This will be a miracle if it works, i am going to make it short as i haven't the patience for losing a long post this morning..
NaNa so sorry to hear sleep school was like that for you, honestly i have only ever heard of one person to say it worked for them, and there trouble was getting there baby to sleep, not the wake ups. I hope you have more success with the one on one lady.
Jess - Good luck with new business, i was thinking of starting my own book keeping business from home but i am having second thoughts now. I dont have the best self discipline and have a habit of leaving everything to the last minute and i am not sure i would be good at working from home.
Sass - wow on Jayda steps, that is great, they look so cute when they start walking.
Bec- I am starting an extra shift at work from this week but thankfully i dont need day care as i work at night and on weekends. I would like to eventually get back into my real job instead of just working for mum and dad but i am not sure if i will wait until after next baby. Oh i have no idea what to do. Good luck with starting work again, i think the adult interaction will be good but hard to leave Cam..
I am having a bad few days, have a few health issues but wont go into it atm until i get results later in the week. Hamish is going well, standing alot now on his own but no steps as yet. Daylight saving s has thrown him out of wack a bit but hopefully after a few days we will get back on track.
Oh Abb sorry to hear your having health issues... If u need a chat were all here for you or you can PM me or chat to me on FB...
BB is having some issues but i know Kell is trying to work them out... I'm loyal... i love my BB gals... specially you ladies... I noticed the other girls that went to the other thread (may1-15th's thread) is VERY slow... i wish they had of combined us.
DD is a bit sooky today another one is cutting through... Wont be long now...
well jayda got herself used to daylight saving ending about 2 weeks ago so it hasnt been that bad for us.
i noticed this morning she has a bottom tooth just come through. so she is up to 5 now. 4 on the top and 1 on the bottom.
i am slowly starting to put a little bit of cows milk into her bottles so i can get her used to it over a extending amount of time. we r going away in june and it will be good not having to worry about formula.
hmmmmm wat else...... not much happening just their birthday coming up very fast lol.
Sass-- Yay on more teeth,,, lol... 5 teeth... were approaching 10... lol...
Havent started the cows milk here... I will be leaving DD on formula for a while... i like the extra benefits of the toddler formula. but i did switch DS when he was 12 months... (well gradually).
DD has woken up this morning with bad eczema... her fgace is a mess... trying to figure out what made her react that way... she had grapes yesterday evening but i doubt if thats what caused it. Hmmmm she had a NaNa... (hehe) that does react with her but she has has 2 in 1 day and still not had such a bad reaction... Hmmm... Maybe Ds put something in the bath maybe he's always adding stuff... .
Daylight savings hasnt made much difference except last night DD was so tired she was in bed at 5 so she was up at 6.15 but thats good cos i was up at 4.30.
Jess - it's tonight. I rang her yesterday and got her opinions on the sleep school's philosophy and she seemed ok with the fact that we didn't agree with it and it wouldn't work for us. She said we weren't the first family to have walked out on that particular institution having had a bad experience. Hopefully she'll have some good advice, because we were up again every hour from midnight last night, and from 3-5 with DS basically playing up. Up at 6.30 for the day, and currently screaming at me because he wont nap. Goes from tired to extreme in a split second, there's no in-between.
Hope you can work out what's causing the excema flare-ups. It wasn't me, I swear!!
Sass - that's so amazing how Jayda got all her top teeth first! And great that you haven't had any troubles with her sooking much because of teething. I think maybe Aadi got all the teething troubles for all the babies in the world some days... number 6 finally cut thru yesterday, after threatening to for the last 6 weeks!
