November 2014 - The one where they won't stay still.

[MrsAukerman]

New thread, new moves, new poo!

I definitely Wrote a post that hasn't turned up here. I think it was yesterday.

I discovered that, as eastmids said, the consultant was wrong. Babies can't have soya milk as a drink. It even says that on the Alpro soya carton. I don't know if she is also wrong about being able to buy soya-based formula n supermarkets. They didn't have any in Sainsburys on Thursday, but they had very little formula in. The shelves were almost empty in the baby milk section. Will look again tomorrow. Unfortunately I also have to work with her professionally, so can't just tell her she is all wrong.
I have spoken to my manager this week and delayed my return to work by a couple of weeks. I thought I was asking to add 4 weeks unpaid leave, but apparently I had booked 2 weeks annual leave after the end of my mat leave which I had then forgotten about, so I can keep those 2 weeks and only have 2 unpaid weeks. This means I won't go back until after DD1 starts school and have longer to sort out DD2's sleeping. There is no way I can do 13hr shifts on so little sleep or leave her all night to go to work while she wakes up at least every 2 hours and only settles if I feed her.
Today she had tuna mayo sandwich and cucumber sticks for lunch. For dinner we had pizza and salad. She had some of the crust which didn't have any cheeses on to munch, some cucumber and tomato slices, some mashed butter beans left over from yesterday.
Hope this posts today.

happy I don't if this helps at all but when I was pg I had a holistic therapist for reflexology and she gave her babies powdered goats milk which you can get in waitrose, but not on the baby aisle (which where it used to be apparently) but with the milk/powdered milk. I can't believe how wrong the consultant has got it!!!

dp is in Berlin for the weekend. I think babydolly knows because she will not bloody go to sleep! Naps have been perfect today so can't blame it on that. She might be a bit hot but she's only in a vest no grobag. She's going to sleep but waking when I put her down/when she realises I'm not there. I've given her my vest in the hope the smell soothes her. In the end I've stuck her in my bed, 15 mins so far...

omama the first nap used to be around 9am but of course this week its been earlier and earlier. I'll tell you how we get on tomorrow morning! Plan is: feed & ignore till 6.30 at earliest. Its gonna be torture!

......We've realised we really need to start prepping towards putting him in his own room soon. We need our sex life bedroom back.

lol us too Anna. One other thing I thought of with u mentioning him not taking more than 5oz & waking hungry - how often does he feed during the day? Do you feed by the clock now or when he shouts for it?

Weird night but not awful. He slept 1845-2145 then I went to bed once I'd sorted him and he was back in the cot. Next thing I know it's 0130 and I'm in bed with him next to me fast asleep. I must have got him out of cot, fed him again then fallen asleep.
I then dreamfed him and transferred back to cot then retrieved dh from sofa and we all slept til 0445. Strange.
Off to France camping tomorrow morning so will be largely absent. Wish us luck!

omama we still do it by the clock but actually I could have been wrong about him being hungry cos when he woke at 5.08am this morning he wasn't very hungry at all!

But we implemented the plan: We lay there and listened to him shouting his head off merrily. FOR A WHOLE HOUR AND A HALF! I did manage to get most of a precautionary bottle into him about 5.30. But he still didn't go back to sleep till 6.30.

Still though, we all went back to sleep till 8am. We all feel better for it. He hasn't had his first nap yet either.

Hope it doesn't take an hour and a half tomorrow!

I don't want to jinx it but... DD is napping IN her cot!

I am downstairs with a cup of tea on tenterhooks waiting for her to howl !

Twiglet hope she had a good nap and you enjoyed the rest too.

I went out all on my own last night with school mums baby woke just as I was leaving husband rocked him back to sleep I got home at 11 bed at 11.30 baby woke at 1 n had a feed that was a killer and then 5.15 up n thinks playtime fed for bit let him lay on my bed playing til 6 when was going to give to husband when I tried to feed again and had a good feed and went back to bed for hour n half so so glad I didn't drink though.

