October 2014 // thread 5 // baby's first Christmas

[JeannePoole]

Welcome back!

(Dear greetings cards manufacturers: 'Baby's First Christmas' does NOT necessarily have to include Baby being liberally sprinkled with glitter from your shoddily-made merchandise.

Except that, as I'm rapidly discovering, it does.

I'm awake, baby still sleeping!! First night with no swaddle & he has clocked up 2 hrs more sleep without waking so far!
Moose poor you, what time has baby moose been resisting sleep from? DS woke at 10am & totalled less than 1 HR sleep until 11pm! Can't get him to sleep at all unless I am standing up swaying him! It's maddening. I honestly think there is something wrong with him, it is scaring me. :(

Feeling quite trapped as DS won't now take a bottle. He used to but now refuses. I feel trapped in the sense I cant go out for long / he only has me for food. How do I get him to like it again???

Fedup I saw your FB post, sorry, nothing useful to suggest. How many times has he rejected the bottle?
Perhaps just get your DH to try him when half asleep with warmish milk. I know my DS refuses unless warmed to his preferred temperature! It's very distressing when they reject your expressed milk, I get upset about that aspect too!
My DS has been getting less & less accepting of a bottle, I fear we are heading the same way.
Perservere it's the only thing you can do.

I'm at a bit of a loss to know what to do about bedtime. It's not just that an earlier one means we might one day get done time to ourselves, it's that it's do cheeky better for her- if IvBulletin put her to breed at about seven thirty she just goes straight off to sleep, no fussing. But. Tonight she has woken at 11.45, 1.50 and now 5. She was doing a long stretch of usually getting on for 5 hours, which was largely responsible for my sanity, presumably because she was knackered. Gah. Do I just keep hoping she'll settle down for longer?

So many typos. So tired. Sorry.

It was suggested to me yesterday that the reason pip won't go to bed at 7 (really no interest, is liveliest part of the day is because I stay in bed until hslf 10 every day.a) I don't and b) so what if I did? He then suggested I get up at 7am and keep her properly occupied so she doesn't sleep too much during the day. Cue massive meltdown with tears from me. Her (and my) sleep was fine until we had to go to his family Xmas thing in mid December. It's been shit ever since, with me rarely getting more than 3 hours at a time. Consequently I'm knackered, Christmas was shit and I'm not very good company. Apparently this parenting is my job on my own.

It's 7am now, I've had about 4 hours sleep - she's half awake, I'm thinking about just taking her in to him and suggesting he keeps her occupied until nap time at 8.30. I expect that would go down like a shit sandwich. Raaaah.

What is wrong with these babies!!!! r has pretty much been awake since half two. I can barely string a sentence together :(

I've got people coming tonight. I need to clean the house, make food, set table sort out sort stuff for chocolate fountain and at some point wash the greasy mop that is my hair.

When actually what I want to say is dear everyone, please fuck to the far side of fuck so I can sleep in my messy house with my greasy hair lots of love pregnantagain x

Sorry rant over think I'm delirious.

goats everyone seems to have an opinion on the best way to get them to sleep. Go with what works for you 7-7 is great when you've got other kids but if r was my first no way would I be getting up at 7 I would be doing a 10-10 like you.

Sorry just read your post properly that's not what you're doing sorry my mistake :)

That was meant to be a I'm leaving now before I bugger anything else up!

We quite often don't get out of bed till ten. Bed is prime baby playing territory, so she wakes at about seven thirty, we do cuddles and playing for an hour, then she goes back in her basket for a snooze and everyone's a winner. Also, if the baby was awake and happy at seven pm there's no way I'd put her to bed then. It's only because she started falling asleep about seven thirty and then being cross when we woke her up that I'm doing it, and only because it's manifestly making her more cheerful that I'm sticking with it even though it sucks for me. They're little people, after all, so they have their own preferences (that's partly why I mistrust schedules so much).

