November 2014: The one that needs baby-proofing!

[ladydolly]

And maybe ends with 1st birthdays!!

ark that sounds bloody (sorry) awful. Ice pack to try not to get a black eye I would say. My OH elbowed me in the face in his sleep years ago and I looked like I had bad plastic surgery by the end of it. Hope it isn't too painful.

On Saturday me and OH are going to a wedding without DS. Inlaws are coming to baby sit. We will be able to come home about 4. 30 between service and reception so will breastfeed then. He won't take a bottle so we are just leaving then with food dinner and porridge for him before bed. No idea how they are going to get him to sleep but OH and inlaws have told me to stop worrying. Will leave them to deal with an overtired sleep refusing 9 month old then!

Thanks cat I feel so awful for dd, I screamed and scared her then had to leave her to cry in her cot while I shoved tissue up my nose!

Hopefully you can relax and enjoy yourself on Saturday!

My baby is at nursery for his first morning just rang and he is ok he was bit tearful so gave him snack and were trying to get him to sleep (good luck!!) I did say he only cries if hungry or tired so least they listened.

Poor baby was ill fri night so I got 3hrs broken sleep before going off to wedding it was all ok traffic wasn't great but equally had worse took 4hrs each way with a stop off both boys were amazing and wedding was good.

Baby poorlyness turned out to be a cold and sore throat so dosed up on meds and such a darling has shared his germs with us all so we all feel like shit ds1 has gone to school dosed up too.

I am back to work Mon so using my morning today and while day tomorrow to clean - yep very sad but needs doing

ark pass the icepack... dd headbutted me yesterday then cried when I shouted in shock... sporting a nice black eye now!!!

east Glad he is doing OK at nursery. Will be interesting to see how they try and get them to sleep.

Have you guys had any luck with suction plates? So far all BLW and have just plonked it all on the tray. Wanted to try and get him used to a plate before nursery but it is all to exciting and he flings and grabs at the bowl/plate. Just wondering if anyone found the ones that stick to the tray any good?

Cat he was ok slept for half hr cuddled to sleep then laid on a mat thingy was crying when I collected mix of just woken up and noticing I wasn't there and hunger as he wolfed a rice cake in 30secs when walking to the car and they generally get slung.

For ds1 we used a tommee tippee suction mat on highchair that most kiddie plates stuck too which was pretty good, nuby do some suction bowls I may try. Nursery said most children fling the plates so they just end up having food off the table top.

Great success with suction bowls, she eats way more out of a bowl than if its on the tray although she does try and launch it now and again...

Thanks for that. Was looking at that magic mat. We have a few little plastic bowls so might get that to stick them too.

This is my little monkey

Lovely photo east

What a cute photo

I need to sort dds sleep out. She goes down in her cot fine ( sometime between 7 and 8) and will sleep happily with maybe one or two wake ups ( but very easy to put back to bed) till midnight, sometime between midnight and 3 she will wake up and I cannot get her back In her cot. Help! I'm ending up in the spare room every night with her and it's not a bed I can make safe. When I take her to bed with me she's asleep within 5 mins but the crap sleep/dozing is making me into a zombie. What do I do?

Lovely photo east - I've recently started putting DD in that type of swing at our local playground and she loves it too - we get loads of belly laughs from it! Next time I go to the supermarket I think I'm gonna risk putting her in those shopping trolley seats that look a bit like that. I've been too nervous that she's going to launch herself out of it before and have been using my sling, but the trolley thing would be easier...has anyone else used them yet?

Ark, sorry, no suggestions here except to go hardcore on a sleeping technique (whichever one suits you best)...that's what we did and so far so good....

DD currently napping (yippee!) and I've just found the funniest ever blog on FB - it's called "The Unmumsy Mum" - I think it's hilarious....if you need a laugh, just search for it and read some of her posts and the following replies , ,

havent I love that site! One of DS's favourite activities is to be sat in the trolley in the supermarket. I must admit a couple of times it has been raining and we need something to do, so I have gone for a wander round with no intention of buying anything. He loves it. I think it is being up high and old ladies love a baby!

ark hugs on those nights. Has it changed recently or has it always been the same? I take great solace in the idea that "everything changes". If it were me I would shift OH into the spare room at the awful wake up and take baby to bed with me, but only if you can sleep like that!

