'Sleep is for the Weak' for anyone with August/Sep 06 DC's

[justJAM]

GM, Cruise and anyone else with LO's born around August/September 06' - this is a support thread for when you have no clue as to why your LO is doing the exact opposite to what they were doing last week and when you are thinking WTF????
Post on here and we shall all compare notes and comfort each other!!

lo had some baby rice an hour ago, hv said try him with a few tsp well i mixed 2tsp in 1oz milk and he wolfed the LOT could not get it down him fast enough, kept grabbing spoon, kicking legs wanting me to go faster! wow if he's like this with yucky baby rice what's he going to be like with something more tasty? feel so chuffed.

Sounds good keira. I bf ds until 4 months exclusively and then had the usual 'is my milk not enough?' dip as he seemed so hnugry all the time so mixed with ff (infasoy as sensitive to dairy).Seemed to help a bit, went longer bewteen feed stec but stil had to resort to some baby rice at about 5 months (too early i know but he was the same and really enjoyed it. pretty quickly after that we went on to pureed fruit. Hope he carries on with moe success for you

kiera enjoy your night out, you enjoy it sweetie will keep you posted re. dp or not so d at the moment
poor ds is going to get it too re. bringing plates down and putting clothes in wash basket!! oooohhh er, look out boys

oh and does anyone remember me saying about 8.30 this morning that ds looked exhausted after bad night and hopefully we could go back to bed... well he's still going!! don't know how the hell he does it. Have even been out in car to do a few bits which normally is a winner and not even so much as a rub of the eye. at gym tonight so knowing my luck he'll go to bed like a little angel fo Dh and make me look like a liar!

kiera meant to say, bloody well done re. sleep
glad lo enjoyed baby rice, my dd was more than ready for it when i started. am sure some mums produce full fat milk whilst mine is more of a semi-skimmed variety.

have abandoned bottle idea but dd taking sips from the doidy cup now so can leave her during day if necessary

redbeki with you on the reusables, theyre fab!!!! must admit use disposable overnight tho as lo still feeding so much and never change her in middle of night unless dirty, but am going to try a folded up terry nappy with her fleece liner to see if it works.

bloody hell bampa, that boy has staying power!!!
whats a gym...............ha ha, stop swearing at me

my definition of a gym...place i used to frequent alot pre pregnancy (mostly to perv on the instructers...well you can still look can't you....visited once while pergnant (thought i'd be the yoga until 9 months type which obviously never happened) and now a place I pay for every month and haven't been to in nearly a year! tonight first night back. Got big wedding with lots of old friends in may in portugal and don't want to let the side down!!

ohmygod! so desparate to get on here and catch up but I seem to have run out of time again! hectic day, what with hv's and shopping and school run and housework and blah blah blah..... (yawn). Can't wait to have an evening to read and catch up esp since there are some new people on here and I am missing out! took ds to nct clinic thingy today (new in our area) about sleeping issues/bfeeding/weaning etc and all they said was co-sleep, use a sling, meet your childs needs, bf more often (no support for switching to ff even though I have hit 6 months all bar a week )give up your life for your baby basically. Sorry to rant but that is not what i want. I want baby to be happy, well rested, ;in a routine (of sorts) not take 9 steps back and be entirely baby led again. Gotta go. Bath time beckons. More later hopefully.

cruise-do you want to ffeed?or combine?

It's so annoying to get bad advice,esp when you go and make the effort ,Not what you need at all.sympathise cruisemum.bathtime ,speak later.

i wanted to bf until 6 months so have been attempting combining but ds will only take about 2 - 4oz from a bottle at any one time so I end up supplementing with boob as I know that milk is their main source of nutrition at this age. Little monkey isn't impressed!

cruise - sympathies with this one, i know how difficult it is to try to introduce bottle to a resistant bubba as you know!!

dont really know what to suggest as i know that you dont have anyone around who can feed lo for you.

was reading a book that said basically, if you keep perservering, ie. refuse boob for a day, they will eventually take it, but could you put up with the crying? dont think i could

tibsy - no I couldn't. I love my lo so deeply that I feel bad enough giving up boob as it is!!! [smil]. feel good that I hvae lasted 6 months but tbh it is a pleasure for us both so I haven't really pushed it iykwim. I do feel that I have done my bit now though so will defo make the effort to stop soon(ish)

can't wait till dd goes to bed and I can catch up on the posts of the last few days!

using ds bad cold as excuse to get into bed with him for ridiculously early night. Have lovely evening all and hope someone out there gets some sleep tonight! catch up tomorrow

;would you bloody believe it! I have just trawled through all the posts on this thread and my friend just called so I have buggered up my evening again! I will not go back over them now so I will just have to say hi to the new 'posters'. Welcome to our sleepless world ]grin]. I shall catch up on my zzzzz's now and mn tomorrow!
oh and btw - hats off to all you mums who are rolling in the hay again. my dh has had it once since ds was born and I cannot say I am that eager to do it again until I have caught up on some much needed sleep! He shall have to exercise some more patience

Taken me a while to catch up on all posts.
Myrtle congrats on the good night. Well done.

