August 2016. Anyone got the hang of their babies yet?!!

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Thought I'd start a new thread. Unimaginative title but E has spent the whole day grizzling/feeding/sleeping on me so I'm running on limited capacity!

As awful as it sounds I'm glad it's not just us that's going through absleep regression! We are all in the same boat. It's so tough getting up so many times again, for a while we were down to one wake up only.
four that sounds like such a lovely day! We had the same today but with friends, was lovely to have so many willing hands! I ate food with two hands!
biscuits glad you had fun on your night out! I've got a meal next week too, looking forward to it.
sloth it's so tough isn't it! My DD was up from 3-5.30 for no particular reason last night. I feel a bit like a zombie again. If she is refusing nap I always go for a walk in the sling, but it doesn't help you sleep unfortunately!
what sorry to hear that your DH is not so useful. I've started being more direct with mine and just saying, I need you to.... rather than waiting for it to happen magically!

Plimsolls teeth buds here since 12 weeks but no sign of any teeth. All the signs but nothing yet. Apparently things can move for months before they pop out.
What I love the idea of excited children for Christmas in theory but I can't imagine dealing with it at the moment! So tired everyone is getting rubbish presents (that I've not even thought of wrapping) and no cards this year. I can only imagine how exhausting the excitement gets. Just call me the grinch this year.
I've had guests all weekend. On top of the hourly wake ups. Dp is away again tomorrow for two weeks so I'm taking myself off to bed now. If I wasn't trying to get dd into good sleeping habits at home I think I'd be shuffling off to my mums for a few days.

Not been on here for a while.

We had a few days of not so good sleep but back to sleeping almost all night again

He is very good with hands now and can grab anything you hold out to him and get it in his mouth, he is obsessed with a baby piano and likes using hands and feet to hit it. Starting to try and pull self up from sitting but no signs of being able to sit yet. His new favourite thing is clamping down on my nipple and biting it, I remove him immediately and he just looks at me with a huge grin. It's bloody painful too, little monkey

Eeeek Day that sounds sore!!

Hello everyone It's been a while! Yay for your successful night out biscuits!

Not a huge amount to report here. I feel a little smug that some of you are experiencing the 4 month sleep regression. I know, I know...very naughty of me It's only because sleep is exactly the same for us as it has been since day 1. Dd wakes every 2-3hrs day and night. 3 hours is average. So, nothing to regress to

We had our little trip away. Dd survived swimming and not having her last jabs like you said she would She loved swimming which was super cute and she loved all the extra attention she got from us with DH about all day for 6 days. She had her last jabs on Monday and I'm very happy that part is all over now! She had a slight temp and was grumpy but nothing I didn't expect.

Is everyone Christmas ready? I have finally written out cards but still have family shopping to do at the weekend. DS is now sick with another cold and cough so that's setting me back a little. Nursery has finished now for the term so it's going to be a pretty full on 3 weeks!!

Glad you had a good break Pear

Christmas? Not very ready. But we will get there. I am really looking forward to the festive break simply for having time together in a more relaxed way. The last couple of weeks have felt like survival at times between sleep regression and poorly children.

But DS has his nativity today so that will be good fun 🙂

Awww Biscuits...hope you've taken tissues We missed DS's because we were away. Feel a bit sad about it still but I wasn't to know when I booked the holiday and there will be many many more plays etc when school starts. What part did your son play? Bet you're a proud mama!

So, I've already had my revenge for being smug Dd was up all night with a new stinking cold. To cheer myself up at about 4am I brought her a couple of wooden toys for her stocking. A stacking rainbow and a rainbow bead rattle. I know, I know...I said I wouldn't get her a stocking but as DS has had such a hard time adjusting to her being part of our lives these last 4 months I'm now actually encouraging anything that involves her and he seems to be responding well to my new found attitude. Anyway, I've not gone crazy. Just 4 things. A bath toy, a book and the two things I've mentioned above. Just enough to make her part of the day rather then it just being all about DS like I imagined in the first place.

Yup regression here too. Our very much needed 4 hour chunk at night has gone out of the window, now replaced with aking every hour screaming?!?! Actually I lie i think I got 1.5hrs at some point...eeeek. We couldn't settle her until 12am last night either. She does sound a little bunged up but paracetamol don't judge me) and snuffle babe has made no difference so I think its developmental rather than illness.

