MSE Parents Club Part 4

Sami_Bee

Morning!!! I'm currently sat in bed with Edgar asleep on my lap and Chris on daddy's side of the bed, they look beautiful if I do say so myself
anyhoo I'm in such a good mood because Edgar slept from 11:30 until 6am :T he must have known mummy was starting to feel the lack of sleep!
Must pop Ed back now so I can have another hour before Chris demands the tv on xx

Becles

All of mine have been in their own room since birth but we did do it with Charlotte in the room on holiday

BrunoM

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Morning!!! I'm currently sat in bed with Edgar asleep on my lap and Chris on daddy's side of the bed, they look beautiful if I do say so myself
anyhoo I'm in such a good mood because Edgar slept from 11:30 until 6am :T he must have known mummy was starting to feel the lack of sleep!
Must pop Ed back now so I can have another hour before Chris demands the tv on xx

Morning (I want a yawn smiley). Well done on a solid 7.5 hours!
Elijah spent all evening making noises and single wails every ten or fifteen minutes in his unsettled sleep; then he woke up with full on crying at 1.30, I soothed him back down; woke at 3.15, OH fed him then put him back in bed; then from 4.15am he started "minor crying", not real sobs, just ongoing complaining.
Gave him half an hour to drift off, eventually got up and soothed him, he started crying again as soon as I stepped out of the room so I tried to remember that controlled crying had seemed to work, gave him ten minutes timed, went back in and briskly straightened him and got him under the covers and patted him good night and went out again. More loud crying tapering off, but he never fully settled again. I lay there awake/dozing for 90 minutes, jerking awake every time he howled... end result 4.5 hours sleep (and today's a big day at work).

I would be near the end of my tether, except that I'm obliged not to be because OH is solidly past the end of hers. When he started crying at 4.15 she got up, stormed in to his bedroom and shouted shut up at him, then came back to bed swearing and demanding I ignore him because he was being ungrateful.
She does get a bit irrational in the middle of the night, but argh. We'd be coping (as we did) at 3 or 4 months, but he's nearly a year now, has proved he's perfectly capable of sleeping through some nights, doesn't seem to be teething yesterday or this morning, has had a cold but last night he was least snotty for days... there just didn't seem to be a reason!

So rant over, thanks ;p must go to work to cause Machievellian drama.

elle_gee

Someone remind me to go to bed earlier tonight! We seem to have settled into a pattern of OH coming home after work and having a nap, me staying up all evening because I'm a night owl, OH still being awake with Rhys when I go to sleep then OH not wanting to wake me (???) during the night so he does the night feeds, thus him also ending up tired. Think I need to go to sleep earlier so I'm more able to get up in the middle of the night.. plus OH needs to put Rhys in the same room as me so I at least hear him - no blooming use him being in the den with OH!

This morning, I've been up since half five. Was intending to go back to sleep after feeding Rhys, but then managed to occupy my time with expressing, drinking tea, eating biscuits, washing up, hanging out washing, and tidying the kitchen, so any thoughts of sleep seem pointless! Builders will be here in an hour..

I'm not even moaning cos I'm sleep deprived, just because I can't seem to organise my sleep properly and it's not fair on OH so I'm feeling guilty really..

Going to a yummy mummy friend's house for 11am to see her and her 20wk old baby girl, then have a non-mummy friend coming over to see us at 3pm.

Off to make another cuppa... *looks for a yawn smilie to share with Bruno*

astonsmummy

feelinggood wrote: »

I remember going for a shower about an hour after the birth. I had to leave DS in the room, which I didn't like because I though someone would come through the window and steal him.

As I was walking down the corridor I heard a baby crying. I got upset because I didn't know if it was my baby. I felt so guilty that I didn't know his cry.

I doubt many mums would know their babys cry after an hour!
Couldnt you of took him with you?
In the ward I was in they had wet rooms, we werent allowed to leave our babys at all (well obviously unless someone else was there lol)
Saying that about cries, I knew exactly that the 2 screaming banchees next to and opposite me on the second night were not my baby :eek: :rotfl:

SusanC_2

Becles wrote: »

Charlotte really hates having her hair washed. She screams her head off in the bath and you'd think I was torturing her with the noise she makes. She also hates having her hair towel dried and her arms and legs are thrashing about trying to get rid of me with the towel. I've now perfected the art of wrapping her in a big towel like a straightjacket and perching on the loo seat with her jammed between my thighs, so I can get her hair towel dried and keep her limbs still. She still screams her head off though

Alice went through a phase earlier this year of gong absolutely beserk if we tried to give her a bath or shower. We ended up just doing flannel washes for ages and eventually I managed to wean her back on to baths/showers but she still gets upset when we wet her hair. OH has just discovered that if he gets her to close her eyes and put her fingers in her ears then she is okay so it must be the water in her eyes and ears that she doesn't like.

MadDogWoman wrote: »

She also discovered how to open the fridge last week so when she is constantly asking to be let into the kitchen so that she can have her olives!

I have to watch Alice as she loves olives too. We only like them if they're in something cooked but Alice will eat as many as we'll give her.

OH is just going to work and Alice ran to give him another goodbye cuddle and said, "We need you Daddy." :smileyhea

r.mac_2

morning - Bruno look away now....

....my LO slept from 8pm to 7am this morning!!! Yippeee

However, she cried in her sleep for about 30secs on 3 occassions. She is much better today for the sleep - and went down for her morning nap early without too much of a fight But I really feel she's in pain with these teeth. Going to baby clinic and so will mention it to the HV.

LO moved out of our room at about 12wks - she outgrew her basket and we couldn't fit the cot into our room without major reorganisation.

edit: I LOVE olives. I can't wait until LO can share my addiction - DH hates them!

r.mac_2

SusanC wrote: »

OH is just going to work and Alice ran to give him another goodbye cuddle and said, "We need you Daddy." :smileyhea

how cute is that?!!!! :T:T

feelinggood_2

astonsmummy wrote: »

I doubt many mums would know their babys cry after an hour!
Couldnt you of took him with you?
In the ward I was in they had wet rooms, we werent allowed to leave our babys at all (well obviously unless someone else was there lol)
Saying that about cries, I knew exactly that the 2 screaming banchees next to and opposite me on the second night were not my baby :eek: :rotfl:

I asked if I could take him with me, but they wouldn't let me. They also didn't want OH to go with me, but I explained to the little petite midwife that I'd just had an epidural, and there was no way she was going to catch me if I fell.

How much of the first week do you guys remember? I know my Mum was here for four days, but I don't remember much else.

I don't really have much recollection of things till 6 weeks.

feelinggood_2

The plan is for Toby to stay in the bed until he outgrows his sidecar crib, then I'll rethink things. It is up till 6+ months, but he is pretty enormous. I think I might see what OH things of a 'family bed' like my Mums friend had - get another single mattress and put that and the double on the floor, then Toby can stay with us until he decides to have his own bed/room. Then if/when we have a new baby, it can go straight into a big comfy bed with us. I hope I'll be breastfeeding past a year, so I want to be 'on-call' for him, and able to easily feed him whenever he needs me.