MSE Parent Club - Part 2

SeptemberBaby_2

MFD, Poppy (18m) goes to bed at 6:30pm and sleeps until 7ish. I put Jamie down (3m) at 9, last feed around midnight and he then sleeps until 7ish too. Routines are not for everyone but my household (and sanity) functions better with one! .

I clean Poppy's teeth for her and then pass over control of the brush with lot of 'who is such a big girl'!, 'Mummy's clever girl'! lol. She sits on a chair in the bathroom and I let her play with the rubber duck as a distraction!

Lots of hugs, Bailey. Hope everything turns out well.

We always sing Row Row, Ladybird! The crocodile is my favourite and we practically yell! :rotfl:

xx

Js_Other_Half

Another verse for row row:

Gently to?/through? the cave, if you see a grizzly bear, don't forget to wave. <waves>

Sami_Bee

ooh all these new verses to remember!! :T
The one we used to sing as kids was "Throw your teacher overboard and then you'll make her scream"
Chris's fave one is the lion coz he loves to rrroooaaaarrrr!

Little monkey finally went to sleep at 10:40 tonight _pale_
That was 3.5hrs after originally trying to put him to bed! after much faffing about, one poop and at least 20 minutes of crying until he almost threw up later and he was out for the count! I had to sit on the floor until he went to sleep once he'd agreed to get in and then had to crawl out of the room due to pregnancy hips/back I'm hoping and praying its not more of the same tomorrow and I'm getting worried about our decision to get him a new bed, what if I have to go through all this again when we do :eek: I'll be at least 35wks preg before we'll be able to get the new bed

He did at one point keep saying "its not safe" we've got a bed guard up that is borrowed from mum and his new bed will have little side bits on

tsstss7

6.30 - 7.30pm bedtime here for the little one. Any later and he gets too tired and is beggar to get to sleep, any earlier and we get woken up at 6am the next day (although that still does happen sometimes anyway).

I try and start the routine at 6 just after tea but if tea is later then so is bedtime. We do brush (teeth), bath (or quick dip if in a hurry), story, songs, booby and then bed and if I get him down before 7pm I give myself a mental pet on the back for job well done. )

LBUK Archies favourite song is row row too...it was so cute a couple of months ago when he started talking and row row row were some of his first words. Funnily enough we learned it at the library also....:O)

SeptemberBaby_2

There is a thread on the Grabbit Board about a few cheap LeapFrog toys from Amazon:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=20303549#post20303549

LeapFrog are one of my favourites so I've ordered a few bits for us and a few to go into my Birthday/Christmas present box!

xx

ladybirdintheuk

cheers JS, we will add that one to our repatoir. (sp?!)

keelykat

Elliot's been waking up every hour in the night because of his teething.... *yawn* please don't let this carry on for months..we'll both be passed out on the floor with exhaustion lol.

keely.

Becles

Sami - when my boys were little and kept getting out of bed. I used to just pick them up and put them back with no words, no eye contact, no cuddles - nothing! Once they realised they were not getting anything at all from me, they soon started staying in bed.

You need to be consistant and not give in - even if it takes 6 hours of putting him back in bed, never crack and give in to his demands. If you do, it just teaches him he can push you for x hours and then you do as he wants.

It's really hard I know, and sometimes it is tempting to give in for an easier life, but in the long run it's better to be firm and play by your rules.

Charlotte likes row row the boat too, but I have to sit on the floor with my knees apart and feet together, and she sits in the middle opposite me, and we hold hands and rock backwards and forwards while we sing it.

She also likes making up her own songs, usually about two complimentary items such as the "socks and shoes" song, "ham and cheese" song and the "up or down" song

nadnad

ooooh thank you for the row row row the boat verses - i only knew the original and the crocadile, and he loves those so thats great!!!

just emailed a couple of local libraries - it says on their website they've started rhymetime so hopefully they'll be at a time to suit!!

Sami_Bee

Becles wrote: »

Sami - when my boys were little and kept getting out of bed. I used to just pick them up and put them back with no words, no eye contact, no cuddles - nothing! Once they realised they were not getting anything at all from me, they soon started staying in bed.

You need to be consistant and not give in - even if it takes 6 hours of putting him back in bed, never crack and give in to his demands. If you do, it just teaches him he can push you for x hours and then you do as he wants.

It's really hard I know, and sometimes it is tempting to give in for an easier life, but in the long run it's better to be firm and play by your rules.

Thanks beccles, I was firm... in the end We had let him stay downstairs with us for most of the time but got fed up when at 10pm he still wasn't showing signs of wanting to go of his own accord (and then doing a pooh:rolleyes:) so I changed his nappy and put him in bed, stood in the gap and kept putting him back in bed every time he went to get out which was about 100 times! I really didn't enjoy it but I knew if I didn't start as we mean to go on I'd be very stuck come June and bubba's arrival