MSE Parents Club Part 15

ethelsmum

Thanks for the Sophie help - they look very cute and will have to get Evie one for xmas, can't have her the only baby without a Sophie lol.

tarajayne

Hi Caspie, I am lurking but busy evening. X

jillie1974

night everyone

Chat tomorrow, not sure if i;m going to work dependign on Kian more so as i seem better

tarajayne

Where did everyone go?

SusanC_2

caspie wrote: »

i was really worried that he should be sleeping through as loads of people in real life have done the "mine was sleeping through from 3 weeks... 4 weeks...10 minutes!(ok this one is an exaggeration) but i came to realise that people seem to fib about this(or maybe they have just forgotten)?

It also depends on what you define as "sleeping through" and what time you choose to do certain things. I counted Alice as sleeping through when she was going from her 10pm bottle to when we woke her at 7am. One of my friends put hers to bed at 8 and didn't wake him for a feed after that. Given that we gave Alice the 10pm bottle until 13 months, if we'd done what my friend did, she wouldn't have been "sleeping through" anywhere nearly as soon as she was as I'm sure she would have been waking in the middle of the night without that 10pm bottle.

caspie_2

:think:sleeping is such a scary subject i think i scared everyone away, sorry.
Also I'm terrified now i have spoken about sleeping that he will wake up at all hours tonight now just to remind me that he can...
Now that i have successfully broken the thread on my first night i shall run away and hide. "see" you all tommorow
x
Susan, we also give him a bottle when we got to bed, i sometimes think that i should try and leave him to see what happens but i dont think he would manage until morning and am a bit wary of trying, besides its no hardship to me, only takes a few minutes, its only a small bottle

SusanC_2

caspie wrote: »

:think:sleeping is such a scary subject i think i scared everyone away, sorry.
Also I'm terrified now i have spoken about sleeping that he will wake up at all hours tonight now just to remind me that he can...
Now that i have successfully broken the thread on my first night i shall run away and hide. "see" you all tommorow

I think it was me - I asked you about sleeping.

caspie wrote: »

Susan, we also give him a bottle when we got to bed, i sometimes think that i should try and leave him to see what happens but i dont think he would manage until morning and am a bit wary of trying, besides its no hardship to me, only takes a few minutes, its only a small bottle

As long as you're happy with what you're doing then it's fine.

got-it-spend-it

There is definitely a lot of exaggeration and some economical truth when it comes to tales of sleeping! I think the 'medical' definition of sleeping through is something ridiculous like 5 straight hours or similar.

To be honest Henry is one next week and he is nowhere near consistently sleeping through, and as far as I can tell there is no rhyme or reason to the when he does or doesn't. Nights this week he's been worse than when he was a newborn! Giving a late feed or dream feeding never made a positive difference for us, but if it does for you then I would run with it.

got-it-spend-it

While it's quiet on here can I share my not so momentous news that I think I have stopped breastfeeding :eek:. We were down to only an early morning feed, but for the past few mornings H has slept in so been ready for breakfast as soon as he woke up. It's been far less emotional and traumatic than I thought it would be, and as he is one next week I feel like I've done my bit .

SusanC_2

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

To be honest Henry is one next week and he is nowhere near consistently sleeping through, and as far as I can tell there is no rhyme or reason to the when he does or doesn't. Nights this week he's been worse than when he was a newborn! Giving a late feed or dream feeding never made a positive difference for us, but if it does for you then I would run with it.

I kept detailed records of everything to find a correlation between time of waking and other things but never found any.