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

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Hope this works ?

Proper hands and knees effort at crawling today. Aagh. She didn't get far before falling on her nose, but I'm thinking I need to hold on to her for the next month. If I don't put her down then she can't learn to crawl properly right? Maybe just shut her in a cupboard.

Haha Goats you'll have to get her a cage play pen!
Anyone watching the triplet programme? How on earth do parents cope with more than one screaming, non-sleeping little human?!?

You just took the words out of my mouth munday. Bloomin heck.,, i couldnt even imagine how i would cope

So, has nobody tried ranitidine for reflux? I've been given some for lo but I'm a bit apprehensive about using it as I was given it myself in pregnancy and it gave me stomach cramps.

If anyone has had success with it I'd love to hear.

Goats - we've had some limited success with a cuski for self soothing.

Sorry Sleepy I'm not on here very often, I'm mostly on the FB group (where quite a few of us have reflux babies - PM Kirstipops if you want to join). Lil's on ranitidine and, bar a fortnight blip for the 4 month sleep regression, is a cracking sleeper. From Christmas Eve until the end of February she slept from 10pm to 8am every night (breastfed and with no sleep training!) so she certainly hasn't been suffering from ranitidine. I think reflux probably causes more sleep problems to be honest, especially where babies want to comfort feed or where they consistently wake at the crack of dawn.

Ok another better stretch. First wake at 12.30am Then 3.30 then started the day at 5.55am. This is what I have dreamed of for 25 weeks...

I wonder if its coincidence, slight introduction of a wee bit of food or because I've quit eggs and soy. I'll never really know but I hope he keeps it up.
I actually feel like a new woman!!!

Sazzle so glad to hear you're getting better stretches of sleep!
Anyone see the eclipse? It was too cloudy here and just looked like it was going to rain.
Hope we're getting a pattern here of big nap in the morning. Also FX she goes to the toilet today otherwise it could get really messy!!!

I keep finding strands of my hair all over the place, also clogging up the plug hole whenever i was wash it, dp even said he keeps seeing them! cant remember if this happened last time? Anyone else experienced this? Im paranoid as i had stress related alopecia last year.

I'm finding my hairs in dd's nappy

Yep have been heavily molting (sp?) hair since Dd was born. Definitely lost less hair during pregnancy and think just in the process of getting rid of it. I dont kind having less hair - it is like a lions. In other news have decided to grow colour out and go grey, but thats another story.

After having a good little sleeper during around the four month mark, then going to very mixed nights - have decided to remove all dummies. I think its the dummy fall out that stops her from going through sleep cycles... She has a jellycat cuddly toy thats she sleeps with so hopefully that will help snuggle her to sleep

stigz don't worry totally normal it's called the 4 month mange in this house! I always lose loads when the babies have been around 4 months it should settle down in a few weeks.
I can't remember if you have a boy or girl but I found it much worse with my girls don't seem to have lost much after having the boys. Might just be a coincidence though.

green I found a dog hair in my toddlers the other day

He licks the dog though so I suppose it's to be expected

Haha Buttwing ...It would be the same if we had a dog I'm sure. How are the small ones now btw?
I really feel exhausted these last couple of days despite cobbling together 6 or 7 hours of sleep. Is it some kind of hormonal dump? I look like crap.

All much better thanks green but I think there must be something in the air because I feel exactly the same so so tired and in comparison to some on here babywing is sleeping quite well. He's taken to waking at four and shouting and just being awake til five.
Smallwings are all v excited because I've decided tonight is mcdonalds mum can't arsed night for them!
I'm really trying to be good with slimming world at the mo if I can avoid the burgers tonight I'm on track to get my 2 and a half stone award this week. :)

Well done on weight loss - the tiredness is playing havoc with my willpower, so whilst I'm lighter than I was pre pregnancy, I'm still a heffer.

Yes to the hair issues. Living with laminate floors and the hair loss is really visible all over the place. Also finding hairs in nappies, and yesterday after I'd got her out of the bath I noticed there were loads all down small's back - how on earth?

