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December 2007 - Oh what fun, they are almost ONE!

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Caz10 · 19/11/2008 21:59

OK here we are ladies!

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skidaddle · 24/11/2008 14:37

oh yes meant to say insy - we have just started (this weekend just gone) doing the naughty step with DD. I wasn't keen on the idea at all but blimey it works!!! Angelic behaviour all of Sunday - lovely. Don't know if it appeals/ if you do it already but we certainly have seen results (so-far)

BTW I have another BF problem here if anyone has any ideas

cazzybabs · 24/11/2008 18:34

hang on...evie is bf and does sleep (evil smug face]

suey2 · 24/11/2008 21:14

hello all.
Have been lurking, but nothing exciting to report.
Lots of snot here too! But I am feeling almost back to normal

Arcadie · 25/11/2008 13:07

Cazzybabs at your evil smug face!
DS and DD both BF. Slept through from being weaned at 5ish months.Sorrysorrysorry....

Both my lo are sporting a four foot snail trail of snot today. It's like living with mollusc people.

Louise76 · 25/11/2008 13:22

Hi all

I've got a bit of time to post now as everything is back to normal now! DD has recovered from her chickenpox and DH is back at work after being signed off for 3 wks with shingles.

DD having chickenpox wasn't that bad - she wasn't really ill and least that's one childhood illness over with before she's even 1!

Hope everyone else's poorly babies are getting better.

Sorry to hear about the traumas that you are all having with nightfeeds/giving up breastfeeding. From my experience of giving up at 5 mths, you just have to stick to your guns if you are determined to give up but it's not easy and certainly more difficult now that the babies are older.

My main complaint about dd at the moment is that she wakes up so early!! I know I shouldn't complain as she goes to sleep no bother at around 7 pm and sleeps through but since the clocks changed in October she has been waking up at around 5.20am!

Congrats on the scan, Insy! I can still remember having my first scan with DD - it really makes it feel real!

Good to hear that you are feeling better, Suey. You've had a tough time

I have 2 friends who have both had baby girls in the last fortnight and I'm delighted for both of them - that's the closest I get to broody

skidaddle · 25/11/2008 14:04

gosh louise 5.20? Poor you. Maybe it's about how you see it. DS goes down at 7pm and then wakes between 5 and 6am for a feed and then goes back to sleep (usually) until 7.30 and I class him as 'not sleeping through' - maybe this is a bit of a harsh classification?! Would anyone else class that as not sleeping through?

Good to hear everyone is feeling better!

Amani · 25/11/2008 14:17

Wow louise - 5.30 - hope you are not too knackered when you are reading this. Hope this phase passes - or have you tried to adjust your LO routine to get her to sleep later? DD1 was like that when she was about 7 months and it was only when we had a really mad day when we went to a wedding that her routine went out the window and the following day and onwards she started to wake up at 7am.

Maybe you need a mad day too?

Hi everyone else

Amani · 25/11/2008 14:17

Wow louise - 5.30 - hope you are not too knackered when you are reading this. Hope this phase passes - or have you tried to adjust your LO routine to get her to sleep later? DD1 was like that when she was about 7 months and it was only when we had a really mad day when we went to a wedding that her routine went out the window and the following day and onwards she started to wake up at 7am.

Maybe you need a mad day too?

Hi everyone else

Louise76 · 25/11/2008 14:28

Hi, interesting to hear everyone's thoughts. Just before the clocks changed, dd was sleeping approx 7.15-7.15 which for me would be the holy grail!! Then once the clocks changed we just couldn't keep her up any later that 7pm no matter how much she sleeps during the day and she started waking up at around 5 am. I just don't understand it as it's only one hour fgs!!!

I bet she goes back to sleeping 7-7 by the end of March when the clocks go forward

Louise76 · 25/11/2008 14:30

Hi Amani

We've tried keeping her up later and bathing her later the last 2 nights and she slept from around 7.15 until around 5.40 so maybe that's progress!!!

How are you feeling by the way? How is your dd doing with her eating?

