December 2009: for the sake of Auld Lang Sine

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Just thought that I would get this started before the ante-natal thread gets filled up, not that I've had much time to post since I had DS but others might be able to multi-task better than I can!

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On the plus side Ebony is sometimes sleeping right through from about 7 till 6ish. Pity its not every night but hopefully thats not too far away.

Weaning a 10 week old baby is insane. Why would you start weaning a baby of that age. She probably isn't sleeping because her poor tummy hurts. I remember taking a neighbour to hospital with her ds who was about 10 weeks & kept being sick, had diarrhea & while there was noone in the room she produced a jar of food from her bag & actually asked me to stand guard at the door so noone saw her feeding him it. She also told me once that she put bottles on the bedroom window sill at night to keep them cool then fed her ds throughout the night with them. She did have him taken into care eventually mind you. One very messed up young lady (she was only 17 when she had him)

damnitdamnit - how long were you taking Cerazette for? Did you have a period while you were on it? I took it once for a few months & it was another couple of months after I stopped taking it before I had a period.

I have read through the whole thread and am back to introduce ourselves

Thanks for the hellos, it is me with the initials KR for the facebook group

I am Kate (no s*, i hear you say!), I had my little boy Noah on 9th December (he was due on 25th November ).

He is an absolute delight, putting on weight like a trooper (14lb 15oz at 12 weeks), breastfeeding going okayish, such a happy sociable little one. I had a relatively easy pregnancy and labour.

However, I had to get my comeuppance somewhere! He is an absolutely shocking sleeper, he's not slept for longer than 4 hours at once (which equates to about 3.5 for me as I find it hard to get to sleep ). He wakes between 3 and 4 times between 9 and 8 and can't seem to nap longer than 45 min in the day. I suspect that the world is just too interesting and he's worried he might miss something, but I'm bloody knackered!

DH is great with him, he will change nappies etc (albeit with grumbling ), but wouldn't get up in the night if you paid him. We're in seperate rooms so I can cosleep with DS when it gets too much, so I'm a bit of all the sleep he gets. To be fair, it would be pointless him getting up because I am bf (haven't tried expressing yet) and I suspect I would wake up anyway, but still

So that is us

Claire - I would agree and suggest that the reason the little girl is waking up again is that she has cut back dramatically (and far too early) on her milk intake and is therefore hungry and not being nutritionally satisfied. [holier than though emoticon I know]. poor thing.

LifeofKate - I find the same with my daughter - she usually has one long sleep of several hours during the day (usually after lunch but often only when we are out and she is in the pram). But for the past few days she has not been doing this and therefore not been settling well at night - overtired I suspect. She has also got a cough and cold so that won't help. But the reason they wake after 30-45 mins apparently is that the average sleep cycle is 40/45 minutes and so then wake - sometimes if I leave her she will cry for a bit an then sleep a bit ore as they often haven't had enough sleep when they wake after 45 mins.
Poor you with the nights - you must be exhausted. If you were bottle feeding you could water down the middle of the night feed with the aim of then cutting it out but obv bf means it's not deal - although you could do that with expressed milk. I did that with her and now I (with a rather "tough love" approach) do not feed her after her last feed at 11 until 6, but I try and get her as close to 7 as possible. I just leave her to cry and she re-settles eventually as she isn't screaing and really isn't hungry, as if I do feed her she then doesn't want anything to eat until about 9/10am. But that is completely my approach - just want my sleep too much . It will happen eventually!

Oh god, I mean holier than THOU. I am sooo tired today. And a pedant so I have really annoyed myself.

snurk - Holier than though

Sleep deprivation even affects pedants Kingsroadie - it makes me even worse - I came close to correcting my MIL the other day!!! Just stopped myself in time.

Argh, don't! I am shrivelled up with shame. .

Foiled by the sleep deprivation. I thought I was invincible.

I was awful at work - I used to have to bite my tongue all the time, although I did correct mistakes (but in a nice way of course ) by those more senior than me if they were going out to clients.

My MIL says "I done it" a lot. It takes all my self control not to shout "I DID it"!

The awful thing is, DS is now copying her. I correct his at home but nearly did it in front of her last week. She would not take it well!!

My posts are awful at the moment. I keep blaming it on typing while feeding but sometimes I just don't spot the mistakes

10 weeks is too young to wean but am i ok dipping my finger in mashed veg just to shut him up at mealtimes for us?????!!!!

sparkly - have done the odd finger dip myself I must admit.

Another pedant over here. I drive my dh crazy correcting his speech. I just can't let it go. It drives me insane. I hate text speak too. ds1 is currently obsessed with doing things 'by my own' & I'm trying to teach him it's either 'on my own' or 'by myself'

ds2 went to sleep at 2230 last night then woke up at 0400 again but I left him & he went back to sleep until 0615. Unfortunately we then had a projectile incident resulting in a quick change of myself & ds2 before rushing ds1 to school.

