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I've a 4 year old daughter and a 6 week old son, it's hard at times juggling a career and kids, but it's hands down the best decision I've ever made having little ones. Everything comes second to them now
 
Tunney said:
Our son went through that phase. Kept rolling over and then remembering that he didn't like being on his tummy. Constantly rolling him over got old quickly.

And then he decided that he did like being on his tummy and has slept that way ever since.
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Yep tell me about it. Last night she went down just before 8 and we thought we had the whole evening to chill. 30 mins later... Uuuugh, Uuuugh, uuuuuuugh, WAAAAAA! And that was us until 11. She often rolls over and gets a foot stuck in the bars of her cot too.

Gonna be giving her her first solid (well porridge) feed this weekend so wish me luck there. Any protips appreciated.
 
Devrij said:
Gonna be giving her her first solid (well porridge) feed this weekend so wish me luck there. Any protips appreciated.
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Have you watched "Dexter"?

Make the dining room look like one of his killing rooms, food gets EVERYWHERE with first feeds!
 
fatiain said:
Have you watched "Dexter"?

Make the dining room look like one of his killing rooms, food gets EVERYWHERE with first feeds!
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Ha, yeah she likes to gently touch new things, and then slap the **** out of them so I'm anticipating some flying food
 
I have 2 boys and a girl. Boys are 11, nearly 12 and 8 nearly 9. Girl is 2.
The eldest has just started high school and now gets 2 buses to school and leaves the house before I do in the morning. He's totally matured in like 3 weeks, it's crazy.
The middle son, well, he's supposed to be nearly 9 but he's going on 4 half the time, I swear.
2 nights ago, I go up to bed at about 11:30 and I can smell something awful... Go to the toilet and there is puke all over the tiled floor. Everywhere. I was like WTF?! Check he's OK, he's fast asleep. Then had the joy of scooping it up. *VOM* I gagged so hard.
My wife's away, so told her and she was like don't have a go at him, maybe he woke up and did it half asleep.
So I asked him in the morning. He was like, well, as I was going to bed (at 19:30 might I add) I was having a poo and didn't feel well, so was sick on the floor.
Er... and you didn't think to mention this to anyone? Just puke all over the floor, finish your poo and go, alright off to bed with me! Joys.
 
maun said:
Need some advice, if any possible! lol

My daughter is 21months tomorrow, she's always been an iffy sleeper tbh. But last few months we've been able to put her to bed round 7-7:30 at night. We put her in her cot when she's sleepy and just walk out. She then sleeps through till round 6-7am.

Now we are into week 3, and this lovely sleep pattern has gone haywire! She going down later now, round 7:30-8 (not a problem) but we can no longer leave her to drift off in cot, we have to stay by her side till she nods off otherwise she creates holy hell! And this sleeping through until the morning has gone as well. She now wakes 2:30-3am every morning and is taking easily at mos 3 hours to go back to sleep. We've tried things to get her back off, food/warm milk, letting her sleep in our bed and nothing seems to help her drift off fairly quick etc.

So im looking for advice, does anyone have anything we could try, as now the lack of sleep for both of us is really getting to us.
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I know this is quite an old post, I see you've already had some good advice, but if you're still having problems, this is what we did.

I found one of the most important things was letting everything in your house slow/quieten down, lights down, TV down, less movement, no toys, speak softly or not at all etc. At this age their brains are in super hyper I want to play, learn and discover mode, so you need to calm all of this down. When she is waking in the night this is exactly what she wants to do, her brain wants to wake up and carry on as before. I found that when taking her to bed, laying beside her, holding her hand and letting her stroke my hair helped a lot. I didn't speak or look at her, just did a few gentle 'ssshhh' sounds now and again. If she woke in the night I'd do the same again, not talking, no eye contact, low lights, just lay down beside her and hold her hand or let her touch you, but that's it.

I'm not saying it'll work for you, but this is a good starting point and one which worked for us, and we finally solved it completely and amazingly, by buying her a Gro Bag :)
 
Devrij said:
Gonna be giving her her first solid (well porridge) feed this weekend so wish me luck there. Any protips appreciated.
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My tip would be finger food, some soft buttery toasted soldiers she can suck and nibble on, or some slices of pear, or something similar that will dissolve nicely in the mouth. Touching, feeling and exploring food is all very interesting for them and they'll nearly always, just like toys, put it in their mouths.
 
Psi Jay said:
I know this is quite an old post, I see you've already had some good advice, but if you're still having problems, this is what we did.

I found one of the most important things was letting everything in your house slow/quieten down, lights down, TV down, less movement, no toys, speak softly or not at all etc. At this age their brains are in super hyper I want to play, learn and discover mode, so you need to calm all of this down. When she is waking in the night this is exactly what she wants to do, her brain wants to wake up and carry on as before. I found that when taking her to bed, laying beside her, holding her hand and letting her stroke my hair helped a lot. I didn't speak or look at her, just did a few gentle 'ssshhh' sounds now and again. If she woke in the night I'd do the same again, not talking, no eye contact, low lights, just lay down beside her and hold her hand or let her touch you, but that's it.

I'm not saying it'll work for you, but this is a good starting point and one which worked for us, and we finally solved it completely and amazingly, by buying her a Gro Bag :)
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Agree with all that.

Also try putting her to sleep earlier. And perhaps cut out or limit a nap in the day.

White noise machines can also help.

Re leaving the room, gradually get further and further away from the cot, to the point where you are outside with the door closed, but can still open it if she gets upset. Eventually you'll be able to walk off again. Worked for both my boys.
 
Slight necro here but, how long did your labours take?
Waters broke last night at around 6pm, got sent home told to wait for contractions. Called them again after seeing some green and heavy contractions and told to come back in... Everything seems fine now, Just waiting around! Been here since 12.30
So how long did yours take from waters to baby?
 
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My wifes waters didn't break, they had to be broken.

Her contractions started around 11pm, went to the hospital and by the time we arrived she was already 2cm dilated. By 8am she was 5cm so they broke her waters manually. After that things progressed pretty rapidly and 7 hours later I was holding my little baby girl.
 
My wife basically stayed at home until I forced her to go to the hospital as contractions were coming quicker and quicker.

Proper labour lasted a couple of hours, but she had been having contractions throughout the day, my son was born an hour after getting to the hospital.

Her waters didn't break, he was born in the amniotic sac which was weird as hell.
 
My ex started having contractions early Saturday morning, we called up and were told to wait until they were more frequent, which we did, when they were coming thick and fast went to the hospital, waited ages and got sent home.

Contractions continued all night, waters broke in the early hours of Sunday. Went back to the hospital and there we stayed all day.

Little boy finally arrived via emergency C-section at 22.23 on the Sunday evening!!
 
Waters broke very late with our first, an hour or so before he arrived. Reckon contractions started about 18 hours before he was born, though.

Bit quicker 2nd time - about 6/7 hours start to finish.

Good luck Skaif :)
 
Thanks for all feedback and kind words (cheesyboy)

Ok so had an examination and cervix was well behind babies head so has been brought forward (looked and sounded like the most horrific experience ever, God knows how women can do this) and we are 2 and a half hours from induction.

Either way we have been told to stay as we are to 'go home with baby'

I'm basically here all night. Not a great day to skip breakfast I'll tell you that much!
 
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