December 06 - Light at the end of the tunnel

[weirdbird]

A new thread for us all

Hope you got some sleep magnolia xxx Know how it feels to be a zombie although DD2 only wakes about 3 or 4 times a night though she does get up at 5am. Hurumph! Now she's got a helmet I expect her night-time sleep to total zero hours as she absolutely hates it, naturellement!!

Know how you feel babypowder xxx to you and hope you have a good weekend.

Having a pants time here. Just booked an appointment to see my homeopath but think I may end up on the ADs at this rate. Maybe I should get some of the sedative that magnolia is giving her DS ... for me

little glassy just cut her first tooth today!

2 months earlier than dd1.

Glassy, congrats! Its such a milestone, isn't it? Hope little Glassy celebrates with an excellent night's kip

Castles, omg, you're really not getting much sleep at all either. Do you do all the 5am starts, or can dh take turns with you? Makes my 6.30 start feel like peanuts...

Good luck Indith, with packing and making decisions and, well, everything...when do you have to pack your computer up? Last minute, I hope...

The beauty of a laptop Eli

Teeth! Good stuff GS!

I'm almost feeling guilty now about my frequent 7.30/8am lie ins. Almost. Sending sleep and lie-in vibes to the needy though (just don't take them all as uually happend when I send out sleep vibes )

AQ I'm being shunted off to parents for the move (I'll get in the way apparently, but I get to do most of the packing and cleaning first ) You fancy a cuppa?

Awwww baby glassy hasa tooth Ds1 sj=hows all the signs but nothing appearing yet.

The Phenergan didn't work but I did only give half the dose so giving a slightly bigger dose and if it doesn't work tonight will give the maximum dose tomorrow.

Dd4 had her birthday party today at the farm and it was fab Chaotic but great fun. The kids got to hold baby rabbits, baby guinea pigs, baby chicks, a duck a lizard and a baby hen type thing Some of the mum's were terrified

Do you think with all the babies we have a full set yet?
Mag - so no sleep then Hope the upped dose works. Farm sounds fab, unfortunately ones near us closed for ds1's bday in december. Rats, he'd love a lizard.
indith, yeah, sounds good is it this coming week? Email me!

No, Elibean, DH does not get up. I do all the night wakings and all the early starts. 'Tis the way it's always been sadly.

Btw, are we on for tomorrow? How are your LOs and you??

Hope the sedative worked last night Magnolia

DD2 slept until 6.30am although she was up about 4 times in the night to compensate for it

She absolutely hates her helmet thing. How on earth am I going to get through the next 5/6 months?????? Valium??????

Where are you Jabber?!?! I need you to tell me I'm doing the right thing Hope you are ok btw, you aren't on here much. Guess you are busy?

Unfortunately I was still up at 4am and then 6am for feeds. She's been like it all week which is a shock after sleeping through.

Castles - I am sure she'll get used to her helmet. The paed must have thought the helmet was needed so therefore you are doing thr right thing. My DDs flatness seems to have softened quite a bit since I got a neck support so I'm pleased. You will be too when the helmet makes a difference.

Castles I will have to appreciate dh more! You must be superwoman, along with Magnolia, to still be standing..

Yes, definitely ok for tomorrow, may be a few lingering man-flu (aka brief summer headcold) bugs around the place, but dd2 is pretty much over hers and it wasn't nasty. And I doubt your dds will be playing with dh's toys

Helmets sound hard work for all concerned, but have heard a whole Radio 4 programme on them and they do sound very effective? Aren't kids supposed to get used to them after a week? How long has it been, Castles?

GS, so hard to get up at 6am after a 4am feed - thats my least favourite combination. I'm glad the neck support is helping though.

dd has slept unusually well with her cold - possibly down to small (3mls) dose of Medised in dreamfeed, though she's napping well too so probably more to do with feeling knackered. Still feeds at 2-3am and then needs either settling or feeding again at 5am, depending on intake at 2am. I think refluxy babes are just like this - she doesn't take big quantities of milk in one go, and isn't good on solids yet (did manage a few spoonfulls yesterday, so think last week was cold-related too) so waking for feeds at night is to be expected. Bummer though.

2 days! She hates it but I was told it would be hard for about the 1st week. I just hate to think that she's suffering poor thing.

Yes, Glassy, DD2's head has improved as well just by using a sleepcurve mattress & the fact that she now sleeps on her tummy, crawls etc. The orthotist said it was only moderate but the reason I've gone down the helmet route is DS had plagio which never filled out properly (helmets weren't around in this country 5 years ago ) and there is a ? over a link between asymmetry & SN. Don't want to take the risk, not bothered about the cosmetic thing at all. Just looking at the scan picture and it looks normal to me (compared to DS) but we've coughed up now so better get on with it

Btw Eli, DD2 has got a bit of a cold. Runny nose. Is that going to be a problem?

