October 2014- thread 8. Growing up fast, 6 months already!!

[MundayCakes85]

Morning all! A shiny new thread for Easter.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, I'm off to eat copious amounts of chocolate whilst hiding in the floor of the nursery with Ewan the sheep

Quick questions : whats the rules now a days about wearing white to a wedding ? Is that old school ? Or is it still a big fat dont do it

Stigz I would guess depends what kind of dress...I don't think it matters personally as long as it's not like the brides!!

We are doing ok with naps, regular and sometimes the morning one as long as 2 hours but our nights are still shocking. Last night he settled finally at half 1 after my OH took him and then he woke at half 3 and half 6. It's been so bad I'm wondering whether him being in his own room will be helpful or not. Guess I can but try...
We have a hospital appointment tomorrow as part of the 2 year follow up to N's stint in scbu - should be ok as he's doing 'normal' things for a 6 month old. I'll be interested to see what they make of his allergies too. He's defo allergic to egg, gave him the teensy amount yesterday and his face went red and puffy round his lips and hives came out. Went down after about half an hour but no fun poor little mute. Going to test yogurt tomorrow.

As long as it's not a big poofy dress and veiled you should be ok STIGZ.
Good luck tomorrow Sazzle, sorry to hear N still isn't doing too well at night- definitely mention it to the paed Doctor tomorrow.
Really enjoyed the sunshine today- long may it last

Darn it! Long response just disappeared!

Stigz I was saying that if you have a few accessories that aren't white/bridally then you should be fine. I have a wedding to go to on June, can't wait but am totally out of the game when it comes to looking posh/glam! Need to get my mojo back somehow. There's the hen do too, haven't a scooby what I'll wear to that either.

Sazzle I'm mostly right there with you with the crap nights. Fortunately DD does the occasional decent night maybe once a fortnight, to give me a little hope. Last night she did 8.15-2.15 then 2 more wake ups before 7. Not bad at all I thought!

Mostly crap nights here too. They're better than the regression weeks, but I'm still lucky to get 4hours. Tonight we tried boyfriend putting her to bed with a bottle of formula but she drank 230ml and had a wide awake half hour. I took over and did some boob.. an hour ago. She's in her cot chattering away like a loon even though she's probably had 400ml of liquid. I'm sat on the floor being boring to see if/when she'll drop off on her own. Hahaaaaaa... be here all night at this rate. Either that or the screaming will start.

Flipping eck... she's done it. I need to levitate and hover out now to avoid all dodgy floorboards. My money is on being back here in 45 minutes. Need to bring a cushion.

Baby is still in her crib in our bedroom. She's already 6 months. Anyone else?

DD is still in our bedroom, right next to me. She's in a big cot (has been from birth, never used a crib). She definitely will not be moving until she is reliably sleeping through with no wake ups at all - I don't want to have to walk into another room to settle her. Her room still isn't decorated yet. Probably some point before summer but I'm in no rush, it is no hassle having her cot in our room.

Goats I have a couple of cushions scattered around the nursery for these nap wars

I think part of the waking up is being with me in bed. Our room isn't big enough for a proper cot in there, and she's too big for the crib now. It'll be own room until first wake up, then in with me I expect... for as long as it takes to get her out of doing that.

I've been in once, she did her normal waking at 45 minutes, but was resettled with little whinging within 5 minutes.

We really need to get floorboards fixed though - either that or other people in the house will be weeing in the garden during baby bedtime process.

She celebrated her success with a dirty protest... woke at midnight and puked extensively over herself, me, my bed. Had to do full sheet change down to mattress. On the positive side, carrot and courgette is definitely making it in!

fate yes babywing is still in our room I tried a few weeks ago to move him when he slept through a few nights but he started waking again so brought him back in. Not a chance I'm going up and down the landing to settle him and also I was worried I would wake another child up which would be a disaster

Goats I've been known to slide out on my tummy to limit squeaky floorboards!

Igotta sorry you're having rubbish sleep too. It's taking its toll on me but im so grateful to be heading into summer when the lighter
Mornings and nicer days means I feel less like shit. I haven't moved N yet.... It was every hour last night so I'm not sure I see the point. I really don't know what to do!!!

I don't know what to do about sleep here either. From about 3am she wakes pretty much all the time... every half an hour/45 minutes until 6, then goes back to sleep until she's hard to wake up at 8.

Well I had a sad milestone. Ended up giving a bottle at 5am. I've always just breastfed at night before but poor little pickle was crying and crying and I couldn't leave him hungry so gave him a bottle and he passed out till 8. Feel like total shit, I guess that's the end of the breastfeeding pretty much.

splendide don't beat yourself up! Better that he's not hungry. And mixed feeding is possible, it's what I'm doing.

Good luck today sazzle although im certain you wont need it, thinking of you though, it must be worrying. Deffo mention about his sleep and see what they say?

Igotta. I feel the same, i don't have a clue when it comes to weddings, probably wont wear white though i will just worry about it from now to June if its the right thing to do plus i will have the kids with me, so doubt it will stay white for very long

I would have loved to have kept my lo in with me, but the cot wouldn't fit in my room plus she she is dream to settle, just goes to sleep with no hassle at all, think she's like her mum and loves her sleep unlike dd1 who would function on no sleep if i let her !

Dont be hard in yourself splendid you gave him what he needed, thats what good mums do

Sorry to hear of all the rubbish sleeping. My dd2 is still in bed with us (well, me as Dh is mainly in spare room). Must set her cot up though as I'm sure I wake her when I come to bed (and she then wakes every 1.5-2 hours at best).

Last night, she started with DH while I went to the spare room (as I needed a stretch of sleep desperately) and she slept through 9.30pm until 4am . For the first time ever! She'd probably have stayed asleep except dh needed to get up for work. I guess she just needs to sleep on her daddy's chest...

Splendide try not to be too hard on yourself. You did the best thing giving him a bottle. You can still bf whenever you want. You can give bottles as the main milk and bf for comfort and cuddles.

Nothing sad about feeding a hungry baby splendide. Don't listen to the breastapo clap-trap. If you want to breastfeed just for cuddles, that is absolutely fine and easily do-able. Honestly though, entirely overrated IMO.

Boring I know but here I am to report yet another crap night sleep. DH has been away since last Thursday, got back yesterday and now he's gone again till Friday night I've missed him but I haven't missed his alarm clock going off at 6 and waking the baby who I then tried to ignore as she grinned wildly and grabbed my nose/hair for half an hour nothing much planned for today, hope the weather is good again, if so toddler can get busy with some water and a bucket in the garden!

I can't wait to give up breastfeeding!! We did a few experiments a month or so ago with two or three formula feeds, to sort of 'check' the dairy thing.. and all fine. As of next week I'm going to start properly exchanging breast feeds for formula.

Another slightly pants night here, didn't get a three hour stretch even.
Positives though:

• she went to sleep from awake in her cot in about 3 minutes (down from 45 yesterday)
• she didn't stay there after 11pm, but slept really deeply, so less thrashing around
• didn't kick off when I turned over to stop her helping herself whenever she likes between 3am and 6am.

Feels like baby steps quite liderally...

Oh, and other positives - she'll happily hang out in her cot without shouting about it.