SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK PART 8 -- Pack the bags under your eyes and join us!

[RoRoMommy]

Well...I had to think of something! DH's suggestion "Eyes wide shut--the art of sleepwalking"

Lol at your DS climbing inside the suitcase - DS's idea of helpng is to fling everything out as I pack it.

We had an unsettled night as well, complete feedathon again every couple of hours. This too shall pass...

Finally got round to doing DS's mmr so no more immunisations until he's 4! Hurray!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINGER

Many thanks for the birthday wishes. Has felt like the biggest non birthday ever tbh

Had a phone call from nursery, Dd has a temperature again so DH has been packed off to collect her. Honestly, poor kid, she just can't seem to shake it. We're supposed to be having our day out on Friday so I'm begining to doubt it will happen.

Sorry I haven't got any time to respond to everyone but I have read all the posts.

All those with poorly LO's, and Tibsy for your sleep through.

Thank you SO MUCH for the words of support and encouragement. I go back and forth about this job every five minutes, so I've stopped thinking about it. Too much to consider.

Ginger I hope your DD feels better so you can have your day out! Meg, how's DS? Amber, that's so funny, DS in a suitcase. My DS came to work today and, as usual, sucked on highlighter (cap on, of course) and charmed all of the ladies.

DH is going to bed, so it looks like I am too because DS will surely wake up...I am actually really looking forward to it!

Night night!

morning

amber lo is so cute not long now til your trip

ginger for your non birthday and poor dd. hope you get your date with dh on fri

EP i like your thinking. hope ds was ok afterwards.

roro - your lo is so cute and a wow with the ladeez, it sounds!!! hope you had a nice snuggly night

well, after dd's 5.30 wake up yesterday, she napped from 8.30- 10.15am, then kept going til 7.30pm last night
this girlie is hardcore
we had a bit of a restless night (both of us) ...think we were both overtired iyswim?
only 1 'waking' tho, but up at 6am for day

oh and she fell onto the bottom wooden step at M & T's yesterday and has a real shiner under her left eye ....she was fine tho, only cried out initially, then nothing....she's made of sterling stuff, i reckon

lol tibs, your dd is a tough cookie that's for sure. ds fell off the spinning thing at the playground yesterday and went head first. i felt bad as i'm pretty sure dh would not have approved of me puttin him on it in the first place, but oh he loved it so much and it made him laugh!

amber - dp is exactly the same. if dd is sat beside me on the settee and she moves, he puts out a hand to stop her in case she falls, despite me being the nearest he doesnt let her do things that i do too

tibs, do you think it's because they are not around them all the time? i just think that if i tried to stop him doing everything where he was at risk of injury, i'd constantly be saying don't do this don't do this. i figure they have to learn and as long as they're not in serious danger, i'm ok with it. and it's great that a cuddle can make it all better.

oh dh freaked the first time i said i put ds on the swings!

Hi Tibs and Amber! My DS is the same, just a little bruiser. Knocks himself on everything and barely a peep out of him, if anything at all. But in contrast to you lovelys, I am the one who is "oh, don't do that," and "please, don't swing him like that" even though DS and DH obviously love their crazy physical games. Oh well...

So, last night...bed at 7:30, up at 10:30, took a while to settle, then up at 2:30 and up at 4:45 for the day. Down for a nap at 7:30, still sleeping now. Actually, not a bad night because I slept

CM was late, so I am late, gotta run! Talk to you throughout the day, I hope, as boss is in NYC and work has slowed a bit.

(((hugs)))

I meant, I slept quite solidly in between...posted too soon!

amber - i think thats it. and yep, amazing what a cuddle will do, good for all that ails ya!!!

roro - glad you managed to get some sleep and that your little man slept quite well too. will catch you when you pop in later x

RoRo I thought it was meant to be like that, the dad played all the active games and the mums gave hugs, but it's not like that in our house at all!

Dh loves taking DS on the roundabout at the playground, makes me dizzy just to watch them, but DS seems to love it!

Sounds like you all had good nights

Amber when is your flight?