DD1 was a reflux baby too but she slept brilliantly from about 4 months. She also took masses of milk & never threw it up once on meds and took to solids really well at 6 months. She must be the exception. DD2 still throws up a huge amount about 5 times a day!!

has anyone returned to work and is still b/f?

I am going to drop a day feed and give her formula but carry on b/f when I am at home.

Any tips?

Castles, what is a child without a runny nose? No problem. I tend to be a bit cautious about chesty things, because of dd's larynx, but runny noses are normal around here, with dd1 at pre-school.

OTOH, I now have a fairly mean throat, dd1 has the green version of runny nose, and dh is sneezing and looking pitiful. If you want to avoid picking up more than a cup of tea and a ginger biscuit, will totally understand - think its just colds, but 'just' when you're knackered can be 'just???!?? no thanks!'

Mind you, barring poxy looking spots, which I don't expect, dd1 won't be here anyway..

Let me know tomorrow if you want to postpone i.e. you are feeling lousy, Eli.

Margo, that's pretty much what my friends have done who went back to work & were still bf'ing. One of them froze ebm and got the babysitter to give it to her LO in a bottle. Pretty hard work though on top of everything else if you ask me.

No tips, but good luck for first day back, Margo

Will do, Castles, if develops into real lurgy overnight; but think will be fine - possibly more woolly-headed than normal (ha) but looking forward to tomorrow!

Morning everyone.

I thought DD might start sleeping again now she has her tooth but she was up at 4.45 and 6.00 for feeds. I am so tired I burst into tears this morning. DH was great and sent me back to bed for an hour and even took DD1 to pre-school.

I've really messed up the Christening invites putting 10am and not 11am so now DH has to call the priest and try and sort that out. I feel totally rubbish to be honest. Of all the things I could muck up it has to be the one which goes out to all friends and family . If we cant change the time I'm going to have to call everyone

DH thinks that weaning DD2 might help as he reckons my hormones are all over the place. I'd already started reducing the breastfeeds with DD1 by this stage. DD2 doesnt have such a clear routine so it is harder to work out what feeds I'd drop to be honest. Do you think it would make a difference?

Sorry you're feeling so cr&p glassy

Sorry do you mean replacing breastfeed with bottle or just getting rid of the feed? Can't see how either would help with your hormones, but using a bottle for one feed a day might give you a break/rest. The more tired you are the more 'hormonal' you'll feel, I think - I am so grumpy and tearful when I haven't had sleep as soon as I get a decent night I perk right up again. DS2 just starting to get a bit of a routine so I can see where to drop/replace feeds, but doesn't sound like babyglassy's ready yet.

Couldn't someone else make the loads of calls? It's only cos you're tired that it seems a huge deal, sleep is the answer! For all of us it seems. Magnolia, how did it go last night?

Hey everyone, sorry to be so absent lately. Things have been rather tense between me and dh lately and computer time has been pretty limited

castles, you are sooo doing the right thing. I am convinced of this. I still wonder about ds1 - hope the poor child doesn't inherit the male pattern baldness in my family and berate me about his remaining flat spot!

margo - I work p-t and pump. It's not fun but once you get used to it it's not so bad. I have an Ameda Purely Yours. I recently started using bags that strap on the pump and can go straight into refrig or freezer. Saturday I started trying the attachment by Playtex for the drop-ins and am loving that as well!

Oh, and ds2 has been backsliding on sleeping again. Every 3 hours, and many times just 2 hours - aughhhhhh, walking zombie club got another member!

Argh! Same here on the sleeping front. Not that I'm in any kind of routine at all but he's been staying awake until midnight then wanting feeds every couple of hours. I can cope with that really as we co-sleep but inbetween he's wriggling around and whinging in his sleep. Last night he didn't go to sleep til 2 am even though he could hardly keep eyes open - it looked like he had tummy ache the way he kept lurching around on the bed and in my arms.

Trouble is he'll then sleep late, which is great on one hand as I am able to catch up a bit (I know some of you don't get that chance ) but we seem to be in a vicious circle. Though even if he wakes earlier he won't go to sleep earlier and I shudder at the thought of 15+ hours of constantly entertaining him.

Now he's teething and miserable and I'm tired and miserable. I haven't got anyone to hand him over to (although DD2 is great at playing with him and keeping him occupied) and I do get worried about getting frustrated with him if this night time malarkey keeps up.

I keep telling myself it's just a phase. Bloody crappy weather doesn't help either.

I lost you all - very dozy of me.
It is good to hear of sleep-filled nights and teeth, am sorry about all the sleep-deprived.

I am getting myself in a pickle lately about whether babies can tell/ know when they've had enough. And also about this hitting that dd does when she wants something. Am starting baby signing but it is bothering me. DP says I worry too much. Probably true.

We are here of sleep, teeth, and other halves who get up with the baby!