meg so glad DS got a place in kinder!! what a relief!!
malyna DD is into opening drawers too drives me insane!! shes into everything!
well my plan of not feeding DD to sleep backfired, she woke after 30 mins took me 90 mins to resettle, in the end with boob and we had a good day with sleeps too, just dont know where i go wrong
I hear you Olive! I have no idea what is going on here at the moment...and omg I am soooooo tired...sleeping whenever A closes her eyes...day or night...sorry for no personals...reading and keeping up but then retaining nothing...I'm stuffed...please please sleep tomight
Happy Birthday Holly!! I hope you get spoilt today. And yay on resigning too - it must be a huge relief. I would resign if I could afford to....
Det - I hope the arm heals quickly. What a story for her to go back to school with!
Malyna - I hope A's teeth don't bother him too much! FWIW I just weighed Miss J and she was just over 9kg. At her 8m check she was 8.8kg so she has really not put on any weight in the last few months in spite of eating like a horse! I think that she has really slimmed down since she has been moving. I have noticed that tops that were tight on her belly are now looser. She is still in size 0 and is now outgrowing them in length rather then width
Meg - yay for getting a kinder spot - you must be relieved!
Olive - In 3 weeks I will have a 4 yo and a 1yo Our babies are growing up.
AFU - Miss J seems to have turned a corner with her sleep. She is now sleeping through most nights and actually wakes up happy in the morning which is making me less stressed about work next week. She has her "baybee" in bed with her and she pats him to sleep when she goes down. I am pushing her out to one sleep a day now. She seems to do a good 2 hours when I put her down int he middle of the day and then have 11-12 hours overnight. So that seems to be the way to go.
lilima- Great that J got into kinder! Will give you a break! Malyna- DD is always into the drawers in the kitchen too! PITA!! Can't keep her out of them! She's jammed her fingers a few times too but I've decided to stop trying to save her from getting them hurt in there. Feels mean but seriously I can't be there all the time moving her and she has to learn!! So I think she's got the idea now and isn't getting her fingers stuck anymore. Just have freezer bags all over the house, lol. olive- you're not doing anything wrong!! Or else maybe I am too? lol. Bad night here last night too, maybe another tooth coming. Had 3 teeth in the last 2 weeks! Waiting on one more. ellie- get some rest Holly- Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nai- wow, that's awesome with the sleep! So jealous!! How'd you do it?? And have you got her to self settle too? OMG tell me how!! lol.
Hi Ali, Pinny, det, and everyone else!!!!
Well today DD is definitely into practicing her walking. She's just letting go and walking and not even to me anymore! I put a video up on FB. She was just walking along drinking from her sippy cup at the same time! pmsl.
Heaven - wow on the walking! I have heard that babies sleep worse when they start walking but we just did the Dr Jay Gordon method and stuck with it.
Miss J went backwards last week but we just went back to the program and she seems to be through it now. She does self-settle but she has a baby doll in bed with her and a musical aquarium in the cot that she can press and it plays music. She will often press it to play music to send herself off to sleep and she presses it when she wakes up so I know she's awake when i hear music over the baby monitor
hmm...maybe I need to get one of those musical things, lol. Maybe something she would lay down and watch, just to get her to be still enough to get sleepy!! I thought J didn't self settle before though, have you recently been able to teach her to? That gives me hope! lol
No she wasn't self-settling before. It is a new thing and it just happened. I think the not feeding to sleep and then saying goodnight to her has helped. She has a little cry but it's just a grizzle and then she stops. I am amazed as I didn't think she would ever do it!
That's great!! We're going to try night weaning soon. Prob when the winter Olympics are on in case we're up all night then there's something to watch, pmsl. I hope it works that well for us!
Det - So glad your DD is on the mend. Must have been horrible not to be there for her the whole time.
Meg - Great that you got a spot for J!
Malyna - Hun I don't think you're lazy at all! Far from it - hope I didn't give you that impression from my post. DS only put on 30g between 7-8 months but he did grow a little in length. If A is moving heaps that's where the energy is going.
Olive - I hope M is sleeping longer for you soon. I am still feeding J to sleep overnight and sometimes in the evenings. He has started falling asleep on the boob too once or twice lately which is strange cause he hardly ever did it when he was a newborn even.
Heaven - Your DD is so cool!! I can't believe she is walking already. DS isn't even crawling yet!!
Kailani - Happy Birthday hun!! Hope you have a great day and got a good nights sleep last night. And on resigning. That's so cool. I am very jealous!
Ali - How are you going hun? Haven't seen you round much in BB. Hope the return to work this week went ok.
Pinny - Glad you had a good time away.
Nai - Yay on 12 hours! I hope it is the start of a new (long term) routine but I know you can't get your hopes up.