Wizzska · 25/11/2008 16:37

Louise, we have the same problem. We're trying to keep him up later but so far it hasn't really had any effect.

claireybee · 25/11/2008 17:47

Bloody awful night last night (again)-ds woke 7, yes 7, times before 5am at which point I was ready to die! He is full of snot, has a bad cough, hasn't been eating blah blah blah but really, 7 times??????

Skid I'd say Milo is pretty much sleeping through based on that-ds usually wakes two or three times and still starts the day at 6 or 6.30 am. DD was more like Milo in that she'd wake once in the night (around 1am)then again around 6 but would then go back to sleep until 8 or 9am. I thought that was bad but really I had no clue!

Also ds's teeth have been rubbing my nipples and I have one massive blister and both are cracked and weeping. Not happy!

Suey glad you are feeling better

claireybee · 25/11/2008 17:50

Sob and now he has just puked all over the basket of cleaned and iron clothes that were waiting to be put away. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Arcadie · 25/11/2008 18:29

Clairey Slap thoroughly deserved. I stand abashed.

And I cannot believe you've had ironing puked on. That is grounds for writing offspring out of wills IMHO.

cazzybabs · 25/11/2008 20:23

Owwwwww...my poor face..I just wanted you not the blame BF for your lack of sleep.

Evie is also a snot bag...its when she gets stuck to my boob with her snot...yuck yuck yuck

mellymooks · 26/11/2008 08:46

Snotty boobs are the worst!!! K been snotty for weeks now poor little mites they really suffer this time of year.
at the ironing fiasco! for the vomit on the ironing but also that you actually have ironing at all!! I think I own one but I don't think it's been used for umm.... I can't even remember!!! I am very impressed!
CC still going well, she's basically sleeping through from about 7.30 til 7 waking around 4 or 5 but resettling herself within 10 minutes, compared to the every 2 - 3 hours we've had for the past 8 months this is absolute bliss!

insywinsyspider · 26/11/2008 09:07

melly - great news about cc

skid - we do the naughty step, ds1 gets 2 minutes with one warning before hand, although I have told him biting, pushing, hiting and kicking = no warning and straight to naughty step, I know he's too little to really get that but I don't see point in him pushing ds2 and me saying 'if you do that again...' because he's already acheived what he wanted, it works well some days and terrible the next

louise - mum I know is in similar position with her lo since clocks changed, also for me keeping them up later has never worked, even if we do something special like fireworks night and ds1 stays up till 10pm he still gets up normal time. what do you do when she wakes up? with ds1 I used to just get up and it took ages for him to change his pattern for ds2 I either do water, milk and re settle him or stay with him whilst he's in cot playing and make it as dark and boring as possible - it still means you're up but we're back to 6am + wake ups

I've got a pukey baby her too I was hoping we'd avoided it but when got ds2 out of cot this am he was lying in pool of sick and has since puked up all over me and lounge - not as bad as your ironing tho clairey! sent ds1 to childminder and hoping he doesn't have it - horrible combination with morning sickness when he was sick I was too don't think we'll be going out today!

mellymooks · 26/11/2008 09:18

Poor Insy, that sounds awful, I think you're amazing I am in total awe of what you are doing, though I must admit that now I've had a full week's worth of sleep the idea of having another one seems a lot less daunting! So maybe Kaesha will get a bro or sis sometime.......

claireybee · 26/11/2008 10:37

LOL Cazzy it is in my genes not to sleep well, my mum goes to sleep easily but wakes loads in night, goes back to sleep easily and doesn't like early mornings, my dad finds it difficult to get to sleep but once he is then he is until morning, he does early mornings, I am a bit of both, dd is exactly like my mum and ds seems to have the worst of everyone because he finds it difficult to get to sleep, wakes loads, finds it difficult to resettle and still does the early mornings!

At least dh does the ironing so it wasn't my hard work ds puked on! Most of it was ok in the end, just a few things need to be washed again. Insy I can imagine sicky baby not good to deal with with morning sickness, poor you.

Naughty step doesn't work here, dd likes it and asks to go and sit on it! Apparently I used to like sitting on the stairs as a child too (there and in my mums wardrobe!).

