MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 2

Bamama

Thank you very much ladies. I shall get looking!

fluffnutter

Shape sorters are about the best toy, IME.

Bamama

I love shape sorters too Fluff. I might look for something with a hammer, like those little "work benches". He already has a good hammer action

savageHK

IKEA bamama. We have that hammer + peg toy thing from there. They also do those wire-with-beads-on things where you can move the 'beads' around on the wires. I'm not explaining this well...!

delain

savageHK wrote: »

IKEA bamama. We have that hammer + peg toy thing from there. They also do those wire-with-beads-on things where you can move the 'beads' around on the wires. I'm not explaining this well...!

We've got one of those wire-with-beads-ons It's an IKEA one and cost 1.99 in a charity shop :rotfl: both my LO's did like it, though it's slightly battered now.

I actually have way way too many baby type toys here that never get touched that i need to figure out where to get rid of :o

The vtech walker someone said they've got is very good, I've got one that is now on it's 4th child and still going.

Little miss been lovely today, she has learnt to say 'spider' 'slug' and 'teeth' to go with last weeks 'sock' 'on' and 'off'. Still haven't found all the odd socks from the 'off' stage

Drama here at the moment, some of you know my older girls have some issues (one has ASD, one has ASD and ADHD) and the summer holidays are always a bit of a problem, because they need the structure and set routine from school. Also OH is away for a couple of weeks so that's a big change for them and it's all been completely crazy :eek::eek:

I did manage to book a mobile hairdresser for this week, she's going to do all 5 for £30 :money: A hairdresser in town quoted me £12 per child :eek: If she does a good job I might have her do something with mine... I've always wanted blue highlights :o but not old-lady blue! I have brown hair with a sort of reddish tint in the sun.

Sammie_03

sunshine_1988 wrote: »

Thanks hun 2nd September.

How are u and Noah? x

Oh not long then

We are fine thanks, Noah has an appointment with the consultant of the neuro disability ward at the hospital in September so have to wait and see what they say.

moneypenny21

Afternoon and happy bank holiday all. I haven't been around for ages but in desperate need of napping advice. We did controlled crying with little one to get her to nap in the day, worked brilliantly, after about 3 days she was down to whimpering for five minutes then asleep. Everyone was happy in the moneypenny land, mummy and baby were rested. Then she learned to stand up and sit up. Now when we try and put her down for a sleep, she just protests and sits up or stands up. Then babbles away for 20 minutes, then cries hysterically. No amount of lying her down works, she just sits back up. The only way to get her to nap is to drive her round or take her in the pram. Is this what most people do? Am I being unrealistic hoping she will just take a nap for half an hour? She sleeps 8-6 so I know she doesn't need much sleep in the day but she rubs her eyes like a crazy person and is really cranky until she has had a nap. Plus she is getting clingy. She is 8 months old.

Any suggestion please? We are completely out of ideas.

savageHK

I think it's just a phase moneypenny but we're not past it yet. We've always had a good sleeper really and he doesn't sit / stand for naps yet - partly as we never try 'put him down' for a nap, I wait till he's clearly tired, then feed him to sleep or gently rock him. Plus he haps in the middle of the floor so no bars to pull up on. He also goes out in the sling with the au pair and that is normally a given nap inducer; as is the bike seat on the bike.

moneypenny21

Thanks for the reply savage, I guess I thought using motion either via rocking, car etc. was "wrong" - we also only put her down to sleep in her cot when she is absolutely knackered, rubbing her eyes, seriously cranky, there is no point before then, but she can come back to life during the process by which point we are all on our knees from lying her back down over and over and over again.

fluffnutter

moneypenny21 wrote: »

Afternoon and happy bank holiday all. I haven't been around for ages but in desperate need of napping advice. We did controlled crying with little one to get her to nap in the day, worked brilliantly, after about 3 days she was down to whimpering for five minutes then asleep. Everyone was happy in the moneypenny land, mummy and baby were rested. Then she learned to stand up and sit up. Now when we try and put her down for a sleep, she just protests and sits up or stands up. Then babbles away for 20 minutes, then cries hysterically. No amount of lying her down works, she just sits back up. The only way to get her to nap is to drive her round or take her in the pram. Is this what most people do? Am I being unrealistic hoping she will just take a nap for half an hour? She sleeps 8-6 so I know she doesn't need much sleep in the day but she rubs her eyes like a crazy person and is really cranky until she has had a nap. Plus she is getting clingy. She is 8 months old.

Any suggestion please? We are completely out of ideas.

You are not alone. Cracking bedtime sleep is one thing, getting the naps sorted is even harder IMO. It wasn't until Freddie was about a year that he actually started napping predictably and routinely in his cot. Up until then I'd just take him out. He'd either nap in his pram or in the car.

That's the thing with CC - it does work, very well usually. But the results don't always last unfortunately. Babies go through many phases in the first few years and what works for a few months generally goes to rats once they get separation anxiety or they start teething in earnest, or they get poorly, or they're fully weaned, or they learn to sit/stand etc.

This is exactly what you're finding I'm afraid. Those 'habits' you thought you'd instilled in her by using CC weren't really habits at all - at 8 months she's too young to have developed any real and dependable habits, rather she's at the mercy of her on-going development. She's finding the world a far more interesting place now, plus she's starting to miss you when you're not around. Hence her napping has become chaotic.

On the negative side, I don't personally think there's much you can do. On the positive side, it won't last. Nothing does.