Dec '09 - We're learning to roll, we're learning to eat, all we need now is to learn how to sleep!

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New thread everyone...!

Thanks Lee.

Well, she just made a load yelp/moan but I've been up and checked on her and she's fast asleep just on her tummy. Going to take myself to bed I think and hope I can get some sleep before she wakes.

Hope you had a lovely meal Lee.

Fingers crossed for better sleep - we're back from holiday today. Got back about 11.30 this morning and then Imogen went for a nap at 1 and didn't wake up again until nearly 4. I think she loved being home and in her own bed. We've also returned to 2 wakes in the night for milk, but she hardly drinks any during the day because she is sooooo nosey that if there is even the slightest noise or movement she stops and looks around and so she only ever has a couple of ozs unless she's in a darkened quiet room which obviously isn't very practical!!! We're going to give it a few nights and then see if we can stop the second feed again....

Al and Lee, thinking about it optimistically I've read load and loads that good naps during the day help with good sleeping at night.... that's what I'm clinging onto tonight anyway...

Hi all

Just marking my place. will write more during the weekend.

Nope, worst night yet

Catherine slept from 7pm till 10.30pm, I fed her, laid her back in her cot asleep, then we got about 10 minutes sleep till she woke up and screamed/dozed on and off until 1am!

Then she woke at 6am.

We're all knackered. Alex didn't come out of his room but she must have disturbed him because he's definitely grotty this morning.

DH is still in bed while I get the children breakfast then when he gets up we'll swap and I'll go back to bed for a bit. Everyone is totally miserable. Didn't even manage the 3 hour thing. I fed her after 2 hours at one point just to get her to go back to sleep - but she woke as I was carrying her back to her room

Oh Al . Remember that this too will pass!

Ds woke up just as I was going to bed at 11.30pm, I fed him in bed and debated leaving in him with me or putting him back but I decided to try to put him back, really should have just left him with me. I fed him again when he woke an hour or so later and then he started to wake from 6ish this am. I am definitely finding that co-sleeping makes me less tired than getting up properly BUT I do wonder if it almost encourages ds to wake? Will be sticking with it for the moment though.

OMG OMG OMG! Catherine slept from 7pm till 4.30am!! Then fell straight back to sleep after a feed and slept in with me till 6.30 when Alex came in.

I didn't manage to fall asleep till about 11.30 (because I was waiting for her to wake I think) and had a 3am "she's not woken" panic and had to go check on her but I still feel more rested that I have in a long time. I'm not going to hold my breath for a repeat but I feel more able to deal with her waking now I've had some sleep.

Poor old DH though. He had a big mainframe thing happening last night and had to get up for work at 2.30am so he missed out on a good nights sleep

Yippe for your good night Al.

I had both dc staying at gps so that we could go to a friends bday bbq. I went to bed at nearly 1am, woke up at 5am, leaking breastmilk and had to go and hand express dwn the basin, and then woke again at 8.45. Even when ds is not here he still manages to wake me in the night!

lol LaDiDaDi - I'm currently washing all the bedding as Catherine sleeping for once had me leaking all over the sheets too! :)

Yay for your good night Al - that's good news and hopefully it will continue...

Hope you had a nice time at the BBQ, although if you went to bed at 1 I'll assume you did!!!

We're currently stuck back in the rut of two wakes a night, which I know isn't a bad thing, but having had the week of one or no wakings I want it back!!!!! I think it was better before I knew how it could be...!

Catherine's eaten loads today and just in case it was the magic touch, I've given her the same Butternut Squash Risotto and yogurt she had for dinner last night. So far we've had one wake up, but that was due to some noise outside. Fingers crossed we have another good night.

Good luck to everyone else too...

HI everyone..... I haven't been around for a while....still busy selling everything I can on ebay!! All fine here.....I never leak now either sunshine but happy to still be doing one small bf a day. Eating well and sleeping better than ever......after a few nightmare blips which were worse than having a newborn!! ON his feet and starting to let go of furniture and stand on his own!! The playpen in the lounge is my saviour and I can't recommend them enough!!!

