Any March & April 05 mums/moms want to chat?

[Colesmom]

MEN! :wink:

[Nikki~Nathan&Danielle]

Well I was up at 4am feeding last night. Tried the jiggle but it wasn't going to happen.  I did limit her feed though, she did protest a few times I took her off, but I managed it eventually and she still fed well this morning.

Tried the rice cereal this morning and it was the same thing - tongue straight out and making a loud arrrrrrrrr.  I think I will just persevere with it for a good few weeks solidly.

I hear you Judy about the just sitting on the couch and letting it happen and same sort of reply! :roll:

[Colesmom]

Oh boy, am I going to have a long night ahead.  I think Cole is cutting a tooth.  I went out to run errands after he went to sleep and DH called me saying he was hysterical for half an hour. he had tried patting, jiggling and needed me home.  poor Cole, he was huffing and puffing.  I gave him some tylenol, applied some boob magic (still works!) and he was asleep in 30 minutes.

We're supposed to go to a thanksgiving dinner tomorrow with 14 people.  do you think i should cancel?  hmmm, guess i'll see how his night goes.

any advice on how to make it through the night?  i thought i held him til he was sleeping but he woke up and resettled himself so I guess that's good. 

Traci

[FrasersMum]

Hi Everyone

Well the nap problem has been getting increasingly worse.  Yesterday morning there was no nap at all, even though we were in the car and usually that gets him to sleep with no problem whatsoever.  He then fell asleep during the 11am feed but woke up when I lay him down.  Then he had a short sleep in the car driving home around 1pm but woke when we arrived home.  He had a 1 hr sleep in the afternoon after falling asleep at the 3pm feed.  He was a bear to get to bed at 6.30pm. 

This morning - again no morning nap  :roll: Seems we have a complete nap strike on our hands.  I (of course) am going nuts!  He'd better not fall asleep at the 11am feed - I will be wiggling him and jiggling him to keep him awake... 

I am thinking that maybe I have the morning A time too short - for the last 2 days I have had to wake him after 7 (7.30 and 7.15) so I'm wondering if expecting a nap at 9ish is too early.  Then if I'm getting him up and trying again at 9.30ish he worked up too much during the first attempt. 

What is everyone's morning A time at the moment?  Anyone else having such a bizzare nap strike - or had one and worked out how to get through it??

Thanks ladies

[Colesmom]

Hi Jo,

Cole has to be up longer than 2 hours now in order to have a decent morning nap.  Anything less and it's 45 min.  We haven't had anything like you're experiencing though...sorry I can't help.

Traci

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone!

Welcome Hannah, I just found trhis thread as well and think it is great AND my baby is Sophie as well!!  What great taste you have!

I have been trying to keep up but with work being so crazy this week (well all the time!) and heading to the doctor yesterday with a sore boob only to find out I have mastitis :cry: .  My SIL had it so I went to the doc straight away and got antibiotics!  I am also doing turkey dinner tomorrow for 10+ people.... I haven't had time to post!  Plus I feel like crap

My DH is the same-they just don't get it, chalk it up to men I guess.  I make myself feel better knowing he can cheer me up and get me hyper too !

Arwyn, my mom is really short so we used a small tool when she was visiting so she could not hurt her back picking Sophie up and good excuse for you to get a massage!!  Hope you feel better...

Jo - It has always been too short of A time that has caused Sophie's short naps.  If she gets up after 630 she always has a shorter nap at 9.  So, if that helps - Sophie's A time needs to be at least 2.5 to 3 hours for her not to have a short nap.


Traci - I didn't do the rice cereal, I did organic baby oats and Sophie never got constipated and they taste way better.  Sophie also took to cereal best when it was warm and really smooth (lots of formula)!

Happy Canadian Turkey Weekend, hope all is well.

Richelle

[Richelle]

Just checking to see if the lilypie worked!  They are so cute!!

[Anonymous]

Sorry ladies i have ended up with 2 profiles and do not know how to delete one or why is log in and out as either or!!!  Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Nikki~Nathan&Danielle]

Jo, sorry can't really help with your nap problem either.  But, Danielle is up for 2.5hrs before her first nap now.

