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

[DomesticAnarchist]

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Sorry, really couldn't think of something humorous!

Peggy, Q, magpie, thankyou! The plan is for DS to go into the cot tonight, he has to otherwise we will have to cut a hole in the end of the Moses basket for his feet. We tried to get him to nap in it earlier but he wouldn't, but whether it was the cot or just nap refusing in general I don't know!

I would have much preferred to have the cot in the bedroom but it was flat pack and is a sleigh cot with wide ends that didn't fit through the doorway and DH refused didnt want to build it twice! I'm sure it will be fine tonight, I will keep you posted!

DS has just conked out fast asleep on the sofa 15 minutes ago. Bedtime could be interesting! I can usually keep him awake but he wasn't having any of it this evening.

Me I hope your DS isn't suffering too much today with the chicken pox.

Rhubarb sorry your DS is not himself today, do you think it could be a bug? Poor little thing, hopefully he perks up soon and is back to his usual self.

Well, DS is asleep in his cot! He has only been asleep for 10 minutes this could all change. He looks so tiny in the cot and in his pink and purple grobag (I ordered it online and thought it was red and white!) Bless him, all grown up in his big boy cot in his own bedroom but he looks so dinky! I'm going to be awake all night staring at him!

Well done Dotty's DS! Hope it lasts for you. My DS slept much better in his cot, like yours he had been getting too big for the Moses basket and loved his new freedom and space.

Of course all that has gone out of the window with this god awful chicken pox. Poor DS looks a fright today, his older spots are beginning to scab and look super red and angry. He has been OK during the day but once again nighttime is more of a nightmare. Took an hour to settle him at bedtime (he normally goes down in 5/10 minutes) with lots of tears. Then he woke up an hour later at 9, again 20 minutes later, again 10 minutes later ... I've given up and gone to bed with him in the spare room (having made it safer today). He isn't a happy bunny at all bless him and obviously just needs to be near me at the moment so why fight it.

Wow Dotty I'm impressed you've squeezed him in to the Moses basket this long! I think we had to move out at 12 or so weeks -but she is a little fatty- Hope he and you have a good night. Fingers crossed for us too.. We have just -with much swearing from DH and comments about how I only ever get him to move furniture when it's hot- taken down the cot and rebuilt it in our room moving half our furniture into the nursery.... Had hoped the crib would get her to 6 months but couldn't take the slam dunking of the legs into the wooden base through the thin mattress any longer!

Me the chicken pox sounds hideous I hope he is feeling better soon.

Rhu hope J is feeling better now too.

We've been packing up the clothes too and while I have no plans for anymore I am struggling to part with them all straight away.. How sad is that?!

C's first flight today, just the short hop to Dublin. He was great - boobed through takeoff, stared down my food and fell asleep for the last 20 minutes of the flight. Only woke up at the gate :)

He's currently snoozing in a travel cot in my parents' house here - he doesn't quite know what to do with all the room, much bigger than his Chicco Next2Me!

Oh, poor thing, Me. It does sound as if he's been quite unlucky with it.

We've been doing the clothes rotations (into and out of vacuum bags) this week too. No more for us (and we were set on Just One for quite some time after DS1. But really, no more) but this bundle will now be put somewhere safe in the hope that more nephews will arrive over the next few years! (Or nieces, but it's a bundle of boys clothes, really!)

Well done TriJo! Where DS2's been in a few travel costs recently we found he likes to slowly spin anti-clockwise overnight!

Well, I'm having one of those moments. I've just fed DS2, and should get myself to bed really, but I cuddled him up to wind him (no joy) and he's just so lovely and squishy. He smells so lovely in clean sleeping bag & pyjamas, after his bath. And he's so small and lovely with such soft chubby cheeks. That limp weight on my chest with his arm holding onto my shoulder. I want to stay like this forever. I don't want him to grow up and be stroppy or tantrummy. Can't I keep this little, immobile, milky baby? Can I at least burn this loveliness into my memory? Oh, the feels. I remember DS1 was like this once, and now he's such hard work.

