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!

Aldi during the day and Pampers overnight. We've used Aldi ones all the way through and they've been brilliant. For 6p a nappy they are excellent value. I haven't tried the Aldi ones overnight tbh. Are they as good? I've been taken in by the Pampers marketing hype 12 hour thing, sadly.

Omama, we had 3rd jabs last Friday and we've had the week from hell since. You have my sympathy. Tonight's the first night he's (so far) not woken up since I put him to bed. I am praying for an easier night.

We're using the Aldi nappies and I used them day and night until I got suckered in by the pampers marketing for the dry nights nappies. ..absolutely no difference to the Aldi ones in my opinion. Mind you, no nappy can contain dd's vinegary poo explosions which are quite simply horrific. We have one of these each day which end up needing a complete change of clothes as it all comes out through the legs...

Havent, we have the exact same problem! It either explodes out so forcefully it shoots up the back of the nappy or it overflows out of the legs.

Strawberry, I've found that the little crinkly liner bit around the leg holes gets tucked inside sometimes, especially when she's wriggling around when I'm putting the nappy on. Maybe check that its not the same for you?

In other news, DD slept 9:30 - 3:45 last night!

Oh well done mini Twiglet!!!

"Interesting" thing happened last night: dd absolutely screamed the house down when put into night sleep suit and sleeping bag (that's quite normal in our house), but become she'd been dribbling and had really rosy cheeks all day, I thought she was in pain from teething. Just about managed to get 2.5ml of baby neurofen down her and then she basically slept so much I couldn't even get her to have a semi decent feed before she fell back asleep! She had 2 gulps on the breast and that was about it! What on earth do they put in that stuff? ??!!!

I think they call Nurofen baby crack. I had a conversation with my next door neighbour who just had a newborn and was moaning about the lack of sleep. I was suprised cos they have a 12 month old. I said doesn't he keep you up already? "Oh not in ages! Baby Nurofen every night! Great stuff!"

DS woke wide awake at 5.18. I stuck a 5oz bottle down his throat but he still chatted and gurgled until 6, when in desperation I put on the Dream Sheep and thankfully he drifted off again till 7.30.

DH was back in our own house last night which was the only way I got away with it - he finds it impossible to sleep through the chattering and would have gotten up at 6 moaning and groaning but I was so exhausted I just literally couldn't get up!

Bloody orange Pampers did leak by the way.

This is my worry with the calpol, babydolly wakes moaning with her teeth and calpol is the only thing that helps but I don't want to use it as a sleeping 'crutch'. She had it last night at bedtime and woke up 4/5 times but she was just hungry. (starving in fact, we had at least 3 feeds that lasted 45 mins plus) so didn't give it middle of the night.

Aldi haven't leaked for me, even the poopy nappy I woke up to this morning. Although I have been changing middle of the night because there's so much wee (and she's awake anyway).

Wow neurofen every night!
Utterly shit nights here so I am now sorely tempted to try baby crack! 21 weeks today and still no sign of dd being able to sleep properly. Trapped wind still an issue and still refluxy so going to start solids soon, weaning seems to be the only thing that really works for reflux.

Pampers nappies here only, tried tesco but they weren't great on her.

We're moving DS into a cot tonight. Eeeep! Still next to our bed, but the space is so small we had to buy the extra-narrow Mothercare one.

Am a bit worried how he'll learn to settle without the rocking motion, but figure its best to teach it earlier rather than later.

Anyone else got their LO in a cot? How do you settle them without rocking? Hand on chest?

Hollow laugh! I just feed her til she's asleep, wait 20 mins and then put her in. I am trying to get her to learn how to put herself to sleep now for naps using the pram. Rocking a little if she cries and stopping the rocks when she's all sleepy so that she is not being rocked at the moment of going to sleep. But soon I'll probably just try to get her to nap in her cot for her main nap. Feed her til she's really sleepy, then put her down just awake. This worked fairly quickly, albeit with a bit of whinging at first, with dd1 but all bets are off with dd2!

Oh and I ordered a blackout blind. I seem to be throwing money at Amazon in the hope that I can eventually buy sleep!