Richelle, I had mastitis with Nathan and it was the worst feeling I've experienced.  Didn't realise it would be that bad.  Hope you're feeling better.  Also, very bizarre about your 2 profiles, I didn't think the system let you do that?  Maybe post about it in the Glitches forum.

Traci, urgg teething!  We fortunately haven't started with that yet.  I hope Danielle's like Nathan and just wakes up with them one day (it was great until he started on his molars - just as well we're done with them all now!).

[Jayri]

well it looks like we are all in the midst of another bump in the growing up road.
Riley' tooth came through during the week, her bottom left one. She had a couple of nights when only crying and tight hugs would do. She seems a little better now though,
I have noticed too that Riley can handle being awake longer that her usual 2hrs, but with this whole tooth thing and her shots last week sometimes A time can be 3 hrs. Not something I like, but everything that is going on with her I don't really want to push it and make everything worse.
just wanted to pop in and say hi to all of you, I am off to bed, I will chat with you fine ladies later.

[Arwyn's mom]

Oh gawd... Arwyn fell out of the futon yesterday. I felt so bad. :cry:  :oops:  :cry:  :oops: And she woke up twice in the night. DH was on duty for pu/pd because of my gimped muscle. Still woke up though... and listened to her cry, thinking it was all my fault cuz I let her sleep on the futon. She was at my parents' and I put her down for a nap on the futon... she rolled right off...ironically, my parents and i were just telling me I should put pillows on the sides of the futon (I had put them on the edge so she wouldn't get stuck between the futon and wall.)

Anyhow, she seems fine. Just kept waking up in the night. The only thing that is any consolation to me is that her memory is short right now and hopefully, the fall won't affect her sleep for long.  :roll:

[james030405]

Hi Everyone,  it has been ages since I have been on and the pages just keep getting higher and higher Everything is going pretty well with James.  He is how on 3 solid meals a day with cereal for b/fast, veges and fruit for lunch and dinner is meat, 2 veges and fruit.  He is doing very well with them.  No constipation yet!! He also has his 2 bottom teeth.  We have had a bad day with him today so I am thinking that maybe his other teeth are moving around.  Luckily we have had no trouble with them coming through.  I didn't even know that had come through except for when we were playing and he put my finger in his mouth and he bit down :shock: I haven't had to use any gels or pain relief for him and it hasn't distrubed his sleep at night. 

James is generally down by 7pm and sleeping through with only the odd waking which only takes a few pats and he goes back to sleep.  Nap lengths are still all over the place as is his settling.  Sometimes I can put him down and don't hear a word out of him and then other times he screams andI have to pick him up.  Don't know what I do differently :?

His waking in the morning has become earlier - not sure why.  He would always wake around 6:30am and happily play till 7am.  Now he is awake at 5:45am and gets up around 6am.  AT least it is summer here so the sun is up.  I have found that James needs to be awake at least 2.5hrs for A time.  The only thing I have noticed with his naps, is that if he goes down with little fuss this is when he has a good 1.5+hr nap.  If he goes down kicking and screaming and needs a lot of assistance, this is when he only has a 45min nap. :?  :? Is this just a spirited baby thing?

Well, enough from me.  I hope everyone is going well.  If anyone has any ideas about the settling that would be great.  We do the same thing everytime.  I am wondering about making his bedtime about 1/2hr later but he has already been up for 3.5-4hrs.  So confusing.

Have a good week everyone.  Talk to you on Thursday night chat.


Lisa - mum to James

[Colesmom]

Richelle,  I am fortunate not to have had mastitis but have heard it is quite painful and draining.  Hope the antibiotics kick in fast for you.

