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Holly- You are such a fantastic mum to L and don't worry about what other ppl say, every one is always comparing babies so much it drives me insane, we all know that are soooooo different. Glad the specialist seems to listen....sounds like you are geeting good advice.. I hope it is in the not so distant future that you finally see an improvement must be a worry sometimes. LOL about the one side boobie, 150 mls is great effort!!! Do you use a hand pump???
Meg -sounds like you have had great nights!!! Must be fantastic, i understand about the 4 hours, we get so use to just catnapping our bodies dojn't now what hits it if we get any more than that...a, we have good days but I really need to work on the night, a bit of it is me though I get a bit lazy during the night and co sleep sometimes...
Nai- I hope DD2 gets better soon, nothing worse when they are not sleeping properly, good luck with trying to track down a vaporsier.
AJP- Hope the girls are good, Thanks for the photo's they are great...
ALI- Hope everything goes ok in Canberra..thinking of you
Tarkine- Glad ur standing your ground in regards to job and DH....in these times don't think he can be too picky...chin up darl
OP- I gave up trying to get rid of dummy, it was in the too hard basket and now I think he actually likes it... only has it to get to sleep during the day and refuses it at night???
Hi to everyone else.
I need some advice on trying to get L to stop snack feeding... he is only having one side a t a time and refuses to drink anymore...I want to try and stretch out to 3 hourly feeds which he seems to do but just one side at a time...He seems content inbetween feeds but still wakes overnight.. I think the snack feeding 24/7 is the reason...I offfered him a EBM bottle last night and he refused.. he has taken a bottle a couple of times but last night just was not interested.. I was hoping it would top him up so he would sleep longer no such luck.....not sure what to do...he is not a light weight so he is getting enough...
anyway still having sleep overs in our room. DD comes in about 1am every night and sleeps on her little matteress and L is still in our room. so we all camp out in our room, think I might steal DD's bed and leace DH to deal with the kids, might get some sleep then!!!;)
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I forgot to say, sent my Avatar request yesterday so look out for it!!!
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Holly - what a mega post. You know one day when L is older you are going to tell him about what a terror of a baby he is, and realised that he has turned into a delightful child.
Hang in there.
ETA - pINNY - WILL LOOK OUT FOR YOUR NEW av. Oops caps got stuck on. I don't really know what to say, except, think of ways to distract until the next feed. Might be best to start trying maybe on the weekend when there is another adult at home that can take over, as he will probably only want boobies from you.
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Just a quick post, our night routine has been successful so far, yes I know very early into the evening but so far so good
Woke up from last sleep at 5.15pm, cluster fed until 7pm, massage, boobie and bed, woke at 8.30 for feed fed both sides, straight back to bed settled himself, normally we would have to settle him for at this time of night stirred after 40 mins and resettled without anything....Yay!!! Lets hope this is the start to a good night...Going to bed myself...see in all in morning
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Holly - I think ur doing a great job with L, well done with the EBM.
Pinny - how did the sleep go? Can't help with the catnapping thing... Alex will do his longest sleep first then gradually get shorter, so he still wakes during the night.
AFM - well ratbag baby won't go to sleep on his own last night, so slept the night with me in the bed. I feel terrible this morning, hardly got any quality sleep and achy. Also dreamt I was playing Quidditch, with Alex on the broom stick!! That will teach me for watching harry potter before going to bed! :lol:
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Tarkine- Pmsl! Maybe thats why you felt achey, its a tough game to play! You win?
Pinny- DD1 was a snack feeder and tbh I couldn't stop it til she was well into solids, even at 6 months we still were feeding at least 3hrly overnight. Once she started sleeping better in the day she didn't snack as much too, maybe at 7 months, I tried to stop it but found I didn't have the energy to argue. She was a real full on booby girl nothing could get her away from them! Hope you find something that works.
Holly- Sounds like a nice specialist giving you options rather than just saying that you have to do something. Did he say with the medication what time frame to give it to expect to see an improvement? Yay on the expressing, thats a fantastic amount!
Nai- I got mine for $36, I not sure if its the vapouriser that worked or if the cold had just run its course but she was alot better after first night. I put on a chair next to her so the steam would reach her. How is she today? Any improvement? And with the sleeps if Em wakes at 3:30-4ish I squeeze in a catnap cause she can't last til 7 otherwise, usually we just give her a cat nap in her bouncer that way she dosn't sleep long but enuff to hold her til bedtime.
Meg- thats great she gave it up on her onw, alot easier to get rid of it now then when they are older, friends I know toddlers take 5 to bed with them so I'm glad I don't have to go down that road.
Mum coming over today, gotta go do shopping, gonna take Ash off her bedtime bottle only cause I need the bottle for Emily so going to buy her a "special" sippy cup she can have for her bedtime milk, let her pick one out. She'll be fine tho, I don't think we'll have any trouble.
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I got 4 x 40 min sleeps out of Miss J yesterday and she woke from the last one at 5ish so I put her to bed as normal at 7pm and she slept until 2.45am! I think that was the problem - she needed an extra nap in there and was thinking her bed time was a nap time! She's still snuffly and woke at 4.20am being unable to breath so I brought her in to bed with me and she slept until 7am. I might have to check out vapouriser prices locally I think.
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Awesome Nai! Obviously she was treating bedtime as a nap.
Have fun with your mum Shell - J still wants a bottle at bedtime. Cant be bothered with getting rid of it atm.
tarkine - I hope you had a better night last night.
DH pager went off at1am. woke me, then E woke upset at 1:30. Managed to settle her back till 3am. Then she slept till 9am.
She has been a pooing machine since her vaccinations. Do you think there is a link? She did have the rota vax
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Megie - I was told that was a side effect of the rota vax. Be extra vigilent with hand washing after nappy changes!
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i was told the same meg, lasts for a few weeks from memory :think:
nai how is J today?
pinny how did L go overnight??
holly your doing such a fab job hun!!!
ARM all good here!! night sleeps are going well, days are all over the shop, she slept for almost 3 hours yesterday but big sis wasnt home so that probably helped!! had toddler group today and she had two small sleeps there, its hard cos its so noisy!
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talk about thread killer!! :lol:
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I am coming to post soon just watching masterchef :)
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