I don't feel very Chrismassy this year tbh, apart from when I dressed DD up as Santa for her first party.

perardrop2 its half the fun getting them gifts, so why not? enjoy it!
I wish everyone a very merry christmas! May you all get some quality sleep!

DS cried and would only participate from the side, and glued to me. So not emotive in the way I had anticipated!

DD managed marginally better last night - there were only 3 wake ups rather than 4, but the nights of 1 or 2 are a current distant memory. Or a sleep deprived mirage.

DD is getting a stocking, mostly with a handful of repurposed baby toys from DS (he won't remember them) and some jolly new tights from Next. We wanted DS to be aware of gifts being for other folk too. Though to his credit he doesn't really associate Xmas with gifts yet and so hasn't asked for anything at all.

Biscuits** now that is a genius idea Why didn't I think about re wrapping old toys that don't even look old lol? I guess I only very recently realised that DS would actually benefit from Dd getting attention too. Hmmm maybe I need to wrap up the jumbaroo lol maybe not lol GAWD imagine how much wrapping paper that would take Awww about the play! It must be so daunting for the little ones. I heard that hardly any children sang at my DS play...I bet it's super frustrating for the pre school teachers

We had the nativity this week, in proper hormonal fashion I bawled throughout, avoided the wracking sobs but only just!! Am off out on my work Xmas party tonight, left DH armed with milk, just realised I don't have any breastpads in...could be adore than the work team need to experience?!! Can't bear the thought of a late night though...

Adore=more

Hope you have fun more and manage not to spurt milk everywhere!

So - a casual weaning question for those who also had late prem babies (or whatever the term is). Are you expecting to start weaning closer in line with the adjusted age?
I think DD is the oldest of this group (12th July) & was just shy of 4wks early. So currently 5months. I just don't see that she will be ready in 3-4wks time. She can't sit, her head control is improving but can still be a bit wobbly. Her grasp of stuff is iffy still...
I have no interest in asking our HV team unless we get stuck. Am not in a hurry to wean, it's just drifting into my awareness now 🙂

Ha ha What! At least everybody will be too merry to notice Hopefully anyway! Would be bad luck if you worked with v sober colleagues Hope you had a lovely break and the shock of being out late won't hit too hard in the morning!!

Can I just say...my body is bloody amazing! I've already escaped getting the dreaded cough and cold once and I can really feel it fighting it off for a second time now! I feel like utter crap but I know it's working over time fighting and feeding! Amazing! Dd and DS have both sneezed and coughed all over me today Absolutely no getting away from it this time me thinks!!

Biscuits this is my personal take on the whole weaning thing... I was told to start weaning DS at 4 months because he had reflux. At 6 months I watched my nct group flap like chickens and buy hugely expensive machines to blend food and talk endlessly about the differences between purée and finger food. I found the whole process totally over analysed tbh. Weaning at 4 months made no blinking difference to DS what so ever. However, my relaxed hand blender with my Gina Ford's weaning timetable worked really well for me and I remember being led by how DS was doing and took it a lot slower because I started so early. I listened to DS from day 1 and he had a mix of purée and finger food later on. This time I shall start at 6 months and because DD arrived one month early I may even delay until 7. Probably not though because I would like to get her on filling solids sooner then later to help with sleep (although I now know this doesn't happen overnight). I'll probably start around the 6.5 months mark. When is that? Lol why am I so rubbish at keeping up with the weeks Oh yeah... because I'm up every bloody 2 hours

Sorry that was a ridiculously long winded answer lol Basically I agree with your relaxed approach Biscuits and I would be led by your Dd rather then how many weeks she is. Waiting a bit longer seems sensible to me! You know what you're doing second time round, go with your gut

Oh and a friend told me the other month that HV's are saying that baby led weaning is now the way forward and purees should be ditched. Not sure if that is true?! I definitely won't be listening to that bs If it is

Our bodies ARE amazing! We're asking a huge amount of them at the moment and they are, in the main, holding up to the job!

