MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

turtlemoose

Nap was ok - I think he might be unwell as he was really screaming, so i gave him some calpol (I don't give it very often) and he quietened down and fell asleep standing up leaning against my shoulder! I managed to get him laying on my bed where he slept for an hour...but he woke up screaming which isnt like him but the rest of this afternoon he has been perks and playfuul so maybe whatever was bothering him has passed.

The landlord has british gas emergency cover and having a baby makes us a priority in a busy weekend, yay! An engineer came out and fixed it so we are toasty warm again

I have had a busy afternoon.....sorting reuben's room out. His cot is now in there so he's off on his own tonight, eek! Im excited to have my bedroom back!

*Nutella*

I have a question about night sleep and self-settling for babies with dummies... We stopped night feeds a while back, and she doesn't demand milk at night, but she does 'wake up' 3-5 times a night crying. She goes to sleep on her back or on her side, but when she 'wakes up' she's always on her tummy and her dummy's anywhere but in her mouth. Most of the time she's exactly where I left her, but sometimes she's at the other end of the cot. I'm calling it 'waking up' because she's not really awake - her eyes are still closed. I get up, put her back where she's supposed to be, put the dummy in her mouth, sometimes give her a sip of water and that's it. Back asleep straight away. It's making me tired though, as I never get more than a couple of hours of continued sleep.

Has anyone else experienced this, and if so did you find a solution? I usually wait for a minute before going in, in the hope that she'll go back to sleep by herself, but this has only happened a couple of times. And without the dummy it's unlikely to happen, and I wouldn't expect her to find it by herself given that a) it's dark and b) it could be anywhere, including on the floor....

Dizzi, how did you teach Erin to use her bunny to find herself a dummy?

Gillyx

I'd be inclined to bung 3 or 4 in the cot when you go to bed Nutella, she"l find one, A always has. If there are loads to choose from

Either that or maybe get rid of the dummy? Although thats probably a last resort

toniq

My Jessica is 1 today!!!!!!!

toniq

Sunshine thinking of you, hope you are home soon xxxxxxxx

Bamama

Happy birthday Jessica! What a cutie.

Nutella, could you use one of those dummy clips? My nieces had theirs stuck on their clothes.

missbunbury

Happy birthday to Jessica, and I hope Aidan is feeling better.

Very quiet day for us today, it's sleeting here so no big expeditions, I haven't even got dressed properly, just put on clean pyjamas! Have had a lovely surprise though, my wonderful husband has bought me a new Android tablet! I had no idea he'd been plotting this, I asked what I had done to deserve such a brilliant surprise and he said it's a late birthday present cos we forgot about my birthday in June with all the pregnancy excitement. He's so lovely!

dizziblonde

We just put a couple of free range dummies in the cot, plus the rabbit - and had a couple of rough weeks where she'd pull on the rabbit's ears and yank the dummy out and then it suddenly clicked as she figured it out herself - you can put up to 4 dummies on it, we're now down to 2 dummies (mainly as the more dummies, the more it hurts when she whacks me on the head with it when she's having a morning cuddle in our bed) as she got better at finding it herself.

But as for waking up - she regularly wakes up, chunters on a bit or we get one cry out and then she zonks back to sleep, and then we go in in the morning and find she's done a 180 degree spin and is lying upside down in the cot very very proudly with a huge grin on her face. I tend to listen if she wakes up - her cries if she actually wants something are very different from her "just woken up... what the... zzzz again" quick "waaah" and I know if I go in for one of those, she'll get more wound up by seeing me and be a nightmare to settle rather than her resettling herself immediately like she does if she's left for a minute or so. 4am we quite often get a sing-song drifting through the baby monitor for 10 minutes or so but there's no distress there and it's actually really cute to listen to before she zonks out again.

*Ro*

toniq wrote: »

My Jessica is 1 today!!!!!!!

How cute !! Happy birthday Jessica xxxxx

*Ro*

Got to read back properly had Scott's party today which was lovely, he also got a ride on a sledge with a relative

Sunshine - thinking of you and Aiden, hope he improves soon xx