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!

I'm in bed with a Lemsip I've got the lurgy too!

Dd went down at 9 after 12oz in an hour and calpol!!! So she best sleep till a decent time!!!

Hope you all have a good night ladies

Ds went down at the normal time of 7 ish then did 40 mins, woke up, fed back to sleep, 40 mins, hugged / jiggled back to sleep. Gah- hope this isn't all night long! Dh out tonight and we're both out tomorrow supposedly. Still anxious about leaving bottle-refuser with pils. Hopefully tonight's unsettledness is due to the jabs he had today and he'll be better tomorrow night.

Ark I have a cold too caught from baby and last 2 nights he has decided he needs an extra feed too so up 3 times, haven't had a cold for sooooo long and feel like crap and when bf not alot can take.

This is ridiculous, I'm sat in the living room freezing so dd can fall asleep in MY bed without me disturbing her! Cot training starts Monday!

omama dd is 20 weeks / 4.5 months today. "Still have a nap at teatime"... she never has had a nap around that time! This is the baby that required NO sleep up until she was 10 weeks old and the only way I can get her to nap during the day is by either pushing her in the pram (rocking the pram in the hallway doesn't work either - I have to be physically outside and walking. ..) or driving in the car. At the moment she's napping anywhere between 25 - 60 minutes from around 9.30-10.30 and then may do a mammoth 2 hour nap starting early afternoon. Then that's it until bedtime.

If anyone has any ideas on how to improve the bedtime situation, I'm a very willing recipient

havent I will be rubbish advisor on bedtime routines, we don't have any obvious problems to put her down for night. It's literally: change in night clothes, red night lamp and Ewan on, put in the crib, feed and 10 minutes later she is off.
She tends to fight a bit day naps, recently putting her in the pram, covering it with blanket and circling around kitchen does wonders. We let her have the last nap as late as she wants, she usually does not go over 7.30pm with it though. About hour after her last nap she gets cranky to the degree that nothing helps, that's her way of saying "take me upstairs I am done with today".

havent it seems to be the startling thats the problem - why not try swaddling her tightly for one night and see if it helps? Like i said before we got the Love To Dream swaddle from jojomamanbebe which is a zip up one cos we were having that problem.

We do: no naps from 4.30pm (therefore try for a last nap around 4 so he's tired but not overtired by 6), at around 6pm half a 6oz bottle downstairs, change clothes, go upstairs into darkened bedroom and put on Ewans annoying harp (he visibly relaxes at this point), into swaddle, other half of 6oz bottle which he falls asleep on, gently sit up and rub his back in relaxing fashion to wind him and keep him asleep like a nice massage, then at that point he's definately asleep enough to transfer. But we always prop him on his side first with a rolled up towel that lives in the cot. We find they stay asleep on their side and later fall back onto their backs and we slide out the towel.

By 6.30 he's conked out. I usually put on the white noise (back right leg) before I leave the room just to ensure he'll stay down.

This week we have been mostly practising sitting. And I've have you know that my PFB can sit for THREE WHOLE SECONDS!

Thanks for the suggestions Anna and Strawberry - we do have a Ewan which we used at the very early stages but without much success...may try to re-introduce it! Anna, your "routine" sounds along the lines as to what we do (except for the lying on side bit), but just have different effects at the moment. Will persevere (like we could just give up!), as once shed does get to sleep she does so for hours...

Anna, you have every right to have a superior look - 3 whole seconds???? I can only dream of that...

I got dd a slumber buddy, arrived today, has worked like a charm, dd fell asleep with it on for a nap and tonight.

Now I don't want to get competative but baby dolly did a full minute unsupported on tuesday. I got over confident and she faceplanted the grass and was very upset. Bad mummy.

Just got back from a night out! Pils looked after him. He woke once and mil comforted him back to sleep in about 20 mins. I'd left milk in the fridge but apparently he didn't look hungry. Counting this as a success and desperately trying not to feel like a bad mummy!

Well done on the successful night out MrsA and babyA and grandmaA.

DD2 is 6 months old next sunday(!). Weaning had so far just been sitting her in her highchair when we had dinner and passing her a bit if we were eating anything suitable. I thought we should start doing dinner more properly, making sure there was something for her everyday, so she has enjoyed long-stemmed broccoli and sweet potato. Was planning on concentrating just on dinner this week, but she didn't agree. She stole some of my toast this morning and looked most upset at lunch time when DD1 had a sandwich and I didn't give her anything so then she had some sandwich too! She has tried yoghurt and cheeses ddos not seem to be reacting to dairy, which is great news.

We're up to two meals a day here but am spoonfeeding purees until the 6 month mark (arbitrary date, really I know). After that we'll try chunkier stuff.

Tbh, though spoonfeeding is just handy cos you get a lot into them - he's taking loads and loads. We're trying to get gluten in (has to be btw 4-7 months) so we're mixing Ellas Kitchen pouches with low-sugar Rusks dissolved. Makes a good hearty mixture.

We've also bought Oat milk with added calcium to use instead of dairy as a mixer in things.

Yesterday he had two meals and the regular amount of bottles and he only woke up at midnight and 4am! Delighted!

Started weaning Saturday and he had baby porridge mixed with expressed breast milk and loved it had a good 10 baby spoonfuls and today same again going to stick with one meal for a week and then add in some fruit or veg for another meal. He is 5mths tommorow.

Bedtime routine here is bath at 6-6.30 followed by pjs and a feed usually 45mins long and down around 7.30 sometimes earlier. Wakes twice in night.

