Babies Born July 2007 #7

[mrscricket]

Hi girls - thanks for your lovely welcomes. It is great being able to chat to girls with bubs the same age. I am in a mums group, but we are still all abit shy and pretending that our babies are perfect and sleeping 28 hours a day and changing their own nappies. Hopefully that will change once we all become a bit more comfortable with each other.

Mel - Tom is on Losec which he started about 6 wks ago and i have noticed such an improvement. You just feel so sorry for them and helpless!

Megan - Tom hated going in his pram until we raised the back up a little so he could see out more. He will now go in it awake and look around before falling asleep, whereas before he would just scream blue murder. Although he wakes up very quickly if you stand still for too long - makes it hard to look at things when shopping etc. He also was (is?) a catnapper until about the last week, where something seems to have happened but not sure what. He sleeps 2-3 hours for his morning nap and roughly 1-2 hours for other naps. It was around the time that i put him into the cot in his room, instead of the cradle in our room. I think his room may be darker than ours, because he isnt waking up as soon as it is daylight. I also took away the mobile above his bed (mean mummy, i know) because he thought it was playtime when he open his eyes. Now he just has a music box that plays a bit of a light show on the ceiling for 5 minutes and music. He still wakes up after about 30-40 mins but i just pop his dummy back in and put his music box on, and hopefully he goes back to sleep. I am waiting for this nice sleeping pattern to change again though because i have learned that nothing ever stays the same with a baby!

Tom is asleep now so i am relaxing after rushing around doing the housework. When he wakes up, i will start getting prepared to go to my parents-in-law for tea (doesnt it just take forever to leave the house with a baby!). Looking forward to a lovely home cooked meal, but not looking forward to the endless 1950's parenting advice my MIL dishes out, like honey on dummies, sugar in bottles and starting solids at 3months . My husband spends the whole time shouting 'Mum things are different nowdays!'.
Hope you all enjoy the rest of your day. Em x

[jemima]

Megan - re your question on feeding the baby if they wake during the night - I usually try and put the dummy in and see what happens. Sometimes Charlotte goes back to sleep other times she wants to be fed.

Em - I hear you on how ridiculously long it takes to leave the house with a baby - it is frightening LOL!! I also hear you on the "helpful" 1950's advice!!
Some of the classics I have had are "jus let him cry - crying helps the babys lungs develop" and "try feeding him vegemite soup" and "give him some water with sugar in it"!! Ahhhh - I just count to ten and take a deep breath!! HAve fun!