MSE Parents Club Part 13

3onitsway

Yey! 90 minutes later she's awake!

SAMI I 'm starting to worry about you. Are you nocturnal?

BeenieCat

Did she go back ok? I think i am nocturnal too! Gonna have to stop this cos i'm sick of feeling pap til lunch!
Amber keeps having a lil cry in her sleep

Sami_Bee

LOL not nocturnal just foofed up body clock!

SugarSpun

:rotfl: Sami @ Elvis. There was a baby born the same night as Molly who looked a lot like that, a Turkish baby with a comedy mullet.

Michelle, don't worry too much about it. For a while Molly would only sleep on a soft pillow, on her back, with her head to the side and tilted so far back it looked like her neck was broken but moving her just made her miserable so I simply kept an eye on her.

Speaking of the little beastie, she's currently sleeping horizontal in the bed and I can't get back in :mad: :rotfl:

Glad it went well MFD. Can you import your assistant as well?

Oh, and MB's mother has complained on the Stokke page that at 5pm she was in first place. Imagine the gall!

BrunoM

Sigh yawn bleagh. We have an established and really bad bedtime pattern here getting very keen to find a way to change it without drama.

Bedtime milk in lap followed by being carried to bed (saying 'goodnight xxx' to everything... 'goodnight TV... goodnight floor... goodnight moth....' etc) and laid down and covered.
This is followed by between 5 and 8 re-visits, where he gets up, clings to side of cot and starts wailing "DADDEN COMING PLEAAAAAZ" or occasionally Mama. If I don't go to him at this point the wailing escalates and becomes proper sobbing. If I try to hold off (been a while since I've done this) he does not crack under the pressure, just keeps standing at side of cot and wailing pretty much indefinitely.
If I go back in, he lifts his arms for cuddles, and if I drape him over my shoulder will snuggle for a short while then be willing to lie back down again. However he requires this half a dozen times over at least half an hour, every bedtime.

So basically from 9-9.45 every night, we tiptoe around and every few minutes I interrupt what I am doing to go cuddle him for 30 secs. On these visits I have tried to just lie him back down again, but he fights it violently and if I get him down he is full of rage and leaps back up again immediately. He is big enough nowadays that this is a real grappling match when he is trying as hard as he can to stop you.

My FIL comes to stay for a while in 6 weeks and a better process by then (not to mention, before baby is born...) would be really good!

SugarSpun

Bruno, what would happen if you didn't go in?

Edit: I mean at all, will he cry himself out?

BrunoM

Been a while since I've tried... when I did, he did eventually but what with words and speech and so on, it was an hour of pleading and begging and heartfelt hysterical sobbing and it was very hard to bear and it would be quite a shift in approach from current which he is I think old enough to be shocked by. Also he is currently able to get out of his cot although he never does at night. If he goes through hysterics like before again, I would fear him getting out or turning it over.

However although I am a wuss some sort of shift in approach may be required maybe I can try the sitting in the room or singing through the door stuff... or blah (the only time the current routine is not the case is when he has had no nap in which case he usually passes out, but he is happier with a nap still and OH is definitely happier with a little break in the day...)

We have a toddler bed for him now and maybe I should assemble it at the weekend and then combine bed change with routine change. Hmm.

SugarSpun

What if you went in but didn't pick him up maybe? Or just sit in the room?

I don't know, Molly's a bit of a night-time shouter/screamer but I put her down, give her the binkie and a kiss, tell her I love her and close the door. She normally goes to sleep after about 10-15 minutes of shrieking.

(I never usually join in the sleeping discussions because I'm unusually mean about things )

hammyhunter

Monkey Forest - Realistically, I have to accept that we can't go. It will be 3 hours travelling each way which I think is too long at the moment But a big thank you for all the offers of a lift

MFD Yay for a good meeting and for cute winning Benjamin

3 - Yay for cute winning V - dare I ask how the rest of your night went?

NMS - will you let me know how Liam gets on with goats milk? David has a severe dairy allergy which brings out his eczema badly so I would be interested in looking at this further if Liam's eczema improves

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Can anybody help me with BFing biting advice please? H has nipped before, but the last two nights he has been properly biting me repeatedly, to the point where I am nearly in tears. Could it be another tooth coming through? Someone tell me it's just a phase as I don't want to stop BFing yet . I wondered if he might be frustrating if my supply has dropped off a bit since going back to work, and being away from him at the weekend too, but when I squeeze my boob a good trail of milk comes out, so I'm not sure.

D does this everytime we get a new tooth. It only last for 1 day then goes back to normal. I haven't been away from D so it's not that for us. I know what you mean about the pain - I have been close to tears a few times lately . It only lasts for a day at a time here though *hugs*

hammyhunter

Bruno - no advice here sorry just hugs.