March 2016 - I can't think of a pithy title because I'm too sleep deprived :/

[DomesticAnarchist]

New thread?
Sorry, really couldn't think of something humorous!

Rhu that sounds brilliant!

I've wrangled DS2 into the sleeping bag. His arms feel cool now despite the thrashing. His cot is under the window, which is open, and now it's dark I've opened the curtains to let the air in. Hopefully it'll cool down soon.

He's just not used to having his arms free to windmill move around grab his face. I wanted to wait till the summer holidays to get his arms out!

Trying to feed him back to sleep now. At least one of us will be well hydrated!

Another one with a hot baby here. DH measured 28c upstairs today, hopefully it has cooled a bit by now. E is in nappy and sleeping bag but is insisting she is wide awake and using her legs to tent up the bag. The main advantage of her being up this late is usually a late feed and longer time to next feed. But she is refusing boob.

Glad you made time for yourself trinpy and that DH apologised. Hope he was shocked at his behaviour.

C didn't take well to the heat at all today - he had a ridiculously long feed while we were on a boat trip and managed to give me a big lumpy bruise on my nipple when he chomped down on it. He then had trouble latching on that side for the rest of the day until it went down a bit and he ended up overheating a bit because he couldn't get quite as much milk as he wanted from one boob and he had a bit of a meltdown. I ended up having to give one of the emergency bottles of formula that we keep in the changing bag (just the 70ml starter pack ones) and he was a bit better after that, thankfully Gare du Nord aircon was up full blast and he slept on the Eurostar. He's now in bed wearing just a loose short sleeve bodysuit in a 1 tog grobag. Our apartment is bloody warm this evening.

Up with DS - first night with his legs out and of course he manages to get them stuck through the cot bars! He's such a wriggler. It's cooled down a fair bit now so I've done his sleeping bag up. Sitting in his room until he falls back to sleep!

Still here. DS seems to think that 2am is an appropriate time to practise his new rolling skills. He can roll back to front quite well now but hasn't mastered front to back yet, so gets stuck. Not impressed!

Morning.
I put DS back in his swaddle pod in the end. I figured he'd be cooler if he wasn't flailing around! And he went to sleep!

It's 19C already...

Morning all! Sympathy to the hot babies. It's only a bit muggy in Scotland, going to rain today. We put T into her sleeping bags with her arms out a couple of weeks ago as she was jail breaking her swaddle several times a night. It took about three nights going cold turkey before she would settle without a lot of work, but she's slept better since. I bet though if we'd been forced by weather to stop swaddling it would have been a lot harder.

The one way rolling is hilarious in daytime me but I bet it's not so funny at 2 am! T's not even doing one way yet, but I'm not worried - I remember agonizing over milestones with DS, and it did no good at all, so I'm aiming for total chill this time.

Gah Me same here R woke up at 1am and decided to practise rolling in crib...and then getting legs wedged in bars a few times.. Eventually after giggling and rolling around a lot went to sleep at half two and I thought I'll try lifting her back to crib. Nope wide awake again so she slept in the middle of the bed and I didn't really sleep. Really hope it was just the heat...

Morning from here to.
C slept in just a short sleeve vest last night. She's in just a nappy right now and feels very warm. Going to take her to the beach tomorrow for a little while and then buy my self a picnic lunch and find a tree in a park somewhere

For anyone that wants to stop swaddling this is how we did it,
One arm out to start with- this made no difference to her sleep and she was fine with it.
Then just below the arms which was hard at first but only for a couple of nights and then we gave it all up. She sleeps better now than what she ever did in it and is sleeping a lot better in her own room... But day time naps are still very hit and miss.

I've had C in a sleeping bag with arms out since he was around 2 weeks old - he never liked being swaddled and he also kicks a lot so I was worried about him ending up with the blankets over his head. I've just had to move him into a 6m+ one as well because he was growing out of his original one!

