Dory - 'hooter hider' !! Is that really what it is called or is that a Dory name for it?
Bec - Oh poor little Isaac with his wind. I hope your new contraption (looks good!) helps a lot and you both get a good night sleep tonight. Guess you would already be asleep where you are... so I hope its a long one.
Chloe is asleep - I have a glass of wine - gunna watch some sh*ty tv. YES
good work Fuzzy! and plans for the night... noice!
Dory - love the hooter hider! I have a much more couth "nursing cover" bebe au lait brand, couldn't live without it as I'm always faffing around with nipple shields which = lotsa nekkid boobie!
Bec - in the pic your dooverlacky looks awesome, have fingers crossed for you for better sleep,.
Just a quick one here. Annika is awesome. A legend. A sleeping legend. It's bliss. SOrry to go on but honestly the difference is huge. We're getting 4 hours + of happy self-settling day sleeps. I even dared take her to the shops this arvo and she still managed a small day nap. We've had some ups & downs as you expect but on the whole... yuh. Mum is here helping out & DH still not good - waiting to see (still trialling meds and no major improvement yet) and the MRI this week finally.
Oh and earlier Bec I meant to say that your Isaac reminds me of Xander... he used to sleep like that. Annika is just such a vastly different beastie. I'm learning... still learning!
Oh and it looks like my job is definitely being made redundant. Just gotta go thru some bureaucratic bulldust now! bah!
fuzzy - sleep? Me? Ha! I don't even know the meaning of the word! Very jealous of your wine and tv, I've only had one glass of wine since this time last year, and that was on Christmas day.
dory - haha hooter hider I know exactly what you mean about feeding in public though, most times I find a private corner or somewhere not obvious in case I flash an innocent bystander, but places like airports where all the rows of seats at the gates are just so open.. no privacy at all. I use a wrap to cover up but wriggly babies are good at moving them unfortunately. Thanks for offering to put a link on your fb to my made it page, I'll pm you the link if that's ok, I don't think I'm allowed to post it here on bb.
belfie - Isaac had some good sleeps in it today, I think two hours this afternoon. Yay! But he wouldn't settle in it tonight but that's a nightly problem anyway, so I'm not blaming the hammock.
Have I said this before? If I haven't I don't know why not. Anyway Isaac has this strange new idea that it's quite normal to stay up until almost midnight. He goes to sleep as normal after bath/feed etc, but only for an hour. He has been awake since 7, and a few times looked like he was about to fall asleep but then woke up again. He ended up crying from overtiredness, so I put him down next to me on the lounge and he stared at the tv then fell asleep at 10:30. That's not a habit I want to start. But anyway he's been doing this every night, and can go until 11 or 12 before falling asleep. It is driving me crazy. I just want my evenings back. He doesn't wake up until 8:30-9am, could that be the cause of the late nights?
Belie - Woooooo Hoooooooo! Go annika! Well done for perserveing and working out what your little girl needed - I have taken a leaf out of your book and am now leaving P if she is just whinging and it is also working (she just settled herself) so hopefully we are both over the worst of this latest challenge.
Bec - any chance Isaac is ready for food? It could help to explain the extra night feeds/waking etc.
After weeks of bad night (and day sleeping) I spoke to the nurse yesterday and gave Pearl some solids. She actually tried some avacado on the weekend and tasted some rockmelon but yesterday we bought out the big guns of rice cereal and pears. She loved it and slept quite well last night (not great though - up at 2am then 5:30am but it is better than the 6 times she was up the night before! Hopefully we have turned the corner here - FX.
Gotta go and take advantage of the fact that P is asleep and have a lie down.
Chuckie - how did she go with the avocado? George has no interest in it, the texture was just too weird for him. It just stuck to the top of his mouth and he couldn't get it down! Haha
Yippeeeee for the lovely girls who are sleeping better for their mummies. Well done for finding something that works for you both. Fingers crossed the good sleeps continue.
I find that if George wakes and just whinges about an hour after he has gone down for a nap, I can leave him and he will fall asleep again for another hour.
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Belfie & Chuckie - glad you got some sleep success.
Bec - no ideas to help.... just hugs for how hard that must be. By some fluke mostly Hannah has fallen into some good routines. Not always of course and yesterday arvo was one of those, and last night. Not some of my finer moments, but I am just going to hold myhead high and say, I did better than other times. I know what you mean about the TV.... I used it the other night as a distraction. It worked. As long as you're not doing it all of the time. I actually try to avoid Hannah having any screen time.... not yet. I suppose it can't hurt to try to wake Isaac up and try to impose a routine that works better for you on him and see if it helps? I only mean in terms of sleeping in the evenings.
Ha guilt again. This morning, after a rough night with Hannah when she woke at 6am she was so happy, but I wasn't. So I put her in her cot in her room and went back to bed. I didn't hear her and woke up at 8am, in a tis of course. Rushed down to find her sound asleep - no idea how long she was asleep. Oh and Hooter Hider? My aunt called it that. Wish I could claim it but alas I can not.
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good work Fuzzy! and plans for the night... noice!
"nursing cover" bebe au lait brand, couldn't live without it as I'm always faffing around with nipple shields which = lotsa nekkid boobie!
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