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!

The cot was more successful last night. As I predicted she woke up just after I got into bed, I fed her, she fell back to sleep and I put her in the cot. This was repeated at about 2.45, then at 5.45 I could hear her chattering in the cot, but after a small feed and cuddle she fell asleep next to me. She has just woken up! However, I didn't really get back to sleep and had to get up at 7.30 to get DD1 ready for pre-school. If only we had started this a few weeks earlier, because it is our wedding anniversary today and we didn't arrange to go out because of leaving Velcro-baby. She will probably not sleep nicely this evening when we want to enjoy our take-away.

Crap night here too. DD adamant that she would not be put down. In cot at 8:30, up at 9:15, 10:30, 1:30, 3:00 and 5:00, and even though I dozed with her in bed from then she was wide awake and wriggling so didn't sleep, gave up at 6:30 and got up! She is now enjoying a nap after her feed while I am eyeing up the mess in my kitchen that I'm going to ignore in favour of a cup of tea.

DD has tried apple and apple and mango purée so far and carrot, which she has tried twice and spat out both times with a look of disgust! She's still only 5.5 months so am not too bothered but wondering what else has been a hit with your DCs? I have sweet potato, broccoli and banana lined up in the next couple of weeks but am stuck for ideas after that! Can she have a toast soldier yet or does it need to be a smaller sized piece?

My night kicked all of your nights' asses! Dd is determined to hold onto her crown as the worst sleeping baby I think. Grim.

Sweet potato is the best ever Twiglet. Butternut squash nice too. Could try some normal potato, peas, cauliflower, pear.

Shit shit shit

Baby rolled off the bed onto wooden floor.

More tears from me than him.

Lowish bed btw. Thank fuck. God I feel so guilty.

twiglet we have been cheating and mixing Ellas Kitchen pouches into mashed up Rusks. I don't have a liquidiser thingy and they have stuff like broccoli in them!

amy DS rolled off the sofa last week. Headbutted the floor. And it was a really deep sofa and I was only three feet away. Did he fly??!

So now we know we can't put him on that unattended. He got an awful fright but I am very proud of myself, I didn't cry!

Not as shit a night as some of you but still he was awake for the day at 4.30!!!!! It took me until 6am to get him back to sleep - I was freezing! Then he only napped for half an hour.

But he was fine until then, just a bottle at 1am, so can't complain. Swings and roundabouts.

Feel bad writing this but DS and I fell asleep at 8:30 last night, he woke for a feed at 4:30 then we both slept till 8:30! Just got him asleep in the pram as we are going to baby yoga in 30 mins.

Still not weaning here, DS is 5 months, sort of starting to want to sit up but not very well, only rolled back to front this week and shows no interest in food at all. I am chronically lazy and bf is just so easy so hopefully will skip purees and just feed on finger food for a few weeks then just what ever we eat. Off to buy antilop highchair this week so will get some of those ikea bib/overall things

He made a proper thwack sound when he hit the floor. Still not over it.
Nhs website reckons he's fine.

DD has tried avocado and liked it and today I gave her tiny (very tiny) bit of raspberry. Expected it to be spat out or at least a bad face as the raspberries sold in the supermarkets at the moment are sour rather than sweet, but she never it has stayed in and she never said anything. At the moment I am only collecting info as to what she likes, no proper weaning. She likes to sit up, but cannot do it without help as yet. Can feel she has strength, but cannot balance, sees something in front of her and off she goes face down.

Amy I am sure DS is fine. I think we all are over cautious thanks to the strong H&S culture in our workplaces and all the warnings on children products. It was not a case in the time of our parents and grandparents and they all were fine and probably lived healthier than we will ever be.

Eg, I know DD will get helmet together with her first bike, but I had never worn one although have had bikes most of my life.

Floopledoop I'm in exactly the same frame of mind as you! DD is 5 months tomorrow; can't sit up on her own very well at all; and is showing no interest in touching / feeling, let alone eating, food. We have the Antilop high chair from Ikea (hand-me-down) and we tried her in it for the first time over the weekend...needed to prop her up with a small cushion as she doesn't fit in it very well yet

eeeep! Dd is sitting up on her own! Occasional wobbles over when she tried to pull her feet up but other than that she's pretty solid. She's also standing herself up if I hold her arms she's 4.5 months!

However with all this new stuff has been 2 nights of her only sleeping for 2 hour slots though if she has a bottle I can go back to bed when she's finished with her still awake and she will fall asleep within 15 mins or so.

MrsA I'm sure ds is fine. Dd catapulted herself out of the boucy chair and onto the kitchen floor with a thud at 10 weeks and was fine! Bloody scary though isn't It.

mrsa I think we all have to have our own terrifying moment. After dd had her face in the bath without me realising I googled 'secondary drowning' all night.

ark I think having a late arrival and bigger baby gives them a physical advantage, babydolly is the same, sitting up, rolling over, loves standing. We're going to start weaning this weekend.

After yesterday's bottle success I was nervous today, I managed to get 2.5oz of ebm into her at lunch then dp gave her 3oz of formula at bedtime which she necked in about 2mins!! Even better than that I lay down with her to top up but she wasn't that interested so I left her wide awake in bed and she fell asleep on her own. Amazing!! If she goes through the night I'm going to seriously wonder is there's been some sort of baby swap situation here.

ladydolly I still swear I must have been 10 months pregnant when I had her lol. I would love to know what my actual date was and when she was conceived!