Kiera hope you have a great night out, I would love to do a baby sitting swap with you I'm in Sydney can you make it for tomorrow night?

cruisemum you are super woman bfing for 6months it's such a hard job. Good luck with the bottle.

Things not great last night but we've had worse. I was up about 5 times
gotta go LO crying have more time soon

morning all. well thought sun night was bad last night was even worse. Infact i didn't really have a night my day just had 24 hours in it. ds cold turned to more of a fever last night and he hardly slept at all. Dh ended up trying to sleep across the bottom of our bed (sofa too uncomfortable and spare room bed wasn't made up ...bad wife!)so all in all no-one got any sleep. Ds not looking too concerned right now as he eats his pancake and watches cbeebies (yes i know his retina's will be damaged for life but right now i really need a coffee )
Genlay last time i was in sydney (dec 04)we were newly weds hanging out with best friend (now based there) and her mates having a bbq on the grassy part on bondi and watching the sun go down. What happened to that life!!!!!

tibsy didn't make it to the gym.(stop smirking!)Friend cancelled and I am way too undisciplined/lacking in will power to make myself go so all in all last night was a c**k up all round

Morning!

Well we had a very good night last night (sorry), I went out to the cinema and had a great time with my friend (saw Hot Fuzz - fab film, very funny). When I crept in at 11.30pm they were all asleep so crept around straining to hear their breathing etc! Lo fed at 7pm, down at 7.30pm (trying not to feed before sleep to avoid bfeed to sleep) settled well and slept till 2am - 6 1/2 hours and 7 hours since last feed! dh gave bottle of ff. Slept again till 6am, had big bfeed. Dropped off again until 7.30am. Unfortunately ds1 got up at 3.30am wanting to get into our bed, sent back to bed, up again 3.45am wanting toilet, then was up for good at 6, so it would have been great had it not been for him! Ah well can't have it all can you.

bampa - thanks for your reassurance re milk/hunger. so sorry to hear ds has been ill and you had such an awful night. hope he catches up on some sleep today so you can too. if it makes you feel any better my ds aged 3 watches cbeebies or scooby doo with his breakfast EVERY morning and also at lunchtime too if we are at home!!! gives me a bit of peace and quiet to eat / shower / email / mumsnet!

cruise - I did not stay with nct for very long as it wasn't really for me either - all that attachment parenting stuff - great if you can do it but I reckon whatever parenting style you use the babies are always fine and turn out the same way regardless. it's us that suffers! good for you if you're into all that but it's not for me. oh yes and we're not exactly rolling in the hay here either - I think we've done it 3 times since ds was born!!!

genlay - lol forgot you were in oz

looking forward to giving lo some more baby rice today, he enjoyed it so much he's under the baby gym at the moment trying desperately to roll over!

crap night here. ds settled really well by 7:45pm leaving dd and i to have some quality time together. he then woke about 5 times for a suck . knackered again.... more later

I must be a total slut then cos I've done it at least a dozen times [smug slutty emoticon].

My night was rubbish. went to bed at 10.30. Woke at 2.15 and despite best efforts not to, fed her at 2.45. She was then unsettled until 5 when she came into bed with us and slept 'til 7! Just as I was dropping off she would wake up. It was very frustrating because, as you know, it takes me aaaaaaages to get back to sleep once I've woken. I don't think she was cold and I'm certain it wasn't her eczema itching so god knows. I feel like dog shit today tho.

I'm trying to wean her. She hates baby rice and flattly refuses a spoon anywhere near her mouth so I've been trying this baby led weaning and she's smearing it all over the place but not eating any of it. She did suck on a bit of pear yesterday which I felt was progress. Maybe it was that that kept her awake!!

Cruise, talking to a friend whose DS bf to sleep every 2 hours for the first 6 months night and day!! At 6 months she tried their own version of controlled comforting which was basically during a set period ie 11pm-6am if he cried her DH would just hold him and talk gently and cuddle but no feeding. (they were certain he wasn't hungry it was just comfort) First night was on and off for a couple of hours, second night shorter, 3rd night slept through, 4th night about 20 mins and then slept through from then. Obviously she couldn't be involved because it was very upsetting, she knew she'd cave in DS would smell her milk so DH had to do it all. I know your DH works a lot but perhaps if he's got some time off soon you could try it or perhaps the weekend. Don't know if that will help.

gn - ditto on teh not going out thing. I havent got the energy anyway. would be nice to have the optoin though . you're struggling wiht switching to ff too then? ds will take a bottle of ff but only a couple of oz's. dunno what to do. Too tired to fight it so just cave in and offer boob. more later

im useless at long posts but basically madam fell asleep at ten and slept til 12 30 then woke up like normal 3 15 is as if she has an alarm them again at 5 and again at 7 45

my dh keeps suggesting giving her formula beofre bed and or maybe me tying to hold back from feeding her but she gets so upset and screams and she always has a really good feed never just a suck

basically this has been the pattern since she was 6 weeks old dream feeds work but she still wakes up 3 wat eva apart from one week when she slept til 5 but she has never repeated it

there should be a knackered emotiocon lol

hope evryone despite the lack of sleep is ok

btw august crew are getting together in may/april and since some of you are from the sept thread you are welcome to join us

will let you know wen we have something concrete

bampa - smirking, who's smirking ........... tee hee x