Ankie-don't beat yourself up.  Just be more careful next time.  These little ones are very resilient.  I was just playing with Cole and he dropped his head on my cheekbone.  I fear I might have a black eye...but he didn't even flinch :!:

Lisa-not sure what to tell you about the settling issue.  Cole does the same thing...down  in a few minutes when I have stretched him longer than usual and a bit more fuss if I put him down early.  How long before the end of A time do you put him down?  I used to think it just took Cole 10 minutes to settle because he always took that long so I always put him down 10 min. before he was supposed to be asleep. Well, I think the long settling time was him telling me he wasn't ready to sleep yet and I needed to extend his A time.  He typically goes to sleep now in less than 5 min. with minimal crying for naps.  Nighttime he usually cries...I think because he has to shut off from the whole day!

The one thing I will say is that if his last A interval is 3.5-4 hours that maybe he's overtired and that is causing the early waking.  Pushing bedtime later won't make him sleep later.  I would suggest moving bedtime 20 minutes earlier and see if that eliminates the early waking.  Doesn't seem to make sense but it works! 

Our night was okay after hysterical bedtime.  I think it was a combination of tooth (not yet showing though), DH comforting him (first time since sleep training!), and the fact that DH was shushhhhhing.  I had told him not to but I think he was desperate and thought it might work.
Cole was up at 10:40 and 1:40 to feed.  I know he wasn't hungry at 1:40 but he seemed to need comfort.  he fed well anyway!  Then he was up at 5:10...would settle down so I fed him one boob.  He then slept until 6:45-yay!  Went down at normal time for nap and slept 1.5 hours...so he was a bit pooped!

this morning when I changed him I popped him into his crib so i could wash my hands.  when i came back he was practically sitting up!  kind of leaning over on one arm

gotta run, time for feed.

Have a good day, and happy thanksiving to my fellow canucks

Traci

[sophieandhannah]

Oh my gosh!! Thank you all for the wonderful responses.  Definately needed to hear what others are doing with the solids/liquids thing.
Hayley, did you try wake to sleep again?  How did it go?
My lo slept from 7:30-5:30 last night! I was thrilled.  I went in at 5:30 gave her the binky back, and she slept until 6..did it again, then slept until 7:30!! Wow, I feel really refreshed. 
Went shopping all day yesterday with friends.  DH did daddy day care all day, including shuttling my stepson, Brendan back nd forth to his mom's, soccer and back to mom's.  He is truly a saint.  Unfortunately, she was completely off schedule yesterday...only one good nap the rest were in the car enroute.  Then she sleeps so well last night??!  Strange.  And, not helping my campaign for keeping her on schedule during the days!! DH is slightly more "go-with-the flow" then I am with parenting.  SO I have to really advocate for lo to have her schedule.  Any one else have this issue with their DH?  It's good somtimes because it helps me keep things in perspective, otherwise I thik I might just hole up with her every day only sneaking out for an hour here or there between naps, and life just can't really be lived like that!
Oh, BTW after reading all of your posts about warmth at night, I started thinking that maybe Sophie was cold...and dressed her more warmly and turned a little heat on in her room the last two nights, and she has definately slept better!  Funny, I wasn't even thinking about warmth as an issue! :oops:
Hope you all are having wonderful weekends...even though stay at home mom's don't REALLY get a weekend 
Can't wait to chat on Wed. Can someone remind me what time?

[sophieandhannah]

Woops! just got caught up on all the posts...should have done that BEFORE my post.
A couple of things:

Sophie has been teething too.  One day, before her bottom two came in, was the worst.  I used lots of tylenol and some oragel. She really hates both but they seemed to help.  I held her alot and let her sleep at odd times.  I don't know if that helps...

For the cereal thing, I think mixing with ebm is definately the best (if you have it) and letting your lo sit on your lap while you feed, it's a bit messy and hard to manage, but it seemed to help Sophie with the transition.

I am confused now, when is the chat, Wed or thurs?

Richelle, yes..good taste on the name   Hope you are feeling better.
Traci, hope you dinner went well or is going well, or that you cancelled it and feel good about it!
Ankie, what is illegal strike action?  Is it still going on? Will you be working when it's over?
Who is working now? How is it going?

DH's... :roll: I can definately relate.  Mine doesn't seem to get the overstim issue either...thankfully we have an easy going lo who is still able to settle after their escapades.  My new joke ...when DH comes home I will proclaim "Sophie! The circus is in town!"