November 2014: The one that needs baby-proofing!

[ladydolly]

And maybe ends with 1st birthdays!!

Aw happy massive hugs for you. Try Nurofen the next time, I'm convinced it has a sedative effect though it doesn't say so. Poor baba.

I did a long shift in A&E yesterday. It was chaos. And we'd had a couple of wake-ups the night before so I was shattered. He went back to sleep with 10 mins of cuddling but I found it hard to get back to sleep afterwards so I had a shit night.

We've twigged that during these episodes its his digestion - he seems to be straining hard, even though he doesn't poo till next morning. We also realised that his mucus-y snuffliness might not be coincidental. So we've stopped the dairy again, after giving whole milk in cereal quite liberally this month. Back to almond milk - he slept better last night so maybe he really isn't great with digesting dairy after all?!!

(Well, he woke at 5am but turns out he was wet - we'd run out of the green Pampers and chanced the Aldi ones we use during the day. Big mistake! )

Ok so being a second time parent and a maternity night nanny you would think I would know what the + on nappies is for I thought it was in between the main sizes so 4+, 5+ but it's actually means there is an extra booster in the nappy to hold more wee!!

Oh and sleep well it's getting worse feels like one step forward 3 steps back at the moment

Omg I thought the exact same as you!

I did too - why am I dicking around with 4 when I could have 4+??

Please please please can someone tell me why this baby won't sleep?? she was up every hour between 10 and 2 and then between 2 and 5 she just would not be put down, gave in and brought her into bed with me but even then had to lay down while she was on the boob and she stayed on there for an hour and then slept til 6.45. I am exhausted. I'm finding it so hard to keep my head in the game at work.... thank god I'm just fannying about events and not in A&E like you Anna!

She has a runny nose though so maybe that's bothering her. searches desperately for reasons it might be different tonight

Dp got a new job today, one step closer to giving up work (daydream only unfortunately).

Well starting last night we're officially night weaning. (More cold turkey than weaning tbh). Night wakings get daddy and water and cuddles and rocking and even co-sleeping but no mummy. First wake up took 2 hrs! Good luck daddy tonight. The aim is of course that he starts to realise there's no point waking at night.

Seriously Eastmids???!!! - I'm another one who thought the "+" was for in-between sizes ....oh well, you learn something everyday!

Well we're on holiday (in Cornwall) - picked a fab week for it weather-wise as although a bit cool, it's lovely and sunny. DD discovered sand and seaweed today - quite happy playing with the seaweed, but found that sand doesn't taste too good...the look on her face was priceless

Have ditched the plan to go down to 3 BFs when she starts nursery in Nov and have started today - she's 10 months tomorrow (eek!). Didn't seem to miss the 10am one at all....

Lots of , and for those of you with terrible nights and poorly babies...

eastmids had no idea, and why was it I am storing 3 packs of 4+ bought on offer?! Checked the package of 4 and 4+, indeed 4+ says extra dryness. So tonight DD has 4+ on. So what's the point of 4? At least the Tescos baby dry ones dont seem to be bulkier or anything.

DD last two nights is struuggling (is bcs she is still awake with no signs of being ready to go back upstairs). God, thats annoying! For a baby who always goes down so easy, i really struggle, and at the moment a crap night follows the difficult bed time. This morning she was up at 4.30 and wouldnt go to till 7.00.

Glad I am not the only dimwitt regarding nappies to be fair the 4+ has a slightly larger size range on pk than size 4 but I read it recently and had a dejevu moment as sure in some distant past I may have read/heard it before so sure it's not some made up sleep deprived fact :)

I to have a stick pile of 4+ but using up the 4 first.

I wonder if nursery know as they provide nappies and use 4+ n change them every 2hrs pretty pointless really.

Apologies in advance, this must be getting boring now...

.. still no sleep. Down at 7pm, up at 10, 11, 11.30 then at 12 for 3 hours of non stop climbing, wriggling, crying, laughing and finally passed out with her feet in my face, in my bed at 3am. So I got 3 hours sleep. I'm a zombie...

Thats terrible! Is she wanting to feed every time? Can you even tell why she's waking?

We switched to almond milk and he slept through last night. We'll have to wait and see but maybe that was it?

My period came (after 40 fecking days!) so nothing to report TTC wise. But am on antibiotics for a thundering kidney infection. I think I ignored the symptoms far too long as I thought they might be pregnancy symptoms so am quite poorly now. Not that it makes any difference to my routine!

Oh lady it's so hard isn't it. Does your DD have a cold at the minute? Mine does (and a temperature) and sleep has gone to pants again. Also DD1 has a cold and has started getting up multiple times at night to pay us visits complaining about blocked nose etc. We are so wrecked. At this stage we're looking at a sleep consultant to help us once she's a year old and if there's no change once her cold has passed. I genuinely thought I would never find myself writing those words but that's parenting for you!
I'm also wondering if these evil nursery bugs will ever settle down :(

We received an appointment for DD's 12 month assessment with the HV. They sent a questionnaire to fill in for it, which has some rather bizarre questions, "Does your baby poke at or try to get a small cube of bread that it is inside a small, clear plastic bottle?" Why would I have ever given my baby that exact experience to know? Why a cube of bread? They are a few questions specifically involving small cubes of bread and how she picks them up. She can't do any of the 6 gross motor skill questions, but I'm not worried, because DD1 couldn't do any of those things at that age either and she is ok now. There are also questions about how helpful your baby is when you get her dressed "does she push her arm through a sleeve?" "does she lift her foot for her sock, shoe or trouser leg?", well no, when I dress my baby she screams, thrashes about, tries to throw herself off the changing table or crawl away if she's on the floor, kicks her legs, waves her arms, tries to take off her socks immediately!
The appointment is supposed to be tomorrow but I rearranged for a couple of weeks because the logistics of trying to fit it in tomorrow around work and nursery and school were too hard.

