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

[MrsAukerman]

New thread, new moves, new poo!

Nightmare!

Now DD is pulling herself up on things NOTHING IS SAFE!

So far this morning she has had DP's revolting sock from yesterday (which he leaves scattered around the house so everything smells like rancid feet unless I grab them to wash fast enough), a glass coaster from the coffee table, two TV remotes, DPs online banking keypad thing and an empty water bottle! Have had a frantic dash around removing things from edges of all furniture and am getting sicker blanks and cable ties/clips for electrics this afternoon!

*socket

Not sicker.

Twiglet we never bothered with socket covers after reading all sorts of stuff online about them:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5039454/Electrical-socket-safety-covers-are-absurd-and-dangerous-say-engineers.html

cant believe how mobile some of the babies in the group are getting now! dd is rolling & turning & pulls her legs under her bum but cant get on all fours yet.

she has really started babbling though & we're getting lots of dadadadada, blablablablablabla and ayayayayaya.

and this one

www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/

sorry links dont work!

http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/

Omama we only spin around on back and roll to side no complete roll but have perfected a push along on back to get to things.

Evening folks.

been lovely to read and catch up with all your baby and non baby related news!

at home with my folks for 3 weeks.,its bliss with all the extra hands and our babyboom LOVES all the attention. Even after a few days I can see such a difference in her and she is enjoying having a large audience,for all her tricks of hand clapping, waving and blowing kisses.
she started crawling and my mum,was,so pleased her first proper crawls,were to her. Boom pulls herself,upright on anything she can - sofas, tables, oven door (!) and has started cruising,around. she is also quite into pushing herself to her feet with hands flat,on the ground - doing a mini headstand!
her big sis didnt crawl but bum shuffled from around 10 months - its amazing just how different they are!

boom's sleep has gone to pot - she doesn't seem to be really deep asleep at night - doing,mini head stands, crawling, getting bum,in the air. I think she can't quite switch off from,new skills. Arghhhhh!

sometimes I think it was indeed alot easier with a newborn!!!!

Shit sleep here too. DD up four times between 8:30 and 10 last night, gave up when she woke twice more before 11:30 and had her in bed with me all night but I cannot go on like this! Sleep training tonight. I am knackered.

Bad night here too, DD now just sits up, finds the dummy and complains loudly through it when she wakes! Argh. Going to try to cut out the 10.30/11pm feed in the hope that that will eventually push her to a later first wake-up. Not sure if I just try to fob her off with water or just shush and rock her back to sleep - either way she won't be happy.

weeonion great to hear from you, your DD sounds incredibly active, that's amazing! Glad you're enjoying the time with your folks, I agree, it's so nice to be able to sit down properly with a cup of tea when there are other relatives around to help entertain.

If you'd asked me a month ago I'd have said DD would be crawling any day - she was doing the rocking thing and sooo close...but it's still not officially happened and I'm now not convinced she'll bother at all - she has new SWAT-style commando thing going -sit up, frantic roll in direction of choice, sit up, frantic roll..it's quite funny.

Must have been the night for bad nights.... - I can join the club too. Thought it was teething pain as the crying was completely different to anything I've heard before so gave her a dose of Calpol which helped settle her a bit, but still up with her at 1am...then she was sick all over the kitchen floor this morning when in her walker, so maybe it was a dodgy tummy...

Still, shouldn't complain as this was the first disturbed night's sleep in a while, it just comes as more of a shock when that's the case!

Greenstone I started giving less overnight. In other words only 2/3oz a feed. I rocked him as I fed and the split second his eyes started to close I eased that bottle out.

But I always made up 5oz bottles cos You never know how its going to go - some nights he guzzled the whole thing in a minute so was obvs hungry. But I just didn't assume he was hungry most nghts, iykwim.

After a couple of weeks i started making up 5oz bottles with only 2 scoops of formula. You'll see them naturally start to leave most of it behind after a while and then they drop it after a week or two.

In the interests of clarity I doubt I'd have been able to do it without the dummy though. They need to suck on something.

We're going to try to put him to sleep in his own room tonight - gulp! Tnis could be a disaster - he hasn't even had a nap in that bed yet. But we're worn out with his 5.30am dawn chorus. We need to be able to ignore him a bit more rather than just lie there miserably staring up at the ceiling for half an hour before giving in at 6am. He's so LOUD!

I'm half dreading it but it has to be done. I bloody need to get our bedroom back. That child is a total passion killer!

