Wow, I don't post for a day and there's 6 new pages!
Polaris - Great progress! I definitely found an earlier bedtime worked with Seren, and the self settling is fabulous!
Boo - I hope the early mornings don't continue for you too! 7:20am is amazing! I'm afraid 6:30am is the best we can hope for here! I don't get Seren until 6:30am at the earliest.
Seren is bit too determined to get about, I'd rather she stayed still for a bit longer, but it is not going to happen! Feel free to name steal!
Definitely sounds like teething for poo jack. Just keep applying the cream at each nappy change, that should be enough to keep the worst of the rash away. We've joined the MOTN pooping episodes too!
VikkiD - Great news that the no dummy is going ok.
Noelle - Thanks, I've found she is naturally staying awake a little longer before her morning naps, I think we are heading for 3 hours awake time eventually. Poor Charlotte! I hope the pain settles down, at least to the point when advil will help! Have you also tried alternating panadol with advil? I found that alternating them gives better pain relief (it was a tip given to me by a pharmacist for myself, but I found it works just as well on Seren).
Shadowy - I bet Sofia will just take off crawling any day now! Then we'll both need eyes in the back of our heads! That is definitely still a good night (I hope your toe is ok!).
Sorry about the MOTN party! Is she really trying to crawl? It'll be developmental again, and does sound like you are approaching WW37 (damn that means we are not far behind!)
Arrgh just go to last night, that's awful! I hope it was just a one off, but it has to be WW stuff!
Bananaz - Seren sounds just like Elsie, even 5 minutes too early results in a 30 minute nap. Sounds like Elsie is really getting to grips with good sleep, which is just fabulous news, I hope you got some decent rest too!
I agree with moving her awake time before the first nap up a little bit, so she's splitting the awake time between morning and afternoon, if she won't take a catnap.
Pachamama - I'm afraid I'm going to say it's time to ditch the dummy. If he's waking 4-5 times a night just to have it put back in, it sounds like he's become a little dependant on it. It'll be a tough few days to get him to sleep another way, but then I think it'll benefit you both.
Mellyboo - Jordyn is doing so well! I'm glad she's finally getting some restful periods of sleep!
I think if you are ready to do some form of night weaning (or at least starting to lengthen feeds) then perhaps you should set a time limit (so no feeds unless she has gone 4 hours without a feed) and do whatever else you can to get her back to sleep (or not, as the case may be) until you hit the four hour mark? Then she should gradually stop waking for it so early. Also she should eventually move her feeds to the day time. It's slow progress but worth it in the end.
Pinkgirl - I think as long as he is in his cot and happy, leave him to it. Seren will often go back to sleep for 30-40 minutes or so if she's left to crash around the cot for a while. It keeps me awake, but at least I'm not up yet!
Gaiagirl - Sleep regression went on for a while here too! Sorry
Notnic - Definitely sounds like teething. Poor LO, I hope he feels better soon.
Larkspur - Sounds like you were having great progress. It'll be tough getting him to go down for naps completely awake, but you'll get there. Seren used to before WW19, and since then, I've not made much effort to get back there. She generally STTN (depending on teething/WW/milestones etc) so I quite like the sleepy cuddles. As long as he self settles at night, I don't think you need to worry too much.
Izzles - Persevere with the resettling at 4am, it'll take quite a few days to break the 5am habit, and babies usually regress a little before accepting the new wake up.
We've had some short wakings here - and last nigh I figured out why - she is sitting up and crawling in her cot - totally asleep! Then she hits her head on the bars on the way back to lying down, and wakes herself up a bit before settling.
Although we are also having poops in the night! Last two mornings her nappy has been dirty when I got her up. So no idea when she did it, but I tihnk it's because she's semi awake during the night because of the crawling!
We got definite crawls forward today... towards my iPad! Who knew that would be such a big incentive! Time to finish baby proofing!
5am get up start the day here we come!
That sounds like an awful night, you must be exhausted. I think MOTN parties where they just want to play are actually the worst. So frustrating, just like "why won't you just sleep goddammit!!"
