November 2014: The one that needs baby-proofing!

[ladydolly]

And maybe ends with 1st birthdays!!

Oh yeah, nothing to be done about the pooey nappy really. Hate that!

Well, whenever I NEED to get a child have a snooze in order to get through an afternoon, I either put them in the buggy with loads of blankets and go for the rumbliest longest walk I can find (and treat myself to a takeaway coffee while I'm at it), or, if it's both of them, stick them in the car and go for a drive (with a travel mug of tea).

The buggy doesn't always work but it does 90% of the time and at least it keeps them quiet. Being inside with an overtired baby or toddler is just horrendeous.

I've just got him down for his first afternoon nap in weeks. Hurray!

(Desperately prays it helps)

And tomorrow morning unless the whiff of poo greets us at the door I'm going to give him a bottle in the dark.

BRw, those of you who still change nappies before morning - how do you do it? We haven't changed a nappy at night since he stopped midnight poos at 12 weeks, and he's been in pitch black since he went into his own room. Do you turn on a light or (stupid question) do it in the dark ninja-style? If we even turned on a nightlight DS would NEVER go back to sleep so I'm baffled how it works for others. Do you take him out of the cot and do it on the floor? Do they not start wanting to play? Its hell enough changing his nappy during the day!

Anna not changing over night her. The only occasion I would do it - if DD would wake up and would smell of poo. If she smells but is asleep, I turn my back to her bed and try to convince myself the room smells of lilies .

DD for last 2-3 weeks has firmly gone to a sole lunch time nap only, somewhere between 11.30 and 2pm, around 1hr. She goes to bed as very early at 7pm, but most of nights would stay up even till 8pm. Up at 6.30am. I definitely feel that missing nap by the end of the day. Letting it go though in a hope that it will come handy once she is in nursery till 6pm 4 days a week. Will give us time to take her home, have dinner and have a bit of time with her.

We just don't nappy change n when he has popped in night and had to change I have fed him back to sleep boob solves all in my world I am for an easy life

Haven't had to change a nappy in the middle of the night for months! When we did, we turned a dim light on. Very occasionally have to change one shortly after she's gone to bed, but 99.9% of the time this follows about 30mins of full-on screaming so she's definitely awake. ...

ladydolly got a horrible feeling that we're joining you in the middle of the night fun and games situation - and there was I thinking we'd passed through that. ... For the last 2 nights dd's been awake / crying out / chatting / sitting up on and off (which is the worst part - why can't it be all over at one go? !) for 3 hrs between 1-4am...sometimes we've been clambering out of bed to sort her out and it all goes quiet at the point of no return... oh well. As usual I'd really like to know why, but never will. ..don't think it's teeth as she settles herself back to sleep most times and it's pretty quick (but after making enough noise to wake us up. ..); don't think she's cold (in a 2.5 tog bag and sleep suit); can't be hungry as she's eating enough to feed a small army. ...but according to the app, she's 1 day away from wonder week thing. ..

Fun and games here from 4-5.30 am. Then I was up at 6.30 for a 12 hr shift whilst according to DH the little fecker slept in till 8!

Anna I totally get the being up then putting them back down and no point you going back to bed before needing to be up for work, least you only need to do it one day a week although sometimes I am not sure being at home sleep deprived is any easier than work sleep deprived.

Well we normally never have a poo until he's been up for half an hour or so so I was ignoring your plea for info on dealing with that. Until today that is! DH was in charge and took him into the bathroom with main light on and got weed on and there was lots of screaming (mostly from ds!). Needless to say he wouldn't go back to sleep.

Morning all!

Haven’t how was last night? Did you get a long wake up again?

Our was HIDEOUS. It was a battle to get her down in the first place then she slept from about 8.30 – 10.30 then up from 10.30 – 12.30 when I eventually kicked DP into spare room and brought her in with me, she slept until 4 and that was it. I just couldn’t get her to stay asleep. She would fall asleep feeding and wake up as soon as I put her down. Or she just wanted to chat and play. She only really cried if I left her or tried to get her to sleep without feeding. I’m at the end of my tether. 4 hours sleep just isn’t long enough. I don’t know what to do. She won’t take a bottle from either of us anymore. She flips out when DP goes in to her rather than me. She will only go back to sleep on the boob and even that takes hours now. All of the gentle sleep solutions are about moving from boob to rocking – she hates rocking. It’s boob or nothing. I really didn’t want to let her cry but it’s starting to look like the only option :(

We did cold turkey on the night feeds and although it didn't solve the night wakings he's now quicker and easier to settle and either parent can do it so we do alternate nights. He did scream bloody murder the first night but DH was with him the whole time and I just listened to a podcast to try and drown it out!

Well I did some (desperate) Googling and it seems its a 12 month sleep regression.

Apparently its a thing. They don't cry so much during this one - its more that their nap/sleep routing gets all fucked up for a few weeks.

So myself and DH have decided that we're not going to try to "solve" it anymore. We're just gonna roll with it and be philosophical and try to catch sleep where we can.

