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

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Hope this works ?

Dd has been 'in' her own cot and room for 2 nights now.

Night one started well, she panned out for 2.5 hours until dh went in to get his kindle

Which woke her and then it was a merry dance all night and I just had to co sleep with her all night in the end.
Night two -down fine and then awake an hour later. Another merry dance and cry fest (when dh tried to settle her) and ended up co sleeping all night too.

so absolutely no progress so far.

Trapped wind seems to be an issue still, tried infacol last night which did nothing. So going to start weaning this weekend. It will help the reflux if nothing else. How is your baby's reflux now stigz?

Early start today of 5.15 not amused. However back to bed at 7 for 2 hours so not too bad!
Good luck with own rooms everyone. E been in 5 weeks now and apparent from the monitor waking us up is getting better at only 1 wake up.
So we've started BLW- MIL saw a photo of E with a finger of toast and was "scared" that she'd choke. Erm I took the photo of her sat on my mum, does MIL think I don't watch her?!?

Hello can i please join in? I have a first October baby and totally forgot these groups existed. We hit the 4 month sleep regression hard (had been sleeping 11 hours a night and 2 hour naps until then) and now she wakes 2 or 3 times for a 15 min feed I don't think she really needs. I am planning to move her to her own room soon but can't be bothered really because she falls back asleep v quickly once on boob and i can't be bothered walking through to her room and fully waking up myself (lazy I know but it already takes me ages to go back to sleep) any tips gratefully received.

I will have a read through the thread properly so I get up to speed with you all

I am having pooing in the night issues since weaning started. Surely it is not natural to poo at nighttime?! It is disturbing her sleep more than anything else.

DD's half birthday yesterday

...and hello newbies and returnees

Fate i had pheart that protein at teatime can mean overnight / early morning poos!

Just been on a baby first aid course. One of the things they said was be really really careful about using muslins as a sun shade over a pram as it can heat up quickly in the pram when covered. The proper sunshades have ventilation holes apparently. Hadnt even thought of that

*heard

betty thanks I hadn't even thought of that, it's a good point I guess if you're fully covering and not just shading one side say.

I am so glad I'm not the only one having sleep issues. Alex was in his cot from birth, with some co-sleeping (didn't see the point in a Moses basket as he was too long). He had started to sleep through 7-6 then from that he woke for two formula feeds, now he just wants to be sleeping with us all the time. Moved him into his own room to see if we were disturbing but it's still the same. Except we now take it in turns to co-sleep with Alex in the single bed in his room. He's flatly refusing to nap in his cot in the day too. He'll sleep for 20 mins in there. We're.really pulling our hair out. I don't want to go down the controlled crying route :(

Ohthegoats, the plus side of him moving into his own room is that we have the bedroom back in the evenings. I've missed being able to.read in bed :)

green her reflux seems much better and I'm really relieved that solids do not seem to make it worse. Its so nice to lie her down without the constant hiccups .

Have you tried gripe water for wind?
Good luck with weaning & hopefully it might help the wind issue ?

Dd1 is at her grans and Im in bed, dd2 was put to bed at half six and was out for the count fifteen minutes later. Hopefully thats her for the night ???

Hope you all have a nice weekend?

Hi all! Well we seem to be moving away from the hellish 1.5 -2hourly wakings have had two decent nights with only 2 or 3 wakings so I'm obviously getting excited!! A sure sign that the crappy nights will be back! She's been in her own room for 2 weeks and there's no going back now. The more she's in her cot at night the better I say. Daytime naps just happen on me or in the buggy/car seat hole. With my first I really pushed for him to nap in his cot but this time I'm not bothered. As long as she sleeps somewhere! It's more that I don't have the time to battle with her in the day so she just goes wherever is easiest. And I've surprised myself in how relaxed I am about it - I found my first baby much more stressful he still is now he's a crazy toddler

Oh and ive started giving her the odd cucumber or red pepper to suck while we eat. Not weaning as such but good hand eye coordination practice! And nice and cool in her gums. She's six months in two weeks time but I might give her some porridge soon.

Stick of red pepper/cucumber!! Not whole ones obviously!!!! MIL really would have kittens over that!

I don't mind him sleeping on me, he just gets so grumpy at around 3pm with only catnaps. I'd like him to sleep in his room in the daytime so he knows that's where he sleeps... Maybe I'm asking too much? He became so hysterical today, I wonder if it's worth him getting so upset?

