We have been revisiting the unwrapping issue for sleep....I've been putting Benjamin in a grobag, but with his arms inside it.
It wasn't going too badly, but he's been getting less and less sleep...and last night, after 2 hours of him being awake, I wrapped him out of desperation. He was able to roll around whilst wrapped, and get out of it eventually which sucked, then he rolled around so much in his sleeping bag (with his arms in) that it ended up on him backwards.
This morning, I decided, we just have to bite the bullet...I put his "seatbelt" back on (his safe t sleep) so stop him moving around too much as he just ends up overtired and won't settle), but put him down with his arms out (wearing his grobag properly).
He settled himself after about 20 minutes of protest (but more just wingeing and talking) and slept for 45 minutes, then woke, cried, winged and talked for about 5minutes and then, went back to sleep and has been asleep for an hour and 20 minutes...
We CAN do this.....
I hope everyone else is good!
Woohoo...its 6:26pm and we are 3 for 3...his morning sleep was as mentioned (he ended up going an hour and a half), his arvo one was only 45, but he had a poo and wouldn't re-settle, and he has been in bed since about 6:05pm and after about 2min of yelling, its all quiet on the western front...we shall see!
Last edited by BabyWrangler; November 25th, 2008 at 04:28 PM.
: Had to do an update!
The only thing I had to change was attaching the dummy with a dummy clip to the front of the grobag....he still woke for a while last night, but it was a normal one if you know what I mean, and he settled faster than the night before, and then when he stirred the next time he re-settled.
He slept arms out yesterday arvo too with no issues (woke after 45min with a poo which was a bummer).
This morning woke after 45min (which for him is 1 cycle), but re-settled for another hour and a half..and has noe been asleep for an hour.
Whew, funny how time gets away from you. I'm too busy but what can you do?
Lila is getting up on hands and feet, or more often, hands and toes. Lots of downward dog action which is just adorable. Went for her first swim the other day at the IL's, didn't care for it at all. Four teeth, possibly one more coming through. Eating heaps of food, I think she's trying to self-wean. Or getting there. She doesn't have milk if she's away from me these days, is just fine on cereal and fruit/veg. We had a breast refusal issue last week, she wouldn't take me for two days and I felt so lost and rejected and awful. Its back to normal now, she keeps biting me no matter what I do. All that is to say that the breastfeeding is once again becoming a bit difficult.
I've been working heaps and trying to keep a handle on the house and trying to help dh who is still having anxiety stuff going on. We'll get there. I'm feeling ok, just tired of being a little fat and slubby so have been working out again. Its good.
I'm going through the old thread to catch up on everyone, missed you guys so much and am glad to be back.
Steph - Glad to hear that you are ok. I've been thinking about you lately and wondering how you were going. This thread seems to have really died, so I don't really check it much and have not posted in ages. Lila sounds like she is doing well. Sorry that breastfeeding is starting to be problematic again. Who can work out these little ones huh? Babies do tend to go through stages with the whole refusal thing. I hope things sort themselves out soon for you both.
Babywrangler - Glad that the unwrapping is going well. Well done on the teeth too!
MagicSeahorse - Yay on the teeth!! I think Jack is about to push the bottom two through but has not yet, so no practical advise from me about BF'ing with teeth. The ABA website has a whole section on it though so that might be worth a look.
Nettie - Sounds like Liam is doing really well. Bet he is up and cruising by now!
Beatrix - Sounds like you have teeth all over the place!
Shoegal - Sorry to hear about your health problems. I hope that things are sorted for you soon. How has Baxter been? Bet he is a big boy by now!
Fire - Hope you are going ok. How is the sleep going at your place now?
Big hello to everyone that I've missed. Hope you are well.
Us - Jack is doing amazing on every front except sleep! He has been crawling since two days before 6 months, and is now climbing and cruising the furniture. He's saying 'mum' now when he wants me, not just as a sound. It's so cute!! On the down side he is still waking up about every 2 hours overnight. Oh well. We are doing our best to survive, not much else we can do as I am NOT willing to go to sleep school or do controlled crying.
Ive been MIA too...partly CBF, and partly cause my world has expolded of late!
Mum had an accident and broke her leg, so Benjamin and I were in Geelong looking after her. Then we came back, and the next day DH ran out of fuel on his motorbike on the freeway, so we had an emergency dash out to fix that (he's been monitoring how many k's per tank he gets, and its been 300 constantly for 8 weeks...then he ran out at 260...go figure...
Then Tuesday night my sister finally came home from the UK...and of course we went to surpise her at the airport, but for the first time ever, Benjamin didn't do what I had hoped (which was go down to bed as usual t 6pm, and we'd wake him at 8:30 to go to the airport....nope....teeth got the better of him and he wouldn't settle).
So we trot off to the airport to meet the plane (due in at 9:40), which was delayed til 10:20....then, as the plane landed...the airport lost power (someone had cut through a major cable..as you do).
So not only were we in darkness...they couldn't process passports or put people through customs.
FINALLY at 12:25 Auntie Namm appeared through the cutoms doors (minus the luggage, which arrived 10pm wednesday night by courier).
And all the while, my little man was hanging about in his baby bjorn enjoying the world in general...lots of cuddles and tears (well, from my sis and me anyway, Bj was happy as Larry) later, we sat with mum (in her wheelchair), Dad and DH for a chat.
Then it was home to bed (we got home at 1am and Benjamin was asleep at 1:30, til 8am, then it was in the car and off to Geelong for the day with Auntie Namm (Deanne).
Today was meant to be a smooth one, big sleep in the morning, out to harvey norman to make a photo book for Auntie Namm for Christmas, then home for big arvo sleep, off to my old work for the Christmas picnic then home to bed....but NOOOOOOO.
We get to harvey norman and mu NEW usb stick was corrupt....come home, burn the pics to cd, back to HN, load the pics...get halfway through the book...machine crashed...start again...same thing happens...change machines and 3 hours later we leave Hardly Normal with the promise that the book will be ready before Deanne goes back in 3 weeks....
THEN it was off to the picnic...make an appearance, hand BJ round to everyone who wanted to cuddle him, then home for tea and bed...and now, he's sound asleep!
What a week so far, and its not even Christmas!!!!
Bugger me BW!! I agree with Fire! Hope you are getting sleep and rest etc while I'm typing this.
Not sure about this "Facebook" thing. How safe is it? I've never been on. Do I sound like a dork just by saying that?
Hey there! Welcome (back? Do I remember your username??).
As Seq said, we're a bit spazmodic with our posts... I think we're all just cruising along now and there aren't too many issues so we don't think to get too much support in here like we used to as new Mummies..
My little man is teething constantly (has 6 teeth - 4 top, 2 bottom) so can get a bit whingy from that, otherwise he's a happy little guy who's just doing his thang...
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Yay...sort of....
Oh well. We are doing our best to survive, not much else we can do as I am NOT willing to go to sleep school or do controlled crying.
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