This is how people end up with 15 children, isn't it? It's those squishy cheeks.

And yet, he's having his first settling in session with the childminder tomorrow. (Which he'll love, because she's amazing).

dotty 1st night in own room here too, went down at 8:45, just woken for feed - 10 mins and straight back to sleep. Hoping for another 4 hour stretch to see us through until 6am. Have had my ipad in there with a white noise app on quietly too as new neighbours keep letting their dogs in the garden at silly times and they bark a lot grrrr. Hope your night goes OK.

me the poor little mite, fingers crossed they start disappearing now.
dom we have found clockwise to be the direction of choice. Give it 5 years and you'll be back on the antenatal groups
tri sounds like a good journey well done C.
I've given away all of Rs clothes which no longer fit. Friend had a baby boy last week and figured there's no point it all going to waste sitting in the loft for years.

Ha! No way, Q! And as if to make sure we've been up an hour already - he wanted to lie on his front sucking his dummy but his nose was blocked so eventually we had to make a trip downstairs to find the saline spray. (All fine). And then I sprayed it up his nose (how could I). Then he was trying to go back to sleep (on his front, like a flipping weeble) when I noticed a growing wet patch so I had to change him (worst thing ever) so we had full on rage and screaming with rigid back bending so I couldn't even hold him to try to calm him down! He's swallowed even more air in his fury so I'm now back to cuddling him up (he's calmed down) but getting no burps. And I'm pretty sure he's going to be hungry in the next hour too.

Although he did so some burps when he was lying on his front earlier. Maybe I should just go with it...

Ahh dom I get those feels too, I probably spend way too long savouring moments this time around, because I remember how much I missed those squishy baby cuddles when my boy got too big.

S slept all night last night, didn't wake up until 6! I feel amazing!

TriJo impressive international jetsetting from C

Dom with you 100% on squishy baby hugs. I adore it when E gets all milk drunk and falls asleep on me. Though I am in a way looking forward to returning to work on Oct I am going to miss our long days together.

Dotty great that the cot transfer went well. They do look teeny in a cot at first don't they. E can just about spin (always anti-clockwise) in hers without bumping herself. We still use the moses basket for the odd nap but it is seriously snug - no more space for the 'surrender' pose.

Me definately agree with keeping DS close if that is what he needs while spotty. Poor thing, hope the spots start receeding now.

Aw Dom your 'moment' brought a tear to my eye.

Tri seriously impressed with C's travelling skills. We can't even get to our local ASDA without a full scale meltdown!

Well done with the cot transfer Dotty. O's been in his a few weeks now and was doing well (though no full nights yet, very jealous swear) but last night it all went to pot. I went down at 8:30, woke at 10:30 but went straight back down, then woke at 1:30 and was awake for over 2 hours before he settled. Hopefully it was just a one off, required this morning!

Aww dom I live the cuddly moments too. I really struggle to believe that my happy, smiley, easy going baby will be a complete pain in the arse 'challenging' toddler like his big brother in a couple of years time. Is it too much to hope that they'll stay this lovely forever?

Dotty great that the first night in the cot went well. They do look so tiny in their big beds, don't they?

Hope your ds feels better soon me.

I've done the same as magpie and kept back some baby clothes even though I'm supposedly 'done' at 2 . So many good memories tied up in them though!

Ds is sitting now (in a very wobbly way) for a few minutes at a time. He keeps trying to sit up in his car seat though and I really don't like how he's constantly got his head lifted up off the head support. I'm thinking of moving him into a 0-1 car seat so he can be a bit more sat up. The seatbelt has been cutting into his legs for a while too so it's not particularly comfortable for him. I had planned on him staying in it until he was 1 like ds1 did and then both boys could move up a stage at the same time. But I can't really put a 2 yr old in a high back booster. Arrrgh! I hate car seats!

