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!

musicandbooks DH sings DD Donkee the Dominic and I can boogie all night long and moves her arms and legs in old fashion disco moves DD is amused, we both old farts are in stitches ... I think Macarena is next on the cards. She also likes noisy blows in her neck and tummy.

We are flying back to my parents for whole month at the end of June. Any tips for the first flight? Apart from stocking on earplugs to offer passengers around? I suppose the take off could be the worst part as it will be noisy and the pressure on ears. Will have to give something to chew to ease it?

musicandbooks the agadoo goes down well here with DS on lap facing me and being wiggled around. He laughs a lot when I laugh at him so we do lots of that (pretend guffaws). He likes being held up to the mirror. He spends a long time looking at himself and me and then touching the mirror.

Strawberry apparently feeding them on a bottle is best. Helps their ears and if you're lucky they'll fall asleep on it (the aircraft helpfully provides white noise).

We had another one of those baffling nights where he sleeps really well at first - 7-3am with only a brief bottle at midnight - but then awake from 3.15am and awake for HOURS. I tried everything. Including putting him back in bed with me. Nope! At 6am I just gave up and played with him till DH woke up. Then I handed him over and went back to bed.

This new awake for hours thing is definately a legitimate phase now. But Christ, I need it to end now, please.

So ladydolly days like these I have to remind myself of his special skills! Actually, other than sleeping, he's a great lad - healthy as a horse and very happy and placid. I guess there'll always be something with every baby, and maybe shit sleep is better than other shitty things we could have with him, like perma-crankiness, or constant colds.

DD has refused all food and fought all naps today. After fighting it all morning, she napped in the pram for about a hour over lunchtime and that's it. She was falling asleep this afternoon but then DH and DD1 arrived home and she woke back up.
Last night she slept for just enough time for me to eat my dinner, then woke up and cried for half a hour, slept til 3.30, then woke herself up coughing. Every time I tried to put her back in the cot she woke back up and started crying again so eventually after over a hour I gave up and put her next to me so I could have some sleep.

happy that sounds awful. You have my sympathy.

Not meaning to rub salt in the wound but we've had a lovely day. Baby yoga in the morning and swimming in the afternoon. 2 X 40 min naps so not great but enough to get him through to bathtime Ok.
I hope you have a better night. Are you giving her medicine?

Thank you Anna, would they give white noise also on Ryanair? Probably not, they would not give anything for free.

She seems to have entirely given up on sleep. She slept for 3-4hrs last night, but that was while I was still awake. Then she woke up every hour even after I had given up trying to put her back in the cot, then just stayed awake from 3-5.30ish. Ugh!
She has eaten breakfast this morning though. She seemed to eat plenty of ready brek but ended up wearing a huge amount of it!

Oh god happy you must be dead on your feet today.

Anyone else's babies still need to nap every 2 hours? It all goes to pot if she's awake longer!

Gutted, I just wrote a long post and then the battery died.

Anyway the gist of it was commiserations to Happy, DS did exactly the same thing the night before last and it's becoming much more of a habit than I would like. We resorted to Calpol last night at 9.30 as he was very upset, refusing to sleep and had been drooling excessively all day, so we concluded it must be his teeth. It did, however, give me a decent night's sleep. I topped him up with it at 2 when I fed him and he went through to 5.30 which was heaven. When will this end? It's been 5 weeks now with, if I'm lucky, one night of decent sleep a week. I was like a zombie yesterday. Greenstone you're not alone!

Ark, DS also manages about 2 hours between naps during the day before it all gets messy.

We are going to start weaning this weekend. I was going to wait til 6 months but he's sitting up independently and I think he's ready. I'm also hoping it helps him sleep He'll be 5 months and 1 week, or 5 months 3 weeks adjusted.

What is everyone up to this weekend? Anything fun?

We're off for a dog walk and pub lunch with a friend on Saturday, family party on Sunday ( dps side and I'm actually invited so progress!) the off to visit my gran on Monday and probably lunch with my mum somewhere.

Those of you who ff what do you do for whole days out? Take little bottles of pre mixed?

happy, thisis, green You have ALL my sympathy, that period when babydolly wasnt sleeping well nearly killed me, much worae than the newborn and colic days. If it gives you any hope it stopped almost as quick as it started, lasted 5 weeks in all. Most nights she now wakes twice and back to sleep, last night she was awake from 1.45 - 4 which is really unusual. I don't feel too bad as its a one off.

Rejoined the gym this morning, swimming only for now. If I walk more than 4/5 miles with the pram my section aches, like the inside wound. Does anyone else get that still?

Ark absolutely, 2hours. Occasionally she'll go longer but she'll be grump about it. Of course she still only does 45 mins so she needs 4 naps a day.

Looking forward to this weekend, Saturday is my morning off when dp takes her out and now we've cracked bottles I'll get more than a couple of hours - yay! Sunday we have bil and his new gf visiting so going to our fave japanese places for lunch. Monday we'll have family drop in to see the babe and give me cards and pressies then best of all, birthday on tuesday, dp has taken the day off to take me shopping at westfield for a post baby wardrobe!! My pinterest board is running over with potential new purchases!!

