YorksLass
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Aww... congrats Elfs mummy! What a surprise that must have been!
Good to hear from you too Tigger and that Robyn's doing good - hope you get into the swing of things with you and OH's work arrangements
Blueclass, you'll figure it out, see what this specialist says. Babycentre has this whole section on sleep methods, although maybe you've seen it already. There's CC of course, but they detail other no-cry techniques too. There's the famous Dr. Spock book too with good tips about everything, which I have a copy of (from my hippyish mother haha) You'll find what works eventually
Rowan goes down to sleep well these days - I tend to put her down, kiss her, say goodnight and leave the room, and she'll grizzle and complain often, but gets herself off to sleep in under a minute. If she's properly crying or unsettled for more than a minute, I'll pop back in to give another kiss and leave again, and usually the 2nd or 3rd time does it.
Her problem is that she still wakes a lot in the night - her best stretch is about 5 hours, but often she wakes still every 2 or 3 either for reassurance or a feed. Hopefully it'll gradually get better!
She's almost cracked a crawling type movement now and loves to roll and flip herself over to get where she wants to go. I keep thinking she might give up on crawling in favour of rolling - my kid brother did!
Feeding's going well too, with a mixture of babyled and spoon feeding. We pretty much skipped puree apart from some fruits I make into jams for her, and she's really enjoying gumming things (no teeth yet!)
Banana and yoghurt is very popular (she could eat that all day), also ragu pasta and cod with potato and pea mash. She seemed to love a chunk of avocado I offered her today too!
Good to hear from you too Tigger and that Robyn's doing good - hope you get into the swing of things with you and OH's work arrangements
Blueclass, you'll figure it out, see what this specialist says. Babycentre has this whole section on sleep methods, although maybe you've seen it already. There's CC of course, but they detail other no-cry techniques too. There's the famous Dr. Spock book too with good tips about everything, which I have a copy of (from my hippyish mother haha) You'll find what works eventually
Rowan goes down to sleep well these days - I tend to put her down, kiss her, say goodnight and leave the room, and she'll grizzle and complain often, but gets herself off to sleep in under a minute. If she's properly crying or unsettled for more than a minute, I'll pop back in to give another kiss and leave again, and usually the 2nd or 3rd time does it.
Her problem is that she still wakes a lot in the night - her best stretch is about 5 hours, but often she wakes still every 2 or 3 either for reassurance or a feed. Hopefully it'll gradually get better!
She's almost cracked a crawling type movement now and loves to roll and flip herself over to get where she wants to go. I keep thinking she might give up on crawling in favour of rolling - my kid brother did!
Feeding's going well too, with a mixture of babyled and spoon feeding. We pretty much skipped puree apart from some fruits I make into jams for her, and she's really enjoying gumming things (no teeth yet!)
Banana and yoghurt is very popular (she could eat that all day), also ragu pasta and cod with potato and pea mash. She seemed to love a chunk of avocado I offered her today too!