Am also working on getting dd off to sleep by herself. Patting doesn't work, even in the night when she's drowsy. I feed her to sleep most of the time and now pop her off the boob as soon as she's asleep or during the day if she comes off still awake I leave her, she whingea then sleeps or if she cries properly I go back in and feed her some more. We're up to about 50% of the time she settles herself after feeding. We use ewan and she has a comforter... the comforter really helps, she keeps hold of it while she's asleep, so cute. (and of course totally frowned upon by hv's for not being safe)

Just been to see a childminder, great facilities and I liked her and her approach (no strict schedule, very baby led) and she'll have 2 other babies around babydolly's age. But she had 2 little boys aged 4 playing in the garden and we sat out of sight and earshot for 5/10 minutes, is that too long at that age?

If its an interesting garden full of rocks and slopes and ponds then yes. If its as boring and safe as my square patch of grass, then no.

I feed to sleep in the crib, on his back. He falls asleep in the right position usually though I also rock to make sure, which is a bad habit we're going to have to break tonight. Hopefully feeding will be enough. You can only do this with a bottle of course (pictures soneone dangling tneir boob over the crib....) but if any of you are giving a bottle in the evening its worth trying as it eradicates the whole "transferring like trying not to detonate a bomb" tension.

Mind you, not sure how refkluxy babies would fare.....or lad has never had any probs though. He drinks quite slowly though - still on a size 1 teat.

I would say that the CM was probably just trying to give you as much attention as possible lady instead of tearing off after the 4 year old every 30 seconds. Tricky but if you get a good vibe and are happy with the setup then I wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure she keeps a careful eye.

Thanks Twiglet, will pay more attention. Hopefully I can then stop them calling pampers baby-wet .

God, DD has been up 4 (!!) times tonight asking for food, my big sorry goes to all those mums with every hour wake ups. DD has a watery eye since last night, so probably it is somehow related. However, today she naps like a champion - second long nap so far. I would have preferred a decent night sleep though

Hopefully good naps = a good night strawberry.

dd was a total minx last night, I've never had issues putting her down for the night but last night apparently me putting her down was the funniest thing in the world and she just cracked up everytime. It kept making me laugh too so we weren't getting anywhere! Slept till 5:30 then went back down till 8 after 10 oz!!!!!!

10 oz?! Wow, that must be a shock to the system! Fingers crossed for a better night or I will be ranting on the thread!

Every couple of days she will do a huge feed anywhere between 10-13oz in one sitting and then sleep it off. If it's during the day she will only take 3/4oz at the other feeds! Strange child
Me and DP are going out for dinner tomorrow night as my parents are babysitting. SO EXCITED!

Me and DH are going to cinema tonight, mum babysitting. Just a bit different to going to cinema on my own on Valentines day

Another one with sleep deprivation here! 4 nights of hourly wake ups and bad wind or colic after the last 2 weeks of two hourly wake ups and I'm shattered a bit refluxy and lots of trapped wind means I can't just quickly feed then go back to sleep, lots of pacing with an upset baby which is not fun at 1am, 2am, 3am.... With a lively 2.5 yr old DS1 too I don't know how I'm still functioning! Don't know if it's the injections or 'wonder week' DH has been working late and coming home too late to help with bath time and bedtime too. He just phoned to ask if he can go for drinks on a leaving do tonight and I said no, but now feel bad for saying no-why?!
DS2 is napping pretty well in the day but should I be stopping him? Maybe he'll sleep better at night if he doesn't sleep in the day?

Argh, every hour since 9pm and now been up since 1am just constant upset with trapped wind. Anybody got any experience of gripe water? Does it work?
Just worried he's swapped his daytime/nighttime. It's such a lonely time when you're up all night, DH is stressed at work so taking sleeping tablets and sleeping in another room to get 12 hours sleep then gets up straight off to work, then either back too late to help with getting them both to bed or is just so tired from work he comes back and goes to bed. DS1 has been 'my mummy' all week and it's taken me 1-2 hours to get him to bed or he just cries so I'm getting no rest in the evening before a busy night and full-on days with the two of them. There's just never any me time. I do all the chores because DH is working but before we had children we shared most of them-he seems to think as I'm 'off work' they're all my responsibility. I'm not sure that looking after children full time counts as not working! Sorry for rant but feeling so tired and rundown and just want a break.

Hi our night time sleep is still hit n miss but generally 2-3 Times between 7+7. Couple of 7hr sleeps this last week as well.

Daytime naps well let's not talk about that!!

He still doesn't feed amazing in the day and guessing why he doesn't nap really.

Think just not a big milk fan despite being on 91st centiles, am going to wean in 2-3 weeks at 20-21 weeks as def showing signs and hopefully will help with reflux n get him off the meds.

