MSE Parents Club Part 16

delain

brednall wrote: »

Afternoon to all

Just after some advice please if anyone has been through the same situation.

I have a 21 month old daughter who goes to bed around 8pm every night after her warm milk (still from a bottle but looking to break this soon and go for a cup instead) and a 16 week old son who is proving to be the total opposite to his sister.

He has his supper about 8pm then will sometimes snooze on his mat or just play then gets over tired until I give him a 'top-up' around 9.45. This can range from 2oz to another full 7oz bottle then he will usually go to sleep and I take him up to his cot except last night when it was 10.30 and he was still not asleep!!!!

My husband and I feel that we are having no time together because once my son is in bed, all I want to do is go to bed too so I can be up before my daughter the next day to eat my breakfast in peace (it's usually the only meal I get to eat alone!!)

Can anyone advise how we can change this routine or make it work better for us please?
EMma, Jessica & Daniel

Sorry I can't really help except to say that it'll sort itself out in the end, and before you know it Daniel will be going to bed earlier.

Do you need to be up before your DD? I have to say we all get up at the same time but then I don't have breakfast, and sometimes I've done the school run and got home before I realise I haven't brushed my hair either

Yay for walking Squeak

My Squeak has gone into a bed now (very low cotbed bed) and is eventually getting used to it. She wore her nice new winter coat for the first time today as it's got really cold all of a sudden.

Haven't had chance to read everything back, so I hope everyone is all OK

pigpen

brednall wrote: »

Afternoon to all

Just after some advice please if anyone has been through the same situation.

I have a 21 month old daughter who goes to bed around 8pm every night after her warm milk (still from a bottle but looking to break this soon and go for a cup instead) and a 16 week old son who is proving to be the total opposite to his sister.

He has his supper about 8pm then will sometimes snooze on his mat or just play then gets over tired until I give him a 'top-up' around 9.45. This can range from 2oz to another full 7oz bottle then he will usually go to sleep and I take him up to his cot except last night when it was 10.30 and he was still not asleep!!!!

My husband and I feel that we are having no time together because once my son is in bed, all I want to do is go to bed too so I can be up before my daughter the next day to eat my breakfast in peace (it's usually the only meal I get to eat alone!!)

Can anyone advise how we can change this routine or make it work better for us please?
EMma, Jessica & Daniel

Put him to bed instead of on his mat?.. if he dozes there he should maybe be in bed esp. if he is getting overtired.. you or dad can take it in turns to give him his topup at 9:45 in the bedroom and put him straight back in bed.

If you are getting up before DD... What time does DS get up? Is he not waking after his 10pm milk?

This couple time is one of the things which gets packed away with sex and social life once you have children lol

*BigBird*

Brednall, we started giving Joe his bath just before the time when he naturally settled for the night (so started off around 10pm), then once he'd got used to the routine of bath, bottle, bed we started making it a little bit earlier every few days, until we eventually got him going to bed at a reasonable time.

Our bottle brush broke last night and I'm not sure if it's worth replacing it. I think it's 12 months when you stop needing to sterilise the bottles, but would we still need to be washing bottles with a bottle brush after that? Or do they just need a good swill out in hot soapy water?

vroombroom

pigpen wrote: »

This couple time is one of the things which gets packed away with sex and social life once you have children lol

clearly never affected you

I am planning E's 1st birthday/christening:eek: I've got the church booked, food sorted and possibly the venue:cool:

wendz86

That sounds good Vroom, you are very organised.

I want to organise some kind of party/get together for Poppys 1st birthday as she won't be getting christened.

pigpen

vroombroom wrote: »

clearly never affected you

Timing is everything.

mirrorimage0

shhhh pigpen or the OH may figure that out too and then we would have no excuse lol

delain

It may be pregnancy related but the only things I'm keen to find time for at the moment are biscuits :rotfl::o which I must admit isn't like me but I feel like a big fat minger and it's offputting.

Can't believe how cold it is still, I'll have to put the heating on at this rate, and my heating never usually goes on (except when I've had tiny babies in the house) much before the end of November.

MERFE

delain mine neither but it has been on for the odd hour int he mornings to take the chill off and occassionally before I go to bed, actually think I'll take a hot water bottle to bed tonight to warm it up before I get in - its freezing.

Bigbird loads of people stop sterilising at 6 months, I keep going for as long as they have bottles but the older 2 switched to beakers not long after their first birthday. Asda sell reasonable priced bottle brushes about £1.50, I had to get one cos mine broke too.

Becles

I've got the heating on here but it's freezing where I live! I live on a hill and due to the geography of the land we get icy blasts of wind coming from off the North Sea. You can see for miles when you're on top of the hill where I walk the dogs though.

Bigbird - I never bothered sterlising bowls and spoons etc., as by weaning age, they were picking up toys and stuff and chewing them. If they were really lucky, one of the dogs would give them one of their manky rubber toys or a bone to chew - lovely!

I still washed bottles and teats thoroughly and sterlised them though. Milk bacteria can grow really quickly and cause illness. Having worked in a microbiology lab with dairy samples, I could have been erring on the side of paranoia though