I got 12 till 6.30 then 7 till 8.30 probably because she hardly slept at all yesterday & was so grumpy, not like her at all so im thinking 12 week growth spurt is to blame

I still feel like a zombie, think my iron may be low again as i have been getting palpitations, my appetite is still crap so probably is low iron? Not much iron in celebrations or cadburys Heroes i imagine?

Aww pregnant im the same as you, people coming over & greasy hair but i did the majority of tidying last night

goats less sleep during the day doesn't mean more at night as you probably know, if you ff i would suggest buggering off for the weekend and tell him you expect him to have her in his dream routine by the time you got back

Pregnant I wish I could say that too! Oh and batiste dry shampoo is an essential component of my slummy mummy kit! I neeeeeed to dye my grey roots - I'm looking like a contestant at the wrong end of "10 years younger".

Goats has he not been up early with Pip giving you some more sleep over the holidays? I think its time to give him some expressed milk and watch him entertain her as he so sagely advises.

We just watched the sunrise (8.30am I love Scotland for lazy winter sunrises) and are having a lazy day in onesies. Lil is full of cold and cries big tears when I wipe her nose, I did it super gently with cotton wool earlier and she grabbed my finger, made big eyes and smiled as if to say thanks for not using harsh loo roll Mum! She got the best giraffe onesie for Christmas - will post a pic.

yellow my hair hair is actually stuck up on one side and a dusty colour from the amount batiste I have put in it over the last few days

Dp has taken older 3 to a play centre so I can "get on" hmmm what do I do with this little bundle of joy whilst I "get on"

Fil just turned up unannounced and let himself in was treated to the sight of me in a too tight pj vest with no bra and hairy armpits attractive!
Think he did feel a bit sorry for me when he saw the state of the house he told me he was taking the dog for a walk but when he came back he would get r to sleep for me.
He sings I was born under a wandering star in his ear it does actually work but I'm sure r only goes to sleep so he doesn't have to listen to the singing anymore!

Right time to get my arse off man and "get on" any more posts from me before tea time and tell me to bugger off :)

Babymoose was feeding or nibbling from 8-11 then dozed off for 2 hrs, then awake til 4, then a few more hrs, but because hes got a cough and a snotty nose i cant sleep because it sounds like hes about to wake up any second with the coughing and spluttering so im just super on edge.
Dh is doing himself no favours by getting into bed at 9pm and sleeping while i bf. His reasoning is that if he sleeps early on he can take babymoose for a bit if he wont settle but he never does! So whatever sleep i eventually get, hes already had at least 2-3hrs on top and he doesnt seem to agree that this is vastly unfair
Also dh gets cabin fever if we dont leave the house every day so me and babymoose are being dragged to a bloody nature reserve to have a wander round! Its freezing, im tired, dh you suck!

Sorry to everyone having crap sleep.
Seems like there are a lot of us. To coin -goat's phrase I was 'baby wrangling' from midnight til half 2. Not fun and then he woke at 4 and then up for the day at 6. I'm SOOO glad we decided not to do anything tonight but stay in and eat m&s party food and drink a few glasses of fizz. There's no way I'll manage to see in midnight!

Aaahh... Ran out of dry shampoo, had to use baby powder!

A has been asleep for nearly 3 hours! I'm going to have to wake him for his feed. Wish he'd do this everyday. I've had a couple of hours sleep and feel nearly like a person.

The unpredictabilty is so cruel isn't it? I had three days of 6 hours in a row and now we're back to 4 being a good night. The noise does my head in, he did a 5.30- 8 this morning but I didn't sleep a wink! Even with earplugs!

We appear to be stuck in a poo cycle... ds does poo... bum looks red... put sudocrem on... rubbing his bum makes him poo again 20 minutes later!
Totally agree splendide if only babymoose could say "do you know what mum, im going to feed for 5 hours but then i'll go back down for a good few hours so you can sleep too" lol if only :) who knows what we'll get tonight but it seems to be decreasing again

Yes! It's so bloody tense!

Sleep decreasing here too

Have you tried olive oil or breast milk on sore bums? I found E's got worse with Sudocreme. Poor baby
Happy New Year everyone, hope you have a great night whatever you're doing xxx