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FIRST NIGHTS SLEEP IN HOW LONG?????????????

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EvesMama · 21/10/2004 20:41

after a bloody awful night with dd waking at 12.30, stayiny awake till 4.30 at least then playing up all day, we went to watts (baby shop in m'bro) to buy a gro bag. everyone gos on about them and had mothercare version when she was small so decided to give it a go.
picked the prettiest in her size and let her take it out of packaging and play with it down stairs at tea time.
come to bed time, shes sat on floor watching balamory and i lay her onto it to put on..............oh my god....crying isnt in it, take her upstairs to calm her down, but still pulling at it and saying 'out'.
wouldnt have any bottle and eventually got her into bed by making small gradual movements so as not to wake her!!!
crept down stairs and didnt hold out much hope for a quiet night as she likes to kick about so went to bed early incase of another nightmare night.
next thing i know its 6.15AM!!!!!!!!! she had over 10 hours constant settled sleep!
oh what a wonderous invention!!!!!!!!!
hope she does same tonight and forever! as d.test in morn and could do with a clear head!!
to anyone having probs with toddlers sleeping (mine 18 months) try a grow bag!!
saying that i might be back tomorrow in tears from lack of sleep and lack of licence

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EvesMama · 21/10/2004 21:42

60mph on a single carrageway and 70mph on dual..i can tell you stopping distances as well if you want.....ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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biketastic · 21/10/2004 21:43

my little boy has a fleece that he slep on when he was very tiny. He wouldn't sleep on anything else. I got scared about it heating him up too much, in the mad frantic way that only a new mother can.
I finally cuta few bits off the fleece and now he has a chunk to go to bed with.
He does somtimes drop it out of the cot and YELLS and screanms for us to get it for him. It is very scarey- I always think the ceiling has fallen in or something!

tammybear · 21/10/2004 21:44

my dd is constantly wearing a dressing gown to bed now as she wont sleep with covers on her and i dont want her to get cold

Skate · 21/10/2004 21:44

Hi all!! Fine ta, should be working but I've had enough! Nowt on TV - should really be downstairs spending quality time with dh but, hey, girls talk is more interesting!!

Gro-bags are fab aren't they! DS3 is only 8 weeks so I think he's a bit little but def getting too big to be swaddled up really.

TB - 70mph is the speed limit but you don't have to go that fast!!

tammybear · 21/10/2004 21:45

lol skate i wont be id be too terrified. hate going 50mph let alone 70! lol

EvesMama · 21/10/2004 21:47

will have to watch speed amongst other things! as im always going over 30, but s**t myself going over 55!!
just want to get it out of way now! been 10 years since i failed..have to pass now or ill never ear the end of it!

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moomina · 21/10/2004 21:49

Oh tammy - i was going to ask about your car! you made me laugh because i've got a silver Saxo too and have just been for my first drive on the M25 last weekend

white knuckles all the way I can tell you...

tammybear · 21/10/2004 21:50

Im such a terrible driver. Think Ive gotten too cocky with it I was driving around with my boot undone Tues amongst other mistakes Im also worried I may have been speeding past speed cameras maybe i was going so fast they didnt see me! Such a terrible driver

tammybear · 21/10/2004 21:51

lol moomina, well done you! Im gonna have to try and beat you now I managed to get the sticker off that was stuck on the back of the car. It said "keep the job, keep the pound!" ROFL

EvesMama · 21/10/2004 21:51

oooh your all so daring, im nervous about putting ours on drive if i pass!(have to park between irong railings)and parking in town, and dropping dp off with mates, and...last minute nerves me thinks

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Skate · 21/10/2004 21:55

Evesmama - you'll be fine, don't worry!

It has to be said that when you pass it's only the beginning. Looking back, when I first passed, I couldn't really drive at all and my parking was pants! I even drove into and knocked over my Mum and Dads gatepost (a big brick thing!) trying to get on the drive!! It's still missing now! Hey, I was only just 18! I'm great at it now after 14 years practice!

tammybear · 21/10/2004 21:56

lol and im living proof of what skate just said with my track record so far this week

EvesMama · 21/10/2004 21:58

ta girls!
am really confidant in instructers car, but im not paying for hers!!!!!!!!!!!! and she doesnt have short fuse of dp.lol

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moomina · 21/10/2004 21:58

honestly, i was cr*pping myself. passed my test 15 years ago - first time on motorway last saturday! how sad am I???!

but once i got going i was okay. my poor dad who came with me for moral support (and to wrench steering wheel out of my hands now and then) was looking a bit shaken though lol!

moomina · 21/10/2004 22:00

tammy - think you are me! i also regularly drive around with boot undone. maybe it's a saxo thing!

also prone to putting stuff on roof and driving off with it still up there...

tammybear · 21/10/2004 22:00

lol, bless. Ive driven my mum a couple of times, but she hates being a passenger as she's always been the driver for the past 30years. she did say she felt more safer in the car with me driving than she does with my sister

tammybear · 21/10/2004 22:02

lol, i think its just our thing moomina. i was driving out of shopping centre's car park on tuesday from level 4, when i got to level 2, a car cut out in front of me, and then i was driving down the rest of the levels in no gear thank god my brakes were working. really s**t me up when i got to the bottom and wasnt moving anywhere and a car was zooming along behind me...

EvesMama · 21/10/2004 22:03

dont want dp in car for firstfew outings, just me and dd. shes very clingy and will probably scream at not having me next to her tending to her every whim!so would rather i get it over with on my own instead of dp stressing too!!!

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moomina · 21/10/2004 22:04

ROFL! I probably shouldn't be allowed out on the roads really. Trying to get the car into 5th gear on M25 was a laugh - not. Didn't even know it had a 5th gear

Really not sure I could drive on m'way with ds in the back though...would be a nervous wreck...

tammybear · 21/10/2004 22:05

i feel better with just dd. we go round the roundabouts screaming WHEEEEEE!! lol

EvesMama · 21/10/2004 22:05

on two wheels!!!!!!!!!!

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EvesMama · 21/10/2004 22:11

did that on lesson few weeks ago when coming around aa corner down hill and had to move over quick as suddenly saw road works!!good job my instructer is so good!!!shes a darling and refrained from swearing at me when i went weeeeh!

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tammybear · 21/10/2004 22:15

lol evesmama, im being a bit optimistic at the moment, texted dp about an hour ago, and said i felt lonely, he said he did too, then i said come here and havent heard from him since, so wondering if he actually is or not. probably not as it is late but oh well, i can still hope lol. going to try and settle dd down now as it is way past her bed time!! b back soon

EvesMama · 21/10/2004 22:16

gonna get some sleep myself if i can. hope you get a welcome suprise TB.
night night
x

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EvesMama · 23/10/2004 20:39

well definatly dont want to jinx it but dd has slept through for three nights now!
woke up about 2.30 second night, cuddles her on bed and put back when asleep, then had to wake her!!at half seven cos i had test.
this morning she woke at 5.45, but that was from 7.45 so bloody good!!am keeping my fingers crossed that this luck wont run out!
GOD BLESS THE GRO BAG!

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