June 2008- Some are sleeping, others weeping and some are just eating

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Thought I'd start the new thread using paro's suggestion

AH - Definitely helps, although he does do marathon feeding sessions in the day, so it took me 3 hours to do some ironing the other morning, hope your nights get better.

Oh dear, my nreakfast cooking is going to be nervy tomorrow and Monday, have got someone staying who has just been filmed cooking for Gary Rhodes as part of his British Food Heroes programme, basically he is doing the top 5 of different things to d with food and he is in the chef category.

good luck with that Sophie - don't envy you that task!

FiveGoMadInDorset good luck with that, maybe he'll just want a bowl of coco pops!!!!

Blimey, fivego, I don;t envy you with that. Do you think you'll get nervous? What do you do for breakfasts?

Have just realised that we are off on holiday to Normandy on Friday (thought it was about three weeks away!) and we are completely unprepared. DS very excited about going on a boat - and is practising his two French words ('croissant' and 'pain au chocolat' ) Am desperately trying to teach him 's'il vous plait' and 'merci' but since we have a struggle in English ... .

Aberdeen, so glad nights are getting better. I wouldn't have had the strength of mind you have to remove the dummy!

Upsidedown - love your organisation

They are having kippers and soda farl with bacon, tomatoes and poached egg so not too bad, the granola is cooking at the moment and just about to put the white bread on.

hedgehog am impressed with your planning... I love christmas so may be a more productive use of my time than pure mumsnet

amber Thanks for organising hte meet up ... hope to be there and meet you all

aberdeenhiker interesting your thoughts on sleeping through as dh discussign this... not sure that there is much rhyme/reason but having qutie a good baby, I am really nervous about having another that may not be so good sleeping through - take it that there is generally no pattern between siblings those of you with more than one? I'm just interested (dh reckons girls generally better but think this may be rubbish...)and so glad you're getting more sleep

udc normandy sounds lovely..hope weather is better for you

deb lol at your ds..when do crew arrive

5gomad if your guest doesn't appreciate your breakfast, I would...

Took edie to her first rugby game today (she had her little soundproof headphones on).. not that impressed as slept most of it then cryed until got some food... she was a bit grizzly today as didnt settle til quite late last night and was sleepy..consequently had one of those turning into your mother moments where I told her "if you went to bed on time you'd feel much better the next day"..well they say it happens to us all

Poppy - these are the families I know.

Mine - both really good DS marginally better than DD at the same stage.

SIL - horrible DS1 waited nearly 4 years then had DS2 and then 3 both of whom were brilliant.

SIL - great DS1 awful DS2, DS1 is now a very early riser.

Friend - DS's both good
Friend - DD good and so is DS

interesting 5gomad - dh had dss1 who was qutie bad but our dd and dsd were better (although dss1 was premie not sure if that makes a difference..suspect it does)

ds1 quite good
ds2 awful - colicky baby, slept through at about age 4
ds3 - great(at the moment)

Good luck tomorrow Sophie
When we get filmed in the UK my dh wants us to stay in a B+B for the breakfast and I want to go self catering for the convenience with Ethan,breast pump, steriliser, bottles etc.. Wonder who will get their way???? We havew found one b+b with a fridge for guests - I can't very well ask them to put breastmilk in their fridge can I?

Course you can, although we do have afridge on the landing for guests use.

shame we can't come and stay with you isn't it Sophie? Your breakfast sounds delicious.

DS1 very good, slept through at 8 weeks although we had 2 consecutive nights at 6 weeks.
DS2 very good, is now sleeping through until 6.45am at 11 weeks.

Checked my red books earlier this week and at 11 weeks Luke is 12lb 3oz whereas DS1 was 14lb 8oz that's over a bag of sugar difference!

Hi all
Sorry have been absent for a few days. Managed to knock the laptop off the table - not good. Luckily DH is a computer whizz and managed to fix it today - can't really afford the excess while on maternity leave!
Hope you're all well - can't really catch up properly on so many posts.
S now sleeping through pretty regularly after almost four weeks - we've only had three nights where she hasn't, and two of those were in the first week. Am considering waking her at 7am each day so that she's used to a regular brekkie. She goes down at 8.30/9pm and normally sleeps soundly through till 6.30 at least, but it's often later.
When she starts waking in the night again for feeds we'll reconvene the weaning, but it's been a few days since we stopped and she doesn't seem to miss it so am glad we thought again.
Ok, will try to catch up properly tomorrow. Night!
Baby massage went well this week

morning all,

sophie your brekkie sounds delish, certainly beats my rushed toast and tea/coffee while trying to do laundry, dishwasher etc and sterilising.

We sre off on our first night out without Isaac next weekend and booked MIL to babysit last night. She asked what time we were going to bring him over but we have put our foot down that she has to come here.
Now I am frantically expressing so DH can give ISaac a bottle at least once a day this week to get him used to it.
Can everyone/anyone reassure me that he will be fine and MIL will not burn the house down etc. We are going into London but are taking the car so if there is a problem we can leave straight away.
I know I am prob being PFB and totally over the top about this, DH thinks it is a prob with MIL babysitting, have had to explain would feel the same about leaving with my mum or anyone else.
Also worried about Boobs leaking/feeling engorged etc. Can anyone offer any tips for this?

