**** November 2012 Mummies **** (everyone welcome)

[mrswoody]

Hello mummies!!

Nat it certainly was my first day back! My brain just would not get back into work lode until at least lunch time!
I've got a slow build up to be back where I need to be, I'm going to be teaching/instructing my job to newbies so a new challenger for me and I can't wait!

Kerrie also had her first day back today! Hope it went well lovely?

How are you all doing?

x

 

[missyeovil]

Glad work wasn't too awful for you mrswoody! Your first week back is nearly done!

I am just starting the Christmas shopping tonight! Thinking I need to do a bit every week to spread the cost a bit. S is with us this Christmas so I hear so that will be nice but means I've got to do stockings as well as tree presents. Last year we barely got A anything as she was only 3 weeks old but this year she will no doubt be causing absolute havoc unwrapping everybody's presents and eating the baubles!

We are just cutting tooth no. 5. She's munching all day on her hand but luckily it doesn't actually seem to be as traumatic as the other teeth as it's just firing on through! I know they're all leaping around now but I haven't actually looked up what happens with this one. A has come on leaps and bounds in her hand eye co-ordination the past few days and is able to put her shapes back in the right hole on her walker, and is getting loads from an 18+ pop up toy my dad got her!

I have also just ordered a bath mat. Have been meaning to switch A to a bath mat from her bath chair for a good while now as she kept trying to get out of it, but the other day she just stood up, one leg over and then the other and started cruising down the side of the bath! Gone are the days I can turn around to grab her toothbrush! Have to be even more organised now!

Hope everyone is okay, anyone have plans for the weekend? We have a rally on here this weekend so I'm off out to try and get some free teacakes (it's sponsored by Tunnocks ) and give Aela a wee nosy at all the noisy, bright cars xx

 

[SRob]

Argggghhhhhhhhhhhh. WHY has my baby stopped sleeping at night?!!!!!

Serious sleep deprivation ((

 

[CARNAT22]

Posted on your other thread Srob.

There is a leap at 46 weeks that can affect sleep. Also it can be teeth?

As I said James moves around so much in his sleep and we are having lots of head banging and night playing.

I swear I was up every hour last night (covering him up, moving him, putting him back down, popping dummy in)

Thankfully after and awful 3 weeks James is now back to his usual happy self - in the day at least.

He is a right handful at night now and has so many bumps (day and night). I can't keep up with the bruises!

Taking him to get weighed today, not been for over 2 months

xxxxxxx

 

[Wilson28]

Morning Girls

Arthur went to brill sleeping for 2 weeks then the past week he was up every 3 hrs from going to bed at 8 to getting up at 7 for a feed, however last night he only woke at 3 am and up at 7, I honestly think its teeth more than anything, have you tried a bit of calpol just before bed.

Not sure about where everyone is but the weather is pants here think ill take Arthur to the indoor play centre today.

Quick question has anyone noticed their lo's new things lately, ive noticed a big difference in Arthur coordination and how he thinks now, we have him a vtec push walker and he pulls himself up on it then in the past week he knows he has to walk around it to push it, it makes me want to cry just have fast this past year has gone... 7weeks he is one :O

Nat we had Arthur weighed at the hospital on Wednesday he weighs only 21lb but the dr's said not to give him bread as it was giving him chronic tummy ache and bad smelly wind, and was prob adding towards him not sleeping. Since we have cut it out he put on 1lb in 4weeks and we have had good sleep and no explosive poo's.

Yesterday I was working on the induction ward on the maternity hospital and it brought some memories back on how excited it was to be this time last year, broody is not the word right now, VERY broody is haha

xx

 

[SRob]

Thanks Nat If just knew what it was all about then I'd feel I could handle it better. If he could just learn to speak - or just tell me what's up then that would help me a lot!

I wish he would just settle for even a little bit - when he wakes he doesn't go back to sleep for at least 3 hours, no matter what we do

My LO has done loads of new things (aside from wake in the night), I can't believe how much they learn in the space of a year. Well done kiddos

 

[Wilson28]

srob, is he waking for food or to play xx

 

[SRob]

Well, I think it is to play, seems like he wakes up as if he is done with his nap now and wants to get up. He hasn't had a night feed in months, so can't imagine it being a hunger cry. I offer him drinks but he isn't fussed about that.