16 weeks today :)

Apologies trinpy I said I was here and then my Internet went down all day glad to see you had support in the form of everyone else and hope today is a better day for you.

Joining back into the csc again, hoping it was just the heat but ds was awake every 1.5 hours last night, I forgot how tired I can be. He has also been in sleeping bags since he was about 6 weeks, never liked swaddling so sleeping bags have been great. Last night he just had a nappy and a 1.5tog bag.

We have booked a weekend at centreparcs next month with dp's family, 14 of us in total so should be nice to get away - just hope he starts sleeping again by then.

Morning everyone!

Ds2 was just in a short sleeved vest last night and that seemed about right for him. He also slept in his cot all night for the first time! It must've been too hot to snuggle up to me .

Me I had a rolling baby too last night. Every time I checked on him he was lying face down. I just gently flipped him back over each time but I'm not sure what age I can leave him on his front? 6 months? 1 year? What's OK?

Tri ouch that sounds painful! Hope you're having a nice time away.

Q thank you. Today's going much better.

Commiserations to those of you who had bad nights last night. No fun for anyone.

Trinpy I think the advice is that once babies can roll themselves onto their fronts it's fine to leave them there. I only had to go and flip DS back over because he can't roll himself back yet and gets cross after too long on his front. I think lots of babies prefer to sleep on their fronts once they can roll.

I think to avoid the legs stuck in bars thing again tonight we'll go for just nappy and low tog sleeping bag!

Wow i was away from mn for one day and missed loads of chat!

Hope you're feeling better today trin, sounds stressful.

Yy to whoever it was who suggested pushing shared parental leave if possible. My dh took three months leave with dd1 so he really 'gets' how full on it is looking after a baby, thankfully. He also does his share of the housework when he gets up with dd1 at 6 (and i lie in) but tbh even with us both doing at least an hour of tidying a day each, we still arent on top of everything. I prioritise the kitchen- so long as its clean and we can eat in it im happy - and the washing -so that we have enough clothes to wear!- and i let everything else go. This week i had time to tidy the front room in the evening and dd1 came down in the morning and looked really puzzeled and said 'whys the front room clean mummy?' Haha so maybe i let things go a little too much me i would definitely say if you are concerned about housework etc for when you go back to work, you need to have the conversation about it at some point! I know a few mums from when i had dd1 who got stuck doing everything when they went back to work. magpie i am very envious of you and your Dh being able to do part time. In an ideal world me and dh would both like to do three days a week each,but our jobs (academic researchers) mean that going part time means less money but not less work, unfortunately, so isn't worth it. mship like you and Dom i definitely couldn't do parenting full time and am happy to put my kids into childcare for some of the week!

Its also very hot here, 25 degrees in our room last night. I just put dd2 in a sleep suit, no sleeping bag. I would have happily put her in a sleeping bag with just a nappy on but she likes to chew on her sleeves sometimes to self settle so i ditched the sleeping bag. We actually had a decent night here - up at 10.45 (just as i was going to bed, think I woke her) then feeds at 3 and 5 and up at 7. Dd1 slept over at my ILs last night so had no early wake up and i feel great. Just lazed around in bed with a cup of tea this morning until dd2 needed a nap at 8. She then slept nearly three hours! So I've had a very chilled out morning which has definitely been needed after the intenseness of the last 10 days flying solo with the two kids. Dh is back tomorrow and i am getting my hair cut and dyed ombre style! I still want to get a pixie cut at some point but will probably do that when I go back to work in December.

Dd2 is 17 weeks and still can't roll but im not too fussed as she can get onto her side so she's making progress. I had her weighed this weekend by my mil who is a HV and she's 16 lb 3! My little chunky monkey!

DH will have solo care of E 4 days a week from oct when I am back at work. Sounds like we need to chat housework etc. At present I pretty much do it all while he does mowing, BBQs and the odd meal. I am tidier than him too and a bit worried at what I will come in to after work. He is great with E as far as nappies and cuddles are concerned but I think last night was first time he put her to bed. Note to self, do not monopolise baby and house tasks!