So much hair loss here too, it's wverywhere. After I wash my hair theres a tonne caught in the plug drainer thing. Totally rank, and hoping to stop soon.
Betty I let my grey grow out last year, it was horrid at first with growing out the colour but, but actually I really like it and I get loads of complements on it. I Thought I was greyer than I was too, it's grey on top but dark brown underneath still, so it sort of looks like trendy grey highlights which is odd but ok. I kept it to a short bob so it didn't take as long and looked like I'd made the decision raryher than just being lazy with hair dye iyswim?

betty I found dummies didn't help dd1 in the long run either. It took three day and nights and lots of patting and shushing to get rid of it but it was worth it in the end.
Loads of my friends swear by them but just didn't work for us.
goats it's so hard to motivate yourself when you're tired last week was a killer I ate so many biscuits because I was so knackered.

Ok improving slowly slowly...
He had a resettle at 10pm and went to 2am pretty much unheard of not to wake at midnight at least! Bit rubbish he needed a resettle at 3.30 and 4.30 and was wide wake at 5am but you can't have it all I guess?!!

betty I've said before with ds1 dummies really worked for us then were a nightmare during the months of having to put the damn thing back in all night then amazing again once he could do that himself. However I'm not sure the months of plugging him back in was worth it? Who knows...he did love it though and was a great sleep marker for us. Ds2 however shows no interest in a dummy despite me owning half the collection they stock at Boots So I'm hoping he will be into a toy or muslin or something to know nap time/sleep time is coming....

That's good sazzle. Well we've had an all time best night. Down at 9pm one wake up at 3ish and then slept till 8am!! How can they go from so bad (2hourly the previous night) to so good so fast?? It was lovely to have a whole night in my bed with no baby. First time in 5 months. Let's see if she can do it again tonight.

Thanks all for dummy comments. It definitely helped her in the early days, I remember Dh turning to me and saying 'my god we just wouldnt have survived or had a minutes peace without it'. Now though, It helps her to settle but The re-plugging has become an issue. Yesterday went cold turkey and it wasnt too bad - took half an hour longer to settle at night, then she was asleep til 4 am for a bottle, bar two blips at 8.30 pm and 2.30 am where she actually settled HERSELF after I waited a few minutes, which was amazing.

Am also combining this with 'blissful baby experts comfort timing' which seems to be working brilliantly. God, feel excited, but also wary as all new.

sazzle re: the grey, thats brill you got through the re-growth and are out the other side with a positive story! Am quite excited about it strangely. I have actual white around my temples and I think one white streak at the front, the rest I also suspect quite grey on the top and darker underneath. i am just soooooo over having to hoik myself to the hairdressers every two weeks for an expensive brown root tint that actually ends up going a weird see through orange colour, no matter where I go. Also re: your bob cut, I defo need to think about something like that. Hair is currently really long, and I think I will look a bit witchy when its grey with current style.

Well, there was no putting down last night. Had a lovely day, lovely bath.. then my phone rang half way through getting dressed, which scared her and made her cry... and cry and cry and CRY. For about an hour - nothing would settle her, not interested in food, just generally having a meltdown. Then she managed 10 minutes of 'asleep in bed'... then resettle, then another 10 minutes, then resettle.. then 10 minutes.. then I just took my laptop in to the bedroom and let her sleep on me while I watched downloaded stuff from iplayer. Boyfriend got home at 8.30, we managed 20 minutes to eat, then she was just up with us. He tried to settle her 4 times and gave up. At midnight when I went to bed she went straight to sleep all on her own when I put her down to get myself changed.

Frankly, who the fuck knows...

Ah well. Today I have 3 hours off to do some sewing. One cushion made, now on to new bigger play mat for the new house.

Afternoon all! Feels a bit empty here again.
I have no idea what my hair colour is. It used to be blonde but prgnancy hormones turned it dark, who knows what the summer will bring.
E had her first taste of carrot today- went down really well, until she had enough and pushed it back out
Hope everyone has lovely plans this weekend

Hey all

Still getting crap sleep, but we are transitioning into cot - although still in our room
munday I think you asked about aldi nappies? We have used them since a couple of weeks old, I rate them as really good - especially for the price. I hated the smell of the asda nappies, and found pampers leaked!

So having one of the youngest on the thread we will be thinking of weaning soon can't believe my lo is six months! I also will be turning 30 on the 2nd of April! Where has the time gone??

Hubby starts new job next week, so fingers crossed as it may mean I can stay off work for longer!!

Good luck to those trying to get more sleep!! X

Betty, without giving myself away too much heres my hair colour now...