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SLEEP IS FOR THE WEEK part 7 -- prop your eyes open with matchsticks here

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MegBusset · 21/10/2007 09:18

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...

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MegBusset · 21/10/2007 09:32

Where is everyone then?

Don't see why you should all be having Sunday morning lie-ins when I've been awake since 6...

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Tamdin · 21/10/2007 09:46

dh taken ds out to meet mil for breakfast. i'm still in pj's and am about to have breakfast and coffe on the sofa in peace >

MegBusset · 21/10/2007 09:51

Ah that sounds like bliss.

Did I mention that I got woken up every hour after 1.30 this morning? To be fair, only three times were DS, once was the smoke alarm beeping for 10 mins to tell us that the battery was dying (DH couldn't work out how to get the cover off to disable it), and once was the noise of the central heating coming on as we'd left the thermostat too high.

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Tamdin · 21/10/2007 10:18

god meg that's crap esp as 2 of them weren't even ds!
have you anything nice planned for today?

MegBusset · 21/10/2007 10:30

Off to Waitrose then cooking cauli cheese for tea! God my life is exciting...

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tibsy · 21/10/2007 10:32

morning my lovelies!!
tam for your night (apart from the bed hogging!!) and dh taking ds out. peace perfect peace

meggy for your night after 1.30am, arrrggghhhhhh

our night ok. dd woke 2 times before i went to bed , but only once after, so i'm classing that as a good one!!!! up at 7am, so a lie in by all accounts!!

dp and i have just been watching a dvd we got for last night but both fell asleep watching twas 2 1/2 hrs long!!!
dp now making bacon and egg sarnies for brekkie/brunch, yum!!!

tibsy · 21/10/2007 10:32

meg, X posted.... rock n roll baby!!!

Tamdin · 21/10/2007 10:35

morning tibs. for your night

meg lol all our lives are pretty dull atm!
we always go to mil on sundays for dinner so i get off lightly. plus she's like freaking delia so no point trying to compete

tibsy · 21/10/2007 10:38

i seem to do the same things every week atm
mon housework (such as it is )
tues library
weds baby group
thurs friend comes over
fri visiting or baby group
HELP!!!!!

Tamdin · 21/10/2007 10:44

oh you're so not alone tibs...

mon- housework, visit mum
tues- music group
wed- playgroup
thurs- visit mum
fri- see friend for lunch
sat- gym/park/shopping
sun- lazy morning/mil for dinner

yawn..............

tibsy · 21/10/2007 10:49

do you think theres any hope for us at all tam?

Tamdin · 21/10/2007 10:52

no i think we're a lost cause
dh and i's favourite game in the car is 'what would you be doing right now if we didn't have ds?'

mine is always that i'd be in the pub!

i miss my little local pub in our village in mcr where we'd meet friends for a quick drink at about 4pm on a chilly winter day.

never mind, wouldn't be without ds for a second

tibsy · 21/10/2007 11:02

i hear what you're sayin sista!!!
wouldnt be without em tho, not for all the bacardi and cokes in the world

Amberjee · 21/10/2007 11:25

this is for you meggy

Amberjee · 21/10/2007 11:26

oh no tam and tibs, in the middle of my planning when to do exercise mission yesterday i drew up a weekly timetable on an A4 sheet of paper. i am worse than you both!!

tibsy · 21/10/2007 11:37

amber, you win, hands down love shame, shame, know your name!!!

tibsy · 21/10/2007 11:38

right, ds begging for the computer, catch you all later, hope you have good days.
i'm not even dressed yet

Leo03 · 21/10/2007 16:17

HI

Have only just got to this after a horrific night of waking every hour. This morning I felt desparate and tearful. It was so short lived - my one night with one wake before six will be something I cling to as eveidence that ds can sleep and will sleep eventually.

Dh has taken dsto ikea and so I have just risen after a peaceful hour and a half in bed. Hunger got me up as I realised I had eaten nothing but toast at the crack of dawn and I dont want to get to weary....

