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

[MrsAukerman]

New thread, new moves, new poo!

We've been actually making it worse I think, cos the whining noise stops when you stick the dummy in - like magic! - so we've been doing that, thinking we were being kind cos it calmed him right down.

But it hasn't made it better, its just turned him into a wee junkie in the space of a week or so, and now the whining is constant FOR the dummy.

I'm battling it out today though, determined. No sleep = no dummy.

OK so he's actually got a virus. I ended up taking him to children's A&E. Sat expressing while dh sits with him upstairs. Sad faces all round.....

Oh no :( hope he's better soon MrsA

Weiiiird day with dd. She's been so grumpy and really sensitive, crying as soon as she's put down, seemed to only want me rather than dp but didnt want cuddles either. Ocassional bright happy spots but kind of put a dampner on her first trip to the beach and a day spent with our friends. We're staying at theirs tomorrow which I'm dreading given last night she shouted for nearly 3 hours from 2am onwards.

MrsA :(

ok better night here so hopefully she just had a random bad day.

MrsA How is ds doing?

Still won't feed so having to express and give in a doidy cup and make sure he drinks water. Also he's uncharacteristically easy to settle to sleep which is a relief in one way but makes me realise he must be properly ill.

So the goodnight milk... Have tried it two nights now. DD clears the whole bottle in 3 minutes, last night offered the usual milk afterwards and she had another 2oz of it as well. In terms of waking nothing has changed though, she still wakes for milk every 3-4 hours.
She is having huge interest in my plate content recently, other day she had a good dig in my pasta with vegetables source and finished off 3 pieces of fusili and bits of different veggies. The whole thing with the goodnight milk makes me think that maybe she is hungrier baby than I think and maybe I should up the game and start to give her something more substantial during the day.

Ark DD has head circumference above 100 percentile and they want to do MRI to exclude possibility of hydrocephalus although they all agree that most likely she simply is repeating what everyone else in our family does (all 4 her cousins have had the same big head thing. My sister is GP herself so she simply stopped to measure the head and worry about it and DH sister with the 2nd and 3rd DC avoided HVs etc at all). Then again our DD length is 90% and weight 70%, for the small farts her parents are (both under 5,50 feet), DD is a massive baby at this point not only headwise.

Any improvement mrsA?

We are back from holiday.
DD2 is still not asleep. I have been trying to put her to bed for 2hrs. DH has just taken over so I can eat dinner :(
On holiday the cot provided by the cottage was not in our bedroom and it couldn't be moved, so I slept in a different room to her for the first time ever. For about 2hrs, then she would wake back up and refuse to be put back down and end up in our bed. So not that great but still a novelty!

WhilE we were away DH had a mattress topper delivered. He has already put it on the bed. I Don't think it's safe for DD, so no more sleeping in our bed for her (or me on the nights when I can't even put her down) :(
Obviously he didn't ask or think about that before buying it.

We had one on our bed happy but moved it to guest bed before dd arrived. I think you are probably right...we have now moved to guest bed leaving dd in our old room. She has come in with us once or twice but doesn't sleep properly in bed with us both anyway so never for long.
I went out last night :) not for too long just dinner. Dd was relatively good for dh, one settle and he gave her a bottle around 11pm but she woke again at 12 as I was coming home. I had bought hungry baby formula by mistake -lol.

Big improvement thanks. He fed at about 1530 and then again for bedtime. Phew. There were a couple of points today where I got quite worried about him. He's only skinny and still won't take bottles properly so it was stressful when he wouldn't feed.

Still out of sorts here but seems to like a new oaty fruity custard I have been making using ebm so that gets 4-5oz in him a day. He currently refuses breakfast, lunch was cucumber grated n stuffed in garlic pitta fingers, boiled egg and pasta twists followed by oaty custard, dinner was fish pie ate few mouthful then had some bagel when we ate and sweet potato wedges followed by oaty custard.

Started giving more snacks these las t few days to see if he will eat at different times seems to like eating in the pushchair in park after school!

Those of you who have moved baby out.....how does it work in practise?

We have a video camera - is that what you all use?

Do you find yourselves getting up and down a lot at night? Or do you find you get up less as you just leave them to self-settle a bit more than when they were in the room?

We're going to move DS out this month but I find myself scared - I don't know what to expect!

On the one hand I suspect DHs snoring isn't helping matters but on the other hand DS will feel MILES away! (Other side of the landing so not really....but it feels miles away....)