DS is all fine now, but sleep still seems to be completely buggered atm. Will see how we go in the next few weeks, otherwise we might have to think about taking action -- it's not even the nights I mind so much, but going back to spending all evening running up and down the stairs is just depressing. Plus it doesn't even seem to comfort him that much when we go in to him. We're dosing with painkillers in case it's teeth but that doesn't seem to help much either.

Meg: we're there in the 'unsettled for no good reason' phase as well. No ideas at all. We need to sort bedtimes out (prob with a bit of crying) and then move to tackling the night issues I think... makes me tired just thinking about it! Another unsettled night, think teeth as he was waking crying and generally cross.

Ginger: hope you manage your day out tomorrow. It'a a quandary when they're slightly off-colour - we tend to bung DS along to the cm's anyway and she's only sent him home early once. I expcect they have set Policies about that kind of thing in a nursery though. No sign of chickenpox after DS was exposed to it, so hopefully we've escaped this time round. Now he's had the mmr I'm less worried about measles as well (more cases locally, including a 30 yr old hospitalised).

Amber: how's the packing? I always get to the stage where I think sod it, we can buy anything we forget to take!

DS also a hardy chap: only yelled after his second injection yesterday and happilyy collects bumps and bruises. When he's tired, though, he does a footballer's dive and whinges .

packing is not going that well (yet). it's so hard to do when you have a little person climbing in the suitcase and pulling things out and generally creating mischief. i'm pretty sure we'll be buying whatever stuff we forget/don't have. not a problem. we fly on sat night, so may be asking dh to take ds for a walk for an hour while i throw random stuff into the case and hope for the best.

meg, i know what you mean about not being able to comfort. at hte moment i have implemented a '5 minute' rule, as ds always has a whinge when i leave him in his cot for naps and in the evenings, and he doesn't fall asleep feeding any more which is a real hassle. so i leave him for 5 minutes and most times he falls asleep. if he's crying after 5 minutes then i intervene, not that it usually does much good mind you.

Hi everyone! Good luck with packing, Amber, I bet you're looking forward to the trip! My mom arrives on Saturday along with my cousin who's like a sister to me, and I am definitely taking Monday off, probably Tuesday, too, and my boss is out of the office today and tomorrow, so it feels like I am going on holiday, too!

Blissfully slow in the office.

We haven't taken DS to a playground yet, how neglectful are we? Must do so this weekend, there's a lovely on at Haggerston Park...lots of swingy, round-about-y things.

It's funny, DS is starting to get a little restless in the evenings, too; he used to go to sleep on the boob without a problem, but now he needs extra settling. Maybe it's the age?

glad you're getting a few days off RoRo, that will be nice.
DS is absolutely crazy at hte moment. People keep asking what I'm feeding him, because he seriously appears to be permanently high on red food colouring or something. DH reckons it's the goji berries I'm giving him with breakfast. he says for god's sake stop giving him superfoods!
I'm praying that he is going to sleep on the plane otherwise we are in for a long long night.

Hi folks, sorry am a bit out of touch but trying to keep up!

Amber, I hope you have a LOVELY time and don't worry about the journey (not like there's any point, what will be will be etc!) - think of us!

Ro, have a lovely weekend and have a great time with your family

EP and Meg, hopefully things will settle for you both soon (optimistic )

Tibsy at your tough little one!

Just a quickie - loads of night wakings again but don't feel too bad with it, daytime sleeps have been ok with 90 minute stretches mon-thurs this week! Bit unsettled sleepwise today (as in, didn't!) and been resettled 3 times already tonight and just woken again as I type - think the feeding to sleep means he overfeeds with 45 minute resettling and then wakes up uncomfy - how do you fix that then?! Who knows!

Anyway, better off - going to inlaws for weekend which totally buggered up a week of good nights last time, so expecting nightmare when we get back. Not even going to think about the hours of intermittent crying we endured on loong motorway journey home last time ....

Wish me luck! And have great weekends/journeys where applicable!