Anna did you do that for all overnight feeds or just the first? I hope it works with boob also. the NCSS seems to think it does, that you just gradually feed for shorter and shorter times and eventually just for a few seconds and then they drop it. Not wholly convinced that she won't just keep up waking anyway for the craic, but it seems like one of the easier things to try!

greenstone We've been reducing night feeds as part of our sleep training and that part has worked pretry quickly. I just decided on 2 feed times (12 and 4) and any other times I try by just shhing and then by rocking back to sleep. Last night she didn't wake other than 12 and 4 (but was up for the day at 5.20).

Successfully 'hooped' her naps today too so got 2 x 1.5 hours which has NEVER happened before! I also slept then so feeling refreshed :)

brekkie today was peach slices and porridge, lunch was totally random, pieces of butternut squash, apple, mushroom and toast. Mushroom went down a storm. Dinner was meatballs in tom sauce, pieces of cheese, soya yogurt, pieces of apple. She was so hungry I just kept throwing more food on her tray, felt a little like feeding time at the zoo!

ladydolly that really made me laugh - "feeding time at the zoo" is exactly what it feels like here too sometimes!

Breakfast today was Greek yoghurt with mashed banana and strawberries. Lunch was mincemeat, carrots and potatoes with a couple of fingers of pitta bread (first try of this went ok). Dinner was a random mixture as we were out and about: tried an Ella's Kitchen pouch but it wasn't a hit (only had 3 spoons). Ended up with a pot of Yeo fromage frais, 3 pitta bread fingers, 4 strawberries and 2 tomato corn snacks...

Out of interest, what times do others tend to feed meals? Ours are approximately as follows: breakfast = 7.15am; lunch = 12.30pm; tea = 4pm

Breakfast about 7.30 or 8.00
Lunch 11.30
Dinner 16.30

Bath 18.00 then straight to bed

7, 12, 5.

haven't The mess of the meatballs from head to toe (and floor) did add to the picture!

She just woke and settled herself. We're making progress here!

All of them greenstone. Though at that stage there were only the 11.30/midnight one and then a 3.30/4am one usually.

.......Cos he was up for the day at 5.30! Yayyyyyy!

Took ages to settle him in his new room - it was much too interesting. And only when we attempted to close the door we realised it was warped and doesn't close!!! We obviously haven't fully shut that door in years! Hopefully the light won't waken him.

Dd fell off the bed just before bedtime horrible horrible thwack. She seems ok but oh the guilt. Had a lump of sudocreme on my hand for her bum and suddenly she was on floor. Boob seemed to improve matters but she was overtired and teething to start with she's gone to bed covered in random streaks of sudocreme where I was cuddling her. No sleep training tonight.

Great about the self settle lady!

Lying here feeling my boobs are about to explode (dd missed out a feed yesterday) but can't be arsed to get out of bed and hand express to relieve the pressure

mrsA out of interest do you give a milk feed between dinner and bath time? Dd also goes to have a bath around 6 then straight to bed (I bf her before the bath) so I'm thinking that if I gave her dinner any later than 4ish she's not going to have any appetite for the milk feed around 5.45....

No milk between dinner and bath but feed to sleep or until he's full then he wiggles himself to sleep on our bed.
Day roughly as below
Boob
Breakfast
Boob to nap
Lunch
Boob to nap
Boob to nap
Dinner
Boob to bed
Boob all fecking night

We do breakfast 8ish ( though she never eats any) lunch anytime 12/1ish depending on if we're out and then dinner isn't till 6, bed at half 7 which seems to suit Her. Any earlier and I just end up fighting her.

No idea what was wrong with me yesterday, spent most of the day in tears, poor DP just sent me to bed in the end!

The last line made me MrsA!

Ark hopefully just one of those days - I know I have them

Had a better night here last night. Had some weird-sounding crying at 9pm but when I went in to reassure her, I'm not convinced she was awake as her eyes were closed every time I went in (about 5 times over 3-4 min period).

Routine here is

• Boob 5-6am and then back to sleep for a bit

-Wake for the day between 7-8 depending on bedtime and time of early morning boob - usually she demands more boob

-Breakfast about 8.15 if here or 9am if at CM

-Sleep 10.15-11.10 at CM

-4oz formula at 11.20

-Lunch at 12.45

-Boob to sleep at home at 2.15pm, sleep anything between 30mins and 1.hr 45

-Dinner at 4.30/5 (sometimes a bit of boob again before or after dinner)

-Boob and bed 7-8pm depending on how the day has gone.

Hm that all sounds a bit convoluted but she's just fallen into the day's pattern really.

How many milk feeds per 24hrs are all the babies getting? DD2 seems to still get about 6-7 boob feeds plus extra formula which I think is pretty on par with what DD1 was getting at this age.

7-9 boob feeds. Some night time ones are probably unnecessary though.
How does the CM get yours to sleep green?