November 2014 - The one where we figure it all out... Or at least try.

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Couldn't see another thread ladies! Crap title I know but I couldn't think of anything else!

Thisis how on earth did you manage to put the nappy in the wash!

You'll be in my neck of the woods! I think if you can take turns baby wearing you'll be ok. Might be handy to have it for naps etc though?

DD is cramming everything in her gob at the moment and getting a mega strop on if she can't find anything to shove in there

We'll both wear him, DH hadn't tried the didytai yet but it's got to be more comfortable than the palm &pond so I'm sure he'll be fine. Ds naps well in slings anyway and there's no nap schedule anyway. I'm going to be brave and do it. We'll be on and off ferries in Bristol anyway so a pram would be silly there.
Sleeping arrangements - 2 out of the 3 nights we've got a cot being provided. I'm worried about transferring him to the travel cot as the base is basically floor level. Should I just take a moses basket for the last night?

Eeek - shiny new username!

(it's amy btw)

You are brave amy! I just get hot and bothered after carrying DD for a while and just want to take her off. I also hate eating over her head! I keep thinking it'll be better when she can sit in a high chair, then at least I can get a break without having to lie her on a dirty sofa in Starbucks...

That won't even work any more now as last week she suddenly learned to roll both ways. Life is getting interesting now!

Aaarrrggghhhh....I really dislike these "development phases"....DD reached 16 weeks and looks like she's hit another one...average of 3 hours of BROKEN sleep over last 3 days. Doesn't help that she will only nap during the day if I'm pushing her in the pushchair - i.e. she gets to sleep whilst I get to walk lucky me Sleep deprivation really is a torture method

Hope you are doing ok anna - thinking of you lots.

amy thats brave! Am sure you'll do just fine. Re travel cot just follow the same routine as usual & am sure it'll be ok.

We're still struggling with slings. DD is getting too heavy for the caboo so I got a connecta buckle carrier & managed to bag a lenny lamb heavenly lace (too many lovely things on that fb group!) & she bloody hates them both! Goes completely mental each time I put her in. She can't see out very well yet as she's still pretty diddy so hoping she'll like it more once she has a better view.

moggle its fab when they start moving but you need eyes in the back of your head! DD is nowhere near rolling yet but then I've not given her much tummy time . Hoping she'll follow in ds's footsteps & stay still for a while longer - he was 9 months before he got moving & 12 months before he crawled properly.

Ouch haven't hope you get a better night tonight. I'm not sure we've had this regression/4 month growth spurt yet. DD was 3 weeks early so suspect ours is still to come.

DD is due her jabs tomorrow but has (tmi) been a bit loose today so not sure I should take her. But cannot face the thought of taking her next week & dealing with her feeling grotty while also trying to entertain ds during school holidays.

haven't you have my FULL sympathy!! We're a few weeks in now and I am exhausted. Apparently they only sleep better once they master all the things they're working on during the day (rolling over or grasping toys etc). I find I get slightly less wake ups if I tank her up feeding as much as I can during the day.

omama have you tried the ergo? they can see out even when small. My babywearing friends swears by ringslings (she's one of the fb group addicts and has a full on stash!)

We had jabs today. Worst of the bunch, shes been really clingy and tearful all day. Even daddy won't do today.

ark, lady I am on the same bench, second week I haven't been able to BF her during the day. Keeping the fortress by expressing regularly, in case she change her mind. Last few days she has become even more alert and communicative, I have a walkie-talkie pram now, she just would not shut up, which I find amusing, but it now means she is a pain to feed even with the bottle. The fact my mum is visiting this week does not help as there is a new face at home. I am trapped with expressing, you can't do it in public like with BF, so basically have to be at home at least every 2-3 hours. Argh!

We are still doing ok sleep wise but there are 2 weeks to go till she is 4 months old.

Oh bollocks I forgot about the 4 month sleep regression

ladydolly I havent looked at ergo - they have an insert don't they? Tbh the two I've got are sooo pretty I don't want to part with them - think I need to play around with the waistbands a bit more & try folding them over to help dd see better. I must admit though I've been eyeing up a couple of ring slings as can see they would be useful around the house ;-)

Ark it's not a bad thing to forget about! Another sh*t night's sleep, not helped by the fact that she now has a stinking cold and so it's difficult for her to breath when lying down...hence she doesn't (lie down that is!) and DH and I had to take it in turns last night rocking her in the chair. Even when she did fall asleep and we risked putting her in the combed, all hell broke loose and we were back to square one. This is just like she was as a newborn ....

Another 4 month regresser here... DS is far too interested in anything other than me to bf for any length of time during the day which means reduced naps because he's hungry, reduced amount of time for me to get anything done during the day and increased waking at night, not to mention all the extra energy I have to find to entertain him now that he's not napping. Last night he was awake and demanding food every 90 minutes. Before all this kicked off we had managed to get him to go down at 6, sleep until 2ish, feed and then sleep mostly until around 4/5, feed again and if we were lucky sleep until about 6.45 but that's all gone out of the window.