We're going to be relaxed about naps and treat each day as unique. None of this "well he did X yesterday, SO WHY THE FUCK IS THIS HAPPENING TODAY??!"

Cos we've been like that for the last two weeks and we've tried EVERYTHING, and nothing has worked, and all its doing is making us want to cry!

Oh bloody hell. Not another sleep regression phase? ???

So another appalling night last night but really think this is due to a really horrible chesty cough she has. ..I'm not exaggerating when I say that the longest stretch of sleep she (& therefore we) had last night was 30 mins

Took her to the docs this morning cos not only does she have this terrible cough, but it seemed that she's finding it difficult to breathe (really freaked me out yesterday when you could see her chest going concave as she breathed) and she has all this gunk coming out of her eyes. Poor little mite couldn't open them this morning. ..anyway, no chest infection but another virus and given antibiotics for her eyes (it's gonna be a nightmare trying to get them in).

Not holding out any hope for a better night tonight and like you Anna, we're just trying to go with the flow and do whatever is necessary to get us through this bit - sod the sleep training techniques for now!

haven't your poor dd :( Just on the eye gunk, the absolute best thing to clear that IME is breast milk (if you're still feeding). Not something that would be widely known by GPs, but it really works and might be something to try if the antiobiotic drops are too tricky to get in.

Haven't I second using bm on eyes clears up in couple days. My ds had his cough 3mths before an almost def diagnosis of asthma started the steroids on Fri and seen some improvement and had been on ventolin a while. Also if her breathing is affected like that again please take her to an urgent care centre or a+e that means she is really struggling - also it's probably a bit early but not impossible to be bronchiltitus.

Oh no not another sleep regression! There's a wonder week not long after 12m too :-( I'm just hoping it waits long enough to get us past DD's birthday on Thursday, she is a real ray of sunshine at the moment, apart from a bit of clinginess. It would be fab if she was still as happy on her birthday. We have both sets of GPs round and my brother and his wife and their 3 week old baby - the cousins will meet for the first time, it's very exciting :-)

We're still getting night time wakings a few times a week - boob is the solution here too. It's actually the main thing stopping me from trying to wean her off BF! Also her room isn't pitch black, we have a red ikea night light on which gives enough light to change a nappy by. Having said that we have been talking about stopping milk in the night in the hope it helps to give her a push to go through most of the time.

Anna definitely a good idea to stop analysing it - that way madness definitely lies. On Saturday night DD had 4oz of her bottle at 7pm and slept through til 7:30. On Monday night she had 12oz of bottle (!) at 7pm but woke at midnight and had a both-sides BF. No rhyme or reason!

Another awful night - dd able to sleep in 15-20 min stints when sat upright on one of us FOR THE WHOLE NIGHT. ...

Completely forgot about the miracle cure that is bm! Will definitely try and aim some for her eyes at next feed (or could just express a bit I suppose! )

eastmids I mentioned the concave chest to the doc yesterday and she didn't blink an eyelid. ... I was pretty scared though and think I'll definitely phone 111 next time. ..really hope it's none of the things you mentioned .

Still, at the moment she's managing to nap but I expect that she'll cough soon and that'll put an end to it

We had 2 nights sleeping through till 7 am here. We've never ever had later than 6.15 here so we're very suspicious it's all going to go tits up.

Just after we start to believe that it's changed for good no doubt, lol.

It means his naps are a constantly moving target. There's a funeral I want to go to today - a guy I went to school with - but he'll probably be napping then. Who knows?

Oh and in a lovely power cut right now. Second one in 2 days. Haven't even have a cup of tea! No CBeebies either, which it seems I miss more than him!

Oh haven't sounds hideous!! For all of you :(

Last night was better, down no probs. Feeds and 1.30, 3.30 then at 4.30 I couldn't get her back down so put her in bed with me until 7 when my alarm woke her. She's woke with a streaming nose and chesty cough but seems happy enough so still gone to cm.

Happy birthday to the early Novembers!!

Haven't I am surprised doc wasn't concerned and didn't suggest same as me if happens again, my doc whenever take baby for anything asks about breathing and reminds what to look for. Hope your lo is better soon children bounce back as quickly as they get unwell.

Oh n 5 times last night teeth cough high temp no 2 nights the same here we too will be stopping night time boob after 1 but may wait til time off over Xmas husband has first week school hols and I have second week with couple days overlap.

Hello, sorry I've been off thread. Crap sleeps here too. Crap poos crap everything. If she doesn't sleep through im canceling her birthday party not really

I got to work at 7am today and left at 11pm. Got home to my own poorly baby, have been spectacularly vomited over and she insists on continuing to breastfeed so am expecting a repeat soon. Had 5 broken hours of sleep last night and not slept yet:(

Oh happy that is bad. You must be on your knees!

Had 2x1.5hrs sleep before it was time to get up and get DD1 ready for school. We had lots of sick, lots of crying, but she is sitting playing with toys now.
this is my look of crazed exhausted bewilderment