How does everyone resettle overnight? I am having no luck. Last night I tried to resettle on and off for 3 hours! I ended up relenting and feeding her. She was sleeping through, but of late is waking again?
I pick her up, give her a cuddle till she calms down then put her back down. If I try just patting she gets hysterical.
meg - not the best one here.. I stick Alex on the boob and he goes to sleep - have just started putting him down before he goes completely to sleep, so he associates the bed with sleeping - but I'm still wrapping him
Meg - I'm still feeding when Miss J wakes too so I'm no help either! Now that they are in the same room I can't have her screaming and waking Genevieve so I just feed her and put her back down.
Thanks girls. Thats what DP said abou tthe Godfather thing as well. As if he really wanted to be it then he would have found a way to get off work! Anywya am just glad we got someone else who actually does really want to be the Godfather.
Ash is slosly getting better and is sleeping better as well.
Megie- We dont wrap at all but she does have a dummy. For the last 3weeks she has slept through all but 3 nights. IF she has woken though I normally bring her in with me and feed her and she falls asleep. I jsut dont have the energy to fight it and it makes her happy so I jsut kind of live with it and it is working so I shouldnt complain.
Kaz- Is J teething??? Maybe that is why he wants the comfort of feeding and is waking often?
Jols- great work on last night with no feeding!!! You must feel good today.
Ali- Glad to hear she is on the mend, poor bubba! Have you been able to follow up your tv yet? Such dramas going on! How did DPs appt go? Are they happy with how he is healing?
Meg- I gave up with spending too long settling, now if she doesn't resettle within 5 mins or look like she is going to resettle I make a bottle. Sort of can tell now when she wakes if its gonna be a resettle wake or a feed wake. I found the nights I did spend ages resettling she would be fine for few nights then wake again after that.
Your poor sister, thats alot to be going thru right now, just having the bub not all that long ago, yeah 2 kids makes things tricky sometimes taking them places you don't always know how much help you're being! But I bet yr sister loves having you there.
Kaz- I wish I had advice, Ash was the same. Do you try resettle him or does he just get worked up if you do? How was the meeting with the midwife?
Tarkine- just take each day at a time, I spent first year of Ash's life convinced she'd be an only child! Sounds like progress on the sleep, yay!
Ellie- I feel for you, must be so hard being sick with a baby! Was hard enough with a toddler so can imagine would be worse!
OP- Get rid of it whenever you feel comfortable, whether that now or in years to come! We got rid of Ems at 4mths only because she was waking hourly looking for it, some days and nights tho I wish I still had it.
Emily slept til 6am last night woohoo. She not eating all that much tho. she has 4 bottles eats a great breakfast and few mouthfuls at dinner thats it. So annoying tho all my cooking gets thrown away, she used to love it when first started solids now I'm lucky if she has 5 mouthfuls of dinner.
Just checking in, been lurking but never seem to get enough time to do a decent post!
Nai, aww I didn't know you were at the hossy yesterday! We were stuck in bloody traffic for ages. I'm sure we'll meet soon anyhow.
Megie, sorry about your sister. How awful Hope Miss M recovers soon and the abs kick in for your sister's scar.
Shell & AJP, that's great news about the sleeps. Please send some sleepy vibes my way!
Kaz and Megie sorry to hear about the sleep issues. And I can't help either! I feed L several times overnight and that's how he goes back to sleep. The only way to get him to sleep longer than half an hour during the day is to also give him booby when he stirs, but lately the dummy has been working (not so much today though ) I think he's cottoned on that it's not the real thing!
Having a bit of a dilemma with the solids... He just doesn't seem interested in the pureed/mashed up stuff anymore but will often munch on larger pieces of food. So I've tried giving him pieces of vegies but he just drops them on the floor or it's too slippery for him to hold It's seriously doing my head in. Last night he had roasted sweet potato and could grip it fine with the skin on but I was paranoid he'd choke on the skin so I peeled it off but then it was too slipppery and mushy and just smooshed in his hands
I know it sounds so trivial, but am I doing something wrong here or should I just relax and let him smoosh the food and barely injest any of it?!
holly - smooshing food is all part of them learning about food....Alex is in the same boat - not liking pureed food.. he wants what I'm eating, so has had toast, saladas, vegies, celery (he gums it), carrots.. sometimes its a fishing trip into his mouth to get it out, but he seems quite happy to have a mouth full of soggy bread or salada. I watch him like a hawk, but he just sits there with it in there. I also give him whatever we are having, and just blend it, so there are no chokables in it.. I just watch Alex and go with his flow.. sometimes he eats a lot of solids and other days he's just testing the textures etc. I bought some rice cakes and tried him with those - he was smashing them up into little pieces
Ali - good to hear you have got a new godfather.