I also have to sheepishly admit to feeling just the teensiest bit massively irritated with DP who sleeps in our bedroom with his head under the pillow and hears NOTHING, not even our shouty cat who starts demanding breakfast at 5.30am by miaowing non-stop. Sometimes it would be lovely if he came in at 6 and offered to take DS off me after a night of hell but he says he never hears him. The wall between our bedroom where DP sleeps and DS's room where he and I sleep is a stud wall... I know he's working to support us and this is what we agreed, so I feel really mean having a moan, but when I'm tired and crabby and exhausted at 6 in the morning I could quite happily (metaphorically) deck him.

And breathe.

And I'm trying to juggle working from home too which is getting increasingly difficult at the moment. Sorry, just needed a moan to let off steam.

Oh god, I hate to say this but it feels so nice to know I'm not alone in this sleep regression. thisis I feel for you, this is killing me and I'm not even working. (dp also in the next room missing it all...)

I wanted to move her to her cot soon but would be even harder and I can't make life more difficult for myself.

Remember the mantra 'this too shall pass'.

I was about to ask mums with older children if this definitely shall also pass...
DD had just now second decent meal today, the previous was at 11am and in between some little snacks, more like messing around with the bottle. She fell asleep immediately now once I managed to get her down to eat about 100ml of EBM. She is so anti breast at the moment that I dont see how she could go back to it during the day.
Cannot believe I have turned into one of them feeding obsessed mother I used to have a laugh about.

It will pass yeah. But it's still really annoying! Same story here with nosey baby and crap nights. Naps are maybe a bit longer but as ladydolly said it's because nobody's getting enough sleep at night! I'm very tired of it, really struggling to stay awake today and had too much caffeine as a result.

DP back from Cambodia this morning after his two week holiday. He got in at 10:30, showered, moaned that he was tired and fell asleep on the sofa at 11:45. He woke up at 7:00, ate the tea id cooked and is now blissfully snoring next to me in bed while I try to settle DD, who after 2 weeks of sleeping ok is adamant she won't be put down tonight. I know he's travelled a lot but he's just had two weeks holiday and a whole day of sleep while I entertained DD around two trips down to see the horses, a run to the Post Office, sorting out and washing his stinking motorcycle gear, cooking tea, bathing DD... I have The Rage.

I feel your Rage, Twiglet Catastrophic night here too. 3 hrs to get DS to bl*dy sleep with no help from DP, only to come downstairs to find he's cooked a super hot curry which I darent eat in case it means an even worse bad night for me through DS not dealing with the chilli, so I've ended up with junk food from the freezer, my third shte half-meal of the day. I should be grateful, I suppose, at least I managed to eat this one whilst it was still hot.

DP just woken me up to tell me he now can't sleep and he's just been to the loo and woken the baby up. I am so angry/tired I have cried. And now DD not settling.

Men are shite. Remind me why I missed him again?!

Thisis, hope you're having a better night now

Middle of the night playtime for dd. She wakes up, feeds, wiggles then desperately chews on her fingers and moans. I've given her calpol even though I'm not sure if the chewing and moaning is in pain. Bad mummy moment?

Up feeding again, dd appeared to think it was morning time, so bright outside.
lady it won't hurt either way.
Twiglet for you. Something has to change there really doesn't it?

Lady, I think Calpol is a sensible suggestion if nothing else is working. I did the same with DS the other night for exactly the same reason and it helped him sleep and saved my sanity

Twiglet, you have my utmost sympathy. Have a and a morning piece of ('cos it's never too early for cake). I feel a talk coming on. Good luck xx

Greenstone, DS thought the same at 5.30. Just praying the clock change means a permanent move to 6.30 wakings instead.

I'm really pleased that there seem to be a few of us in the same sleep-deprived boat. ..must say that it does give me some comfort to know that it's not just me!
So last night dd simply would not sleep in her cot bed (not sure how much of it was due to stinking cold and finding it difficult to breathe on her back). DH sat up with her from 8.30-12.30 rocking her in the chair - dd was asleep for most of this time. He then put her into the cot bed and less than 1hr later she's wide awake. I bring her into our bed to bf. After one side she's asleep! Brilliant, I think and I put her back in cot bed. ...For all of 10mins before she starts moaning and shouting. Then she's wide awake. ..try rocking her etc. ..nothing works. In the end resorted to taking her back to bed with me and bf her lying down. She falls asleep after about 15 minutes and I end up dozing. ..everyone's a winner, right? ???..

Definitely not just you haven't, it's sadly quite normal! Urrghhh.