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

Hi all good chat at the hospital, all fine with Ned, as I expected he's reaching all normal 6 month baby things so all good there. And she let me see a dietitian too after our appointment, so finally I got to confirm with someone I'm not mad to cut out all these things from my diet! She looked at the photos I have of his rash when he eats formula or egg (looks a bit like nettle rash over his lower face) and said to continue to avoid dairy in my diet until 9 months then introduce slowly. But to avoid giving directly to him until a year, and then egg only from 18 months onwards. She also gave me special formula which to be honest sounds rank so just goin to suck it up and know that I'll be bf until a year when I can introduce oat milk or similar... Feel better for seeing someone though.

That's good news sazzle!

I was waiting for the dairy thing to kick in so that I'd be bf for a year too... so far so good, but I'm not completely relaxing yet.

Great news Sazzle it must be hard knowing you have to avoid so many foods. Will you try the formula just to see what he thinks of it?
Currently engaged in the nap wars- she's humming and groaning away, I'm hiding on the floor

First tooth appeared today

What is it with the nap wars? We have them every day... Wish there was a magic answer which doesn't involve crying or endless pick up put down.

Out in the buggy, in the car or on me are the only ways we avoid a screamathon. Gah.

Lovely day today, and hopefully more to come tomorrow. So walking her around is fine with me for now.

I don't think I got even one full hour of sleep last night. I have no idea what to do about it either.

Oh Goats, that is rubbish. Plenty of coffee and naps today

Today we are building bunk beds. They joys of IKEA flat packs!

Glad to hear all ok with ned's development sazzle does he have to go at any other age ?

goats do you think it might be hunger ? I find my lo has slept so much better since moving her dinner from 4:pm till 5pm and i give her a pudding aswell at this time, seems to be working as before that she was up at 4 am for a feed, now its 6:30 am

I think maybe my milk isn't enough. I gave her formula this morning at 9 after a breakfast of Weetabix and banana (but she has that amount every day)... she slept until 11, and wasn't interested in further 'food' until 2pm.

So, tonight she gets formula at the 10.30/11 feed too... we'll see how that goes.

Goats we've introduced a bottle of formula at 10-11pm and its shifted her night wake up to about 5-6am. At this point it's hit and miss s to whether it's morning!
FATE how did the flat pack go? Hope you had a lot of chocolate biscuits to get you through!
We have 2 little teeth poking out this afternoon! Thought I felt something yesterday my sore nips certainly did but couldn't get a look until today

Wow goats! That's rough. You were planning on ditching bf fairly soon anyway weren't you? I hope that and more solids improve things for you. I'm starting to introduce extra daytime bottles with a view to cutting out bf. I'm over it! My only worry is that I feed her to sleep 99% of the time at night. Something will have to change when I stop completely then! Or maybe she'll miraculously sleep through by then

Yeah I feed to sleep too. We'll see on that last night feed - lots of people I know keep going with last thing at night and first thing in morning. Even if it's not producing much and is about comfort. Of those people most have found their babies lost interest.

I just want to wear normal bras and tops again. Can't wait to go shopping.

I've just double boobed her for bedtime, so hopefully they won't explode overnight if I do formula for 11.

Bed here at 7, already had to go back in 3 times! I'm going to do a combo of gradual retreat and pick up put down. Hopefully minimise the crying. If she wakes up post 11 feed she'll end up in my bed though. Mixed messages I guess but so long as she's able to go to sleep alone in her own room then hopefully when she finally gets better on waking I'll not mind so much about leaving her in the cot all night. I just don't want to spend any time sitting in a chair at 3am when I could be lying in bed.

Goats could she be reacting to eating cows milk directly? If she's not that sensitive she might not react through BM but it's cumulative so the combo of increased formula intake and dairy in solids (don't know if you're avoiding it given you or DP have a family history of issues haven't you?) might be triggering shit sleep?

Goats that sounds so tough

Could you move a chest of drawers out of your bedroom to fit a cot in? Put the drawers in the nursery for now and swap for the cot in your room.

