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Non sleeping baby for sale - PART TWO

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kaz33 · 21/10/2003 09:45

After three attempts to leave a message on this thread I have to start again.

Codswallop - you still have the hacking bronchial cough to come and total loss of interest in food to come. I'm sure it won't be long before DS2 catches another cold.

We were going to sleep in the lounge last night, got the inflatable bed out ready and then discovered the pump wasn't charged and which point we threw our hands in the air and went back to bed. He woke at 4am, bfight eyed and bushy tailed.

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elena2 · 30/10/2003 09:08

Must be the Grobag for us too!

Beccarollo · 30/10/2003 09:23

PPH - was that the first night of unswaddling?? Harvey is still fully swaddled so I havent had him in his grobag yet - maybe that is the answer!! How did it go? Did he still settle ok with his arms out?

Beccarollo · 30/10/2003 09:24

elena2 · 30/10/2003 09:40

Becca, not last night, the night before was the first night I put Harry in a Grobag instead of fully swaddling him and he was fine! (It did coincide with his 8 wk imm's - see my earlier post).
I can honestly say he has been better since we stopped swaddling him, now he can't kick his covers off and is nice and snug

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kaz33 · 30/10/2003 10:49

B**er - fed at 10pm, woke at 3.30am - wouldn't go back to sleep despite dryer and dummy. Impossible to get any Calpol down him. Finally thrust him at DP at 6am who managed to get some Calpol down him and he slept for 45 minutes. Since then he has had another 1 hour 15 minutes.

So me knackered, DS1 gone off with nanny when I was looking forward to taking him out today but decided not to because I was knackered. So annoyed with myself because I should have just got my arse in gear and leftg her to deal with whinging teething baby. Just put him back to bed so no doubt he is totally out of sync with his feeds and sleep and will end up developing a 3pm to 3am pattern

Starting to get a bit fed up of this - managed to get one night of sleeping through and he developed a stinking cold, just got over that and now he is teething for England.

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codswallop · 30/10/2003 11:00

how old is he now kaz?

princesspeahead · 30/10/2003 11:36

ooooh, he likes the grobag! down at 6, fed at 2.30, up at 7!

princesspeahead · 30/10/2003 12:22

whoops, sorry, refreshed and sent the last post again by mistake.
yes beccarollo that was the first unswaddled night- I was expecting a disaster I must say but he was really good! so I've bitten the bullet and put the swaddles away in a cupboard and will see how he goes on with the grobag. he was beginning to get a bit houdini-like in the last few days - getting out of his swaddle and kicking his blankets off as well - so his swaddle days were numbered anyway...

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kaz33 · 30/10/2003 16:41

5 months old Codswallop - about the same age when you started the thread i believe.

He is now sleeping again so expexting another night from hell

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codswallop · 31/10/2003 18:39

bloody awful night last night - up from 12 - 4 on and off.Another cough and cold and temp - has been asleep in my arms all day.

breastfeeding is supposed to stop all this!

lubu · 31/10/2003 19:35

Poor you - I always thought that b/f was supposed to stop all of the colds and it worked with ds for 6 months but certainly not with dd. Ds seems to attract every virus going and happily passes it on to us. He gets a sniffle and we all have a raging cold for a week

dd seems to be weaning herself off the breast at the moment. She has started refusing the breast but will take a cup. So I think, perhaps, it is the formula that is helping her to sleep. Oh well, I have managed 8 months that I never thought I would.

Hope that you both get a better night tonight.....

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kaz33 · 01/11/2003 08:18

DP was in charge last night and ignored all my instructions and fed him in the middle of the night, so of course DS2 is not hungry now

But now the cold has nearly gone we are going back to letting him scream it out tonight. Large whisky and a couple of nurofen required.

Always thought the reason my boys got loads of colds was because they weren't breastfed, don't feel so bad now ladies.

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codswallop · 01/11/2003 08:22

I think when you have sucessive kids they pick it up from thier brothers. You can cocoon number 1.

ok so up all pm in a cute way - seem to have broken the fever - then awake at 1 am till....um 7 ish?

so I feel more human.
Have just heard a thunderous parp from underneath the desk so off to change.

Beccarollo · 01/11/2003 09:22

I had a good night with mine but different to usual, usually he is down early and gets up a few times - last time we were at a halloween party until 10 so up til then he catnapped rather than solid sleep, fed and put him to bed at 11 - he woke at 5.30 then back off til 8am so I feel quite rested now.

He is still fully swaddled - daft question but why do you wean off the swaddle? Is swaddling not good for them for long? Just cos he is very happy like that at the moment and was planning leavinghim for a bit

codswallop · 01/11/2003 20:22

you need to check out pphs grobag thread for that.

with Charles it wasnt an issue as he endured this hot summer but they will throw off the swaddles at ?3/4 months(cant remember how old yours is).

Get a grobag then

codswallop · 01/11/2003 20:23

Is she 8 monhs?(Have read thread properly) Blimey. and stays still allnight? mind goes around and around

Beccarollo · 01/11/2003 20:27

He is 8 weeks - I have a grobag - ill keep him in the swaddle til he fights his way out then zip him into that..

The only thing I think with the grobag is that his arms are still flailing and would wake him up if they were free me thinks

codswallop · 01/11/2003 20:29

Oh you wrote 8 months somewhere

codswallop · 01/11/2003 20:29

I agree re. arms - thats whY I moved mine out of his Moses basket he kept flailing about and wacking them

Tsk... babies

codswallop · 01/11/2003 20:30

No I take it allback that was Lubu.
8 weeks ahhhhhhhhhh

Beccarollo · 01/11/2003 20:35

yep 8 weeks and he is lushty mushty - Ill be moving him into cot in a few weeks i think ill save grobag til then

my house is tiny so he is in with us for the forseable future (until we move) just need to figure out how a cot will fit in the bedroom!

lubu · 01/11/2003 20:36

Just catching up - we had a power cut last night which knocked the computer out all day. It has only just come back on!

She slept all the way through till 6am this morning again. Could just do with her doing the extra hour to make it 7am - yawn. She went to bed at 6.30 tonight so I will be up well before dawn tomorrow.

Codswallpo - too tired to read whole thread but if you mean dd, yes she is 8 months next week (blimey that's gone quick)! No she doesn't stay in one position all night - don't know what I would do without Grobags. She is now crawling backwards and a little bit forwards if desperate and - finally - she has got a tooth that you can see. Maybe that's why she is sleeping better

lubu · 01/11/2003 20:38

My post so long it crossed several of yours!! Think I am going to bed - too tired to type or think quickly.

Explains my confusion.

Oh and sorry I spelt your name wrong - Getting catching this adding an o at the end

Beccarollo · 01/11/2003 20:42

hehe everyone wants a snazzy "o" like me

codswallop · 01/11/2003 20:44

Oh yes they Do - o.!!
A pwere cut all day? where are you? Uzbekhistan?

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