Abb - hope everything's ok with you. You know where to find us if you need to chat.
nana: good luck with the sleep lady tonight i hope she can sort things out for u.
i uploaded a pic of jayda walkin on fb check it out.
not much else to report here. just sick of the rain.
it has been 12months today since my pop died it seems to go so fast. means only 6 weeks till bubs birthday. makes me so sad he tried so hard to hold out to see her.
ok, quick update from me...
we had the mothercraft nurse come on Tuesday night. She was lovely, and really helpful. Complete opposite to sleep school "nurses"! She freaked out about us having Aadi in a bed though, but understood that it was a last-ditch attempt by us to get him to sleep, and not in our bed. So we have tried to get him back into his cot, in his own room. We're "camping out" in there at night until he learns how to resettle without so much help. Tuesday night he took 45 minutes to go to sleep with us constantly taking it in turns to comfort him, patting, shooshing and singing with the radio on too. The nurse could see immediately that he is a full-on high-needs kid, and suggested we try medication like Pain-Stop, phenurgen, valergen (sp?), or anything we can get our hands on! And a couple of nights a week we have a "sleep medicine" night where we all get some sleep. Yes, it's that bad! Especially since Aadi suffers so badly when he's teething and things like Panadol and Nurofen don't seem to do much at all. Also, DP and I are taking it in turns to sleep in the bungalow so we can get some much-needed uninterrupted sleep.
Anyway, Aadi slept from 8-1.30, but woke up and banged his head on the bars and wouldn't resettle for me, so after an hour I got DP to try. Half an hour more screaming before he went back to sleep, then woke up every hour after that until needing a nappy change at 5.30. He was so hysterical he couldn't even tell me "doddy" (potty) like he normally does. Blah. Wednesday was a shocking day, and he wouldn't sleep because he knew I was going to put him in the cot. He was horrid to me. Screamed all day. I caved and lay down with him and fed him to sleep just so I could rest for 5 minutes. He only slept 25 minutes anyway. By 5pm he still wouldn't relent and nap again, and the nurse rang to check up on me while he was screaming at me. I told her I was going to put him to sleep the only way I could, and call her back. I was a mess by then, and she was telling me I was - in her opinion - borderline PND and needed to go to a hospital. That really pi$$ed me off, so I went and cried with Aadi for a bit and fed him off to sleep again. Then composed myself and called her back. I explained to her that I am not depressed, I'm just frustrated and exhausted and this is the first time I've lost it like that. She understood, especially since I have NO support or assistance here and it's been just me 24-7 dealing with this high-needs kid. She still wants me to try and get into one of the other sleep schools before we go away, but there's nothing available until July/August anywhere. And none of them are covered by my health insurance. The system has let us down yet again...
So anyway, after I put Aadi to sleep at 5, I had to wake him up at 6 to feed him and try and get him back into the routine... He ate some dinner, and had a bath, but was so tired and upset. I gave him a BF and then DP came to try and put him to bed. He was falling asleep in our arms, but as soon as DP put him in the cot he cracked it and then vomited everywhere. DP got him out of the cot and Aadi immediately vomited again, all over DP! Then I copped it while trying to clean everything up. He hasn't been sick like that since starting solids, so it was pretty disgusting even though I'm well and truly used to chucking! Aadi was so miserable. After I cleaned everything up, DP put him back to bed in the cot and he slept, but woke up every hour from midnight again. At 5.30 DP brought him in to me for a BF, but he was carrying on and kicking me again, so he went back in the cot and slept until 7.
I tried to get him to nap in the cot yesterday, and he was so tired but he wouldn't stop throwing a tantrum and screaming. I just couldn't listen to it anymore so I popped him in the pram and went for a walk. He finally fell asleep at about 10.30, after about a kilometre. And stayed asleep for an hour without stirring. I had to go out again in the afternoon, so put him in the sling. Right on 2pm he fell asleep and napped for 45 minutes. I was walking the whole time, and then he woke up right when I got to my appointment with a FDC company. Wreaked havoc in their office, then back in the sling to walk home. Another 2km. My shoulders muscles are like golf balls...
So last night Aadi was exhausted and DP put him to bed without a problem. He woke every hour from 10pm, and by midnight DP couldn't do it anymore and put him to sleep with him on the mattress on the floor. It probably is a really bad time to be trying this big change since Aadi's TEETHING like crazy again. But we're persisting. It's really hard, since Aadi WILL NOT settle for me, and that means weekdays are going to be hard, but I'll keep trying over the long weekend while I have DP here to support me, and see how we go.
OK, I'm done. Hope you're all doing well! Enjoy your long weekend.
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