 

[Wilson28]

whats his routine in the day from, naps to play to feeds xx

 

[SRob]

Okay, in general, it's a bit like this:

0700 - Wake up
0730 - Breakfast (weetabix and yoghurt)
0900ish - 5oz bottle
WALK
1030ish - 1230ish - NAP (this can be earlier, but lately he's slept only once between 1100-1300, but currently trying to get two naps back in!)
1300 - Lunch
WALK then PLAY/GROUPS
1500 - Attempt another nap - (but he sometimes refuses this one!)
1600ish - 5oz bottle
PLAY
1800 - Tea
1900 - 8oz bottle and bed
....
0200 - 0500am - Awake

That's basically our day at the moment. happy for suggestions of change up though. I've just been following his lead so far.

 

[CARNAT22]

I have noticed James is a lot more alert at night now he is pulling him self up and cruising in the cot. I think he wakes up, notices we are asleep so decided to have himself a little play time?

I do get up and try to settle him but I may try leaving him tonight if he does it and see if he goes back down himself?

Srob when he does his 2am-5am thing do you feed him? engage him at all? get him up?

James is 21lb 8oz! Blimey no wonder I have a bad back

We have our year review on 19th November so we'll see how tall he is as well.

xxxxxx

 

[SRob]

I don't feed him - I guess I am reluctant too because he hasn't had a night feed in a very very long time. We try not to engage him and try not to get him up - but ultimately we end up resorting to both as gentle reassurances and a gentle hand on the back just don't work

 

[CARNAT22]

Hopefully it is just a phase?

I know it is frustrating when they appear to be going backwards though.

Does he have a dummy?

I've not done a night feed with James since he was about 8 weeks so I'd be very hesitant to ever go back to that but needs must.

If he is not upset or crying maybe you could try leaving him for a bit and see if he self settles?

I am sorry I am not much help!

xxxxxxx

 

[Wilson28]

srob, if I was you try and push his morning nap to lunch and let him have a 2hr dinner nap and push his tea nap out, and bring his lunch forward to 11.30 and put him to nap till 12-2, then he should go down about 7-7.30 for you, but put him to bed when hes actually tired, he should go through then, xx

 

[Wilson28]

we was letting Arthur nap to close to bed and he was awakening every 3hrs, scraped him tea nap on advise from the hv an it worked xx

 

[Little_angel]

Srob - I agree with Wilson, if he needs 2 naps, you'd be better with a earlier shorter one (say 9-9:30) and then a longer nap after an early lunch. 3pm is likely to be too late for a nap without disturbing nighttime sleep. I would also say that dinner at 6 is too late for bed at 7 - if lunch was earlier you could have dinner at 5 and give tea time to go down before sleeping.

Just my way though, I'm sure lots of other mummies would disagree

 

[SRob]

I agree with you. The tricky bit is him actually going for the naps. We had a good routine of 0930-1130 nap followed by a 1430-1530 nap (or thereabouts), but one day he refused outright to have a nap any earlier than 11am and got ourselves into a one nap routine between 11-1pm.

Frankly, he seemed happier on the 1 nap regime, and it worked well for getting to groups, however the HV said he needs two sleeps so try to bring it back to how he used to be. I also read somewhere that if babies don't sleep well in the day then it affects their nighttime sleep, so that's another reason to try and bring two sleeps back. He has taken two naps today - but that could be because he didn't sleep much last night!

I'd like an earlier tea, but I suppose I am pretty big on 'family' teatimes. OH walks through the door at 6pm, and it's easier for LO to eat with us, so he can eat what we're eating. But I could shift this forward by freezing food for him to eat at any point I suppose. If he goes back to two sleeps I'll push his bedtime back to 1930 (his bedtime when he was doing two sleeps).

 

[Little_angel]

Ah I did wonder if you were eating together. That's lovely and so beneficial I think, if you can manage it. We all tend to eat together at lunchtime and then J has his tea on his own at 5pm. Later lunchtime makes sense if he's having tea around 6.

If your LO only seems to want one nap, I would probably go with that. Babies tend to drop to one nap sometime around 18 months, but some will drop it earlier. What was his nighttime sleep like on the one nap?

 

[SRob]

Well, hard to say really. He's had these weird wake up calls randomly for the past few weeks. He has woken in the night with both one nap and two naps (but not routinely, it's just very random).

 

[Wilson28]

Srob don't go on anything the hv says hun, they follow black n white books, not every baby follows that, id let him have a 30-40 min nap around 9.00 -10 and then a dinner nap about 1-2 but push him longer at dinner, or scrap that and push him out till 12-2.30 for a nap, but bring his dinner forward to 11.30, a little tweaking to your routine and it will honestly push him through xx