MSE Parents Club Part 5

Sami_Bee

caz announcing Charlie's arrival and then erin the bump

chopsticks

skintchick wrote: »

Ooh, more questions! sorry

When do they start sleeping longer at night? Is there a point at which this tends to happenn?

Also, bedtimes, we tend to have her up with us until about 9.30pm when she goes to sleep naturally. This suits us sso I've not tried to put her down earlier. Is that OK? Everyonee seems to be talking about 7pm bedtimes but we don't do that.

I think our turning point was about the 6-7 weeks mark Skinty. I read your other thread and I so could have written that in the early days with Caitlin. I didn't reply as I didn't feel like I'd properly made it through to the other "side" and other people were giving such good advice.

I know you're co-sleeping, but the thing that did it for us was putting Caitlin into her cot. I never planned to co-sleep but I did expect her to be in her moses basket in our room for a good while. However, she hated her basket and the first night we put her in her own cot (watching the video monitor very closely ) she slept for 9 hours straight! Since then, she has settled into a routine and tends to wake up once around 3-3:30ish before being up for the day somewhere between 6am and 7am (unfortunately, it tends to be nearer 6 than 7 :rolleyes:).

We do have a night-time routine. Up until she was about 3 weeks old, we didn't and we'd just put her in her sleepsuit whenever she went to bed (usually around 10:30pm). However, as she was such an unsettled baby, we thought we'd try a routine. We did bath at 6pm, bottle (of expressed milk, so OH can give it) then bed. To give OH a bit more time with her when he gets home from work, we moved the bath to 6:30pm and she's now usually in bed by around 7:15pm. She doesn't always settle immediately, but once she's asleep, she does go for a few hours. Tonight, she fell asleep about 8pm and we haven't heard a peep out of her (yet ).

tiamai_d wrote: »

I feel no guilt whatsoever about giving Amber her bottle of formula at night. Partly because it gets me some sleep and partly because I am very proud of myself for breast feeding the rest of the time for over 3 weeks and through 2 bouts of mastitis even in the first week when I knew I could have gotten her out of special care by switching to formula. My best was 2 weeks with DS1 and DS2. :D:D

I agree with Tia. Although Caitlin wasn't in SCBU, I had mastitis twice and it was bl00dy painful. Unfortunately, one of my boobs doesn't produce as much milk as the other side even though I have been expressing and eating oats to try and up the supply, so we give two bottles of formula a day. The first I give between 9am and 10am and the second is at night. We used to give it to her when we went to bed, but now she tends to sleep though that time so we give it to her whenever she wakes up for the first (and hopefully only ) time in the night. At the moment, this tends to be around 3-3:30am.

I did want to do 100% breastfeeding, but it hasn't worked out like that. I'm still pleased that I manage to do the rest of the day BF.

cazscoob wrote: »

hi chopsticks and chris!

Hi Caz. Hope you're OK. Hugs to Abi. How's the job going?

I am really tired so am going to head off to bed. DH is home and slightly worse for wear, so I imagine that I will be doing the night-time feed. Three day weekend and I thought "fab, he will be up three nights instead of the usual two". However, he was that tired she slept through the night feed last night (and he is normally a really light sleeper!) and I doubt he'll feel up to tonight's feed either. He will DEFINITELY be doing tomorrow's!!

I feel like I never get chance to properly chat with you all now. As soon as I catch up with all the posts, I then have to sign off. I think I might start doing what someone suggested earlier about just reading the last couple of pages to catch up and then I'll have more time to post.

elle_gee

Sami_Bee wrote: »

.. Someone with the same name as a famous swimmer that used to advertise ribena has added me as a friend on FB, their pic is a baby in a tummy tub - anyone know who it is?

Nope! Useful, aren't I?

emlou2009

Sami_Bee wrote: »

caz announcing Charlie's arrival and then erin the bump

and SB announcing poppys birth too!

Sami_Bee

elle_gee wrote: »

Nope! Useful, aren't I?

pffrrrt! I think they may have found me from here as I posted the link to my profile or maybe BB coz all the stuff that I can see on their page is baby product related

bit random but do you think the pic below (when cropped a bit will be ok for Edgar's passport?

the guilines are a bit ropey for infants :rolleyes:
http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/rde/xchg/ips_live/hs.xsl/36.htm

searching_me

wow sami hes got loads of hair ... jaydens barely got any x

angelfairy

sami - that is a gorgeous pic!!!!!

not sure abou tthe passport, but i have a similar situation as i had little girl's hair spiked up when i had hers taken. i am debating whether to go and get another se

MadDogWoman_2

I'm a naughty mummy tonight, a very late tea (7.15!) but she did eat loads during her varius visits this afternoon!

She is now snoring her head off at the other end of the sofa, cuddling her new bear.

There was a breakthrough tonight - DD has never been impressed by jigsaws, but tonight she insisted that I help her with some 2 piece jigsaws, she matched the pieces brilliantly, but struggled a put fixing them together but I think that was due it being on carpet more than anything.

MDW

Sami_Bee

the only advice for under 1's is

When photographing infants under the age of 12 months, we only require that the image shows a good likeness. The requirements on eyes open and mouth closed, for example, are waived. In practice, we have also waived the template check requirement for babies. As we still need a good likeness of the subject however, we have not mentioned this in our application pack guidance.

I can't get Ed's hair flat unless I took the pic with wet hair or gel :rotfl:

elle_gee

Sami_Bee wrote: »

.. bit random but do you think the pic below (when cropped a bit will be ok for Edgar's passport?

the guilines are a bit ropey for infants :rolleyes:
http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/rde/xchg/ips_live/hs.xsl/36.htm

Yeah, guidelines (for anyone who can't be bothered to look) say:

When photographing infants under the age of 12 months, we only require that the image shows a good likeness. The requirements on eyes open and mouth closed, for example, are waived. In practice, we have also waived the template check requirement for babies. As we still need a good likeness of the subject however, we have not mentioned this in our application pack guidance.

.. and that's a "good likeness" to Ed, so I'd send it in

ETA: Okay, you beat me!