes about 10pm - 6/7 am which is nine hrs ish. If I he went down at 7pm etc might wake at 4am! Ugh.

tatty I'm intrigued to how you figured scrunching plastic bags by your and her ears was such a hit

Tissue paper is our number one toy. Today I scraped together two pieces of plastic for 10 minutes.. she laughed and chatted as if it was comedy gold.

fatpony too early to say. Ask me in a week if anything has stayed consistent!

We are having ok sleeps here at night sometimes great sleeps but I am in no way going to think we have it cracked as a 3rd time mum I'm only too aware of the 4 month sleep regression (shudders at the thought!)

fatpony I went to throw away a particularly thick plastic bag and she was immediately quiet. I didn't throw the bag away. It is now my most treasured thing.

We don't have a routine, beyond a night time happens in the bedroom , afternoons contain a walk type thing, and I'm sort of okay with that. I think at seven weeks she's doing what she needs to do and so I'm going to roll with it and see what kind of pattern emerges with time. Maybe this is foolishness though.

It's funny what weird things babies enjoy, my boy smiles and coos whenever he catches sight of the wall light, even when it's off!

We haven't got any sort of routine yet, but he usually sleeps pretty well at night. I'm not in any hurry to start a routine, I think it'll just make me stress about getting him to sleep at the right time and for now I'm enjoying going with the flow! A few of you are talking about encouraging your babies to go to sleep at certain times - what do you actually do? What magical sleepy tricks are you using?!

Sorry, that should have been fed up

I'm doing the EASY approach - so no times but pattern of eating, awake, sleep and apparently me time! We have it working though quite loosely.

This morn he slept for 3 hours - I was so productive - went to the gym and sorter out ds1s clothes and vacuumed packed and stored for when R will need them!

tatty I can just imagine it!!

me and yellow here in Germany the recommendation is for the baby to sleep in the parents' room for 12 months. Maybe the hv read an article discussing changing the recommendation to match or something?

Baby finally slept on me this afternoon.

This evening we bathed, fed, cuddled and he fell asleep. I thought Hurrah!! But oh no! He had other ideas... Histrionics!! We then played with his dummy. Dummy in, dummy out. He wanted the dummy but liked spitting it out for attention.
We are now in my arms (again) watching telly.

Hubbie is out so I am having a packet of crisps for my dinner!

My Connecta arrived today. I got the lacework fabric. Its beautiful! You lot are a bad influence. Can't wait to try it out

Mrsb great news on the omeprazole BTW. Am so chuffed. Its miraculous stuff. My MIL thought reflux was utter nonsense "we didn't have reflux in my day" so 'forgot' to give him a dose when he was left in her care for one hour. Gosh where did his 'colic' come from she wondered when her happy grandson disappeared to be replaced by a screaming sleep avoider . Don't get me started on her clandestine dairy trials "a little bit of cheese won't hurt him.... why is he projectile vomiting?"

Yay Yellow!! I was wondering whether you'd gone ahead and purchased or not. Have you worn Lil yet? Does it feel different?

Yellow your accurate description of MILs made me chuckle. Sounds like how I imagine mine will be like (day4- is she sleeping through yet? No? You must be spoiling her! )
We have a couple of hours a day of crying/ screaming for no apparent reason. It really gets my anxiety levels up
Doesn't last long. She's now happily snoozing, any ideas why babies do this?

Oh pictures required Yellow. I had B in the Connecta all afternoon, it was my only way to keep sane!

Not yet - we didn't get in until late and she's been troughing or snoozing since. Will test drive tomorrow and put pictures on FB to see if I've got it on right.

Testing their voices?
Momentary pain? My friend's baby cries for 10 minutes before he has a poo.
Frustration?
Confusion?

Enjoy Yellow, it's definitely my favourite bit of baby kit

Connecta do look nice...
I do love my ergo 360 though so thinking another carrier is a little extravagant!

Omg your mil sounds so annoying yellow!!!

Connectas look lovely but I'm not allowed one, given I have a baby Bjorn and a close caboo that rarely get used. That said I'm not really getting out much so maybe a new purchase would encourage me out and about...

Had jabs today. He's very sleepy tonight but that's not unusual, hopefully he'll be ok tonight/tomorrow.

Very quiet tonight - assume that means everyone's baby is sleeping through

Sorry to login and moan but need to tell someone. DP just reached a new low. DD woke crying- as 5 week old babies are prone to do- and he stormed out of bed stating "for fucks sake I'm going to sleep in the other room." Not "you seem to be having a hard time. It's the middle of the night, let me take her for 10 minutes so you get a short break. After all, you look after her all day". Argh!! She woke up whimpering for 20 mins before he even heard her. I'd tried to feed her quietly without leaving the room. She started crying again when I put her down as she never seems to get enough milk from me at night. That's when he woke up! So I'd already been up with OUR daughter having MY night disrupted as he slept. I'm seriously angry! He's going out with mates later, pub after work tomorrow and his works Christmas do on Friday, all of which I said ok to, but you'd think he'd be grateful and try and be supportive when he IS here!

pebble totally out of order. I'd be furious x