Only freedom will do

edinburgher

there'll probably be something else out by the time we get round to it

No doubt Goldie. In the intervening period since we bought our current TV, we have missed HD and 3D

Fish tank emptied, fish taken to spend a week with Grandma and Grandpa while we have our electrics redone. Unfortunately I managed to get to Screwfix 20 minutes after it closed, so I'll be going again tomorrow (directly at rush hour!) :eek:

Got quite a few wee jobs done today, think Mrs E is glad the place looks a bit more normal.

edinburgher

Bah - DD needs to learn to sleep - worried that noise from party wall is disturbing her (soundproof it?)

Got to Scr3wfix ok, although motorway was horrible and flooded at several points.

Added new mobile phone and case for Mrs E to spending splurge, Am@azon had my phone (2nd gen Moto G) for less than £90 and she has been complaining about her current phone for about 6 months

£100 paid into L3nding Crowd (well, Mrs E's LC, made a mistake with the accounts!) New P2P total is £14938.37 @ 10.45% after fees and tax.

Starting to revise our plan for extending to moving upwards (single room with ensuite in loft). Does £40,000 sound like a reasonable estimate for this? Any ideas?

• Electrics tomorrow and Wednesday
• New TV by Wednesday
• Rebuild aquarium on Friday?
• New oven on Saturday
• Christmas tree on Saturday?
• Solar panels on Sunday?

greent

We had a loft conversion done 6 years ago - consists of a bedroom (ours) a landing/ dressing area (with built in wardrobes) and a huge bathroom. Cost £35K inc all the fittings (quite expensive bathroom fittings), decoration, carpets and some new bits of furniture, so £40K seems fine to me.


newgirly had one done more recently than me, so I suspect she can also provide some ideas as to cost - although her work cost may be SE weighted?


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edinburgher

Thanks Greent, we'd be looking at relatively small space, but high quality finish, so probably not a million miles away on price. Suspect that Glasgow prices are a bit cheaper for contractors, probably not massively cheaper...

Solar panels now definitely on Sunday :j

patanne

Have you tried playing a radio very quietly in her room? Then you turn it down a little each time you check on her. Probably totally against current advice, but it evens out the external noises & any bangs and clatters.

edinburgher

She has a baby monitor that plays a variety of lullabies and white noise (waves breaking, that sort of thing). Sometimes it seems to be very effective, sometimes it just seems like the background noise annoys her.

My concerns are probably tied up with my own dislike of background noise when trying to sleep, but there must be something waking her up 5? times a night. Teething is probably a big factor, perhaps separation anxiety as well?

lulabelle1

My babies often would wake up in the night, I would just check that they were Ok and leave them to have a cry and then they'd go back to sleep. I suppose babies, just like ourselves, wake in the night, but they have no other way of communicating than to cry a bit. Once they realise that you're not going to get up and sing to them, cuddle, watch TV, play music or whatever else people might do, then she'll learn to settle herself back off to sleep.

I know, I sound harsh, but so long as you're confident that she's OK, it's fine to let her cry...... it worked well with my babies - they slept from 7am until 7/8am the next morning without any feeds at night around around 4 months old and have continued ever since - they're now 11 and 6 (and they've never slept in my bed either).

Good luck!

edinburgher

I am sure that I have read that babies who are left to cry are more prone to developing anxiety in later life. This could be total codswallop, but as I am like the king of anxiety, I am anxious about the possibility!

patanne

I know she won't be too cold, but are you sure she isn't waking up because she's got too warm. As you say though it could well just be her new surrounding that she hasn't become accustomed too as yet.

I hope she isn't a screaming teether. There is nothing quite so gut-wrenching. I believe some babies just sob and whinge.

Karmacat

A lot of the people I work with have had that happen, Ed - it doesn't always, but it can be a problem (sorry Lulabelle, I do understand where you're coming from, and my sister did that too).

It's so tricky - you want to reassure them of your presence, but you also don't want to "train" them, so to speak, to spend half the night wakeful.

Think of it in evolutionary terms though - in these few short years before they go to school, they're summarising hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. And she's had 9 months in the womb when she could do what she wanted when she wanted, and she's going to take time to learn timing, so to speak ...

Ed, you were worried about the party wall? Do you notice any noise yourselves before the baby wakes up? Otherwise, I'd just remember all the mums who said, before she was born, ha, you'll never get a good night's sleep again, until she's 30 ... thats the majority experience, I think. Sorry!