October 2014 // thread 6 // baby's new year resolution is to sleep more?!

[sazzlehopes]

yellow tell me more about this dessert!

yellow thanks it was on here, I'm not on FB but no worries hopefully he doctors will shed down light in it all soon.

moose I find the 45 minute thing a mixture of amazing and annoying!

And my top dairy free finds are:
Vego chocolate. Actually amazing, almost dairy milk. www.vegantuckbox.co.uk/product/vego-bar/
And this Ice cream... www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Coconut-Collaborative-Raspberry-Snowcoconut-Frozen-Yoghurt/230986011

[devil face]

I used to get up at 10. Now that she'sggoing to bed at 7.30, and sleeping big chunks overnight, we're up at 7 or 7.30 in the morning. Not my choice or preference (makes the days really long), but getting up at that time is life reality isn't it. Boo.

Thanks Fate

Here's the recipe Moose www.bakingqueen74.co.uk/?p=2241

Sazzle woooo talk of df choc tasting like dairy milk is witchcraft surely! Mmmmmm have to try it .

We're getting up around 8.30-9am which is great for me but I'm setting alarm for 8 in the hope that we can get better naps soon.
What I hate is being told to "just re-settle" after 45 mins- HOW?!? She's wide awake and ready to play. Even if our in her pram.
What techniques does everyone else use?
Also had a little cry when she woke straight back up at bedtime

Argh I am sick of the fecking cost. Nearly £20 for five fecking fake chocolate bars. This is what makes me so mad about folks who are so eye rolly about CMPI - do they really not think I'd rather make up a condition where I had to eat extra cheese and chocolate instead, rather than cut it out for 2 solid years for shits and giggles!

Baby tatty is exceeding expectations. Woke up at eight for five minutes- had a cuddle and a quick feed and went straight back in her crib, and she's still asleep now. I find this kind of thing mystifying- a fortnight of cripplingly awful evenings and then suddenly, without anything changing, she's just like, huh, I think tonight I shall be snoozy. She was like this about sleeping long stretches, too. For two months she didn't sleep more than 2 1/2 hours, and then one night she slept 5, just like that (then didn't do it again for a week).

Urgh bad babymoose! Went to sleeo at 1030 woke up at 1120.. just long enought for me to get to sleep! After our incredibly shit 3 weeks he started doing 930-1230 then 2-715. Now we're lucky if he does an hour for the first bit and last night only got him back down 5-730 :(

yellow thanks! :D cost annoys me too!! Hotel chocolat's new range is £15 for 150g egg :( its like yes by all means make money from our misery!

We're up here. Don't know what's changed but suddenly he's waking 1.30am exactly every night having had a while of it being 3. I find the sleep deprivation so hard. Can feel my PND getting worse again.

Weve still not had any more sleep here. The facebookers drifted off 45 mins ago, in the voice of donkey from shrek "im all alooooone"
Im so snotty and sneezy that babymoose is going to have this cold for ages. Especially if i dont get some sleep. Dh is snoring next to me.
Actually cant believe its 4am. Feel so effed off right now! Why did we get a week of reasonable sleep for it to all go to shit again?

I'm awake too. Hope your cold doesn't get too bad Moose
Think she does this 4am wake up to piss me off. Can feel myself getting annoyed as I know she can sleep longer than 4 hours.
Right plan for tomorrow: force naps, don't cry when she does.

So 'goats' did she just develop the 7-7 day over time? We are at 9-10/11 (final bedtime) at the moment and just trying to move bedtime earlier (and I assume this will change wake up time). I need the extra now til 9 sleep bit especially seeing as we have been on two hourly wake ups until last night (big yay!)

Whoops forgot stars goats

happy we have bed time around 7.30 and it was lead by the fact that she starts to get really grumpy around then.

I feel like a rotter saying this when you've all had such a crappy night but after the one wake up at 8 she slept through till 4.45, had a ten minute feed, went back down, woke 6.45, has another feed, and she's just gone back to sleep again. I feel like doing an actual dance. Got to spend an evening not sitting with a grumpy, dozy child Hurrah.

Yay, just had my first "nearly" 12 hours sleep! well apart from the dog waking us up at 3 am for a pee

People worried about fb:

Set up an email address only for fb (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, whatever).
Don't use your whole/real name if you want to preserve your anonymity - there's a poster on the group called Lu Cy and I have rl fb friends called Ju Li A and Na O Mi. Far more are probably using their maiden names despite having changed name when they got married.
As bump says it is a bit easier with questions organised into threads.

Thats a good idea lebmonster im just paranoid as i know so many people from my area that had babies the same time as me, the reason i dont have facebook is i dont want people being nosey for the sake of it! I know people who love it for that reason

happy - we tried putting her to bed at 7 for a few days when she was 12 weeks and it didn't work. Up half the night. Then did it again at 14 weeks and she started sleeping a bit better, but was clearly ready for being up at 7am.

It's not foolproof. Whenever we have a change of scene it goes to shit, and last night she was awake for 45 minutes at 2am and 5am for no reason. But we have our evenings, which is still a nice novelty.

Ok thanks ladies. He was wide awake at 8 so we got up then and have been trying to put him down for a nap since 0930 or so as I know he was tired (and we have jabs at 10.30) and he finally went to sleep in the buggy just before I started operations get the buggy downstairs!!

She's absolutely refusing to nap in her crib right now - yet has been a massively grumpy old boot since 8am. In a minute she's going in a sling.

I hate the days when you have to decide between washing and eating, because there is no way you'll get to do both. Raaaah.

We had an ok night in the end really. 8-1.30 then 2-6 then 7-8.

I'm a mess this morning though, really tearful and panicky. I Just keep thinking at least I'm not like this everyday anymore.