October 2014.. Thread 7.. Teeth, tantrums & tickles

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Hope this works ?

No judging here Tatty if you had toothache you'd take a paracetamol. Glad she's had a better night's sleep.
We give E a bit of teething gel after bath time if she's particularly gnaw-y, seems to make her more comfortable.

Can see no reason to judge. Calpol doesn't make them drowsy, if she slept well on calpol it's because she was in pain.

Pretty good night last night for us. Bed at 7.45, up at 2 but went back to sleep himself then up at 4 for a feed then up at 7.

The 2am chatting for 20 minutes seems to be every night now. I just leave him alone and he drifts off again eventually - I can't see there's anything else I can do really. Hopefully he'll just stop doing it at some point.

I don't think she's in real pain, because she doesn't cry, but I had a wisdom tooth come through a couple of years ago and it was the sort of pain that doesn't really bother you if you're doing something else but as soon as you try and go to sleep and there isn't anything else occupying you then it becomes really annoying. We'll do teethinggel at bedtime although it doesn't seem to help that much. I think I'm just relieved to feel like I know what the problem is and it's not that she's forgotten how to sleep or my parenting is crap.

splendide I guess the 2am chatting is the sort of thing that just stops being an issue when they're in their own rooms. Quite often, before there was a baby, I'd wake up in the middle of the night and have a bit of a potter for half an hour before going back to sleep. It's only a problem if it's keeping someone else awake.

I suppose you're right Tatty . Once he's in his own room he can chat to himself at will.

I'm out without the baby this morning. Feels very weird.

No shame in giving calpol!! If baby is in pain just give it, paracetamol is a very safe drug when used correctly. There were times with DS that he was given calpol so regularly because his teeth have him so much grief that we should've had shares in it! And there were also times when we really didn't know what was wrong so we gave calpol just in case.

Well we had another rubbish night, baby awake a lot but seemingly just hungry (kept up with the live coverage of the oscars so not all bad!) Passed her over to DH at 5.30 so I could get some sleep but she just got totally hysterical by 6.30. This is so out of character cause she's always so happy. I took over and she threw up all over me! I tried to give her calpol but she was too upset. Poor love took a while to settle and had a really high pitch cry so I was getting worried. She slept eventually and seems a bit happier now. fingers crossed she was just over tired and not poorly.

Sorry you had a rubbish night Igotta hope she's better today.
We got woken up at 1am by a poonami she was furious with this! Then started grumbling at 6am so DH got her to take a dummy and go back to sleep.
4 month jabs this morning so just getting her to have a little nap before it all begins

Urgh third night in a row of very broken sleep, two teeth have broken through the gums. Lo is now named snaggle tooth because of it!!
Seriously teething can f-off now, both me and baby are broken!!!
I hope there is an end in sight!!

Major, MAJOR, family milestone reached yesterday in the FATE household.

My eldest started her periods.

Came as a surprise to no one, we were expecting it and ready. But I shocked myself by my own reaction, which was not what I was expecting.

After the immediate shock from DD, followed by excitement (which is how we've been playing periods for the last year - an exciting new chapter in life), we talked lots about the practicalities of menstrual bleeding.

But what I wasn't expecting was after the dust settled, I locked myself in the bathroom and had a little cry. Actually it was a massive blubbing cry and I've cried about six time since - always in private, I wouldn't let DD see me anything other than excited and ready to listen.

But oh my goodness - My precious, precious, precious little girl. I feel ridiculously sad at such a physical sign of her being not-so-little anymore. I am crying even as I write this (although did start my period yesterday too, so am emotional). She is my baby. My first. My precious first born. She is growing up too fast.

I am so proud of her through. Not many 10 1/2 year olds could handle as well as she has. Off she went to school today with her sanitary pads, but full of confidence that she knows what to do and will be fine. I love her SO much.

Few shite nights in a row here. Last night I gave her calpol just in case, but she still didn't sleep properly until she got put in my bed at 4. Up every hour nearly. She cries until I feed her though, and then has a proper boob full. Why so hungry?

Since yesterday she's been sitting up on her own, which presumably is using lots of energy, but is that enough to be eating loads more?

I'm thinking a lot about formula at the moment. Almost counting the hours until I can share some of this load.

Oh fate im sitting in a old pub in avimore and i feel your emotion, nearly crying sitting here explaining to dp what you have posted, i know everything you are feeling right now will become my feelings in the not too distant future what with having two girls myself

FATE what a lovely lovely post, and what an amazing mum you sound to be. Is it too late to be adopted at 36!? Room for one more??

