July 2007 part 2- 4 months in, doesn't time fly?

[Princesspowersparkle]

Hello July ladies, we are here now!!!!

at all you with lo that sleep through and get up at a decent time. Seren wakes up 1 or 2 times a night and is usually up between 4.45am and 5.45am. Its so frustrating! I don't mind feeding her in the night as she generally goes back to sleep, but any feeds after 3.30am and she generally lays awake chatting! She does doze off but usually only for an hour and a half max. So we then get her up and within an hour she wants to sleep again.

Another issue I have is getting her to sleep in the day. She won't go to sleep unless its on me or in the car or buggy. Even when she falls asleep on me and I try and put her down she wakes up.

Does anyone have any suggestions for either of the above? I am getting worried about it as need to go back to work part time in about 8 weeks so need to at least sort the daytime naps out for when my mum looks after her or she goes to nursery.

Hope you are all well xx

PPS,

I have baby whisperer and no-cry sleep solution books and both are good. I think BW has lots of advice & techniques. There's also a website. You can expect results quicker with BW (days/weeks) than no-cry (weeks/months) which is a more softly softly approach.

And although DS doesn't feed in the night any more, he still wakes at least once a night so we still have broken nights.

OMG I am watching Ross Kemp in Afghan, on sky1 with dh.. big mistake!!! I was fairly nieve as to what goes on.. (didnt-dont want to know)

re waking I just stopped feeding Lee in the night when he woke as I knew he has more than enough in the day.. tok a couple of nights.. now he still wakes about 4am, I just go in tuck him in agai, give him dummy and walk out. He coos himself back of to sleep. He is mainly waking up for his dummy though.. one of the reasons I didnt want him to have one.

Goodluck.xx

Until badmummy gave her the last (her first) slice of birthday cake. She came home and slept for 2 hours and ds hasn't slept a wink all afternoon.

All the children were well behaved and Justabout is lovely too.

Glad you both had a lovely day with the children.

Hello all....talking of daytime naps I seem to have gotten into a routine with LO. I feed him and then we play (usually with something really loud and energetic) and then I switch to something a little more low key (like a soft toy) and he just seems to get tired and start rubbing his eyes. At that point I lay him down and he usually goes off.

Night times were tough for me after returning from my trip (with a 5 hour time difference). But, I stuck to my guns and didn;t feed him in the night and did the baby whisperer 'pick up, put down' method. Worked a treat for us. After a few nights he didn't need as many pick ups (which were exhausting!) and now he rarely wakes up.

LO has a rash across his tummy tonight which I'm worried about. He has been really enjoying his food but I'm wondering if he's allergic to something. Will take him to the doctors tomorrow if it hasn't gone. I guess the worry never ends!

Night all, its time for the dream feed.

Morning all!

Loads of posts since I went back to work!

Justabout - I agree - nursery do sort out the naps - though they are never at the times you have suggested and never as long as they sleep at home.

At home I have set times when I pop her in her cot and most times she falls asleep on her own - she wouldn't do this until she was about 5 months old. Now it is a struggle to get her to nap in the pram when we're out - no matter how tired she is there are just too many interesting things to see.

She's sleeping from about 7pm till around 6am when she does a big poo (I don't change her - bad mummy!) and usually goes back to sleep for another 30mins - which is fantastic. I just need to take the next step and move her into her own room!

Not really enjoying being back at work - I miss Emily so so much it hurts! I also feel permanetly guilty about leaving her - does the guilt ever go away!

On Monday she was the last child in the nursery when I picked her up at 5.50pm - there wasn't even a tweenie left - it made me so sad - I walked up to the door and she was staring out the window with one of the girls ! Now I know that she is probably too young to have much concept of time etc but you can imagine how I felt! Then when I spoke to her she turned away from me - sob!

But I have a whole day with her today - hooray - am off to meet my NCT group for coffee and get my fix of nappy/poo/sleep/teeth chat!!!!

Glad to hear that Jannster is real and not just a frog!

Meant to ask - PPC - how is your ds getting on with his skin wrap trial?

Meep- the guilt does go away (quicker than you may think at this stage). I find it helps to remind myself of the benefits of them being in nursery- mixing with other babies/toddlers, doing activities they might not do at home, developing independence, etc etc, plus benefits to me of having a life away from baby, using my brain in other ways, and earning some dosh to treat DD and DS to things.

With my DD we often picked her up just before 6, and she would be one of the last if not the last one there. At least they get one-to-one attention that way!

