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JuniDD · 04/03/2015 19:39

A lovely thread for all the JS Grad Grads to chat feeding, sleep and post-birth STUFF.

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Roll call please ladies and perhaps add the number of slings and buggies you have acquired at the time of posting... Wink

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WilHarlot · 09/04/2015 01:25

Ah glad it's not just me.

And obviously my baby must sometimes be asleep when I think they're awake!

Ok I'm going for the mummy to crib transfer ...

Minion · 09/04/2015 03:03

So this must be the sleep regression.
She's not done this for weeks. Good job she's not pissing about wide awake. Little snack and back she goes.
Best be over soon tho. Wad just starting to enjoy my 5-6 hours!
wil, I assume all went well with the transfer?

ZylaB · 09/04/2015 03:12

waves at min

It sounds awful to say it but I'm glad I'm not the only one with sex issues, makes me feel normal Grin

I might take H and get her weighed again today, just because. I also measured her length with a tape measure when she wasn't scrunched up and I get 3cm longer than the HV did! Mthat puts her into more normal lengths, I honestly think she was scrunching herself when she was measured last week!

Minion · 09/04/2015 07:01

Urgh.
Up at 11.
Up at 1:30
Up at 2:30
3:30
4:30
6
Just Urgh

ZylaB · 09/04/2015 07:07

Poor *mini that's not fun.

H did 10-3 which was good, fed and nappy changed, then she was trying to go back to sleep but was extra gurgly/refluxy and couldn't settle, poor thing. I ended up holding her on me upright, so she slept but I didnt. Did that until 5am and DH took over for a bit. Means h has slept plenty and probably won't go down again after this feed now... Ah well

WilHarlot · 09/04/2015 08:17

Oh Min that's dreadful, poor you.

I need to get hard ass on this sleep business and get a bloody routine. Last night she went to bed at 1.30am!!!! And then she only sleeps for three and a half hours. She NEVER settles after waking so whatever time she wakes at, basically means I am up - usually 4 or 5 am. I have to just lie her on me after that. It's doing my head in. I have to go to bed at 9pm to make sure I actually get some sleep. She has to bloody sort this out before going into her own room and disturbing her sister all night. Sorry, rant over.Blush

RPopz · 09/04/2015 10:21

Eurgh Min Sad I was banking on you discovering that sleep regression was bollocks! Hopefully it won't be for long...

ZylaB · 09/04/2015 10:51

Poor wil as well! :(

ZylaB · 09/04/2015 11:41

We're having a silly bf at the moment. H has always fed pretty quietly but today she keeps making noises at me. They're happy noises and she's looking at me too, so is obviously trying to tell me something,Mobutu I keep laughing and telling her not to talk with her mouth full, it's ridiculous! Grin Grin

WilHarlot · 09/04/2015 13:45

Ah the age of distraction zyla. In a month or so feeding her in public will turn into a nightmare as she'll whip her head away at any opportunity to see what's going on and you'll be left with tit exposed to a whole restaurant. Grin

WilHarlot · 09/04/2015 13:46

Can everyone please give me a quick note of your bedtime routines and timings so I can get some ideas about what to do with this monkey?

ZylaB · 09/04/2015 16:28

It's not a routine as such as she just screams if we try to enforce anything she doesn't agree with, but it seems to be developing by itself..

She starts to cluster feed any time from 5-6pm
Interrupt this for a bath about 7.30pm
Then into our bedroom for more feeding and quiet cuddles, we keep the TV quiet and the room darker, she usually does the proper dead to the world sleep any time between 9.30 and 10.30 or11pm then we swaddle her arms and transfer her into her sidecar cot thing.

She's been staying down for at least 3 and a half 4 hours and up to 5 hours after this. Then some nights will go back down happily after a feed and fresh nappy,mast night she was too refluxy and gurgly.

That said, it's only been happening fo a week or so, so it may not stick!! We're also hoping her sleep time will slowly creep forward if we stick to keeping the room darker and quieter until she has a feed after bath and goes straight to sleep, dunno if it'll work but it's what we want lol. I know what I want doesn't matter at all now lol

Minion · 09/04/2015 17:20

At the first yawn between 6/6:30 we whip her upstairs, change into Jim jams and give her a bottle.

Then sit in chair til she drops off.
That's it really.
Probably not what the book dsays to do but it works.
Well, until night now.
Am knackered.