Can you all let me know how old your babies are? I feel as though you have been on this thread a while......

Calmer now.

tibsy · 21/10/2007 18:14

Leo, for your night my lovely. yay for your dh taking ds out for a bit. it helps a lot, just getting a bit of rest and a bit of headspace, for sure. hope you have a better night tonight.
oh, and dd is 14mths on the 27th

.........right, wine at the ready, dp just making pancakes for us all, will get dd to bed then am settling down to watch dirty dancing at 8pm, saddo that i am the boys are not looking too keen atm
catch you all tomorrow, hugs to all x

yummybunnymummy · 21/10/2007 19:07

hi, best wishes for a good night everyone. We've had crap nights one after the other. Ds2 not well and was up from 4am. We only got ds1 settled by midnight as he had a nap in the afternoon (in the car- otherwise we'd have prevented it).. thank goodness for my dh who let me have a lie-in this morning..I love him..xxxxx

tibsy- I didn't know dirty dancing was on...I should be working....hmmm....I've just started ceroc/jive dancing, which is fantastic...it feels wonderful being twirled around etc. If only dh could dance....my boys love strictly come dancing..they have to dance when the contestants do and then they cheer and clap like mad things, (they get very fed up with the talking but..)

Amberjee · 21/10/2007 19:13

poor you leo, those kind of nights are truly soul destroying. my LO is coming up to 10 months now.

MegBusset · 21/10/2007 19:46

Leo and YMB, sorry you had crap nights. But glad there were some lie-ins out there...

Leo, my DS will be 8 months on Weds

Tonight he settled to sleep in his cot all by himself -- I put him in, turned out the light and by the time I got back to the cot he was asleep!

Bet he still wakes 3 times in the night though

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chibi · 21/10/2007 20:34

Hello lovely ladies, I feel like it's been a long while since i've posted. It's not because dd has suddenly started sleeping through though .

I am glad that some of you have had the chance of a lie-in, huzzah for DPs who give us breaks!

We are starting the gradual retreat (Millpond clinic book) method to teach dd how to self settle - does anyone have experience (positive that is) with this method? I knwo that she will sort herself out eventually, but for sanity's sake this needs to be sooner rather than later.

She has been up once since bedtime at 7 already, I hope this is not a harbinger of a rubbish night.

Good luck all...

MegBusset · 21/10/2007 20:45

Hi Chibi

I am vaguely doing GR with LO at the moment so will be interested to see how you go! So far it has been pretty positive, he's still waking usually 3 times a night but only being fed once and not BF to sleep at all (am holding to sleep in cot most of the time).

I think Tibsy and Ginger have also tried the method so I'm sure they will give you some advice

Can you remind me how old your DD is?

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gingerninja · 21/10/2007 20:55

Hi all, Chibi, my experience in GR is ltd. When I stuck at it it did make a difference but we got stuck at sitting by the cot because at that point she'd learned to pull herself up so the minute she was plonked down she got up. So, we lay on the bed with her to do to sleep then plonk her in her cot. She's got much better all on her own which suggests its a maturity thing but we're suffering with a cold here so shes been rather unsettled last couple of nights.

Hello to all the newcomers and hi to all the regulars for your improved nights for your rotten ones.

Amber, sounds like you're having a hard time at the mo. I went through that at alomst exactly the same time which is when I stopped BF as I'd just had enough. Felt like I'd got nothing left to give any more and just needed a bit of me time. It was a very emotional time but I weaned slowly til we were only doing one feed and then it wasn't emotionally so hard to stop.

Anyways I have to dash but if it helps you all. Here's my sad diary. Me and DH haven't been out in over a year, I think it's about time we started living again but we don't have anyone to babysit with friends and family being so far away so I can see our life looking pretty sad for sometime to come.
Mon: swim (baby swimming)
Tue: library and toddler group
Wed: Work
Thur: Work
Friday: Work, colapse after half a glass of wine
Sat: housework, walk, shopping
Sun: Nothing much!

Night all

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