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

Great news Butt!

I did the move gradually starting from a week of reliable full nights. Cot away from bed for a week or two first, cot at end of bed for a bit, cot in corner of our room for a bit. So all that was probably a good month before into own room. But then I don't mind having a cot in our room, easier that night wakes in a different room.

Goats just keep biting that tongue! We're at the in laws and DH is taking his mood out on me. So far he's snapped at me numerous times and called me a c* Not amused.
We did crib at the end of our bed from the start, then did night feeds and nappy changes in nursery. Gradually had day time naps in her big cot so the transition wasn't too shocking.

CLICK CLICK CLIIIIIIIICK... she's doing it now. WHY?? Child unamused.

I'm spending quite a lot of time in baby's room with her - changing nappy there, all feeds there, reading some books lying on the floor, playing there, she sits in the cot while I do jobs in her room etc.

Oh, and I just met a parent of a child in my class in town - she co slept until her kid was 8. Hahahaaaaaargh... apparently she tried to get him out.

Hmm thanks for the advice guys, he already goes down in his own room at 7 no probs, we bring him into our room when we feed him at 11. He also has his day time naps in there so I suppose this is the final separation!! It's dps turn to do the 110clock feed and get up in the morning he is also responsible for any night time waking so of course doesn't want to move him tonight because he would have to get up

goats great that she is making some progress :) people do strange things to babies fil hums in Ds's ear why? Just why?

goats my fil, a normally same, reasonable human being, claps in the babies face!! About an inch from their nose. WHY??!! Especially helpful just before bedtime

munday did your DH really just call you a c*?!!!!??? Or have I misunderstood?

Just tried our usual feed to sleep routine. She slept for 15 mins and then ping eyes open and a nice big smile! I've put her in her cot so we'll see what happens. Spotted the first little bits of two front teeth today. End of an era!

Omg.... I've been sat here tonight for an hour and a half. She 'rah rah rah rah'ed herself to sleep.

Yep Igotta I didn't talk to him the whole 3 hour car ride. Then told him if he called me that again he'd be seeing the in laws on his own next time. Knob!

I'd be horrified if my DH called me that, I hope yours got the message with the silent treatment.

So my DH has been away for 10 days bar one night. It's been hard work with baby and toddler (who I'm trying to potty train) but I survived. Tonight with two of us here it took DS over an hour to settle to bed and DD took even longer! I was better on my own!!

she co slept until her kid was 8

My friend co-slept with her eldest until aged 7, tried relentlessly to get her to stay in her own room. Even some things that I found quite disturbing like a lock on the outside of her bedroom door .

She was just so, so desperate. She couldn't be consistent and stick with any one method had tried everything, literally everything and was just so exhausted. The process of getting her DD to sleep in her own room for so many years actually changed my friends whole personality for a time.

Eventually, when she was old enough, she just started staying in her room more easily with some bribery.

When her second born came along, her son, he was trained from birth to sleep alone, in his own room by 6 months old, sleeping through.

fate i sound like your friend, i co slept for on & off for four years, but i was consistant with the controlled crying / back to bed technique for basically 3 years ... But no matter how how consistant, it just wasnt for my dd, she needed the reassurence of us, but that took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to make me realise this,i done sleep training from age 1 year to four years . My dd2 is totally different, she doesn't need close body contact to fall asleep, in fact she hates it and always protest when i try to sooth her close to my body, i am so surprised that i can put her down in her cot when she seems tired and five minutes later she is out like a light, basically been like that since birth??? So so different from my first dd but i dont know if it comes down to nature or nurture or basically learned from my first mistakes

Honest to god, the fucking clicking is ALL THE GODDAMN TIME. Just imagine every tune that comes on the radio, with clicking for every syllable instead of singing the actual words.

And constantly talking about how heavy she is, while never putting her down. You don't need to carry her around... she can sit up and crawl FFS.

Breathe...... how can they be so good with her but also so fricking irritating?

goats let's hope pip doesnt start to imitate that sound soon

Hello ladies I'm new to MN. Have been lurking since Bfp last February! DD born 16th October with no major dramas. She's our first and last child though! A bit of a (welcomed) surprise somewhat late in the day after thinking it was probably going to only ever be just the two of us. Started weaning a couple of weeks ago when she had a full on paddy when we were eating and she wasn't! So far so good but still up through the night for a least 2 feeds and always ends up in bed with me by the early hours. I'm in the nursery with her so DH can get his beauty sleep undisturbed but I'm planning to move back to martial bed next week at 6 months - feeling anxious about leaving her and worried I will probably sleep even less!

Hmmm, hello twice a day, maybe I should do that. Sleep in with her for a bit then move out. I could definitely leave her in my bed and sleep elsewhere.

We've all got the lurg. Boyfriend has it so bad that it's turned into man flu, making it almost impossible for him to feed baby a bottle high on nightnurse while I frantically look for olbas and paracetamol useless remedies for me. Would be fine for me to feed the baby a bottle despite my dealing with the full onslaught without drugs though, obviously.

Hi Goats, I had a cold a few weeks ago for the first time in years. I'm normally a lemsip girl but obviously no go when bf. So I had to resort to sinex nasal spray in order to breath overnight. It is really effective but does give you evil sinusitis if you over use it. As for sleeping in the nursery there was some method in this madness in that I would not have to move her when the time came and could hopefully avoid her coming into our bed for the most part. We'll see!

We didn't have a nursery until last week (at all, not even plastered), otherwise I might have done that. As it is, she definitely sees our bedroom as 'home' - after being away for 3 months she got excited when we came back into the room, even though I thought she can't have remembered it, being onky 13 weeks when we left. Interesting.

All three of us home today with the lurg. Small finds it hilarious when I blow my nose, so she's in for a hysterical day!!

Happy six month 'birthday' to all the October 13th babies! Baby igotta included

Yeah we're 6 months today. I bought a bottle of Prosecco in the food delivery for tonight... I can't even keep a plant alive, but apparently can do 6 months worth of a human. Which is good!

Thanks from babywing igotta where the hell has six months gone? Is it really wrong to admit I'm a bit broody?!
I will go through with my coil apt. I will go through with my coil apt. I will go through with my..... I'm not going am I?!!!

No only joking I am going to go I know that I'm not having anymore but on mornings like today where ones at school, ones at nursery, and ones at the childminder and I only have babywing I think I could have another. In the middle of the summer holidays I will probably be tearing my hair out.

Sorry welcome twiceaface very nice to see a new face :)

Twiceaface? Wtf? twiceaday sorry welcome! :)

Hello twice nice to have new voices. We hit 6 months yesterday and I celebrated with a few glasses of wine once she was asleep.
Loving the weather at the moment- what's everyone been up to in the sunshine?

Thanks for the welcome and the suggestion for an alternative user name Butt!
Been at a friends house today and Baby Twice had first proper play with friend's 8 month old DS when I just let her get on with it. We've been to baby groups etc but I'm just too anal to let her play with all the communal toys as I see all the other older babies with 2 steams of snot pouring out of their little noses! I know she just needs to get in there and catch some bugs. Chicken pox is apparently already doing the rounds!