MSE Parents Club Part 4

My_Fathers_Daughter

Hiya Bruno

(I forgot you on my last post )


I can see what you are saying about making bedtime later but is it really worth it if all you get is an hours worth of grumpy baby IYSWIM.

Benjamin needs to go to bed about 7 or 7.30pm...we can try and keep him up later but he just grumbles which doesn't make for a happy time. I would love it if he stayed awake til 8pm (especially because I will be going back to work at some point) but we really need to follow his lead on this.

Just my two-penneth worth!!

BrunoM

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Hiya Bruno

(I forgot you on my last post )


I can see what you are saying about making bedtime later but is it really worth it if all you get is an hours worth of grumpy baby IYSWIM.

Benjamin needs to go to bed about 7 or 7.30pm...we can try and keep him up later but he just grumbles which doesn't make for a happy time. I would love it if he stayed awake til 8pm (especially because I will be going back to work at some point) but we really need to follow his lead on this.

Just my two-penneth worth!!

Thanks MFD

I totally agree; making bedtime later would suck, we are just trying to find a way to persuade him to sleep in after 4.30am

We'll see what changes with time, hopefully he'll be walking soon and exhausting himself a bit more fully!

redmel1621

Buttons - glad you got yourself out the house, it really does make all the difference and helps you to clear your head and gather your thoughts:)

MFD - Glad your feeling better today. Is Benjamin better now? Our boys are always down stairs dot on 7am! They often wake up earlier than this, but clock-watch until 7am which is when they are allowed out of their beds. I would love to regularly get a lie-in, it just doesn't happen here:(

Bruno - I have always found that once my boys were tired they had to go to bed...I couldn't put up with the tired whining from them. Typically they are ALWAYS up by 7am even when we have let them stay up till midnight:eek:
However, if you think it would help, then the best way to go about is to do it gradually, so just put him bed 10/15mins later, for a whole week then the following week move it back another 10/15, until you reach a time you are happy with.Doing it that way his body will (hopefully) adjust and he wouldn't be too grumpy:) Once he is sleeping in later in the mornings you can always try to reverse this then by moving bedtime forward bit by bit. Hope you find a resolution:)


Kai has been really sleepy today, he usually just cat naps but this afternoon he slept for nearly 3hrs! That along with the amount of grub he has been scoffing MUST be a growth spurt (I have noticed his clothes looking a bit tighter/shorter)

Mel x

Sami_Bee

Random thought from me (us usual) I've jus decided if things ever go wrong with hubby James Martin would be a fab hubby he's handsome, can dance, northern and cooks yummy food

money_maker_3

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Random thought from me (us usual) I've jus decided if things ever go wrong with hubby James Martin would be a fab hubby he's handsome, can dance, northern and cooks yummy food

I always said Will Smith would be for me, good looking, funny, sensitive, can sing, and rumered to be very well endowed :D

ladybirdintheuk

Izzy has finally gone down for a nap... at 4:45 pm. First sleep all day. We were in a nice routine with 2 45 mins (at least) naps a day, but it seems to have gone out of the window for the last week or so. I think it is maybe because she is trying to learn how to crawl, and is so determined she is fighting sleep? Anyone else have this? I know sometimes they get too excited to sleep when they have just learnt something new, but i'd not heard of it while they are trying to get there.

She will fall asleep on me while she is drinking her milk, but the second I put her down she is wide awake again and wanting to play. (I've tried just leaving her in her cot, but she plays on her own for a while, then starts crying ... I've not left her crying for long enough to see if she falls asleep eventually. Not really comfortable with doing that.)

I tried to giver her tea and she was too tired to eat, so we gave up, bit of milk and she was straight out like a light. Tried to burp her and was bouncing, patting etc with her fast asleep on my lap - she wasn't even noticing when I turned herupside down (it was a very stubborn burp!) I gave up in the end and put her down. She cried for a split second then fell asleep mid cry. I wonder how long she will sleep for!

Best get on with cleaning the bathroom anyway. Could my life get any more glamerous

newmoneysaver_2

Thought I might as well pop over here as I seem to have graduated from the pregnancy thread. Liam is 9 days old today!

Anyway, here is the little man:

My_Fathers_Daughter

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Random thought from me (us usual) I've jus decided if things ever go wrong with hubby James Martin would be a fab hubby he's handsome, can dance, northern and cooks yummy food

Nah - he is bl00dy annoying, talks too loudly, far too yorkshire to be sexy and he uses too much butter in everything.



Alan Davies for me - cute and funny I keep telling hubby that he is my 'one' that I couldn't say no to (everyone has one)...

Dribblekitten

My friend went to great lengths to describe her 'celebrity boyfriend' once - I think her rule was that they needed to be slightly attainable, so she went for Craig Doyle. Couldn't see it myself.

What a lovely baby Liam is!

Talking of AF's (which someone was) I'm on my 2nd since giving birth 5 months ago and it's v heavy (much more so that before) and I feel much greasier/sweatier than before. Hope this isn't the future.

Buttonmoons

As usual he won't listen, he's now half asleep on the sofa after telling me, I must have my periods, he's ignored Keira as all he wants to do is sleep, and told me that he does most of the cleaning. What a joke. He wouldn't know what the hoover was if it slapped him in his big fat stupid head.

I'm boiling with rage. Best thing for him to do is clear off, but he never would. Might just smash his PS3 up. Tired of it all, tired of him making out like he does everything aswell, the only thing he lifts is his ps3 controller.