Grrr leg banging just f* off.
That's all for now, good night everyone

And the crap sleep is back....

hole in my socks do you know when he starts to get tired? My dd always rubs her eyes so i know its time for a nap, i find the sooner i respond to her tirdeness cue the easier she is to settle in her crib and thats when she always naps the longest, just a wee suggestion

igotta oh noooo. It's just so painful. We had the best night last night and N is 6 months next Saturday. And by best night that involved a wake up at 10pm, 1am, 3am wide awake and chatting from 4-5am then asleep until 8am. It's mad that that is amazing. I'm so over the hourly wake ups. Im praying to the sleep gods that he does more of those longer stretches...

Sazzle, honestly, I don't know how you've coped!

Hmm we seem to have a bit of a problem with babywing and eating, I tried to give him some puréed carrot tonight he did all the usual face pulling and gagging but I think he must have a sensitive gag reflex because when he gagged he projectile vomited. He did everytime I put some in his mouth

Not sure what to do I'm a couple of weeks early but surely two weeks wouldn't make that much difference?
I'm wondering whether to get some baby rice and try that first, I've never used it before but thinking maybe he might tolerate it a bit more? Or maybe just forget it for a couple of weeks? Grrr why are things never straight forward they really should come with a manual!!

butt I'd get some baby rice so they get used to something in their mouth and the idea of moving it backwards. Baby rice is so gentle. We've been weaning for 2 weeks roughly and N has improved so much in that short time with how he eats, holding food and swallowing etc. He was a bit more sicky at the beginning but that has settled down now. I still use baby rice as one of his 'meals' and then give him finger food like avocado as another meal. Taking it really slowly as he's not 6 months until next Saturday.

betty I'm not sure either. I think because it's my second I'm less stressed somehow? I know it will end at some point?! Plus he's really cute in the day and so forgiven!

sazzle thanks yes I think you're right, with the others they've just dived straight in just goes to show how different they all are. Will try the rice.
He was in his bumbo and we were all having dinner he just missed dd1s dinner with his sick, she was not amused!

Me and dp are at loggerheads and neither of us are willing to back down. He wants us all to go away in May to Spain. I cannot think of anything I would rather do less. I've tried to explain why to him but he has this rose tinted view of how our holiday will be whereas i deal with the kids all week and have a much more realistic view! I live for 7.30 when they all go to bed, at the moment it's really hard work which I knew it would be but the idea of moving it all to another country for a week fills me with dread.
Even the idea of the flight with 3 under 5 makes me feel ill! He says I'm being really selfish but I really don't want to go plus I know all the buying and packing will be left to me too and I really cannot even begin to think where I would even start.

Well done Ned, hope things keep improving Sazzle
Oh no buttwing that sounds like it would be such hard work. Any chance you could leave DH to cope for a whole day with all 3, then see if he still fancies Spain.
We were doing baby rice but E prefers something a bit thicker. DH tried giving her banana (I can't stand it) then panicked because he let her put the whole lot in her mouth. I think his mum being "really worried" about finger food has put him off
Nevermind, puréed beef stew tomorrow!!!

Loving the weaning stories! Still haven't got any further than giving her a slice of cucumber to suck but she's not six months for another two weeks. And I don't feel prepared, need to read my Annabel Karmel!

So we're on our first wake up of the night!! I put her down at 9pm and here we are six (I think??!! Darn clocks changing confuse me EVERY time!) hours later - amazing. So things are improving slowly although it's still pot luck if she's awake once in the night or 5 times

Fingers crossed all the babies are getting there sazzle! and praying that when I do eventually get on with weaning it doesn't all go out of the window

Butt I second the leaving your DH to it for a day with all 3 of possible. a trip to Spain with one would be hard work enough never mind three!! Its amazing how our other halves just can't see things from our point of view. I have a similar situation here (although it's a UK trip and it's already bloody well booked grrrrrrrt!). DH and two of his friends, who I know, but not very well, have booked a week in a self catering cottage. All very nice i hear you say! Well said friends both have wives plus toddlers plus newish babies each. None of whom I know. All staying in the same place. In the middle of nowhere. For a week. I had agreed that a few days away might be nice (and if it's horrendous cause the toddlers are stroppy and the babies won't sleep etc....then at least we're not away for long) and then he comes back to me saying 'oh yes were going from Saturday to Saturday!' really??? He obviously thinks I'm an ungrateful old boot probably true but the old two hourly wake ups have coloured my judgement somewhat! The toddlrt has been spectacularly illogical and grouchy the last few days too so I am not looking forward to this 'holiday' which is in a couple of weeks.