Not a terrible night here, probably about 5hrs broken sleep for me, which is fairly normal, but I feel exhausted anyway.
How much are sleep consultants? Maybe we should pay for that instead of a big, expensive first birthday present that she doesn't need because we already have the stuff DD1 had for her first birthday! On a serious note, I really must give some thought to what to get her because it is less than 4 weeks away.

happy psml at the cubes of bread. And also at your description of changing DD - mine is the exact same, the day that child holds out an arm to be quietly dressed is the day I have to check for changeling activity...

Sleep consultants - not cheap. But as I said to DH, the thought of how much better we would all feel as a family is kind of priceless. I dunno, we have so much going on here with work, new nursery for the children, and new house with its endless things to be done to it...we have booked a slot anyway with a sleep consultant for a couple of months' time and if it turns out that things get better before then, we'll cancel.

Off to google what DD2 should be doing by now I really can't remember was totally obsessive with dd1

big sigh I don't know. I mean things have been unsettled anyway, with the food poisoning, followed by chicken pox, followed by moving house, followed by a week with mil rather than childminder and it is less than 2 months since I went back to work. She has a runny nose but seems happy enough and has a sore bum so possibly teeth? It's just gone on for so long, she does feed every time she wakes up and last night she definitely wanted it. If she didn't have the runny nose I'd try and cuddle her back to sleep instead. Last week we topped up my boob feed with a bottle and got a few 3 hour stretches rather than hourly.

I guess I just need to wait and see if the snotty nose clears up then try some of our own sleep training... until then, bear with the boring posts where I don't ask any of you how you're doing and only talk about how tired I am.

Happy we have ours fri and have same questions we cannot do any of gross motor skills either like standing etc not concerned. The bread thing is just an example its assessing pincer grip picking up small objects.

As a maternity night nanny I charge £18/hr for me to do a night for sleep consultancy where I do a visit for 2hrs to discuss issues then daily email/telephone support and a follow-up visit for an hr after a week I would charge £250. If that helps anyone.

happy I got invite for 10 months review and there was the same question in the questionaire. I thought it was "lost in translation" case, but good to know its not just me thinking it was weird. We dont store bits of bread in empty bottles, why would she poke at it?

Also the difference between "Yes" and "Sometimes". If Monday and Tuesday she pushes arms through the sleeves, but on Wednesday she sees the ipad on the bed and launches on her stomach towards it while I am trying to dress her. Can assume that ipad in view was force majore and tick "Yes" or I should put "Sometimes" because she is easy to distract and she would not always do everything what I request, say, banging one toy with other. She is stubborn enough not to do everything I want her to do.

Tick yes.
They're only really trying to see if anyone's got any major problems that will be more cost effective if found early.
Round here they'll get all sorts. I've seen babies with cola in a bottle, McDonald's, all sorts.

Not about DD2 but: this afternoon I was just panicking about the water dripping through the kitchen ceiling when DD1's school phoned for her to be collected because she had got a bead stuck up her nose and couldn't get it out! So I spent the afternoon in A&E waiting f a doctor to help remove it. According to DD1, the bead was nothing to do with her, "it just jumped in my nose" The water had stopped dripping by the time we got home, and I don't think DH is doing anything like phoning the house insurance to sort out a plumber which he asked me to do but I had to pick up DD1 and didn't know where to find the policy details.
So, the madness doesn't end. In 3-4yrs time you too could have a child foolish enough to stick a bead up their nose!!

Happy glad doc could remove it without an OP a little girl in ds1 class has a bead in her ear that will need an OP to remove.

Ds1 came home with 2 holes in back of his jumper obviously cut with scissors someone must have caught him he obviously doesn't know what happened!! They did use scissors today though so that's a bin job worn for 2days glad we only buy the plain ones and not the£11 logo one's.

Oh happy what a nightmare!! And you eastmids, I'd be raging about the jumper!!!

Zombie update - I got 6 hours last night!!! She went down at 7, woke up at 2 for about an hour and half of feed/scramble/play/trying to get to sleep and then back down til 6.30. This is an amazing night for us. I'm not sure what we did differently other than she had an ella pouch for dinner rather than throwing stuff around and picking like she normally does. I didn't even top up with formula. I'm crossing fingers it goes the same tonight since I've to get up at 4am to go to Paris for the day. I will definitely be taking a Eurostar nap there and back!!

My zombie update is positive too: the first wake-up was before I went to bed so that didn't count, then there was about 30mins at 3ish. She woke up for the day after 7, which is unusual, but I had already been up for a while getting ready for the day and getting DD1 ready for school. I'm at work tonight so that could go either way for DH.

We have had fairly decent last two nights as well and surprise, surprise the 5th tooth is out this morning. Now its No 6 to come any time.

eastmids just reading about the jumper makes me angry.