AFU - DS slept a 7 hour stretch the night before last. Its the longest he's done for over 2 months. Of course, I waited up for a while expecting him to wake but I still got a couple of 3.5 hour blocks of sleep. Last night was back to the usual but that's ok. It's looking like I might need to put him into long day care earlier than I wanted to in order to secure the days I want for when I return to work. I'm not going back for a couple of months but if they get others wanting the days before then we'll need to make some deicsions! I didn't want to put him in before he was 12 months old. There's also the cost to think about too. On the other hand, the thought of being able to put him in care and have some time to myself (to sleep probably!!!) before I go back to work is really tempting too Aside from DP every now and then, I've only ever left him with my parents once for 3 hours.
Nai - Alex still fits into 00.. Woot on the self settling.
heaven - way to go with the walking - walking and drinking at the same time.. now that's skilled.
Kaz - didnt' take any offence about anything.. I do remember things, I just sometimes don't remember them in a timely manner. I haven't forgotton to send the fabric, but Mr clingy has been drivign me insane and I've got to sort though a bag, then get organised to get to the PO.. but I'm getting closer. I might see if I can do it tonight.. DH is trying to settle Alex and I can't go out or be seen by alex (covert ops moves are needed to move around the house)
I'm going to be offline from the 30th to the 3rd at the sleep clinic thingie, so hopefully, I can get Alex to get over his cot phobia. I'm trying to lure him in with naughty things like mobile phones (he loves mine0 but he just screams when he gets put in the cot and looks at it as though it is a monster.
Just popping in to say hi and THANK YOU lovely ladies for the birthday wishes!! I feel so loved hehee!! I handed in my resignation letter today - boy is that a huge weight off my shoulders.
Hope you all have a good night. I'll be back for personals tomorrow xox
Malyna - you're doing better than me mate! I'd completely forgotten about that fabric So there's obviously no hurry - wait until you're back from sleep clinic. I really hope you get A past the cot phobia and into a good pattern of sleep. You so deserve it!
Kailani - on resigning. I am SO jealous!
AFM - had a great night out with the girls last night. First time I've left DS and been out at night since he was born. Hardly gave him a thought. Geez he made me (and DH) pay for it though - well, that's how it feels. Now I'm scared about going back to work and putting him in care. Started another thread about it cause I have no idea what to do. It's in the infant led b'feeding section (I think!) if you're interested.
Hi all, been very busy here, been keeping up with everyone just not had time to post.
Kaz- Glad you had great night out, I read yr other thread not sure on that one, maybe being night made it harder for him? I guess tho if you have to go to work you don't want to be getting up every 2 hours. I hope you get some good advice from there.
And if you do need to put him into care earlier than you wanted you could drop him off later and pick him up earlier than you normally would and get him used to it.
Holly- When were you having your birthday night out? Hope you had great day. Do you think you will return to work in near future in different job or concentrate totally on study?
malyna- Hope the sleep clinic works out well for you. I know you need some solution so I hope you gain some great advice.
Meg- its great you got J into kindy, i didn't bother applying cause I thought I'd put Ash a day at CC instead, now I wish I had cause still can't get into CC!
Olive- how is sleep going there? Any improvement?
Nai- yay on the self settling, she keeping it up?
Ellie- Over half way now, can imagine you must be exhausted!
Det- how is DD? I was keeoing up on FB with it all, what a drama! Poor little thing. She is toughy! Has her pain settled? How she going with sleeping with it?
I spent last night going thru the toy room and collecting all the baby toys to give away, got all teary cause thats it, in another month Emily will no longer be a baby but a toddler and means no more babies in the house.
On upside toy room looking heaps better!
Busy now that term has started cause means all activities are back on, Ash starting tinytots ballet on mon she is so excited, already practicing her dancing, lol.
work busy too, knew a full moon was coming cause they were all crazy!
sorry havent read anything yet, had a huge weekend starting with my sisters secret family wedding on friday arvo inwhich i was bridesmaid, followed by her engagement party/surprise we got married party last night, were all exhausted, was also the first and last time we take the girls to a wedding, was hard work, especially when its away from home!
was really good hun! was lovely and intimite, dinner was awesome too!!
i'll email you some pics in the morning, comp. slow due to using all data allowance for the month, new month tomorro so wil be quicker!!
hope to catch with you on tuesday??
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drives me insane!! shes into everything!
took me 90 mins to resettle, in the end with boob
and we had a good day with sleeps too, just dont know where i go wrong
Hope you have a fantastic day!!!!
Or else maybe I am too? lol. Bad night here last night too, maybe another tooth coming. Had 3 teeth in the last 2 weeks! Waiting on one more.
but we just did the Dr Jay Gordon method and stuck with it.
on resigning. That's so cool. I am very jealous!
Aside from DP every now and then, I've only ever left him with my parents once for 3 hours.
I feel so loved hehee!! I handed in my resignation letter today - boy is that a huge weight off my shoulders.
So there's obviously no hurry - wait until you're back from sleep clinic. I really hope you get A past the cot phobia and into a good pattern of sleep. You so deserve it!
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