Look at me typing away whilst DD and DS are in nursery- must get on with some chores!

thanks pulapula and justabout - roll on the days when the guilt fades - i will repeat to myself all the benefits and that she gets one to one care when she is the last one there

Good advice justabout - I will wait till everything settles before I start making any big decisions!

I felt particularly bad today because what I thought was nappy rash has turned into thrush - poor wee thing - probably not caused by nursery (though on her first full day they only changed her nappy twice - next time (after stern words from me!) it was 4 times - and more likely to be caused by the high volume of poo she is producing at the moment (around 4 a day - eek!)

Hi all,
Hope everyone is well and that those of you who are back at work are bearing up ok! Thankfully I don't have to think about that until summer.

Hello to cakehead!

Everything seems to be going to pot here... Our freezer in the garage chucked it the other night so lots of food wasted and flooding to boot... Our boiler is doing wierd stuff like losing pressure/banging/not firing up properly. We looked back at our bills and dh worked out that they have gone up by 560% in the last year so we are not impressed. Gas man coming tomorrow, he's in for an earful! Our dishwasher has broken and just when you think it can't get any worse the mixer tap at the kitchen sink is disintegrating and oozing black stuff. Aaaargh!!

Ds is currently on week 3 of the wet wrap trial - though this week we are to use epaderm only with no wraps on. His skin is so much better for it but we have to grease him up like a cross channel swimmer! They even gave us some tongue-depressors to spatula it on with!

Looking forward to Saturday as I am going to see Dan Snow give a talk at the university about how history is represented on television (or some such thing). Actually he could drone on about whatever the hell he wanted... as long as I can stare for a wee while! Hey, it's a night out, right? Can't wait!

Meep - hope mini-meep's thrush clears... have you got some nystan for it? (or similar)

Phew! I think that was my longest post to date! Sorry for ranting before. Dan Snow will get me through this...

Tee hee PPC - I'm with you on the Dan Snow subject! Since discovering him on the series about great battles I've suddenly become a lot more interested in history . Sounds like you are having a household nightmare and at your fuel increase. Hope you get back to normal soon. Glad to hear the wet wraps are doing good. We also seem to have things under control with Diprobase and Eumovate.

Meep - just read your post about going back to work and nursery and it tugged at my heart strings! Great words of encouragement from Justabout and Pulapula though, which I will be remembering in the coming months.

Little O is doing well with her solids, but I'm having trouble getting milk into her now! It's still recommended to give them 20fl oz, but I'm lucky if I get 15oz into her - and that includes milk based things like fromage frais and baby rice etc. I think now she's discovered food, milk just no longer cuts it! Any tips on getting her to take it - at the moment she just chews the teat and stares at me lovingly, distracting me while she pulls my hair!!!!

Sorry you are having a domestic nightmare ppc.

Sorry can't help you catstar. All I would say you can't force a baby to eat or drink! If the food she is getting is nutritious then I wouldn't worry too much about it.

We've had some eaten brocolli! And guess how I know that? Banana too (wiggly worms) Hmmm it's nappy checking for the next 6 months

carstar- when i weaned dd she went of the bottles and just wanted food.. i used ti make her powdered food with milk, also any homemade food i would mix some mlk in. Also offered alot of fromage frais.

Thanks for comments re weaning. I don't think she's getting too much on the solids but have made a note of everything over the past couple of days and will speak to the health visitor tomorrow. She seems happy and is sleeping well so mustn't complain.

Justabout - I'm now realising that those without children don't realise how busy the day is, and I've only got a 6 month old. It's only going to get busier as she gets older! I don't think I appreciated this BC (before children!!!).

Anyway, got to go and do some housework. My mum's coming down tomorrow and even though I'm 35, I still have to run around making sure everything's clean etc!!!!

Justabout- I guess you're right about the naps at nursery! Just feel bad about getting someone else to do the work. Mind you- at least it will be when they want.

We've just put our flat on the market so are now entering that stressful time of househunting! I'm hoping it all goes smoothly as I want to be in before Seren is 1 so she can have her room ASAP! Plus the idea of having a house and an actual garden is so exciting instead of being cramped in our 1 bed flat!

PPC- what a pain in the bum! I hope you've managed to get it all sorted.

Meep- glad the wraps etc seem to be doing something.

Think i'm going to have to go back to work a couple of months earlier than expected as savings are dwindling and morgage will be rising. I think I am ready but it will be hard to leave Seren. Although, most of the time my mum will be looking after her so that will ease my mind a bit. When we move will sort out nursery place then.