Ooh ladydolly how fabulous. I bought a pair of black Dotty P's Eden jeggings the other day (amazeballs - elasticated waist!) and a pair of plimsolls in Tesco and that's me done for the month. Last of the big spenders! Mind you the plimsolls are cool, white sole with black lace upper. Very fashion blogger, lol.

Naps every two hours here too. Especially as 4am is apparently morning time all this week. Every night is hellish. Solids haven't improved his sleep one bit, actually its got 100 times worse.

Nooooooooo! Don't say that Anna!

I have just battled for 1.5 hours to get dd2 down in her cot. Arghh! I should have just left it ages ago ffs and put it down to one or those days. But no we are equally stubborn it seems. Anyway she's down and poor dd1 is still watching dora. I am just hiding with a cup of tea before I make amends with a round of jigsaws etc.

Solids made no difference to sleep here - not better or worse just consistently poor. Reflux is better though.

We are off for a long weekend to the South Central England. Looking forward to it although us traveling sooner or later ends up with DD's meltdown with tears due to the tiredness even though she goes on sleeping in the car, pram, baby carrier, still affects her. But she better get used to it if she wants to enjoy being part of this family...

Oh god, my baby has been swapped, for worse, obviously. I guess that's the youngest babies of the thread going to pot. Just as I received the leap alarm from wonder weeks...

Oh dear Strawberry, bad night?

Help settle And argument please! So when dd Wakes up for a feed in the night I feed her then when the bottles finished I get back into bed and dd is either asleep or just chatting to herself, then she falls asleep. Dp says this isn't self settling because I've fed her but surely if she's awake when I get back into bed she's self settling? please tell me I'm right I get a cooked breakfast out of it

I think you're right Ark That's my understanding of it anyway.

Ooh, cooked breakfast. My chocolate shreddies aren't quite so exciting now.

ark I think it's self settling, DP better get cooking :)

DD has been very moany since last night. Put her to bed as usual, but instead of going down for 3-4 hours, she cried twice, no particular reason. Then woke at 3 am, fed her but instead of not even opening eyes while eating, she was wide awake, whinging again. Ewan on and finally she fell asleep to be awake in an hour whinging because of gases. Managed to fart her, but she would not go back to sleep again. Finally around 5.30am she fed to sleep till next whinge at 6.45am. Been moany all morning and just now fed to sleep again. It's been the worst night of 2015 definitely. After months of quick feeds during the night this comes as a shock. Maybe I am simply exhausted, but I think DD is much heavier than last night and it's not because of a dirty nappy. It's been weeks she hasn't fed to sleep, but I am over the moon to have a moment of silence anyway.... Praying this is just a one off....

Ark yep - chatting and falling asleep herself after a feed is all you can ask for, what a little star your DD is :) Enjoy that brekkie.

Sorry about the bad night Strawberry, had bit of a shocker here too. There was one decent stretch between 12.30 and 4.30 but mucho silly business either side - wind as usual. I am convinced now that it is all down to a bad latch which probably means tongue tie of some kind and I am kicking myself we didn't just investigate and sort this earlier when it would have been easier. Poor little dd!

Anyone doing finger food - what are you giving? DD has an egg allergy (not sure if I mentioned it but she gave us quite the scare last weekend when I gave her a taste of scrambled egg - insta-hives plus weird face swelling and all-body rash and a quick trip to A&E to get antihistamine - all fine though, she was cooing away at us the whole time and docs reckon she will grow out of it) so I'm a bit reluctant to try her on fish and nut butter until she gets tested for other allergies. So far I've just been giving her cooked broccoli which she just smushes in her fist, and medallions of roasted sweet potato and those Organix carrot sticks which are brilliant.

She's still a tiny thing but definitely getting bigger and more grown up everyday! Despite her shit night she looked SO beautiful this morning when DH brought her in :)

Greenstone and Strawberry, huge sympathy again this morning. And anyone else who had a sh*t night. We had a better night last night, but I'm not counting my chickens yet. Despite that I feel even worse than usual today...can't win!

Strawberry, 'managed to fart her' LOL! I spat my tea out when I read that How do you do that? I have visions of holding DS upside down and patting his back

The cat came in covered in fleas last night so I banned him from the house for the night and we have dosed him and the dogs this morning with Frontline. I never think about putting gloves on normally when I do this and this morning was no exception...until I realised I am breastfeeding and started panicking that I had a bit on my thumb. I washed it off immediately, but it only takes 20 seconds for your skin to absorb things so now I'm worried that it might go into my breast milk. Should I formula feed DS today, or am I being a mad mother and panicking unnecessarily?

I think you're fine This :)

I think itll be fine This

On the plus side your ds will be free from fleas for a while

Big red cheeks today, hello teeth

Thank you Greenstone!

Anna, I was just looking at the Eden jeggings on the Dotty P site - there's 20% off today ladies, so they're down to £16 in case anyone else was interested - and trying to work out how long they are.. I'm 5'10" and have an inside leg of 34/35" - do you think they'll be long enough? It says the model in the photos is 5'8" but I can't see how long they are on her because she's helpfully got boots on!