November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

Anna did you really mean 4ml or 40ml??? I'm loathed to go to a bottle as she's not used one of those since we were giving her formula top-ups when I was really struggling with BF. Tried again with the milk in a beaker this evening. She held the beaker, put the spout to her mouth but wouldn't take a drop. Did have about 25ml of water instead though...maybe I'm getting worried about nothing and it's ok that she's not having milk at all (as a drink) - I am trying to dose her up with yoghurt, custard, porridge, cheese etc etc....

Oops sorry 4oz!

Ds doesn't take any formula or milk during the day AT ALL. Doesn't like it in the beaker. Oddly he's a monster for water in the beaker (would literally walk around with the beaker all day sipping at will if we didn't take it off him).

I expect that if we switched to beaker for nighttime he'd drop that as well.

So like you, we're trying to get lots of cheese & youghurt into him. I'm not particularly worried as long as he gets a couple of calcium things each day. He seems to be thriving - like a little pit pony!

DS is on 2 BFs a day (6am and bedtime) then has either water or whole milk in a sippy cup pretty much at random. He drinks water a bit better than milk but will occasionally reject one for the other. Some days I realise he's had no milk til after dinner but tend not to worry about things. As a family we eat quite well and mostly cook from scratch and all veggie so plenty of greens and cheese. He does have water in a baby bottle if he wakes in the night which is a bit weird but at least won't harm his teeth.

We currently give DD for bedtime bottle with 40:60 formula to whole milk, seems to work better than simply diluting formula with water. Over the time will reduce formula to zero and will hopefully be fully on whole milk. DD doesn't drink milk during the day either, although I still have a small bottle with us if we are all day out and about, calms her down if she goes all cranky and makes traveling enjoyable. Have been giving a bottle with her to the nursery. She would drink if offered, but if stuff changed during the day and bottle was forgotten in the bag, she didn't seem mind too much either.
Funny, but for her milk goes only in bottle and water in a cup. She wouldn't drink milk from cup or water from the bottle. No idea how this whole thing will pan out over the time.

We're going to keep this "milk in a beaker" thing going for a week. Another evening with zero milk drunk but about 15 ml of water instead. I know that's peanuts, but she does drink quite bit of water throughout the day and has about 50ml of water about an hour beforehand with her tea so.....

Oh god, I feel like dd will be on the boob/bottles forever. We haven't managed to get her on to cows milk at all, outright refusal, even when I mix cows milk with formula. She normally has boob morning and bedtime and maybe when I get in from work but while I'm off she asks for it at least 3 times during the day. I took advantage of that today and when she asked for it this afternoon gave her a bittle of almond milk which she chugged no problem so perhaps that's the way forward.

Morning date with dp for star wars tomorrow. I must get a social life going in the new year. I managed about 3 social engagements without her last year!

Oh god, only 5 hrs sleep last night as DS was awake from midnight till 2.45am.

He' s yawning already!

Those of you on one nap, what time do you do it? DS is 10.15-11.45 but since our bedroom routine is set and we don't stimulate him AT ALL during the night wake ups, I'm at a loss as to how to "fix" this so am now looking at his nap.
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.........as if I can fix this...... (hollow laugh).....

Ladydolly, we've got refusal with cows' milk here too - she'll touch the beaker, bring the spout to her mouth but won't drink any.

I feel that now I've made the decision to stop BF (and have been off BF for 3 days now), we can't go back - it'll get too confusing for her. TBH, I really don't think she was getting much milk from me at the end anyway: once a day and there seemed like bugger all there....

I'm thinking it's not the end of the world if she doesn't want to drink milk, and the lack of milk (or any drink) just before bedtime doesn't appear to have any impact on her sleep (yet!)....will just make sure she gets other sources of calcium during the day

I tried giving DD a beaker of warm soya milk yesterday (because I was wearing the wrong dress to breastfeed her in a room full of people). She drank a tiny bit but wasn't impressed.

We got back Christmas #2 at my parents' today. I am exhausted by Christmas: up until 1.30am for 2 nights before it wrapping, work, Boxing Day night shift with very little sleep after, 2 nights of sharing a room with both DDs and avoiding DD2 waking the 12 other people in the house so sharing a too small bed with her for most of the night, awake before 6 this morning.

DD's favourite Christmas present was the musical snow globe my parents gave her. It is an ornament not a toy but she absolutely loves it and isn't really bothered about any of the toys.

Hello hope everyone had a lovely Xmas we hadf Xmas at home and have just visited family and its safe to say we can open our own toy shop and the boys need a toy room each! They had some great gifts and of course want to play with each others toys.

I had some lovely presents too including a few mantaray from debenhams tops/cardis from husband which I really like but find expensive for everyday wear with children mitts on them.

At home just sorting through washing and playing today was suppose to meet a friend at softpkay but neither boy was up til 9am baby had been up at 11,3+7 though!!

Oh n with ds1 I did last bedtime bf at 23mths and he never drank any other milk had ebm and then cows milk in porridge and refused cheese and yogurt until he was 3 still hates milk now doesn't really eat yogurts or ice cream eat cheese but even has dry cereal.

Ds2 still has 3 bf 7,5,7 plus overnight he is going to be a harder one to wean but will reduce number feeds but will do bedtimes til 2yrs.