Maybe you've swapped with my baby who has done nothing but cat nap and shriek all day! No tears or bad mood but when she does it she clenches her fists and whatever is in them gets squished be it a toy, my top, my neck, my eye I'm scratched to hell!

Hi all, have been keeping up with all the messages but as 4m sleep regression segued straight into teething I have had no time to post and say hello. The teething didn't come to anything and she seems fine now although she's still pooing with every feed and fart which is tedious. I think it's her canines coming in as I can see white spots on them. She's going to look like a vampire!

Sorry for all the shit nights. Touch wood things have been better here since we put DD in her own room. She still wakes but is getting better at going back to sleep and I am doing better with 4-6 dummy runs with proper sleep in between than having her thrashing and snoring in the bednest beside me. The bednest has gone back to the company today and I am just writing off 4-5 months as a fucking disaster! Nice to have a week of calm, I wonder how long it'll last.

Self settling... it's definitely the topic du jour amongst my nct friends. I feel I've dodged a bullet here as DD never fell asleep on the boob since she was about 6 weeks old, and I was always too lazy to rock her, so she's been able to fall asleep with "just" her lullaby light projector and dummy, even if it did take about 2 hours and at least a dozen trips up the stairs. Now in the last few days she's worked out how to roll over in her grobag in the cot, and is immediately turning onto her front when we put her in the cot, which seems to be working well for her AND bonus, the dummy doesn't fall out as much.

Not starting weaning here until the weekend after the BH when she will be a few days shy of 6m. We are off to marrakech on Friday for a long weekend at friends' wedding and decided that it would be ten times easier if she was just BFing still. Am slightly shitting myself at the weather forecast though - 36C on Saturday. I thought it'd be high 20s.

RE weaning, what are people doing about cups? DD is still BF and has bottles of EBF, I was planning on giving her water only in cups and sticking to bottles for "milk" (hoping to continue BF as long as poss if she'll have it). Any recommendations for particular cups? Should I bother with a doidy?

mrsA know how you feel, DS2 rolled off the bed at 3 months cos DH put him too close to the edge. I cried for ages!
They're pretty sturdy and with DS1 I've found the accidents get worse as they get older.
Sending you
My DS2 is 5 months and I'd forgotten how hard this stage is, he can roll and crawl backwards (and do 360's on his tummy!) but can't sit up unaided and hates being on his back so it feels like an inbetween stage where I have to hold him lots. Anyone got any good games they play with their lo's?

Thanks for the understanding. It's the sheer hardness of our floors that scares me. Original.floorboards throughout.
I took extra care with bedtime, giving a massage, infacol, paracetamol and a good burping so hopefully he and I have a good sleep and can forget all.about the rubbish day we've had.

In happier news I got his passport photos done today. Planning to go to France in June, exciting!

I do row row row your boat with dd, apparently it's hilarious as she ends up in fits of giggles everytime!

MrsAuk I am petrified of DD bumping her head on our granite kitchen floor, it is so ridiculously hard - I've lost count of the number of mugs and glasses we've smashed (including two Pyrex mixing bowls, that was a good day...). Last month I dropped a stainless steel table/cutlery knife on it and it snapped clean in half.
DD bumped her head on a sharpish corner of a coffee table foot on Saturday :-( she had a pretty good bump but I was amazed- three hours later you couldn't even see where it had happened. They heal so fast.

DS has gone down much easier the past 2 nights. Boob and then a couple of mind of cuddle and then into crib. Still up a lot in the night. We had a couple of wake ups that were solved with just cuddles though. Progress! We also bought some sleeping bags as one of the issues was DS kicking his blankets up over his face.

All these accidents... We all have them. I thumped DS' s head on a radiator trying to put him in a friends jumperoo. DS just looked at me as if to say " who put you in charge? "

Good luck for tonight all!

Re: cups and weaning. I use the Tommee Tippee first cup for water with meals. Its one of those ones that are freeflowing without a valve so god help you if the baby turns it upside down, but apparently its easier for them to learn how to suck or something?

Anyway he twigged it straight away, grasped it with both hands on the handles. But my lad is such a hungry hippo - whether it be boob, bottle, beaker or spoon, he goes at it like a vulture at a carcass party.

Eating Like A Horse & Not Getting Colds. His two specialities!

He didn't wake up til 1am! Then woke at 3 and cuddled back to sleep. Now feeding again. This is a good night.
catg I try to only feed if a few minutes of rocking / cuddling don't work. Also if he wakes up quite soon, less than 3-4 hours, I send dh to sort.

MrsA that is what I am going for now. Hand on tummy and shhing first instance. Then pick up for rocking and cuddle and then boob if that doesn't work.

Saying that he just slept 9-6.30 with a couple of shhing s but nothing more. I almost cried this morning. After about 3 weeks of awful sleep it is amazing. Now feeding like a demon. x

Ok, I know this is the wrong way round. ..but I think I'm the one with the sleep problem now and not dd... After 4 hours of her sleeping on and off and needing re-settling / more food, she eventually went down for the last time at 10.30 last night. I, on the other hand, have been awake since 2.20...
I think it's going to be a long day. ..

anna those are bloody amazing skills though!!