Lovely, squishy DS2 gave me a repeat performance at 4am for an hour !

Yep, Trin, I feel the same about the difference between DS1 & 2.

Re car seats. We've got a group 0-1 as well as the 0+ one, and a 1-2-3 as well as a 2-3. So the plan is that there will only be a few short times when we're short a seat (two cars, both picking up/dropping off fairly randomly at times!). We got the 0-1 when DS1 was about 6 months and hated the 0+ one. We had great intentions of keeping him rear facing till he was 3, but he gets travel sick so turned him round ASAP!

Hoping DS2 doesn't follow suit!

Well, the first night in the cot was a success! DS slept from 8-4.30 when I woke up to a strange bouncing sound. He had turned right round so his head was at the feet end and was wide awake bouncing his leg up and down on the mattress! I turned him back round and he managed to get back off to sleep by himself and woke up at 7.20. Bless him! He did keep grizzling in his sleep from about 6am but settled if i held my hand on his chest. I'm not sure what that was, road noise or light maybe, or just being in a different room? He point blank refused to nap in the cot this afternoon though, funny arent they?!

Me your poor DS I hope he starts to feel better soon.

vroc I don't know how we have squished him in for so long, he is a long baby! I didn't realise how squished he had been until I saw him in the cot with all that room.

Q I hope the rest of your night was a success too.

Dom that post at 4am about your night made me chuckle! You are absolutely right, there is nothing quite like a sleeping baby up on your shoulder, all milky and content and taking cute little breaths. I wish that feeling could be bottled.

swearwolf wow, what an amazing sleep! Long may it continue!

frenchfoodie he really did look dinky! I don't have a clue how he managed to spin himself round like that, I might have to stay up tonight to watch!

Thanks doc! Sorry your night wasnt so great. Hopefully tonight will be a lot better.

Trinpy he looked like a little doll, especially on the monitor screen! Well done to your DS sitting up, just not in the car seat! We took the newborn wedge thing out of our car seat at the weekend and although DS looks more comfortable, his head flops about all over the place when he is asleep. Might have to pad it out with blankets or something?

DH has always been set on having just one but I'm noticing that as DS is growing out of things he is asking me where we should keep them "for now". I would love another one and I think secretly DH does too, just not yet!

Dotty, what kind of seat do you have? We've got a maxi cosi cabriofix and I was complaining to a friend the exact same thing, she pointed out that the wedge comes out of the infant insert so you can keep the head support in without the wedge. It's my second child and I didn't know this!

We kept everything with ds, now I have a girl and at the opposite end of the year I'm hardly using anything! I've found it much easier to throw stuff out now I'm on number two, three years or so after ds grew out of stuff. I don't know if it's because I have a real baby to dress so can see how tatty or unsuitable some things are, or if time has removed the association to my baby boy from all but the most favourite or memorable ones. It's also been easier to give stuff away when I have babies to give it to, several friends have had baby boys recently so I've given some to them. I've been able to give away lots!

Which 1,2,3 seat do you have Dom? Would you recommend it?

I've been looking at the which reviews and slowly driving myself crazy .

We've got a britax romer trin, I like it! Only bought it because it was half price due to a new model coming out, but it's quite good, straps are hard to get out of and head rest is sturdy.

Thanks for all the good wishes for DS. He's seemed much happier today and hadn't needed any calpol. Fingers crossed for a good night in his cot and not with me (although will of course if he needs it).

Swear we have the maxi cost cabrio fix too but although I read on here that the wedge separated from the head support bit, I found I needed to take the head support out too pretty quickly. DS has got quite broad shoulders and the head support just made him too hunched over. His head does flop a bit when he falls asleep in the car but it normally flops to the side rather than forward so I don't worry about him too much.