Nappy wise we have been using pampers baby dry at night n some in day to use up sz3 have couple pks sz 3+ pampers too. Otherwise day will be shop brand in sz 4 + 4+ we have ready Sainsbury, aldi, Carrefour (ocado) n pampers.

I will only use pampers til he sleeps through at night then shop brand are fine as won't be weeing so much at night if not feeding.

King Richard 3rd stuff has made Leicester mega busy and we walked to top of our rd last Sun to see cortage go through and although disappointing was just hearst and load police bikes no horse's n knights we are glad we went as piece history not to be repeated n good for ds1 who is 4.5yrs to see.

Oh MusicandBooks really feel for you and a virtual hug. (Touch wood) don't have any experience of using gripe water myself, but have friends who have said that it does work. Re "me time", I know how important that is -even if it's just 15-30 minutes. ...do you have any family or friends nearby who could keep an eye on the lo for you just to give you a little time to yourself?

On a different note. ...dd is still (a week later) absolutely full of cold and snot - sounds like a piglet.... Had her checked out by the doc yesterday (she had / has a rash that was still there when I rolled a glass over it. ..) and he deemed her healthy - minus the cold. But how can I help her shift it? It doesn't seem to be getting any better. Currently I'm rubbing snuffle babe onto her chest and soles of her feet morning and night; we're using saline nasal spray as necessary; I've put some olbas oil drops in a bowl of hot water in her room; she gets stuck in the bathroom with me when I shower to breathe in the steam; AND we've put a piece of wood under the legs of her cot bed in order to make it a bit of a slope.

Does anyone have any other ideas please? ??!!!

Anna I did have a weird vision of someone leaning over a cot dangling a boob in!

Music how utterly miserable, hugs for you. I didn't use gripe water, I have quite a good spice rack at home and had fennel seeds to hand. Boil some water and whack about 1/2 a teaspoon of fennel seeds in it, then leave to steep until it's cool enough to feed, strain out seeds and either syringe in or feed in bottle. It worked to shift DDs wind and was cheaper than gripe water - which I think mainly has fennel in anyway?

Havent, oh dear, poor little DD! I don't know what else there is to try except time Maybe try some pure eucalyptus essential oil in the hot water?!

Sorry for all those with sleep troubles. I feel bad for confessing that DD slept 9:30-4:15 last night We have been up since 6 though and she's just starting to look ready for another feed and hopefully a bit more sleep.

I also have to confess that she had her first bit of food yesterday. I know she's pretty young for it but she sucked on my apple for a bit then howled when I got paranoid about a bit coming off and choking her so I took it away. She has a little soft food feeding bag on a handle, so I cut her a quarter of a plum and gave it to her and she happily chomped away on it for twenty minutes! Plum juice made it look like a massacre had occurred afterwards though I did also think afterwards that the laxative effect of plums was potentially going to make it a really bad idea, but she's pooed this morning and it was actually less explosive than normal!

DD is full of cold again, snot pouring out of her (mostly all over me, yuck!). Poor baby
Re naps: she seems to have given up on that idea entirely. She seems to think one nap a day is enough. She is wrong! If we aren't out so she is pushed in the pram, she will not nap until the afternoon by which point she is ridiculously over-tired. I spent longer trying to get her to sleep while listening to her scream than she actually spent asleep. Night sleep is variable, but she almost never sleeps more than 4 hours at a time, some nights she doesn't even go 2 hours at a time. I do wonder if we wake each othèr up and we should try putting her in a cot (I need to find the time to clear enough space in our room to fit in first though).
Christening is booked, and now I need to find something to wear to it that is suitable for potential discrete feeding in church.

musicandbooks it's a different situation because my DH was too ill/ in hospital to do anything, but I know how hard it is to be like the only parent to 2 children and doing all the housework etc. it is exhausting and I am not surprised you feel resentful. Is it possible for you to discuss with your DH about the possibility of him taking on some chores, perhaps at the weekend assuming he doesn't also work at weekends, so you can have a little bit of a break? (I say that as someone who considers a shower on my own that lasts more than 2mins to be the closest thing to 'me-time' with unputdownable Velcro-baby who still pretty much only sleeps if in direct contact with me or pushed in the pram).

twiglet DD was 5 months yesterday, and I don't think she will last another month without food. DH gave her a piece of pitta bread last night after she desperately tried to steal mine from my hand. She put it in her mouth but I don't think she actually ate any. I am wary of weaning in case the CMPI returns when she is directly eating dairy herself rather than just via my breast milk. That would really complicate it all.