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

fluffnutter

BTW, 'sleeping through the night' usually means an unbroken stretch of five hours, say midnight to five am. Not necessarily everyone's idea of 'sleeping through'...

fluffnutter

katiechoc wrote: »

.. wakes up once or twice needing us to pop in and give him his rabbit.

I hate to be the one to say this, katie, but your son is MUCH too young for vibrators :rotfl:

katiechoc_2

fluffnutter wrote: »

I hate to be the one to say this, katie, but your son is MUCH too young for vibrators :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

moneypenny21

Thanks for all the cradle cap advice

As for sleeping through cake, crikey, the solid/weaning police have told me that she should be sleeping through now and breast milk isn't enough to keep her going. At the moment, she goes down around 11 and has two feeds through the night, usually around 3.30 then 6.30 then wakes at 8ish for a feed. Because she is now going back to sleep after a feed straight away (instead of the usual hour of faffing we had in the first few weeks!) I can cope with being woken twice for less than 20 minutes, or indeed even up to an hour if necessary. However, for some reason a third waking between 12 and 7 just kills me, can only get up twice happily, not three times! I'm certain some babies sleep through because thats the kind of baby they are and some don't sleep at all because thats the kind of baby they are ! She has done better having a formula bottle before bed, we haven't got any in tonight so its back to the boob, will probably have a bad night ahead. PS - I don't know how you get up so often fluff, I know I've said it before but I think your a saint!

moneypenny21

marta - no advice for you about breaking habits, I don't know how to break the dummy habit now. If I don't do it in the next couple of weeks, I'll have to wait until she is much older to understand not to have it. Anyone taken the dummy away at 12 weeks? She is reliant upon it for random cries and minor hysterics rather than sleeping, we don't really give it her for sleeping.

BadlyWrittenPoem

Gillyx wrote: »

P.s We used to co-sleep in the early days, I didn't mention it to parents or grandparents as I knew it would be frowned upon but as long as it's done safely there is no reason why it's 'bad' sometimes you just need a bit of sleep x

I agree. I was just reading earlier today that half of parents have co-slept at some point and a quarter have done so regularly. The thing is that co-sleeping covers a huge range of things and the media doesn't report on it very accurately. So sofa co-sleeping (which people end up doing by accident because they think taking the baby in their bed is unsafe) is particularly dangerous as is bed sharing if you have drunk two or more units of alcohol, are a smoker or have taken drugs.

BadlyWrittenPoem

Re sleeping through/night feeds: DD1 slept through from late evening feed to us waking her at seven from about nine weeks and we stopped waking her for the late feed at 13 months. This one *has* slept through (and actually first did so sooner) but typically wakes 1-3 times a night at 7 1\2 months and I just feed her when she wakes up because it's the easiest thing to do.

Naps, LO has up to fifteen minutes after the 9am feed (that's how long she sleeps for if she does at all) and then after lunch she sleeps for two hours max. She usually wakes sooner anyway but if not I wake her as otherwise she won't sleep at night - she has less sleep than the five year old. In contrast at the same age DD1 was having around 45 minutes at 9am and 2 1\2 hrs after lunch *and* she was sleeping longer overnight due to sleeping through.

moneypenny21

Oh and a quick Q - what do you use long sleeve vests for with girls? We have a pack and I'm not sure what to do with them. Do they go under sleepsuits or with leggings/skirts or just for under dresses? Feel a bit silly asking!

Gillyx

I use long sleeved vests every day, either under tops/tshirts and with trousers/leggings, he also wears them under his pyjamas. He always wears a vest though

I have a boy though

BadlyWrittenPoem

fluffnutter wrote: »

BTW, 'sleeping through the night' usually means an unbroken stretch of five hours, say midnight to five am. Not necessarily everyone's idea of 'sleeping through'...

I've never understood the official definitions of sleeping through - to me it means sleeping overnight such that they are sleep during our overnight sleep. Although by that definition I despair of LO ever sleeping through - I'm sure she'll be needing less sleep than I do the rate she's going.