After almost a month of struggling to get DD to bed at reasonable time (she would often stay up until 10pm) last two nights she has fallen asleep before 7pm while sat on sofa watching In the night garden without any bedtime bottle. We would take her upstairs to her bed, then 2 hrs later she would ask for bottle, quick drink and she was back to sleep. The amount of milk she had drunk before/during sleep has reduced as well. I am probably jumping to the conclusions too early, but somewhat quietly I have a hope that this could be a start of new times. Maybe DD growing out of milk and going back to the good old days when she was asking herself to be taken to bed around 7pm and was gone in 10 minutes? Fingers crossed anyway...

I must have met a PFB grandmother today. We decided to change the cleaner at home, so today the new cleaner came to look around the house. So apparently she has a grandson who turned one mid-December. There were constant comments about him, apparently, the miracle boy has been sleeping through 7pm-7am from the age of 2 weeks and he walks and talks and Oh and Ah, Oscar this and Oscar that. By the end of the visit I was a bit "Right, Oscar my arse". There might be a genuine wonderboy out there, but knowing how up and down the hill it has been for most of us on the thread, it just didn't feel like a whole story.

Dd keeps throwing up mucus do I need to be worried about this? ( sorry will read back and update later)

Ark i did a quick Google search, seems to be something few babies do and parents been told it's because they are too young to spit it out so they swallow and throw it up. It could be just the aftermath of having cold or it could be a sign of the common cold developing into something more serious. if you feel nervous about it, give a ring to 111, they might suggest what it is and what you should do. And it will put your mind at rest. x

She's got a horrendous cold so that's not suprising. I had the same Google results too so won't whisk her off to a&e just yet

Wow baby up every 90mins last night and up for day at 5am n ds1 up at 6am no two days the same!

Christ that's horrendous!

Thought we were having a bad week here with the return to those lovely 2 hr wake ups every blessed night.

DH is convinced it's a growth spurt as he's not only in 18-24 month clothes now but he's also learnt how to put the rings back on the......stick? What's it called? You know that ring stacker thing. DH thinks DS is a GENIUS now.

I know some of yours may have been doing this for ages but when you have a kid who is notable only for speed.....its very exciting!

Thanks Anna we go from poor sleep to crap sleep to utter shit sleep!!

We don't have a ring stacker we have stacking cups we also had wool trolley n blocks for Xmas and he can place one block onto another.

Is there any way you can overnight - wean?

Oh absolutely by cuddling but doesn't give us much more sleep I need to do the shush pat but needs to be done when well and not teething and haven't had that window of opportunity yet part of me secretly hopes he will just suddenly sleep especially when we have a good week or two of once a night waking but then another illness and bang 5 times a night. I know what I need to do but need to be ready to commit and with work at the moment the quickest route to the most sleep for all us boob although at least once a night dh will cuddlke him back to sleep and also take him at 6am even if that's letting him sleep on him for an hr.

Happy new year all. I was v sad and read of thread from this time last year Amy post was very funny of her purchase from online chemist!!

Well better night bed at 6.30 which always makes for a better night but generally with work I can't get him to bed til 7/7.30. Well only one wake up at 1.30am even with an hr long explosion of fireworks that woke me from midnight. He is up now. Feeding hoping he goes back down.

Happy new year all!
We had a sleep through on 30th but bad night last night due to fireworks.
Any new year's resolutions?

30th was awful! We were at mils and it took me over an hour and a half to get her down. Then she was up again from 1.30 until 5am!!! Both mil and gmil claim to jave heard her once but she was screaming and shouting her head off. We were pooped for new years when went to a friends. Just the one wake up but up for the day at 5.30. At least they have a 6 month old so they were up too. We had a bracing walk and a pub lunch and then back home. I far prefer NYD to NYE so feeling happy today.

Resolutions... boring but I'd like to drop a dress size. I need to start exercising again, it just went out of the window when I went back to work. And I'm already putting plans in place to get my social life started again.

Happy New Year everyone, don't know what I would have done without you in 2015!!

Happy New Year!

Last night DD woke up shortly before midnight, we took her down to avoid spending the arrival of 2016 trying to get her back to bed. Her face was priceless seeing London fireworks on TV! All back to bed at 1am. The recent pattern these days seem to be one waking between 12 and 1 am, crying and screaming for some time before going down again to sleep until the morning. The midnight wake up is quite epic, the other night she was screaming for an hour, the very longest in my life, thought it would never end. She has three molars coming through, so I wonder if that has anything to do? She has been refusing eat properly ass well.

I've never been too much into making resolutions, but the master plan for next year is to get my life back with going back to work and all. We have been talking with DH about going off wine for January and cutting down on chocolate as we have been eating and drinking far too much than healthy most of December. But this is what most people promise themselves around this time of year, right?

We had a terrible night too. She woke about 1ish for a hour + (some of that time I think I was dozing in the chair holding her though), then woke at 4 so DH went in. She screamed for nearly 2hrs, proper screaming. Occasionally would fall asleep but wake up and scream more if DH tried to leave the room. I am amazed DH persevered so long at lying her down in the cot. Even without the monitor on I could still hear her so no one got any sleep. I got up just before 6 for work and took her downstairs for half a hour, then she fell to sleep after I left. It was horrendous. She had had calpol and I had fed her not long before, so I don't know what the problem is. I am at work again tomorrow, and tonight DD1 decided she was going to bed without a nappy on for the first time. She has never got up with a dry nappy so we don't expect this to go well but have to let her try. She has already got up to go to the toilet (allegedly) 3 times, so it is just another reason for none of us to get any sleep.