Our getting up at night didn't massively change to be honest. But we kept waking each other up turning over/coughing etc so once she was in her own room It was much better. First couple of nights I didn't trust the monitor so woke up at the slightest noise but now I don't tend to wake up unless she's shouting for me or crying. We just have a normal angle care monitor no video or movement sensor pad.

With night feeds now I can pretty much finish her bottle and go back to bed and listen to her chat and get comfy over the monitor, usually results in her waking me up a couple of hours later as we both drift off at the same time ish I think! Sorry none of that's cery helpful lol

Thought we'd lost bunny today, she won't sleep without it, scared me enough to get online and purchase a back up!

Can you add a spare me to that order? I've created a boob dependent little mummy's boy!

This morning I fed dd at 5.50am, then put her back in cot and went back to bed. We had an appointment at 9 at the new house so was conscious I needed to be up soon ish, but just conked out. Woke at 9 alone and rang dh in a panic, he was out at the house. Said I'd be out ASAP and thought to myself how nice of him to get the kids ready and out the door in time and let me lie in.

Hastily packed a bag for the dds as I knew dh wouldn't have done this. Went into dd 2's room to turn off white noise and left again. Was all ready to leave when I thought to grab her comforter from the cot. Popped back in, reached into cot and shrieked! Dd2 was still in there hiding up horizontal across the top, dummy in, fast asleep! At 9.25am!!!

Fright of my life at how close she came to being abandoned. Dh had taken only dd1 with him. At some point after 6am dd must have woken, found dummy (I hadn't given it to her after last feed), inserted, scooted back up to the top of the cot and had another snooze. Bizarre.

She was in great form today. Sadly has already woken twice since 7pm though.

Another 2hrs of bedtime crying...
Eventually DH seems to realise I've been a long time, comes up and takes her, she is asleep and in the cot in 5mins.
A few weeks ago she was crying for ages at bedtime then sleeping for 6hrs, but last night she woke up every couple of hours, and I had to sleep sitting up holding her because I can't put her down on the squishy mattress topper (if she would let me put her down at all anyway).
Must be time to do some sleep techniques. She cries when I hold her so she might as well cry in the cot instead. Will look at the book again tomorrow if I'm not too tired to read.

Wohoo, DD is clapping hands!! She looks so happy about it as if realising she can now do one more thing.

Anna we moved ds at 5mths into room next door this is when sleep initially got better I do leave him til really moaning he is on angelcare mat as well.

First tooth has actually started to cut hoping once first one has cut the rest are less traumatic ds1 was never bothered that much by teeth bit medicine and all was well and never woke at night this monkey teeth along with anything else seems to bother him and at night only boob will do and in the day a good ol whinge but not boob!!

Yesterday ate couple spoons weetabix, lunch was fish pie we have cut portions down to half what was offering as wasn't eating and has eaten all followed by 1/4 fruit pot, dinner we had a bbq he had some pork burger, king prawn, bread and a flat peach the peach was loved all eaten and skins slung to side! Had oaty fruity custard for pudding.

Strawberry we have clapping here too been doing for couple weeks but he just realised people are impressed so does it for everyone now

MrsA if only we could all have an extra 'self'!!!

Back from hols, last night with friends was hideous. She was too excited to sleep so took me ages to get her down and in between settling sessions the friend kept giving advice. Came from a good place but meant it felt like it took over the evening. Then we slept on a futon, feeding a baby in a futon and then transferring to a travel cot - not easy. I eventually just kept her in the bed where she was on and off the boob all night.

Home last night and same scenario, wouldn't settle, up loads so bring her into bed for on off boob for hours. Soooooo tired.

Today is my 'morning off' but have already done 2 loads of washing, breakfasted and dressed dd, washed up, written shopping list and packed her bag for them to go out. Now its bloody raining when I want to go to the allotment. So tired and so annoyed.

Huge hugs for those with boob monsters. It sounds so hard. I don't know how you're doing it tbh.

I'm hust worried that i'll sleep through him moaning in the night tbh. Though I know there's a massive volume control on the monitor. Truthfully he doesn't wake much any more and I don't give him a bottle anymore so its definately time. He's eating MASSIVE amounts. Its helping hugely. So feed 'em up ladies!

We've been trying to teach DS to clap but he just looks at us delighted and makes no attempt to copy it!