I get how soul destroying padding across the landing and sitting in a dark room on a chair in the middle of the night must be.

IKEA do a smaller version of the full sized cot, if that helps? You could take one side off and butt it up to your bed.

FATE how did the flat pack go?

Not as bad as we were expecting! Bunk beds built within an hour, so quite good really. Boys v excited by it.

Well, happy news here! She woke up at 10.30 and wouldn't be soothed, so gave her formula as planned. She only managed 130ml but I gave her a bit of boob after that to take the edge off the solid orb thing, then put her down next to me awake. I turned over and was asleep by 11, she flapped for awhile but also asleep around the same time. Next time I heard her was 3! Fed her while she was almost still asleep, put her back down and not a peep until 6.45. 4 hours + 3 and three quartee hours sleep for me. Most since January almost. Woohoo!!

Woop goats! It's amazing how low sleep standards are these day eh! I'd have had the same if I'd gone to bed at the same time as DD. Instead I got a 2hr then 3hr then 45 mins and 30 mins and now she's snoozing on me (whilst wrestling my nipple!). Oh well, DS is still sound asleep so I'm enjoying the peace. DH is back tonight thank god so I'm not a lone parent anymore! The last 10 days has been hardwork.

She's just gone into her cot awake after a bottle - felt around for the dummy (I've not encouraged the dummy since failed attempts at around 6 weeks, it's just around as another toy or thing to chew), put it in her mouth hugged the snuggle thing and went to sleep. Fuck yeah! Haha!

That's fantastic Goats!

After my smug feeling that a tooth appeared without any symptoms or bother at all, 2 hours of inexplicable screaming from 1am-3am last night. Very unlike DD, must have been pain. I'm not used to needing soothing techniques in the night since dummy always does it, so it threw me somewhat. I felt like I didn't know how to calm her down - we tried feeding, swaddle, co-sleeping, shushing, patting, rocking - she was having absolutely none of it. I guess she must have just hurt too much to sleep

Going to be ready with calpol and teething gel tonight.

We are having a milk-only and dozing in my bed on-and-off all day with lots of cuddles today. A bit of regression to newborn baby days will be good for us both I think. Just for a day.

Fate, hope your little lady is feeling better today.
Goats sounds like your winning today!
We had a lovely day until bath time when E got her fingers caught behind the big plug dial while admiring herself. Cue her screaming, me screaming for DH to help, DH almost breaking his neck on the stairs. She caught a flap of skin so steri-stripped her fingered and calpol given. Poor little bugger. My heart hurts

Sitting by the cot again!

Sorry to hear you had a rough night fate.

Ok, it took a long time tonight but I haven't touched her and she's done very little whinging. Problem is she's asleep with her feet through the bars of the cot (in her bag),she'll wake up as soon as she tries to move.

Also the in laws are here. Constantly using the loo next door to the baby room... squeaky door handle and floorboards. Not good to have house guests when sleep training!

Good morning all!

Hope everyone had a good night goats it sounds like you are having it tough at the moment.
Took babywing to be weighed and he's gone back up to the
50th centile so the hv's are happy.

We have turned a corner with sleep he has learned to self settle, I can now put him down at 7 in his cot awake and he will chatter himself off to sleep this has also coincided with him sleeping 7-7.
He has done this for 5 nights now. I want to put him in his own room but I'm nervous about upsetting things! How long would you leave it until moving him?

It's cheering up a bit buttwing! She's not sleeping through or that sort of fantasy stuff, but one wake up between my bedtime and our normal wake up time, is fine. It's going to be a bit hit and miss over the weekend while she's massively over excited by visitors, but it feels like we're getting there. Last night had we not needed her room for people sleeping on the floor, she'd have been in her cot in her own room until at least 4.30 in the morning. In laws driving me insane with the incessant fucking CLICKING. I get doing that to a newborn, but really? Still? Also they won't leave her alone on the floor to play - just keep having to pick her up. Bite tongue... bite tongue...