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JuniDD · 09/04/2015 17:54

Aw 4 month regression is no fun min but it'll be over soon.

Our routine is v similar to min's. Take her up about the same time, draw curtains, put bedtime nappy on and babygrow (sometimes do this downstairs though). Read a story or two (if she's not crying from hunger) then feed her off to sleep. If she's a bit hyper I put her in her bed and put washing away for a bit, or have her on my shoulder and sing a few songs to relax her.

I think I earned some mum points today - went for a walk with a friend and her kids and had to get over a stile with the baby in a carrier!

MrJ also bet me that I couldn't dispose of his dead body from the living room to the garden. So I broke out the woven wrap and dragged him out. I WIN!

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ZylaB · 09/04/2015 18:05

Lol juni is he scared now?

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JuniDD · 09/04/2015 18:21

I think he is a bit wary. As well he should; take one of his many sleeps with one eye open.

He's working at the weekend...who wants to come out to play with us then? (Wish we could!)

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RPopz · 09/04/2015 18:34

We've not been massively routine led but he seems to be developing one for himself, well, a bedtime at least... He either feeds to sleep between 9 and 9.30 and I take him upstairs to bed, or he gets massively crabby (but not hungry) around that time and I take him upstairs to bed Grin Bed nest with the nightlight on. Sometimes if I wake him up accidentally when I go up to bed I have to feed him to sleep again in our bed, dark and quiet etc, and do the stealth transfer back to the bednest. He's done 9-3 a few times now, but not every night.

RPopz · 09/04/2015 18:34

lol juni! what wrap was it? for future reference Grin

ZylaB · 09/04/2015 18:40

We had real tears today! Apparently the length of time it took me to bring her in from the car, get her out of the car seat and change her nappy was sooooo upsetting there were wet tears! it may have broken my heart a bit to see them

Doctors tomorrow fo check and vaccination, I'm going to get some calpol in just in case!

ZylaB · 09/04/2015 18:59

Where is everyone? Are any of us close? Juni's post made me wonder...

I'm in nottingham, well..ish

FurryScoob · 09/04/2015 19:16

I'm in Lincoln zyla! I think a couple of the grads are local, we shared the same earthquake last year but I can't remember who.

Nice work juni Grin

Miniscoobs got herself into a routine, 9-10ish when she gets grumpy I put her in her sleeping bag then feed her in her room with 2 night lights on & Ewan the sheep beating away. After her bottle we have a 10 minute cuddle & she goes in her cot. For the last week she's slept through till 6.30 but obviously will be awake all night now I've put it on here!

Minion · 09/04/2015 19:17

The husband is inadvertently sleep training the ankle biter.
Hes put her down, drowsy, hoping she'll learn to self soothe. Sadly her hands are mittened so I can't see it working.

Minion · 09/04/2015 19:53

could have sworn I'd replied to you popz, sorry, no. I was hoping it was a load of old welly, but the 30 minute catnaps in the day and the ups and downs in the night, suggest otherwise.
I've been reading horror stories that some kids don't ever go back to a normal sleep..
Fuuuuccccckkkkkkk

TheBooMonster · 09/04/2015 20:17

we don't have a routine really, she starts cluster feeding some time between 8pm and 11pm and then she;ll fall asleep sometime between midnight and 3am and I can generally get her to go down in the crib between 1:30 and 3 hours and then she'll wake up and it's 50/50 whether she'll go back in the crib once she's asleep or whether she'll wake up the second I move her in which case after a few tries she sleeps in the bed and I try desperately not to fall asleep whilst running through disaster scenarios in my head. she'll wake up about 5:30 regardless of what she's done beforehand and we feed until toddler wakes up and we kick mrBoo up to look after her, then she and I sleep perfectly for a few hours.

Took squish out to the city today, and had toddler on foot, apart from us almost falling asleep on the bus it was perfectly easy! though people were very interested in the slung up squish which made me very self conscious :S

We're in Norwich, this invariably means we're miles away from everyone Sad

WilHarlot · 09/04/2015 21:20

Thanks all. I think I"m going to have to give up my evening nap aren't I?

Good work Furry.

Nah Min, she'll go back to normal, don't stress.

Juni that's hilarious!

I'm obviously not near any of you. Sad