Just realized ds1's still got some library books which should have been returned 2 weeks ago. Is anyone else struggling to keep on top of the little things?

Having to be really careful with the weaning here - both me and DH are Atopic (I have mild eczema and hayfever, DH has hayfever and a raw food allergy) so our children are more likely to have allergies, hayfever, eczema and/or asthma.

There's two schools of advice though. One that says weaning has to wait until 6 months to prevent reactions and another that says waiting till 6 months causes sensitivity!!

I weaned DS at about 5 months on the advice of the HV when he stopped putting on weight for 6 weeks and he's so far only had a little eczema which disappeared at about 18 months. Will wait and see with Catherine I think.

Still avoiding nuts myself so I don't pass anything on in my milk either. Hayfever can be so miserable as can eczema so I'm hoping my babies won't get it. My hands are so red and sore at the moment, I look like I've got some nasty disease

I correct my DH too Claire He was getting the mickey taken out of him at work because he didn't say "th". He could say it, he just didn't because he'd never been taught to. But after being with me for a few years he can now say it which is good as there was no way he was calling DD Caffrine!!

Hi all,
Advice please.............
dd is 3-4 months and typical night regime is a midnight feed (often sleep feed) then she wakes at 5 we attempt to feed her then but truth is she only takes an ounce.
She's a heavy wetter and tthe 5 am nappy is a lead weight with pee ( she's highly intolerant of a wet nappy) and I think this is what wakes her not hunger.
We're using nature baby care size 3 any suggestions on more heavy duty ones for night time before I go and waste my money on a random purchase.
In the daytime she's cloth nappies but I dont think these will stand the test of night time.
Maybe a nights sleep is on the cards if I can nail this!!!!

Hello ladies, hope all well. welcome to kate and hendo

Re DH/DP,s not pulling their weight, my DH is , on the whole, a wonderful husband and fantastic Dad, however, virtually everything to do with DS2 is left to me, hes only changed 3 nappies in 15 weeks and fed him the same amount of feeds in those same weeks. He also whinges that he has no time to himself-WTF-i say to him 'Welcome to my world'

Re weaning-think im going to wean DS2 at 17-18 weeks-just baby rice/purees for first few weeks then gradually add different things in.

Re sleep-DS2 getting better but waking around 4am for a feed, he only takes couple of ounces then is straight back to sleep, i know he doesnt need it, but ive tried letting him cry(only for 10 mins), offering him dummy-he spits it out, am at loss how to get him to drop this feed-any advice ladies??

x posts legscrossed- I use Pampers for nightimes, and find that even though DS2 pees a lot, nappy is heavy but doesnt feel really wet and doesnt leak.

Thanks for that bigpants.
What does term x posts refer to btw

Hello everyone, wwlcome to the newcomers.

I had generally better day yesterday. Bedroom got wallpapered and it looks lovely , very pleased!

Tried to go shopping for some clothes for me today but only managed to but a pair of jeans, need some nice bright bf friendly tops for spring, anyone got any ideas?

A friend recommended the websites below to me, don't know if they are of any use to you. She also suggested ebay as a great source of tops and recommended BOOB as a make...

www.bellamama.co.uk
www.mummylooksfab.co.uk
www.milkbug.co.uk

That's funny legscrossed, I use cloth nappies too, but will only use cloth at night as I can't seem to get a disposable to last longer than 4 hours without leaking! I do have to change that after about 7 hours though, so at about 4 in the morning. Someone on the nappies board recommended fleece soakers over the top of either cloth or disposable though, I'm thinking of trying that

How about a disposable nappy stuffed with a terry booster and topped with a fleece liner to keep her feeling dry?

I'm using tots bots bamboozles (size 2 already) and they'e pretty good capacity-wise, they're good for nights (10 hours+) and sometimes with a little top up feed too.

Thanks for your ideas, I already use fleece liners in my Bambino teddies, just got baby dry pampers and will try fleece in those if still no improivement

Hi everyone, just wanted to say hello as not been on this thread for ages. will write more tomorrow when have had chance to catch up on the thread. off to bed now!

claire236 i have only had a bit light spotting whilst on it and thsat was in the first 2 weeks. I have only taken 2 packs so i have not been on it long. Had all the signs of period though yesterday so i am sure its not going to be long.

Lifeofkate i have always found huggies or tesco's own to be more absorbent than pampers.

update re the earlier post...bought pampers baby dry n last night dd did 11.30 till 7.30 sweet!!!!!!!

damnit - it is tescos we use if we do use disposables

I think DS's bladder is just the size of the titanic or something I guess he might pee less at night when he starts dropping night feeds though, he's still feeding 3+ times a night, so maybe that's it?