DS not eating much suddenly, he will only self feed but won't use his hands, oh no he wants to use the spoon. Except he can't. He won't let me help him at all so I can't even load the spoon for him, if I do that he tips the food off it onto the floor and tries to do it himself. Even if he does manage to get any food onto the spoon he can't quite manage to get it to his mouth. It's just a phase right?

mellymooks · 26/11/2008 10:51

I think it is Clairey, at least I hope it is, Kaesha is doing the same thing, wants the spoon then puts her fingers in the goo on the spoon and puts her fingers in her mouth! Guess it's just another way of them learning and becoming independant?!
Ahhh so your husband is your secret ironing weapon!!!

Have just added a few new pics of my cheeky one if anyone fancies a peek.

Anyone else's wee one love the night garden? Iggle Piggle (or iggy as he has been named by K) is her favourite soft toy and goes EVERYWHERE with her, at least he's easily replaced if he ever gets lost!

BouncingTurtle · 26/11/2008 11:18

I have a DH who does the ironing!
Do feel your pain, though Claireybee.
I too have had the snotty boobs, for some reason ds gets really upset if I wipe his nose before I feed him
Louise - another early waker here, and it does seeem to be since the clocks went back! At least he is only waking x2 a night atm, though he woke an hour after he was fed at 10ish, daddy managed to settle him eventually with help from some baby crack
Bedtimes getting less traumatic, been putting him in his cot awake and he has been settling himself.
Melly - woohoo! A result! Long may it continue.
WRT to the fellow non sleepers, before babies came along, did YOU sleep though the night? Because I never did - especially when I was pg, I used to wake up in the middle of the night and find it hard to get back to sleep. I was under a lot of stress from work (still am) and I wonder if that is one of the reasons why ds is such a poor sleeper.

mellymooks · 26/11/2008 11:33

Wow does everyone have an ironing husband but me?!
In answer to your question BT I was walways a good sleeper before K usually 9 -10 hours if I had the choice but for last 4 months of pregnancy I was weeing about every 2 hours and could never get comfy, so my sleep went out of the window at that point, but then we wer spoilt in the early months as K used to sleep 8 hours at a night, it was at four months that her sleep went totally out of the window and she starting waking every 2 hours (in hindsight, that wonderful thing) maybe if we had reacted quickly then we would have saved ourselves 8 months of sleepless nights, but you know you think it's a phase and she'll go back after a few nights, then that turns onto a few weeks and before you know it you're surviving on 3 hours kip a night......

mellymooks · 26/11/2008 11:34

god sorry awful typing!!

insywinsyspider · 26/11/2008 12:27

another ironing dh here! he only has his shirts but also insists on doing flannels (for wiping kids faces) and muslins as otherwise they don't fit in the draw

melly - don't be in awe today, now I've set the washing m/c running for the third time already and ds2 is crashed out again, I'm wondering if 3 so close is such a great idea... doesn't help that all my mum 'friends' keep telling me I'm mad and how hard it will be grr wish they'd just say congratulations, got to tell my line manager tomorrow and bricking it!

BT - before children I loved my bed, I'm a rubbish morning person and needed at least 8 hrs - I think I still do! I have been told that sleeping habits are hereditary but also its to do with the time of day you were born, I was an evening baby and often wondered if thats why I prefer to be up late than up early, ds1 was a morning baby and is far to chirpy in the morning for my liking ds2 was 4pm so seems easy either way

clairey - my child minder has a naughty step and when she sends children to it says ds1 goes and sits with them and gives them a hug, she siad is cute but not really the point! maybe change the step to somewhere no so appealing? our 'step' is by the porch door

mellymooks · 26/11/2008 13:07

Insy - I know it's hard but ignore those people! I'll say it again if they won't CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!! How exciting and wonderful I'm sure you're under no illusions that at times it's gonna be hard, but also super wonderful brilliant fulfilling inspiring and magnificent!!!!! So f* them if you don't mind me saying and don't put yourself down even a tiny bit, what you're already doing is amazing and when your new LO comes along you'll adapt just like you did with your second. The joy of it all far outweighs everything else. And just think, yes will prob be v. chaotic for a while with them close together but then you'll get past all the nappies/toilet training/no sleep stuff and then they'll be really close and entertain each other and the next few years will be much easier. (That's what my sis found with hers anyway....)

Good luck for tomorrow, maybe he'll surprise you and be really nice about it?!