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ElphabaTheGreen · 11/06/2013 21:29
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ElphabaTheGreen ·
14/06/2013 05:37
Nah, I'm not asleep. Sleeping more, definitely, but note the time of this post.
We got another 10 hour night after the first one, then last night was three wake-ups, the third one being 5am. DH, being all shattered and exhausted from the two other wake-ups of about five minutes each, asked me to see to this one 
5am is so close to wake-up time that with the combination of me and the hour of day we'd just have screaming until 7am. Taken him in to the spare room for a feed 'in case he's up for the day' (yeah, right, he's right here snoring and sucking at the same time).
Dreaming Your jiggling plan would probably work better if your DH did it so it's not like you're dangling a bacon sarnie just in front of DT's nose. There would also be an element of replacing one sleep prop with another one though, I think. What success DS has had has been down to him having to sort out what position he likes to sleep in, realising that lying there quietly is actually more conducive to sleep etc (You're a paeds physio? I was a paeds OT many moons ago. Now I'm a neuro one 
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ElphabaTheGreen ·
14/06/2013 07:29
Antidote here to the crack-of-sparrow's-fart wake up was a carpet picnic (on wipeable tablecloth) of strawberries and door-stop slices of eggy bread with golden syrup. DS didn't look at all like a crime scene victim after all those strawberries ended up down his white sleepsuit, not at all...
On annual leave this week, hence the rare luxury of a decadent breakfast.
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DreamingOfAFullNightsSleep ·
14/06/2013 08:00
My dh can't settle Dt1 at all. Dt2, yes, dd, yes, but when he tried rocking him last night he just screamed and was so upset he was vomiting within 5 minutes. Even on ranitidine and domperidone he's still a vomiter if upset...
So of course he slept with me. Erratically.
But at least I had a huge argument with dh
And yes elph I do neurodevelopmental paeds. Only 2 days a week though, so I'd prefer a hospital job than the impossibility of managing a community caseload on those days. Sure you know what I mean :) I see lots of lovely children though!
ElphabaTheGreen ·
14/06/2013 08:27
Yep - delighted to work in a hospital. Community therapy was like pushing a huge unwieldy pile of shit uphill using a toothpick.
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DreamingOfAFullNightsSleep ·
14/06/2013 20:08
Ah elph you've hit the nail on the head, but don't forget the managers slavedrivers cracking the whips at the bottom of the hill too. Love the sound of the carpet picnic btw. Lush. Living it up on your annual leave. Did you not fancy a holiday away ?! 
< ducks and runs for cover>
Tonight is Night 3 of Dt1's measles like MMR rash. I can't get him to sleep. He slept only in my arms last night. We are in my bed and he's asleep pushed up to me feeding now. . And to add insult to injury Dt2 woke up lots last night too, but only before midnight.
My 30th birthday tomorrow. I am clapped out and aged before my time though.
NeedlesCuties ·
15/06/2013 07:16
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to dreaming
Always better to start with the wine, I think
ElphabaTheGreen ·
15/06/2013 08:26
Happy birthday, Dreaming!
DS gave DH an...interesting night. I think the MMR yesterday might have left DS feeling a bit rough so he was harder to settle. He was doing the old, 'Yep, I'm fast asleep until you try leaving the room' trick. Old hat to me, new phenomenon to DH, who was getting a touch snappy. Had he not been an arse a week ago I would not be revelling in schadenfreude, but he was, so I shall (Grudge? Me? Never!)
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DreamingOfAFullNightsSleep ·
15/06/2013 19:11
Thanks everyone! Had a lovely afternoon with family and friends in the garden.
elph we're now day 12 post MMR, both boys have got the measles like rash, Dt2 up howling last night too. I hope its better for minielph. I hate the post immunisation reaction... Why can't it just keep their immune system busy thereby making them sleep, preferably for 15 hours straight or something? Huh?! Huh?!
custards thank goodness for one good sleeper! Makes a big difference if i have both twins unsettled and HUGE difference if my 2 year old is up too.
ruby I've been considering all sorts of unreasonable things regarding dd's snatching, pushing and meanness to her brothers... I imagine they're in the middle of some marvellous 'phase' and it'll be something else driving us wild soon :)
StitchAteMySleep ·
15/06/2013 19:36
Happy birthday dreaming, glad you had a good day 
Well good sleeping lasted one night. Stitch up at 4am, feeding for over an hour then up for the day at 5.30am. Plus several feeds before that, I only got about an hours decent sleep between 3 and 4am. Yawn.
ElphabaTheGreen ·
17/06/2013 06:40
Bed? As in proper bed, bed? Oooo... Report back! DS is so incredibly tall (12 months and eye to eye with short three year olds ) and able to climb on the sofa, up the stairs, and, worryingly, onto the coffee table that we may need a bed for safety sooner than I would have liked/expected as I suspect he'll be able to vault the cot sides very soon.
One wake up from DS last night then up for the day at 5:15. Bloody amazing. I think this is the first time I'll have been to work feeling reasonably well rested since I started in Feb.
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PoppyAmex ·
17/06/2013 09:32
Belated Happy Birthday, Dreaming! I'm glad you had a lovely day, hopefully you'll start having lovely peaceful nights too; I'm sure the MMR reaction can't last much longer.
Stitch it's heartbreaking when they dash our hopes after one good night's sleep, isn't it?
Hear I'll be very interested to hear how that's going, we're moving DD next week Is she on an actual bed or a cot?
Like MiniElph, DD is very tall (98th percentile) and I think she won't last much longer in her cot. People keep addressing her on the street and asking questions assuming she's 3 years old and then look when I point out she's only 15 months old.
Sleep here is still very elusive, she's still awaking up at 2 or 3am every night, but started going to back sleep 2 hours later, after some calpol & teething gel.
I'm not 18 weeks pregnant so almost halfway; what have we done? 
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PoppyAmex ·
17/06/2013 15:34
Ohhh Hear, good for you! just don't get carried away and end up pregnant like me 
I'm reading your post and getting nervous thinking about it; doesn't she toddle all over the house or just around her bedroom for ages?
I honestly can not imagine DD coming to our bedroom, she'd be up to no good trying to stick things in plug sockets or eating plant soil. How do you do it, is there a gate or something?
It's such great progress though, I would love to get to that stage, you must be delighted
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