Love to all the lovely mums!!! xx

Well, last night was OK.

Catherine woke at 8pm (someone banging something outside), 10pm (me going to bed and the noise must have roused her) 12.30am and 3.15am but each time, all I did was pick her up and rock her and she fell back to sleep within a couple of minutes. She stopped crying as soon as I picked her up.

She finally woke for a feed at 5.30 and was then wide awake and ready to start the day.

So on the one hand I've been up a lot but on the other, she went 10.5 hours without milk and without hours and hours of screaming. I'm beginning to think that I am more important than the milk and she's just checking I'm still there. I think maybe sending DH in on the other nights was where we went wrong.

Feeling a little more positive now. She can do the night without milk - we just have to work on her security now...

Oooh and she started bottom shuffling yesterday. She can now cross a room on her own!!!

I wouldn't worry about not leaking either Lee. LaDiDaDi and I had only leaked because we'd missed 2/3/4 of our usual feeds and were full to bursting. I'm sure if you'd done the same, you'd be leaking too. No leaking last night though, it's amazing how fast our boobs adapt!

Al, well done to Catherine on the bottom shuffling! Hopefully that will wear her out as she starts moving and she won't even wake for those quick cuddles in the night!

Hi Sparkly! We also have a playpen and I agree it is an absolute lifesaver. Having been on holiday and having other people around 24/7 for the last 10 days has spoilt me and I've suddenly remembered this morning as dh has gone to work how you can't get anything done when on your own! I still have no idea how those of you with more than one child ever do anything - I've just managed to get dressed and have my breakfast now at 10 am after putting Imogen down for her nap.

Lee - hope that A settles soon for you, maybe the nappies were related to the teething? Hopefully now he's home, and got his tooth he'll become more settled again.

Imogen has just discovered that food satisfies hunger I think, and that she likes it. She is polishing off loads now 3 times a day, all of a sudden since Friday lunchtime. She fed at 4.30 rather than her usual 3 am so I'm hoping that she will drop that feed again soon...

hey everyone. Seems like ages since I posted on here!
Im still recovering from my night away on Saturday, which was a day full of chaos. It took us 6 hours to get to Leicester - from Nuneaton!
We broke down on the M69 which was an experience especially being towed back to nuneaton to get another car to drive to Leicester. Nightmare. Still worth it though had a great night.

Elizabeth moved into her brothers room on Saturday aswell, bit of a pain in the arse having to walk all the way to his room when she needs a plug in. Plus we woke up twice to find Jake in our bed. I dont think the rain helped, having a flat roof it was very noisy.

Hi all

Hope you are all ok. we are doing fine. no more teeth, but plenty of movement and lots of commando crawling and jigging about when there's music on (or fave progs on cbeebies! !!)

The days we had in St Anne's were nice. Very relaxing, went out and about a bit, including to Blackpool Zoo, but mainly just enjoyed relaxing together as a family. Then drove back home on friday evening in what was the most atrocious weather i've experienced in a long time! torrential rain and the sky went a funny colour too. It was very odd-we thought that perhaps it was the beginning of the end! ha ha ha!

DH has set a few hares running with IL's I think. They live up in Cumbria and have been down to see Anna probably twice since she was born. We go up there loads and even though i appreciate that we are the ones who live away from the majority of the family it still would be nice for people to come to us sometimes. Anyway, BIL&SIL already has a DS (2.5) who is the apple of MIL and FIL's eye; even though he is a little monkey. SIL is expecting another DC imminently and we just know that once the new baby arrives there will be even less chance of them coming down to see us. We appreciate it will be hard for BIL/SIL with two LO's but they have both sets of GP's plus brothers/sisters etc etc on their doorstep. Feel a bit bitter as we have noone really close by and no one came to help me when Anna was born, was just left to get on with it! My mum lives about 50 mins away but does not drive (well she holds a licence but chooses not to drive, but that's another story.... ) and is reliant on my stepdad to drive her here, so she can only come every so often.... Anyway, on the phone last night, DH said to his mum that we had been up loads recently to see them and it would be nice if they could sometimes come down to us, but he knew it would be even less likley with the impending new arrival. he even said that he found it really hard to prise them away from DN and that it would be even harder when the new baby arrives! I was gobsmacked as DH is normally one for biting his tongue, so will be interesting to see if there's any fallout from that!