Sorry bit of an egocentric rant there

Now for an Isaac update..... he is definitely interested in his toys

• he has pulled one of the danglers on his play gym off repeatedly
• he has taken to cuddling a fisher price hedgehog (duh) I bought him when he is tired and lying on his playgym
• and uses his taggie blanket to fall asleep in his pushchair

He is definitely more fun and developing his own little personality than he was a few weeks ago and I am loving it all the time. It has had me feeling that I don't want to miss anything and def do not want to go back to work. Just have to persuade DH now

See you later

poppy : DS1 was only slightly less rubbish than DS2 - so I'd expect you'd be in good shape if you have a second. And yes, boys I think tend to be worse than girls!

Hope breakfast went well 5gomad!

Hedgehog - Fraser has discovered his toys in the past two weeks too. At first he was just batting them about but now he's mastered shaking his rattle. It's great to see them growing up isn't it? And I don't think you're being a PFB mum - I'm the same way and this is my second!

Morning all, hope everyone is having a good weekend....
AH - I missed why you are taking Frazers dummy away? Its something Ive considered (but only very breifly) as i wonder if it is more of a hinderance than a help sometimes.
Hedgehog - Its totally normal to be apprehensive about leaving Issac. Once you have done it once though you will be fine, I know I was. Im sure MIL wont burn the house down, although make sure your not late back, we went out last weekend and where 20mins late back, came home to find MIL with lights on full in the bedroom changing Islas nappy Luckily she went back to sleep. I think we where being punished for being late!
On siblings and if there is a pattern.....DD1 was a bad sleeper, didnt get a full night till she was 2. She still wakes a lot now. DD2, not brilliant, am determined shes going to be better than the first tho.
Re development, Isla is still not grabbing for things, shes almost 11 weeks, when is it supposed to happen? She is becoming more and more aware of her surroundings though and smiling and giggling a lot more.
Busy day here today, going to cycle into town for a swim. Befor that tho, got to get the washing out, prep a roast for later, sterilize, feed dd1, wake DP and get him to give me a hand!

sorry x posted you AH!

fungle - Fraser was waking up in the night wanting his dummy to fall back asleep so we had to take it away. Now he's sleeping 2-3 hours at a stretch instead of 40 minutes thank goodness! Oh, and Fraser is 14 weeks and has only been grabbing things for the past two.

Hi All, had much better sleeps for the past 2 days thank god. Luke did wake at 4.30 DP fed him and he didn't want to go to sleep again so have been up since 5 but hey ho he didn't wake up beofre that (Dream feed at 11).

We are going on holiday in a week and a half anf I am so looking forward to it. Any tips on taking a 14 week old baby on a plane? What about the formula - are we allowed to bring it through?

PS house buying fell through hence holiday.

PPS London meet up - so far is just me going! Are we still interested in doing them/should we make it once a month so we can get more people to come/is anyone coming on wednesday?

Hi all - sorry haven't posted for a few days. Had my mum over to stay which was really nice. Managed to catch a rotten cold though and I've felt awful for the last few days. And worse still I've managed to pass it on to A. He doesn't seem to be suffering too much so far, just a bit of a stuffy nose and little cough, so hopefully it won't get any worse.

aberdeen well done for removing the dummy, you're braver than I am. I know what you mean, A often wakes up just for the dummy. We had a terrible few nights in a row last week. One night A woke every hour from 1am. The next night it was every 2 hours. Last night was slightly better but there is no pattern whatsoever, and I'm finding the lack of sleep v difficult when I'm not feeling well!

sybil good to see you back. I always think of you as you're also experiencing feeding problems. How's it going?

debs can't wait to see you on t.v. You must be so busy arranging everything!

Morning all.

Allipalli, meant to say last night, but my mummy addled brain made me forget! If you are finding Peter is starting to wake more in the night hungry than a few weeks ago or gets harder to settle after feeds then that is one of the pointers for earlier weaning. But it's worth waiting to see if it's a genuine pattern or a blip - Storm became hard to settle for a few days and I thought that was a sign she needed it, but we stopped after three days and it's been almost a week now and if anything she's sleeping through longer.

Although the guidelines now say six months they do also say that if you wait that long your LO may have difficulty with lumpy food. Obviously it's just my view, but it makes more sense to me that each baby will be different and bigger/ hungrier babies may need weaning earlier. Anyway, I'm sure you'll find the right way for you .

Morning all.

Well breakfast went well, the sun is shining, have just been down to the beach to get kippers and fresh scallops, and now off to go for a swim and to the pub for lunch.
I did get sad yesterday as this will be the last summer that we can go swimming in the pool in the house that I grew up in. My parents are moving out in February and my brother and his family will be moving in, and I do like my SIL but she has never invited us round to her house for anything and so I can't see us being able to go swimming there next year.

Fivegomad - what a lovely start to the day!! Mine was up at 5 and it was cold and dark and the baby was screaming his head off. It must be lovely raising a family somewhere like that. Shame about the pool but I'm sure the SIL would take a few subtle hints?