We have started weaning! Although possibly not the best time with the chicken pox, I felt DS was ready and it has kept us both distracted from the tedium of being stuck at home. He is 24 weeks so only very slightly early. So far he has had carrot, sweet potato, butternut squash (a clear favourite) and broccoli (the clear loser!) oh and a teeny bit of mashed up banana today as dh was eating one and as the broccoli went down so badly I thought I should soften it by giving him a bit of something nice. He is so funny, does a little shudder for the first few mouthfuls before relaxing into it.

Dom your post from last night really resonated, despite DS being poorly we've had so many lovely cuddles and he's just adorable, I wish I could bottle him too 😊

Trin, it's a Britax First Class Plus. They do other similar ones now (this was the only one a few years ago) and an isofix one. It's bulky though, but has a great recline on it. And covers come off very easily to wash (which happened a lot!).

Ahh, glad to hear he's feeling better, Me.

I might try taking the head support out of the ancient cabriofix. DS2 is hating the car seat at the moment. (He doesn't like the Britax one much either, but I think the newborn insert isn't comfortable, but it's supposed to stay in till he's 8kg. Only ~500g to go).

re the cuddles! I'm just so aware that I won't be able to remember it in the future. I want to be able to remember his weight, his cheeks and his smell. But it'll disappear . It's the night-time, it makes it more significant somehow.

He visited the childminder today. Was great, apparently, but refused the bottle! (After having been bottle fed by DH for two weeks!) Tinker!

I've just fallen into the "longer to settle than the nap" trap!

DS2 has done some brilliant bed-naps in the last couple of days. But I think I've just spent an hour getting him to sleep (on me ) so I expect he'll wake up after 20 mins or when I try to put him down!

Anyone else suffer from wandering hands? DS2's hands seem to have a life of their own. Constantly taking his dummy out and waving it around while he screeches because he'd rather be sucking it.

It's tough being little!

Dom - I could have just written your post, took me ages to get DS to sleep on me and 26 mins later he's awake the little tinker!!
His hands and feet also have a mind of their own and he is constantly taking his dummy out and waving it around and chucking it across the room then getting the hump as he wants it back!

Thanks Dom. I do really like the Britax range, so I think I might get their stage 1, 2, 3 seat for ds1 and move ds2 into the Britax Dualfix (or whatever it's called) that we've already got. Might just spend a couple more weeks agonising over it finstead though .

Did your ds nap OK at the childminders? Maybe when you go back to work and he's in childcare it will encourage him to sleep in his cot? My ds is getting better at sleeping in his cot overnight but I keep dragging him into our bed anyway because I like the squishy baby cuddles .

We have the out of control hands here too. He does 'spider hands' when I feed him where he very lightly runs his fingertips over my neck and shoulders. It really makes me shudder!

Spider hands sounds quite cute! My DS2 has started with the t-shirt flapping (excellent for discrete public feeding!)

He slept for about 20 minutes with the cm so standard then. I don't know if it was in a cot but she had him in the carrier when I picked him up (she'd done the same for DS1 when he was tiny!). I'm not too worried, they seem to work things out well with cm/nursery - the staff are usually way more experienced than I am (even the young ones - once they've looked after more than two babies they've exceeded my experience!) and have good tricks/techniques/patience!

Dom very wandering hands here plus a left leg that kicks away when feeding on right boob. Sadly the wandering hands are not very benign and do a lot of pinching of the underside of my arms while feeding. It is surprisingly painful. On a good feed they fidle with my bra and tshirt instead. Scratching at the couch/ its cushions is a favourite too.

We have had a very pukey day - twice on the sofa so much it ran to puddle on the floor (leather sofa thankfully). She is the pukiest baby I and DH (this is baby 3 for him) have ever met but as she couldn't care less and is putting on weight we just drape ourselves and alything precious in muslins and carry on.

Thought it was too good to be true DS going down at 8pm last night! Up for the day at 4:45am
Hope everyone has had a good night