Sorry for rambling on. Just needed to vent!

ABF, i share your pain! Glad you still had a good night though inspite of the breakdown!

Back at work two weeks today. Eeek.

Been and bought Anna the next stage car seat. we got one of those german kiddy ones, so hoping she likes it once we give it a whirl.

Oh and off to a fisher price party this week! one of my NCT friends used to work for FP and still has contact there, so she is having a party where the LO's can try out some new toys and we get goodie bags. I am very excited (and consequently, also very sad!) :O

Hi ABF and Ethelred, good to see you back :)

Sounds like your Saturday night was eventful ABF. Glad the night out made up for it.

Good in your DH for taking a stand Ethelred. I can understand why you needed to vent! Fisher Price party sounds fab. Especially the goodie bags!!

No Risotto for Catherine tonight so I hope she sleeps. Going to try to resettle her without a feed again if she does wake. It's been 2 nights now without a feed between 7pm and 4.30am so hopefully, if we can carry on with that, she might stop waking too once she gets used to not having a feed in that time. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed for you Al. Hope it's another good night for you! :)

Hope he's ok Lee. I'm sure he will be. It is easily done when you're trying to do two things at once.

Is your 8 month check with the HV? i haven't seen mine for months....

Loads of news here, I can hardly keep up but it's nice that everyone's got stuff happening.

Pleased to see you sparkly and to hear that you ds is well.

ABF, what a horrendous journey! I think that I would still be cross about it now, you sound so chilled!

Ethelred, def, good for your dh to raise this with his parents now.

Al, you've got me wondering if I could resettle ds without a feed but as soon as I pick him up he roots madly for my breat. Guess that now is not the time to try as I'm off on my hols on Wed ! Will no doubt manage to mumsnet from Mallorca .

The non-feed resettle didn't work last night. She didn't wake till 12.30 but was ravenous so I took her to bed and fed her then we both fell asleep until 5am. Not a bad night but she could have done with spending more of it in her own bed.

She must have disturbed Alex too as we found him asleep on the floor next to DH's side of the bed this morning!

They've both been a pain since the moment they woke up too. Catherine wants to stand and cries for me to hold her up whenever I put her down and Alex has already had to have a plaster after scraping his elbow and making it bleed!! I need to go shopping to get shoes for a wedding we're going to at the weekend today. I hate shopping and have to take both children. Today is going to be a long day!

Ds slept until 4.30am and stayed in my bed but had two feeds between then and waking at 7.45. Pleased about the reasonable night as I went to bed late after staying up to finish my book, "The other hand" by Chris Cleave is fantastic.

Good luck for your shopping trip Al.

Glad the nights are getting more reasonable all around. We've also had a good night last night. Imogen woke at 10.15 for milk, then squawked a few times at 11 ish but didn't actually wake up and then at 3.30 cried a bit then stopped then started again and cried 'properly' so I went down did the milk and came back up, as I reached the top of the stairs she stopped so I sat on the stairss for 5 minutes but she didn't start again and then slept until 7 this morning!

Al, I hope your shopping trip goes well.

LaDiDaDi - what type of book is it? I love reading, although haven't read so much recently, and am always on the look out for recommendations.

Lee - hope your night was fine, I'm sure he will be fine - it will probably just help his immune system mature, although probably not a medically approved method as such!!!

Ethelred - good on your DH for saying something, it's always difficult tackling stuff like that. Our 8 month check was supposed to be last week but we were away so when I rang she asked if I had any worries, I said no, so she said just come in October half term!!!

ABF - I also am impressed with your chilled out attitude to that journey, I'd probably have had hysterics at dh even though it clearly wasn't his fault!!!!!