Today food has been breakfast weetabix with fruit, lunch butternut squash curry ate more than normal of it then had some toasted ciabattta and a breast milk ice lolly, dinner was steak n veggies followed by a whole oaty fruity dessert pot! We are due to have dinner shortly so sure he will have some bits with us.

Got rice pudding made with breast milk in oven hope turns out ok as 1/4 the recipe couldn't pump a whole pint :)

Twiglet I'm really excited for you! - how long did she last for??? I still think it's amazing that DD will now nap in her cot bed during the day after having almost 6 months of her only falling asleep when I took her out in the pram (she says touching wood very fast).

Food intake today: breakfast - porridge with mashed banana and some whole banana to "play" with. Lunch - pureed butternut squash and parsnip which was a big hit. Frozen cucumber sticks to gum on which she loves as I think her teeth have been giving her a load of trouble over the last few days.

Eastmids very impressed with you being able to express enough for 1/4 of the rice pudding - I've found that I no longer have to express at all (was doing so to ease the pain during the night) and sometimes fret that I'm not producing enough for her ignoring / forgetting the fact that she's 20lbs at 6 months .....

Thankfully she sleeps. Had a lovely day at the park with friends and their kids. None of the trouble from last night so dd sleeping soundly. Takeaway and a film dp wouldn't put up with. Heavenly. Now if only I could keep my eyes open til the end

Breakfast of porridge and peach slices. Lunch was broccoli spears and more peach slices. Dinner was a sachet tester again.

Hmmm someone shouted 'yummy mummy' at me out of their car window today... I guess that's the best I can hope for these days!

Nightmare bedtime! Took him up for bath at 1815 and only just back down now. Hope that the night's not rough too as I /we have to drive to Dover tomorrow. Gah.

Hope your night improved, MrsA.

Thanks, havent! She slept in cot for about 40 minutes, which was fab! We were out for the rest of the day so no chance to try again and similar today, so fingers crossed I can get her down in there again this morning.

Only one wake up too at 4:15 this morning. Food intake yesterday was toast and plum jam for breakfast, lunch was a banana wafer and a chip (so not great!) and dinner was sweet potato and butternut squash mash, which she yaffled like it was going out of fashion.

Lady, that made me chuckle! 6 months post birth that's pretty complimentary really, in a creepy perv sort of way!

Eastmids, glad you enjoyed your night of freedom!

yay baby Twiglet!

eastmids glad u had a nice night out. I went out friday night too which is a rarity for me these days

happy hols Amy have a great time.

ladydolly I never like it when people shout things at me but i'd take it as a compliment!

anna so going by the clock, how frequently does he eat? If its less than 4hrs I would try & stretch him out a bit & he might then take a bigger volume.

We are finding dd is cutting her milk intake but she still has 5 feeds in 24hrs (4day/1night). She fed at 5am this morning & so wasnt hungry for her morning feed & had just 2oz. Seem to think ds dropped to 3 in the day around this age but might have been a bit older, cant remember.

BabyFiend is in her cot again! I am drinking a cup of tea with both hands! I think I might swoon from the excitement.

Still struggling to get to grips with this weaning business. Nights have gone to shit now and dd is waking up more than she did as a newborn!

DS had 6oz at 11.30, then woke up at 4am and laughed and chattered and SHOUTED till 5.20am. It definately wasn't hunger this time. And its not light, as we have blackout curtains.

Even getting him down at 5.20 involved a shattered mum rocking him for 15 mins otherwise he'd have given us another hour of it.

He went back to sleep then till 7am. Even then he wasn't that starving, was messing around with the teat etc.

I guess I just have to keep this up for the week and see if it stops. I'm not in great forn these days though, Dads death is finally starting to hit me and its agonising. Yesterday started weeping in Boots. DH says it totally normal and I know that - but I could really do with not being awake half the night right now!

omama it probably not every four hours. Weaning has disrupted it a bit but I can't imagine DS going longer than 3.5 even with all the food. Should it be purely on demand now then? I was afraid to in case I was starving the poor mite!

