Christy - I think this is what I need?
Thanks for your help!
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Christy - I think this is what I need?
Thanks for your help!
hey kim, that looks great. I think I will be off to big w tomorrow to get one. is it easy to move? like does it come apart easily - just so that I can move it from room to room...iykwim
Nelly, Jake is a hunny....how cute!
Vicky... the chat room is fun....see u in there time to time! Yeah play pen pulls apart very easy and u can put these poles in is and hold it together and can carry it by handles too. So handy!!
yay nelly - now we have a piccie of jake...who is an absolute cutey!
Thanks girls! I have also gone a bit crazy and done a album in the photo section! :redface:
Sorry haven't been in muh the chat room is very addictive - I've seen a few of us in there! Did anyone stay in for the baby chat last night? I had to go to bed by 9ish I was exhausted! And then Jake had a crappy night... at least DH is still doing nights and got up to him (hourly from1) but I still woke up!
Now I have a ticker I feel like a "real" member!
Now playpens - a friend has just lent me one. Jake is starting to pull himself onto his feet on everything and crawled properly for the first time today! might have been sooner but we have polished wood floors and his legs were slipping out from under him! Do I start using it now?
Jolly jumper - was worried with it on polished floors would jar his little bones? Any ideas or am I being a paranoid new mum?
Ann - GP is prob the best thing. Sorry I can't offer anything else but I really hope it sorts itself out!
Gotta go the goblin is up!
i just want to have a breakdown! i feel so tightly wound up over her sleep! she's woken up twice in 2 hours but i could just put the dummy in and walk out again. i'm so stressing about it, i just want to work this out.
oh tara *hugs* :( I wish I had some answers for you
Hugs Tara... i hope it eases up soon for you.
TARA big hugs to you love, hope evie sleeps better soon for you.
Well sophie ate all her tea tonight, mince and avocado followed by yogurt, still hungry so more avocado!!!! she had nixed vegies with pasta and grated cheese for lunch and custard after. so hopefully things are on the up inregards to her eating now!! woo hoo
we ordered our new car today!! mistabishi outlander!!! going from a v8, ford xr8 to a 4 cylinder car!! going to really miss flooring it!!! man that car flies!! hehe, but it will save us around $300 a month out of DH salary for the novated lease.
Hugs Tara, u poor thing, u must be so exuhasted :(
Nelly, Jake is so adorable hehe!! maybe put a mat under the jolly jumper? u can get the JJ musical mats to put under them too!
Luua - i hope Ella is back to her happy self soon :( poor little chicken and u too with no sleep..
not much happening here other than im ready to run away and hide lol everytime i walk away from Emelia she will cry its heartbreaking as if she thinks im going forever, so took me the whole day to clean the house which would usually take 2 hours at the most!!
Love the new pic of Sohpie, gorjus! DP brother has a new outlander too they are really nice cars hes abit of a crazy driver though!!!
Wow Sophie has a variety....is that chunky food or do u mash it up..puree is the word i need!
thanks guys!!! we think she's pretty cute too!!!
KIM is mashed but she not too keen on it so i do push it through a sive as well (vegies) the cheese i just grate so it melts on her tongue and the mince i actually boiled (it was gross) then stuck the bar mix through it so thats chuncky but she didnt mind that :rolleyes: i then froze in cubes!
crappy night. up every hour from 6pm til 12, had feed then slept til 230, back in bed with me until 515 had another feed then back asleep til 630.
i think i just have to resign myself to the fact that this is just how it is for the moment and deal with it.
she used to be a good sleeper but for whatever reason isnt.
dont even get me started on solids..she just wont take them
Tara - I'm right with you hun. I'm stressed when i put her down for the night. I keep thinking how bad will tonight be?? when will it be like before?? I know the thing is to relax about it...but i can't. Sleep deprivation makes everything 10times worse.
Last night we decided to stop the nightly feeds. It was just as tiring for her as us to get up to feed.
It was tough. 2hrs of rocking patting trying to get her back to sleep. But she finally did at 3.30 and slept till 6.45. She then ate all her breakfast and BF. We just had to break the night feeding cycle - drastic but she did well - only cried for 3mins.
I'm a zombie today with a work meeting today. Oh well snooze afterwards :)
Ann
OMG Ann good luck at your meeting!!
I'm tired too... I find it very strange that all our 8mth olds are not sleeping, so unfair!
I think Ive said this before, but i was talking to DH about it last night as he is just a research-machine and is trying so hard to help with this sleep thing. everything we read says the same thing
- all babies are different
- dont expect baby to sleep through the night
- night waking is very common
- babies are, by nature, terrible sleepers
- what works one night/week/month wont work the next n/w/m
- waking is more common with developmental changes
so why do we all think that what are babies are doing is wrong...its frustrating yes that they dont sleep at night, but maybe we've got it back-to-front. a baby does what a baby does - they're not waking up for sh*ts and giggles, they're waking up for a reason and i think we need to just chill out and go with it. eventually they'll sleep and eventually we'll sleep and in the meantime lets all take a chill pill washed down with some frosty beer ;)
just kidding...do you know what i mean. i think we're all lead into believing that babies should do things and when they dont we get stressed, i'm tending to think that evie'll do what she's meant to all in good time. in the meantime shes a happy, healthy baby so i have to grateful for that
Your right Christy it is odd. what is going on with these wakeful children???
well done Ann on breaking the cycle. I know that is what i need to do too - just too tired to do it...so the cycle continues. hope you get through your meeting. glad Ella fed well for you though.
Nelly, Aston jumps in his jolly jumper on the tiles, and it seems ok. Someone is with him though - and there are four of us. He laughs when the kids jump and down with him!
Tara - i know its probably no consolation, but at least there are a number of us experiencing the same thing as you at the moment - pity we don't have any answers though!!!!
Jols - Sophie is becoming quite the gourmet! Aston has just started having meat. I steamed some rump, and then mushed it in the blender. His food is semi chunky now, and the jaw works it. Other then the fruit that is in season have you tried Sophie on any tinned fruit in its own juice? I was wondering if I could give that a go - like peaches, or apricots?
Blanche - it almost becomes like - "right she's not looking - go go go" doesn't it? I've already had one like that - nathan would have got inside my skin if he could have! so now if aston starts, I say I'll be right back...sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, then he usually ends up coming with me....:redface:
same old same here - mind you aston wasn't going to bed last night for daddy come hell or high water! and daddy was not impressed. I think Aston two bottom teeth are ready to break through any day now, there is a ridge, white line right across. I think that was bothering him last night (but who knows - i swear most of what i do is guessing these days) he woke, 10, 2, 5 then into bed with me til nearly 7. DH is getting the kids up while he is getting ready for work, and they are doing all their bits and pieces, and then aston and I usually wake just before they leave to catch the bus. I don't like it very much, I lkie to see them and have a conversation with them before they go to school, but its the only way I can get some kind of sleep at the moment. are having a really hard time getting to sleep in the day - if i lay down, thats all it is - a lay down, and frustration that I haven't fallen asleep, so i haven't been bothering....hope everyone has a good day - or as good a day as one can have with broken sleep!!!