Great photo east! Dd also loves those swings, I read that you shouldn't use them til they're one but I still do, the first couple of times I wedged a blanket in behind her but I don't bother now.

Haven't we started using the trolley seats at about 7 months, dd also loves those, also wedge her in there with my handbag one side and coat on the other but I'm sure she'd be fine. The only prob is she likes to chew the handle, I don't want to go all germaphobe with my pfb but those handles must be covered in who knows what!

ark This won't be what you want to hear but the 9 month sleep regression is a 'thing'. Well, not everyone believes in it but having been through the 4 month one and now in the 9 month one - I believe in it!! And I'm just going to ride it out. Again, not what you want to hear... dd was up every hour again last night even when I had her in bed with me. At 5.30 I took her into her Dad and begged for just one hour to sleep and that is the only way I'm still functioning today. The 4 month one stopped as soon as it started if that's ANY reassurance? (passes matchsticks and gives gigantic hug)

Thanks all yeah we been using swing some time now but have yet to brave the superman trolley seat but will do soon.

Baby is having first full day at nursery today he cried when I left but I chatted to manager then watched through the door n he had settled before I left n was ok when I rang mid morning.

Lady being s professional night nanny I always believed in sleep regression but now I have experienced every one possible I am a true proper believer!!! Sleep is over rated anyway hey!!

Oh yes, unmumsy mum is awesome, also renegade mothering, loads of swears, totally love. I'm more of a facebook/instagram follower but they are so far from twee mum blogs I feel I have way more in common with them.

Oh God I don't even know where to start with sleep training! This has been the last 3 weeks or so, thing is she will sleep for a good 7 hour stretch in my bed! But I'm fed up of having to move bedrooms in the middle of the night

I'm with you east, total believer! I do think this one is made worse by coinciding with me going back to work, she's way more clingy with me than with dp and she wants to feed non stop. Because she's feeding do much at night my milk supply is way up - makes pumping either but I definitely can't miss a session now or it's really painful!

ark yours also sounds like separation anxiety, she wants to be near you. I suppose it's too late for putting something that smells like you in the cot with her? Is that only for newborns?

I think dd is frustrated by the slumbersac. She wriggles and moves around so much in her sleep that the sleeping bag just doesn't work, I put her in a wadded sleepsuit for a while but now it's getting colder I bought a slumbersac with feet but it's too big so her feet slip inside and she wakes up when she can't move around. So frustrating. So I just shelled out £26 for a sleepsnuggler. I don't spend that much on my own god damn pajamas. These baby specialists see me (and my wallet) coming. But I hold out a vague hope it might help me get a little bit more sleep...

Am I imagining things or did someone do the no cry sleep solution?

anna I don't know but I'll try anything. I can't manage a lap of the park now my back is so bad from sleeping in odd positions round dd

Well rang nursery at 2.30 n he had eaten fine and had eventually had a nap rocked in cot (it's on wheels) but had been really tearful they have few new babies who set each other off it took all my might not to dash n get him there and then but that would have achieved nothing as no choice tommorow but to do all day. Ds1 was fine with cm she text he was ok collecting them both around 5 think will get baby from nursery first

Ark I wouldn't recommend a sleep training technique that involves any leaving to cry til after a year old I would recommend sitting and dishing and patting and a gradual retreat type of thing, you have to really really want to do it as you need to be committed and although I hate little sleep I equally don't have the energy for sleep training at the moment I go for easiest route back to sleep which is boob. 9mths is a crap time to implement sleep training due to huge development leap and separations anxiety.

Perhaps I will leave it for a while then

Doesn't help that I have DM and dps mum in my ear telling me she MUST be in a cot and she's doing all this just to spite me