MSE Pregnancy Club IV

feelinggood_2

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

....in a while crocodile!

Does that mean its nap time?

SeptemberBaby_2

feelinggood wrote: »

Does that mean its nap time?

Yes! :T. Poor baby is still asleep now as she is poorly .

xx

Sami_Bee

Mummy SB I need my doe-doe if I'm going for a nap

MrsTinks

mmmm I think there is little point in deciding how I will deal with Bean's arrival until it's here Because plans never work out... I don't want to mollycuddle too much and I honestly don't believe in the 24/7 skin contact... but each to their own We will have the cot/crib in the bedroom with us next to my side of the bed so I can easily stick a hand out and either rock the cot or pick Bean up to BF - hopefully without getting up! (I can dream!). Neither of us want Bean in our bed as we both move lots during the night and I'd be worried about accidental smothering!
We've also talked about dream feeding - where you wake baby up at say 10/11 at night to feed and then put back down again... the theory is that this helps baby sleep through the night with a full tummy and clean bum

greent

angelfairy wrote: »

to all you lovely ladies with experience as a mum, what direction can you point me in regarding routine with babies? do they/should they have one?

i remember watching a documentrary about a few different styles of parenting. i recall NOT liking the one where you put bubs down at a certain time, woke him at a certain time, not a lot of nurturing but bubs slept through the night very early. I do not like that as i do not like the bit where you can't nuture your baby.

or is it that you just go with what 'feels' right for you and bubs?

I went with the flow on all 3. DS2 probably had a bit more of a routine earlier than the other 2 - but that was because he had to be up and about to take the older ones to school.

I never actively set a routine - but one developed naturally - but never worried if we varied from it - eg: if we went to a friend's for the day I wouldn't fret about getting a nap at a set time etc
greent
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I am having SO much trouble keeping up with this thread - in fact, I'm not keeping up at all - I just keep diving in to the last page or two.

feelinggood_2

I can't have the baby in the bed, I'm too fat for that too, and might roll over and squash him! OH smokes too, so no co-sleeping. I'll be having him in a moses basket beside the bed for a while, then he'll have to go on the other side of the room. Can't fit a cot down both sides of the bed, and I like to sleep on a different side every night.

I suppose being a Nursery Nurse has meant that I've seen too many 'abandoned babies', and I'm worried about not giving him enough love. (I know not all parents who use nurseries are like that. Where I worked, it was about 50/50. Half the parents were great, and really interested in what the baby had done, and would come in early if they got out of work early. The other half would never, ever be there before 6pm, but would regularly tell me that they'd been to the spa for the afternoon )

greent

MrsTine wrote: »

mmmm I think there is little point in deciding how I will deal with Bean's arrival until it's here Because plans never work out... I don't want to mollycuddle too much and I honestly don't believe in the 24/7 skin contact... but each to their own We will have the cot/crib in the bedroom with us next to my side of the bed so I can easily stick a hand out and either rock the cot or pick Bean up to BF - hopefully without getting up! (I can dream!). Neither of us want Bean in our bed as we both move lots during the night and I'd be worried about accidental smothering!
We've also talked about dream feeding - where you wake baby up at say 10/11 at night to feed and then put back down again... the theory is that this helps baby sleep through the night with a full tummy and clean bum

I didn't get up to get babes out of moses basket - jsut lifted them in and out from bed - and fed on my side - none of this sitting up lark :-)

re dream feeding: I did this naturally from the very beginning from number 1 child - my view being that if they had a feed when I went to bed I stood more of a chance of getting a few hours sleep straight off. However, I didn't wake them to feed them - they can quite happily b/f whilst managing to be asleep of sorts. Nappies can be changed whilst sleeping too

Sami_Bee

Tine i used to dream feed Chris but he was at least 3 mths when it was needed.
I always take it with a pinch of salt when people say "my baby sleeps through at 3 wks" or similar, maybe some do but they are a few very lucky parents that get those ones!

SeptemberBaby_2

Triggles wrote: »

more baby patience? what makes you say that?

Meaning I couldn't have lasted 6m without establishing a routine .

xx

Sami_Bee

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Meaning I couldn't have lasted 6m without establishing a routine .

xx

You'll need it with them being close together me thinks