Evening all,

Well, DS2's nappy leaked on his swaddle pod this morning and the other one is already somewhere in the wash so we're going for the sleeping bag again.

Just one arm out was still flailed around, Time! I'm feeding him now and his random hands are pulling my top around in his way!

Awful, awful day here. Last night DS would not go down in his cot as normal (he always does). Got more and more overtired until eventually we had to rock him to sleep in the buggy, wait a couple of hours and transfer him to the cot. He then had a pretty decent night so id hoped this was a one off. But no. He has not gone down in the cot for a single nap today - I have had to rock him in the pram, including for bed. He's now asleep in pram again and we'll transfer him.

I think it's the combination of extreme heat and teething.

I got so frustrated I shouted at him. My tiny baby . I feel so terrible.

Ahh maybe hope tonight is ok for you.
Don't feel bad- I've been their. It doesn't make you a bad mum. Babies are bloody hard work sometimes.

Don't feel bad maybe, we've all been there. DS has been the same, it is so hot and he's teething too. Two nights does not a bad habit make, just try again with the cot tomorrow.

Dom, thanks so much for the nappy tip! I did them up a bit looser today as you suggested and not one of ds's four poos (FOUR! definitely teething related, 2 of them were green sludge and absolutely stank) leaked up his back. I think like you said I was doing them up so tightly that the poo was getting squeezed up his back!

Even hotter today than yesterday and tomorrow's going to be even worse. After last night with all the getting the legs stuck in the bars I have put DS to bed tonight in just his nappy and a 1 tog sleeping bag, unzipped enough to let some air in but not enough to let his legs out. Fingers crossed I don't get a repeat of last night!

Sorry to hear that maybe but don't feel bad. Heat + frustration = shouting. We've all been there!

I hate to complain about the nice weather but seriously it is just too hot. Currently 26 degrees in my room and i have stripped down to a pair of night shorts and a T-shirt and in sweating like mad. Its going to be 32 degrees here tomorrow, have no idea how we'll cope!

Thanks all. Doesn't help that I absolutely fucking hate hot weather myself so I'm on a short fuse anyway.

32c here tomorrow too marmite. Dreading it. We have one of those posh Dyson fans coming - wonder if that will make a difference.

Ach, sympathy maybe. I'm another one who has shouted before.

Glad to be of service, me! Glad the "poo-pocket" works for you too!

Our BabiesRUs room thermometer (the thermochromic strip kind) has gone off the scale. All I know is it's above 26C! DS2 settled in the sleeping bag (in a nappy) eventually. But I had to snuggle up with him first!

Lol! maybe! That fan will be amazing and will bring with it the end of the hot weather! Very efficient!

I love warm weather but this is too much for chubby little babies (I still have to wash in the folds between DS2's rolls on his legs!) and classrooms full of teenagers. My lab was 27C earlier.

Hope we get some good storms out of this heat!

We're feeling it here too, a broken night last night and probably more of the same tonight. I thought about leaving the splints off her feet as the socks underneath must be warm, but I can't bring myself to do it. She's asleep now but making a hell of a lot of noise.

I'm taking her into work tomorrow - just my luck to be doing it in a heatwave! I wanted to swan in looking fabulous but instead we're both going to be hot sweaty messes, and I have nothing at all to wear. Sigh.

Hello all, missed loads. Trin glad things are better now. Dh and I had a shitty time when ds was little so I sympathise. Me I've shouted at both ds as a baby and dd, I always feel awful after but sometimes they drive you to the edge.

Not much to report here, lovely weekend at my parents, we're all too hot and E decided to practise lots of rolling which just made her hot, sweaty and shouty. One day of school left for ds. Can't wait to have him home, hope I can do six weeks with two

Oh God, she just won't go back to sleep! She's normally a quick feed and straight back to sleep girl but we've been up over an hour and she's all hot and bothered