FATE you made me cry. Bless you for being so lovely.

splendide we have a 2am chatterbox. He gets very shouty. I find it quite amusing, Dp less so as he has to get up for work shortly after.

Oh FATE what a milestone, I completely understand how you must be feeling
We had our jabs and baby has been quite tired all afternoon so early bath, calpol and bed by 6.30. Had to resettle (feed) at 7 so hoping she'll have a good sleep.
DH on nights so if she's grisly she'll be back in our room.
What did everyone have for dinner? I need inspiration

We had odds and ends dinner- broccoli with bacon, and some polenta on the side.

fate your post made me a bit teary, too. I can't imagine my girl ever being so big.

Nicer day than we've had for ages here. I doubt think I'd realised quite how tired I was and how much it was having an effecton me. Everything just feels so muchmore possible on a six hour chunk of solid sleep. Don't know what's going to happen tonight- she's just done her first wake up and is pretty snoozy so fingers crossed it won't be too bad.

We had salad Nicoise, trying to be healthy for once! Well I'm only just settling baby to bed. Feel like things can't get much worse than last night so dreading tonight. I'm going to bed as soon as she is. I feel like I'm in a total muddle with her 'routine' and being sleep deprived means I just bimble along from one day to the next. And before you know it another week has passed and she has no clear bedtime routine. DS on the other hand is in bed by military precision no later than 7pm! But then I eat with DH, feed Dd a bit and then bring her up to bed. What does everyone else do?

My mind feels a bit fuzzy and I can't work out what we should be doing!

I had boiled eggs and soldiers for dinner
Igotta we get DD bathed and in bed before dinner, so dinner is later than we're used to. And DH is now doing a lot more cooking! It's working ok, sometimes we need to resettle quite quickly though.
Good luck tonight, I'm off to bed

Bless fate - can't imagine my girls being that big

Jab day today & another grizzly day.
Hoping it's teeth but concerned we're hitting the stage so many of you had a couple of weeks ago & praying it doesn't affect nighttime sleep.

I do the same at night time at the moment. Get dd1 to bed at 7ish then eat then dd2 milk & bed starting around 8:20. Think we need to tweak coz she's getting grizzly around 7:30 and I'm bf her & she's snoozing between then & bedtime starting but need to get husband on board with the change!

Is anyone else still using blankets? she's been so much better at sleeping than her sister that I haven't wanted to tempt fate & switch her to sleeping bag but now that she can grab it and pull it up I think we're gonna have to bite the bullet.
There really is always something to worry about isn't there!

twisted I'm glad to know it's not just me eating my tea inbetween putting kids to bed! It's getting harder now as she's more aware so doesn't nod off downstairs so easily or so deeply anymore. And I'm still here now an hour later trying to get her in the cot. Tried putting her down half an hour ago thinking she was asleep and ping! Eyes open, limbs flailing!!

Oh and not using blankets anymore. I like knowing that she won't get cold no matter how much wriggling she does.

By using a sleeping bag I mean! My brain and fingers aren't in synch tonight!

I've found that if ds isn't in his sleeping bag by half six he'll massively kick off. So I start bath (not every night but if time allows) at half five. Tonight he fell asleep as soon as the bag's zip closed! So we eat after he has settled.

Hmmm that's part of the problem (or not, depending how you look at it) DD is very placid most of the time so she's not really giving any signals that she's tired. So it's easy to have her downstairs with us but I know we're creating problems for later on by not getting her in a routine soonish.

Plus I can't see me getting her to bed before DS, he's too noisy and can't really be trusted to stay downstairs watching TV while I sort the baby. Esp as it's taking an hour of boob before she'll settle. Urghh feel like a right novice.

Milestone here this evening; first taste of puréed sweet potato. He's 23 wks though, 19 corrected. We've been waiting for a fortnight for a dietician referral, called today and told will be weeks yet, so decided to crack on as paediatrician said it would help with his reflux. Just being extremely careful as he's CMPI.
He seemed to like it, once he figured out pursing his lips as though to suck wouldn't work and he needed to open his mouth. Didn't have much but was pleased he took it. Sleep has been better recently, hoping we're done with the regression.

From one novice to another - I'm a big fan of doing whatever works today Igotta, I wouldn't worry about it.