PS He's gone back to sleep !

morning all, hope you all had better noghits than me. The boys were doing fine until 4am and then it was every half hour with both of them. my kids wweren't the prob it was bloody DF, had D&V all day yesterday (Sorry if TMI) and then again all last night, he was up every hour, which woke me and so today i feel like shite warmed up, nice!

CSB - know exactly what you mean about the long motorway journey, my sis is in manchester and we travelled back on monday, i have to say the greatest thing in the world was my trusty bonjela, shove a bit on the end of dummy and he starts sucking again, which in turn makes him fall asleep, my life would be hell without that stuff!

RoRo - hope last night was better for you. Is it your mum moving in? i have to say, if it is your a very brave woman, i only had to spend about 5 days with her last weekend and i tell you what i dont want to se her for a decade, i remember why i was so keen to move away - she does my head in constantly!

Amber - i'm a bit behind, where you off to hun and for how long?

meg - hows all the illnesses going? you seem to have had your fair share this year, i hope its all settled down for you

EP - your LO certainly sounds hardcore too! Does LO have a routine for when you put him to bed eg bath, story, cuddle, sleep?

Hello all I've been keeping an eye on things but haven't found the time to post.

Meg: I hope things have calmed down round yours and that you are all feeling a bit better.

Amber: Enjoy your trip. We flew when DD was 11 months to Hungary. She stayed awake the entire flight until we started to descend!! But it was worth it to get away and see friends. I packed lots of snacks to keep them amused.

Beal: I know the feeling. I hope that you get some rest today.

Ginger: I hope you get to go out today for your birthday treat.

RoRo: I bet you're really excited. Have a lovely time with your mum and cousin. My mum used to live in the Lake District and so was a 6 hour drive away (believe me I know about car journeys from hell!!). But now she lives near me hurray. I love having her nearby.

CSB: I hope your visit doesn't unsettle Lo too much and that you have a nice time and some rest!!

EP: I hope your night was a bit more settled.

Tibsy: Hello

Right I hope I didn't forget anyone

I thought we were starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. DS2 was waking evey 3 hours but going back in his cot inbetween, so I was coping. And yesterday he had really good naps in the day and was relatively settled. However, last night he woke at 9.30pm and then every 2 hours until 3.30 when he was awake/crying until 5. Then awake agin at 7. I just sat with him last night and cried because this is not how it was meant to be!! I could cope with some night waking, but its the inability to comfort/settle him that is making me so sad. Typically everytime I see the health visitor he is having a not too bad phase. I'm starting to avoid people I know with babies because I am fed up with being the one with the nightmare baby and hearing or seeing how much happier theirs are. I keep telling myself that I'm luckier than lots, at least my baby is healthy, but I do sometimes wonder why I couldn't have had a slightly happier child.

Oh, CM, I am so sorry you're having a difficult time. That's just so hard. It will get better, and I hope you can get some rest, perhaps talk your mum into taking the little one for an afternoon? I am really feeling for you, and sending big (((hugs)))!

Feeling really miserable. DH is ill so our lovely today, the day I've waited ages for, is a disaster. DD has gone to nursery despite being ill herself so I feel guilty about that. I've done the house work and can't be bothered to do anything with the rest of the day so I may go and collect her and bring her home. We were supposed to go out for our first night out since she was born tomorrow. My mum was going to come over and babysit (she lives 2.5 hrs away) and we're not going. Because she lives so far away it's not as if we can just change our plans easily so I'm feeling mighty sorry for myself.

CM sorry you're feeling so miserable too. Albeit you have a more valid reason. Have you got CAT? I'll try and email you later if you're signed up. Take care

Amber, good luck for the flight and the trip if I don't speak to you before.

i'm so sorry ginger to hear that all plans have fallen apart. i'm so frustrated for you that you don't get to have your special time.

CM, god you're doing an amazing job, it just sounds so horribly hard at the moment. i hope there is some respite somewhere in sight.

ps. can you believe we've had 11,000 hits on our blog? amazing!

Ginger, I am so sorry you won't get to have your special time with DH, but maybe you could just crawl into bed with him while you're mum is there to take care of DD so you can at least have a good cuddle? I hope you can get some special time for the two of you really soon.

(((hugs)))