Shellbell - I really doubt I would be able to cope with two kids - PTSD and stress just don't mix.
Last edited by Malyna; October 8th, 2009 at 09:51 PM.
Meg - Overnight I usually resettle by feeding J. Have tried a few times not to but it's not working great atm. We're not particularly consistent with it though so that doesn't help. During the day if J doesn't resettle on his own, then nothing I do helps and if I try he usually gets more and more worked up (screaming) so I've stopped trying and just get him up and hope he'll go back down before he gets too grumpy. Sorry. Not much help I know.
Ali - Yeah thought it might have been teeth early in the week but the past few days I'm not sure it is anymore. I think it's just him. Hope all goes well with the surgeon - have been thinking of you guys heaps this week and have been meaning to message you but never get enough time with J so grotty. Glad to hear Ash is on the mend. I know I should remember but what did you do to cut down on her nighttime waking? I know you had a rough trot but seems like it would be worth it to have her sleeping through so much now.
Shell - m/w appt went ok. She seemed more worried about me than J though! Kept saying he looked great which I took to mean that I wasn't looking so hot She advised me to cut out the 2am feed and replace with resettling but it's not working and I have mixed feelings about stopping any of the overnight feeds this early - we're doing BLS so he's not eating a huge amount yet. Sounds like Em is the same?
AJP - What does your DH do to resettle M overnight?
Holly - I agree with Malyna darl. J did the same thing to start with but he is better and better at picking up slippery stuff and getting it to his mouth. Now he only drops it when he gets distracted (which is still often) Just have more on hand than you think he'll eat and keep replacing it. He'll get there. It's a good sign that he wants to feed himself imo, he's developing his fine motor skills and at least this way you won't have trouble getting him off mush when he's 12 months old
Malyna - Saw your pics on fb. Great to have a face to the name!
AFM - Rough day yesterday and early waking this morning so that makes a week of crap sleep and increased crying. Took him out twice yesterday for walks in the pram to settle him. Don't know what else to do anymore. As I said above, anything I try during the day just gets him more and more worked up and overnight is pretty much the same except I'll usually feed him. Keep thinking that it's not really that bad, it's just that I'm taking a negative view on it. Been really teary the past few days. Got my parents coming to stay this weekend. Be great to see them but I'm dreading it too cause mum will have lots of well meant advice about how we need to be more consisent etc and I'm just not up to hearing it right now.
Hope you all have great weekends. Freezing here lately - snowing somewhere and there was sago snow here on Wednesday. I want the sun!!!!
Kaz hun i dont resettle during the day either i just get her up, sometimes i leave her for say 15 mins if shes happy, very rarely she'll go back to sleep but i give her the chance too, over night DH just shhhh's her, she woke last night at 4.45am i fed her one side and she went back til 7.45
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Hope Miss M recovers soon and the abs kick in for your sister's scar.
) I think he's cottoned on that it's not the real thing!
It's seriously doing my head in. Last night he had roasted sweet potato and could grip it fine with the skin on but I was paranoid he'd choke on the skin so I peeled it off but then it was too slipppery and mushy and just smooshed in his hands
but what did you do to cut down on her nighttime waking? I know you had a rough trot but seems like it would be worth it to have her sleeping through so much now.
She advised me to cut out the 2am feed and replace with resettling but it's not working and I have mixed feelings about stopping any of the overnight feeds this early - we're doing BLS so he's not eating a huge amount yet. Sounds like Em is the same?
Just have more on hand than you think he'll eat and keep replacing it. He'll get there. It's a good sign that he wants to feed himself imo, he's developing his fine motor skills and at least this way you won't have trouble getting him off mush when he's 12 months old
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