Daytime naps you say I have baby no nap here he will sleep in car seat on mornings school run most days and in pram on afternoon school run so 2 lots of 30-45mins if lucky he used to nap ok but since the 2weeks feed refusal at 12 weeks naps went to pot.

He had outgrew carrycot head at one end feet at other n knees now bent so packed it away and seat unit out :(

For the first time ever DH has just taken both DDs out! He has never spent any time with Dd2 without me which is a bit sad as she is now nearly 6 months old.

We turned pram into pushchair yesterday and she seemed impressed with the view, particularly enjoyed watching her big sister.

Right, better make the most of my childhood-free time by tidying up as my night-laws are visiting tomorrow.

Night-laws?! Obv meant in-laws, stupid autocorrect!

Hi all.
Been AWOL due to DS deciding to regress back to newborn sleeping patterns. It has put me in a proper funk. Up at least every 2 hours and had 2 nights this week where he wouldn't be put down. Just have to keep thinking it changed suddenly and will change again soon.

Everybody alright? Have read a bit of what I missed. Exciting stuff about sitting up. We have been going to the physio about DS not turning left and lifting his head very much. Physio not concerned at all but we need to see the paediatrician to rule everything out.

DS is very happy beating up his activity mat so cup of coffee for mummy time.

Poor you cat that sounds like hard work. Not sure if you caught my name change but it's amy83.....
We had an okay night after the inlaws left. I think only 2 wake ups. Obviously they'd dealt with the first so that's 3 but it felt good to me! I felt a bit guilty all morning about him waking up and me not being there so just fed him loads!

Crap naps today (as usual when dh off) but just fed to sleep for the night.
Here's hoping that the whole thing about good daytime sleep leading to good nighttime sleep is rubbish hey?!

Hi all, sleep really crap here too. I would be well chuffed with midnight and 4am Anna! That's great.

Have a feeling dd2 will be a bit of a spoon refusnik. She's still only 24 weeks so can't go too nuts on the finger food just yet, but if given sweet potato wedges, toasted wrap, giant strawberries, soft broccoli, pears with bites taken out etc she will scarf happily. She does not seem to like ready brek! Even mixed with fruit. I find that weird because it's so inoffensive really. Sweet potato is definitely my baby food hero though, she absolutely loves it. Hoping she takes to the spoon a bit more when I make tastier stuff like lentil stew and introduce meat and fish.
Sitting up for about 30 seconds max here before falling over or twisting around to see what I'm at. The babbling has really taken off, anyone else? It's really funny and cute but not at night

Great that you got out MrsA and well done to Mil!

cat - I'm sure DS will sort himself out just fine in time. Good peace of mind to see the baby doctor though I guess.

Dd has lost her voice!! Poor thing, she was laughing at the dog and all she could make was little squeaks! Hoping cold is on its way out now. Just me feeling like death to deal with!

Hope those of you having crap sleep get some better stretches soon, dd still stays up with us till 9ish now but it's slowly getting earlier so I have faith that eventually it will be a normal(ish) bedtime. She goes through till 5:30/6 before needing a feed so I'm reluctant to muck that up!

I'm jealous of you all weaning, still got a month to go here!!!

catg hang on in there, after 6 hellish weeks dd went back to waking at 1 and 4 and the nightmare was over.

We've been up to visit mil today, gave dd and her grandma 2 hours of quality time together while I had a nap. Bliss. Although she refused a decent feed all day, just lots of top ups, coupled with naps all over the place I hope this doesn't mean a bad night ahead.

Sorry for the moan, but seems like DD has changed all the rules and forgotten to tell us what they are . Cues for feeding time and sleep have completely changed - and we don't yet know what the new ones are! I only figured out she was probably hungry after she'd been cry in on a walk for about 30-40 mins - I'd checked her nappy, no smell. Put my little finger in her mouth, no sucking. Checked how warm she felt, all ok. AND she'd only fed 2 hours earlier...normally she'd go for at least 3 hours between feeds.

Please can the old rules come back. I was getting used to them.

People with older DC too,
How are you managing your baby waking up crying in the night without waking your older DC?

I am writing this while holding a sleeping baby who wakes up and cries every time I put her down. This is the second time I have come up to shush her back to sleep since putting her to bed at about 7.45. Last night she cried loudly for no apparent reason for a long time while I shushed/ cuddled/ tried to feed/ walked round/ rocked her. In the mornings DD1 says she is tired because she got no sleep because DD2 woke her up. Her room is next to ours.
DD2 presumably knows my house is still too messy and my in-laws are coming tomorrow so is making sure I sit in a dark room and hold her instead of tidying up.

How was last night girls?

DD panicked me as I woke up at 7 and thought I couldn't hear her breathing she was fine of course! Good nights sleep from her and her longest stretch yet at 10 and a half hours!!!

Still all stuffed up with cold mind you poor thing!

Hope you all got some decent stretches of sleep

Oh girls I'm ashamed.....I sat down with a glass of wine after the baby had gone to bed and then Poldark was coming on so I had another couple of glasses and then Gogglebox was on and I was in GREAT FORM! so of course I had to another......

Hilariously i had to keep pausing it to go up and resettle or feed DS so Gogglebox took until about midnight! By which time I was a bit piddly-eyed. It was actually fine feeding him all night but this morning.......OH MY GOD!

DH took the baby at 7 as usual and then the two of them came up with a cup of tea for me an hour later but as DH was getting his jacket on to go to work i had to fling the baby at him and rush to the loo and puke up all the tea!

He was like "I think I'll just kiss you goodbye on the ear, lol"

I am HANGING. And DS is being very screechy. Serves me right!