Thanks Pear. I don't remember much about weaning except that it took a few weeks before DS started to 'get' it. We did a mixture of baby led and puree type stuff and that was fine. I plan to do something similar this time. The River Cottage baby & toddler book was great for a sensible but relaxed approach.
Waiting a little longer if necessary makes sense. Plus means that I can not think about it for a bit longer 😀

Well you'll be pleased to hear no inadvertent colleague squirting...! When I got home (about 10:30 oh so rock and roll!) baby was screaming and DH was trying to sort a bottle so we gave him the bottle (over 6oz) then he wanted more so offered breast as well and then he slept until 3! I actually managed nearly 4 hours sleep... I think I'm talking myself into trying to dreamfeed but think will do via bottle rather than boob as I know how much he's had then?!
I hate weaning... with ds1 we had him enrolled in some crazy clinical trial where he was weaned at 16 weeks, hardly ate anything, stressful. Ds2 waited until 6-6.5 months and he was so much better, also easier to wean a second as your already in the mindset of thinking about feeding another person. Think ds3 will be offered the veg that the older ones are having with some purees as well. I'm in no hurry though...

I had my work party yesterday too, although it was an afternoon thing so I took the a t with me. It's the first time I've seen colleagues since I went on maternity..it was s but strange being with colleagues but also with a baby. Like two worlds colliding!

E coped very well considering it was a busy and hot room. I found myself twitching a bit at all the people who wanted to hold her. My fault for taking her, I guess! I don't really mind except I hate it when people try to soothe her when she gets upset rather than handing her straight back. Partly because I know she's only upset because she's being held by a stranger so then jiggling her isn't going to help!

Still not encountered any signs of a sleep regression (she's only 17wks). Every night I think....is this going to be the night?! Im too scared to do anything differently in the evening now just in case it topples the first domino, if you see what I mean.

Mind you, we're all away for the night staying in a hotel so perhaps it'll be tonight!

Re:weaning. Like the others,I'm just not thinking about it yet. I don't think she's anywhere near ready so hopefully I've got a bit of time to get my head round it all....

Uuuuuur just had a bit of a scare and rang 111. Dd suddenly spiked a fever to 37.8 and the nurse who did her jabs told me that if that happened I would need to call 111 because she could have a fit or something. Anyway, my gut instinct is it's not related to the vaccines but all to do with this cough/cold she's fighting. I only called because the nurse told me to. Waiting now for a doctor to ring me. Also, she's developed really gunky eyes tonight. I'm guessing this is cold related too. I'm just trying to keep them clean with boiled water and cotton wool but it's bad enough that she can't open her eyes. Poor thing

How is she now Pear? Hope her temp has settled.
DS (more so as a baby, still sometimes as a toddler) gets a gummy eye with every cold. We call it eye snot. He used to get eye drops from the doctor but it got a bit ridiculous with the frequency so they stopped that and to be honest it made no difference. Warm water and cotton wool helped keep things at bay. Mornings are worst because their eyes have been closed more.

Biscuits - temp is now 37oC so she is doing better but still poorly bless her * I never caught up with the night doctor in the end.* Oops...had bold on for too long! I've read that if your lo has a fever for more than 3 days you should go to the GP. Do you think I should go to the gp? To me this is just the same miserable cold and cough that DS has so I feel I should be able to manage with calpol. I'm right, right? Maybe I should go to the gp if it spikes above 37.7 again. At the moment 37 seems manageable.

It really is your call Pear. If she generally seems okay, snot notwithstanding, then I would probably manage it with calpol. You can use ibuprofen also...
DD hasn't had much temperature yet, DS's standard response to germs to spike temps of 38-39. It's the lethargy and listlessness attached to this that would have me speaking to a gp after a few days. But they have never said anything other than 'keep doing what you're doing'.
That said, if I was concerned that we couldn't manage it then I would still phone all the same.

Thanks biscuits ** Had a very bad night but due to the bad nappies I'm suspicious that it's more to do with what I ate then her bug. We're having a much needed duvet day today. DH has taken the day off TG and taken DS to the farm. I forgot to tell him it's now the holidays Although maybe state schools haven't broken up yet?! Anyway, just done the last bit of shopping on John Lewis and now it's time to go back to bed

Anyone else struggling to get anything done this week? DS and Dd are both still poorly. DS is better but still snotty. Dd has a horrible cough with her cold. I came down with the flu in the night but with DH help I managed to shake it off but still feeling a bit weak. The house is a complete bomb and I've got family coming over including MIL staying for Christmas