Really thinking of you Anna - I had "delayed grieving" (for want of a better description) when my Mum passed away at the beginning of last year. TBH I probably stuck my head in the sand and focussed on keeping my Dad on the straight and narrow and also on me being pregnant...really hit home after DD was born at the end of the year and Mum never even knew I was pregnant... Like you, my DH said it was perfectly normal and he was actually getting to the stage of being worried that I wasn't grieving...doesn't make it any easier though does it? Hope your DS gives you a much improved night tonight

Thanks havent. Exactly like that, having to take care of elderly & wobbly Mum 24/7 ever since, so between her & baby just zero time to even process. I'm still crazy busy as no nursing home bed available yet, but I guess my subconscious is finally starting to twig he's not just out at the shops, but I'm actually never going to have a chitchat with him ever again. We were great pals, and used to have really good gossipy chats over tea.

At least I'm still on the happy pills as apparently you can't just stop them cold turkey after the funeral is over. That irritated me at the time, but maybe its for the best now that its hitting me.

To make up for last night, DS is being completely wonderful today. Pub lunch and not a peep out of him! He just sat on my knee looking adorable. Bless his teeny tiny socks.

Hoping for a better start to the night. Last night DD slept for about a hour then woke up and cried and screamed inconsolably for a hour. I don't know why. She was no worse than usual for the rest of the night.

We were at in-laws for Sunday dinner, so she had a variety of veggies, some potato and a piece of pork. She was very interested in pork. DH is vegetarian and I don't really know how to cook meat so she has never had anything like roast pork before. Obviously couldn't actually eat it with no teeth but enjoyed sucking it.
At lunch I made 'pizza' by spreading tomato purée on pitta bread and topping it with sliced mushroom and grated carrot. Think we will be having that again tomorrow as DD1 will be impressed with a more pizzay version topped with melted cheese.

Thinking of you anna, you've beeb through alot, it'll take some time to process. Actually lovely to hear the way you talk about your dad as a pal, how special. Definitely don't stop yhe pills, has to be reduced gradually or you can feel worse than you did to start with.

Weird day with babydolly, didn't wake til 7.15, lately it's been 5.30, certainly no later than 6.30. 1st nap as usual at 9.30 then nothing but a 20 min catnap in the buggy at 2. She was in a great mood all day though so didn't push it. Went to bed fine but not in grobag so she's just in a vest but I've popped a blanket over her until she wakes for a feed. Still muggy here.

Ahhhhhr sleep has gone to pot up at 9.30, 1 n now and feeds for 20mins I only go to him if he crys as well which I think he has worked out! Just gave some ibuprofen in case it's teeth but guessing not as been up twice a night for while and over past few nights 4/5am thinks it playtime and takes forever to go back down. Hoping growth spurt and will be good again soon.

Glad it's not just Me east dd has just gone back to sleep after waking up at half 3 :(

Haven't been posting much last week as my sister and nephew were visiting us. Because of the same reason the meals have gone to minimum as we were out and about for the most of the day and I was too lazy to bring baby food with me. So DD had breakfast with us (to my big shame most of the mornings it was banana mashed up with strawberries, yoghurt and some bits what we ate) and then dinner if she was still awake. On the good note, DD has started to feed herself with finger foods and those carrot stix are a huge hit, she would eat them at any point. I just have to be careful we don't reduce her meals to them because she loves them and it's so easy to feed them.
Sleep has gone to pot recently also here, worse than when she was 2 months old definitely. She wakes around 3 times a night, after feed she doesn't just drop off straight away as she used to, but is still whining for a bit. And then she is up between 4-5am all ready to go and would not keep quiet to let poor parents to rest. I have managed to get her quickly back to sleep by bringing her to our bed, then she goes till 7.30am. Obviously, this involves nappy change beforehand to avoid any surprises in the big bed. Argh....
So plan for this week is to take up seriously the baby feeding and try to do something about her sleep. Got that trust techniques book, so might start with the 12 tips. She goes to sleep for the night easy, so don't see much point for techniques, but hope the tips might help her get to sleep for longer at night. Wish me luck... Saying that it is already going off road. Made her porridge for breakfast, she ate little and it's almost 12am and she still hasn't had a nap (jumping her a$%e off in jumpero).