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.

Evening all! Sazzle and Goats going by due dates all our babies are 14 weeks so maybe it's something to do with that? E up 3 times last night when she's been sleeping 6-7 hours before.
We're also going to start upstairs napping and earlier to bed as of tomorrow. And ordering ourselves a new bed so maybe I'll have an earlier bedtime too
Good luck tonight everyone

Sometimes he'll sleep in his bouncy chaif with a lot of jiggling but only for 20 mins or so, i think because his head isnt supported very well, also i discovered yesterday that hes nearly too long for his pram! Surely at 12 weeks hes too young for me to move him to the sit up version of it?

Anyone else got back to school dread for tomorrow? Ive had 12 days of dh and i cant remember how i coped on my own i need to relearn how to go for a wee, eat food and get dressed when im on my own with babymoose! Really worried about it now :(

Wonder me too. I've been spoilt with not having to do ds1 bedtime or sort him out at all. Going to be utter chaos tomorrow! Eeeeeepppp!!
Yes munday maybe a weird 14 week thing? I've never had great stretches of sleep from N, maybe 4 hours, but every 2 hours is taking the piss!!!

Babymoose needs to stop chewing on my nipple and go the eff to sleep! Or there will be one very stressed out mummy tomorrow! He falls asleep, lets it go, then roots around like a crazy person looking for it, hes not feeding just having a good chew :s

wonder I've got serious January blues. Dp back tomorrow and dd2 at nursery. Dd1 starts back Tuesday so I will be back to getting 4dcs ready and out of the door for 8.15 on my own. We've been taking it in turns doing night feeds and having lie ins so it's going to hit me like a tonne of bricks!
I bloomin hate winter too can't stand being cold :(

H (at 13+1 but a week overdue) seems to be coming to the end of her 2-hourly wake-ups in the night I hope, she started them last Saturday but the last 2 nights she's done a 5 hour stretch so I'm hoping she's slowly edging back to her 7 hours she was doing before! A growth spurt I think in her case anyway as she has fed more in the day too. Her 6 week growth spurt was an 11 day long clusternightmare so I'm daring to dream that the gods took pity on me this time round! Yep MrsB and the Dogs are still on FB regularly. Need to check on buggerlugs, can't remember her real name off the top of my head!
H's naps during the day are in her bouncy chair, her shoulders were getting too broad for her to lie in the carrycot in her desired arms up position! Poor lass seems to have taken after her parents in being built like a brick sh*thouse

Yip i bloody hate January aswell, i tried on my bikinis tonight as we are off to lanzarote in May, i cant wait to get some vitamin d into my bones.
As soon as christmas is over I'm done with cosy nights in

Bring on the barbecues !!!

stigz we are hopefully going away in May too I can't wait. I'm also a bridesmaid (feel a bit old ) in Scotland in May. I'm Quite excited I've never been to Scotland before she's getting married in an amazing castle near Glasgow I think.
Really trying with my diet and dp is going to help me with my fitness (he is very into boxing) all the other bridesmaids are tiny :(

I hate exercise but i used to quite enjoy boxfit, i think getting to hit things helped! I also developed a strange liking for bodypump and kettle bells!

I've never been great at exercising and knowing how unfit I am is stopping me getting going if you see what I mean. Our garage is kitted out like a boxing gym with bags,pads etc.. So no excuse really it just a bit cold in there

I'm the thinnest ive been for years - 2 stone lighter than when I conceived. It's the depression and 20 times a day breastfeeding diet (laughs grimly). Horribly untoned though, my body is icky.

True story: in the 8 months before I fell somewhat unexpectedly pregnant, I was doing both the 5:2 diet and Couch to 5k. I lost 3 stone, then got pregnant and it all went to shit. I can thoroughly recommend both, though, and am now back on at least the diet wagon (got about a stone to lose). Am hoping to be able to use home treadmill to restart C25K in the very near future (while DS no doubt stares at his batshit mother from the comfort of his bouncy chair ).

goats, tatty, sazzle, kirstipops and munday, we're in the 12-week wake up club too and it's such a relief to hear it's apparently normal and not just a freak malfunction in my previously champion sleeper. Surely we're too early for the four month sleep regression? Whatever it is, I hope she gets over it soon. I'm shattered.

Jeanne - what is the couch to 5k? I've never heard of it

×bangs head against wall× can i join the 12 week wake up club? The little fecker has just woken up after 30mins! Usually if he goes down after 11 he stays down for at least a few hours :( am so effed off! Am sure he knows dh is back at work tomorrow and is screwing with me :(

I got majorly vommed on about 5pm, and it seemed quite thick and greasy, i really hate it when he is sick such a big volume because he feeds so crappily its just such a waste
Barely got 2 hrs in last stint, my eyes are burning. I bloody hate this! Weve had a good few days of 7/8 hrs with no or 1 wake up and i canr cope with this again

Spent best part of an hour feeding him back to sleep only for him to wake on moving again :(
We had planned to wake him at 6.30 so we could give him his omeprazole together, feed him and get him back down before dh goes to work but now im thinking we might not get back to sleep at all! And im pretty sure i cant do his omeprazole by myself as its usually dh sits him up while i fight to inject it into his mouth :(

Up for the second time here aswell, bloody typically holidays are over and i need get dd1 up & ready for nursery i usually get up about 7 but she's wide awake, so i guess thats my day started now ? Bloody marvellous

Hang in there ladies, hoping we are coming out of the twelve wk growth spurt after a few days of two hourly wake ups. Also dreading DP work return. What have you ladies done if your little one has grown out of Moses basket already? Not there yet but won't be long. DP says should move into cot in own room but am worried about SIDS and no room for cot in our room.

I'm tempted to get a toddle pod for day sleeps. Anyone used one? At the moment he sleeps in my arms, or on changing mat or in bouncy chair during day.

Same here Happytimes. Every time I checked on the little Pop last night her head was crammed against the top of the Moses basket and it did not look comfortable. Pretty sure that's why she woke up so often! I reckon she's got another couple of weeks max in it and no room for the cot in our room either.

It's the same with the pram too, but think they're not supposed to go into the pushchair until they can sit up, is that right?

Pregnant hope you got your 4dc ready ok this morning. I have huge admiration for you with only 2 to sort out!!
Last night was a bit better. Went down about 9.30 and woke at 2am first so back to a better first stretch which is more like he used to do. Then we had the 4am 5.30 and 6.30 wake ups for seeming more food but I can cope better with that when I've had that first decent sleep. I went to bed with him at half 9 too to catch up a bit on sleep!
Sorry wonder and stigz you've had rough nights. Sending copius amounts of and your way

So after a bit of an unsettled evening she slept 9.30- 4. Longest stretch ever. Babies, man. How do they even work.

Intheway yes generally I think they aren't supposed to be in until they can sit up and because it's better for them to lie flat at the beginning, hence also why they shouldn't spend too long in car seats...
I think last time I moved my ds1 into the buggy at 5 months because he seemed too big to stay in the pram any longer. This time it'll be earlier though as N has outgrown ds1 3-6 month sleepsuits! he's huge!!! And already looks ridiculous squashed into the pram but he only turned 3 Months yesterday so in going to try and eek it out another month and hope he doesn't grow much more!