Babies Born May 2007 #12

[Beach Mama]

Ash - just ignore what the insensitive tw@t said to you hun. Honestly, some people. :hugs: Izzy is just starting to understand no too- I just say her name and she looks at me and you can tell she knows shes in trouble but keeps going!! Pink tips sound HOT!

Danni - She was just 6 mths but there were babies there that were older and they were doing exactly the same thing, no-one was timing anything, and their philosophy and how it all works was explained during the group session time. Sounds like Tweddle is very different, I know the book is all about timed controlled crying/comforting. Not sure about O'Connell but if they call it Responsive Comforting\Settling then it sounds like its like QEC- they still cry but you don't stand at the door and listen, you go in and out as you feel you need to. I have to take a break every now and then, and also Izzy tends to get louder and more frustrated when I am there so I have to leave sometimes too. Check out the website- there are podcasts about settling techniques on there.

Lis - yay for Ellie! I would give anything for my 2 mth old who slept 12 hours a night to come back :P

Exhausted after work again today Im not sure how Im gonna do this, Ive only been back 2 days and its only the start of term. Ive done 2 hours of work at home today- so much for part time.
Now Im wishing I was just doing CRT and didnt have to worry about meetings, reports and correction. Arrrgghhhhh.
Enough said - might come back later if Im in a better mood! to you all!

ETA: Iz was up every 2 hours last night I think that's why I'm so tired. Have decided that we will not feed her between 7 and 5. If she wakes, we will rock, pat or listen to her grizzle but no more feeds. She doesnt actually feed anyway - last night she would take my nipple and hold it in her mouth and fall asleep - clearly Im just a dummy, and she knows how to self settle because we put her down at 7 and all her day sleeps wide awake and she drops off so it's clearly just a habit we need to get out of. I'm sending Al in too because if I go in and don't feed her she cracks it majorly so maybe she will start to associate waking in the night to getting dad, who can't feed her so will go back to sleep -ugh.