Parenting After LT TTC ~ January - April 2008

[onthefly]

Wow, you've been busy Lis! The 3-4 month mark is, er, fun... hey? They change so much, so suddenly...

Oh dear Nic, every 1.5hrs is an improvement...?! It's tough when they do that. In the past few days DS has return to 2-3 wakeups a night - fingers crossed, knock on wood. For a while there we just stopped counting and actually would wake up in the morning bleary eyed and unsure just how many times we'd been up... OF course he did this on my week off.

Wow, Sage is nearly 1 already? Are you planning a big do Mako?

gotta get back to work - catch you all later

[mako]

Marcellus We are having a combined 1st Birthday and Naming Day. We're having about 40 family members and no friends as our guest list blew out to 85 people and I think thats way too many for a 1st Birthday lol. Poor Sage would be sooooo over whelmed by that many people wanting cuddles etc that it would not be fair on him.

Oh we don't count how many times Sage wakes atm unless its only twice lol. We are off to sleep school in a couple of weeks though as things are REALLY REALLY bad here. Sage refuses to go anywhere near his cot these days or should I say nights and only sleeps for about an hour at a time(if i'm lucky)during the day.

I hope you all have a great weekend. We have a busy 1 with DH's Pop's 80th b'day party tomorrow and a friend's little boy's 1st b'day on Sunday.

[onthefly]

Wow, 85 people - what a popular little boy!!
Good luck with sleep school. Someone was recommending we make an apt with ngala... for some reason or other I'm really reluctant to do that. I'd much rather just struggle on with no sleep.
Aric is quite happy to go in his cot, in fact he loves to play in there, and no problem getting him to sleep (not during the night, anyway), but he just won't stay asleep. What's really frustrating is that with a lot of effort we'd really improved things for a while there. He was sleeping really well overnight and 1.5-2 hrs at a time during the day. it was wonderful... then about 4 weeks ago it all went to poo. I think he might be teething... but how long do we have to wait till he actually gets teeth.
In desperation we actually gave him some panadol last night, just to see (feel really bad for doing that cause hate to medicate him without reason like that and probably increasing the risk that he'll get asthma now...). Didn't help anyway so won't do it again.
Oh well, we all have these issues, don't we?

[monnie]

Hey guys

Sage...HAPPY BIRTHDAY for tomorrow!!! Wow! A big 1 year old! How exciting!!!

Mako...congratulations on being a Mummy for a year (and 9 months!!!) Hope you have a wonderful wonderful day and gorgeous birthday party/naming day. It's such a special time!

Re. the sleep thing...I finally have good news! After many many many months of 2-3 hour sleeps at night, Felix is finally sleeping for up to 10 hours (on a fantastic night) and on a bad night, waking once!!! Thought we would never get there...but he hit around 13 months, and things just seemed to click into place!

Teething definitely played havoc with Felix's sleeping...as does those 'developmental leaps' they talk about in the wonder weeks book...

So hang in there!!!

Need to go as my computer is running out of battery life...but hope everyone is doing well!

[onthefly]

Well done Felix!!!

Happy birthday Sage! Where has the last year gone, hey?

[mako]

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes for Sage I can't believe he is 1 already. The year has flown. We've enjoyed sooooooo many moments and have had a few worrying ones too.
Anyway I just want to wish my gorgeous little boy a very happy birthday . I love you with all my heart and thankyou for letting me be your mummy.

Monnie Well done to Felix for starting to sleep better. I hope everything else is going well.

Hi to you all.

[nic]

Happy Belated Birthday wishes for Sage. I bet you had a fantastic birthday!

YAY monnie for Felix sleeping better.

Quick one from me, after DS decided to wake every half hour for 2 weeks solid! He is back to sleeping every 2-3 hours. I have started putting him on his tummy around 5am, and he then sleeps till 8.30, and only wakes then because I pick him up to put him in the car to take DD to school!
I have had a brief chat with DH about taking DS to a chiropractor to see if that will help with his sleep? We have friends who did this for their childs reflux, and it helped them hugely. Anyway, I have to make the appointment on a day that DH will be home as we will have to travel for 45 minutes to see a chiro.
Due for our 4 month needles in a couple of weeks, just need to make an appointment.

Hope everyone is well

Nic