Ruth_Baldock

Kids at home, I'd say. This may prove hard for me because Baby Baldock is practically surgically attatched at the moment, but DAMMIT, he can be attatched to his Dad for one night.

How about either Friday 3rd or the following Friday, the 10th? Never been to the mag- how do others feel about meeting there?

Exactly the same hapenned with us andmost of my re-using chums. I think everyone started using reusaes around 10-12 wkd when the minboggling pooping slows down somewhat. We haven't got round to it yet because Im very lazy. Whoops.

I'm taking a break from worrying about my sons eating habits and sleeping (or lack of...) to propose another forum meetup :) I ran into 'belle' and her little boy ( beautiful lad, by the way) at bumps n babes and she pointed out the last meetup was ages ago. So, whose up for it??? I know I am. Any dates or venues that are paricuarly good for anyone?

My best friend has a 10 month old and we went to see her in surrey a few months ago. The moment I stepped through the door she dragged me to the sofa, switched on the telly and said 'look at this FILTH!' I'm inclined to agree with her...

Oh but I DID want to add; we've had mealtimes at the same time, very strictly, since we weaned him onto solids with the same bathtime/bedtime routine since he was 13 days old and could have regular baths- so am not a total novice...;)

Thanks everyone :) It seems that whilst I was convinced that bad nighttime sleep meant bad day sleep, it is the other way round? Or perhaps it's one of those chicken and egg situations? Today Seb napped a lot better- two hours (10-12) and then 1hr 15mins in the afternoon before falling asleep at 7pm. V good. Then he woke up at 8.30 screaming and throwing himself around his cot, and is STILL up now, although my husband just took him upstairs to 'settle' him after I had to go and stand in the kitchen and count to 10, lest I run away and join the circus... Thanks for your support; husband and I are starting a NEW routine with baby, starting on Saturday- up at 7am at the latest; so if any of you see a frazzled and hysterical looking family wandering around peckham rye park at about 7.45am for a bit of 'fresh air', spare a thought for us ;)

I'd say no longer than 4 hours- that was the advice I was given and it brings back memories of me tearfully waking up my son on new years eve after he had peacefully been asleep since 7pm.

Charlotte, I did suggest this but husband was less than impressed with the idea. Also, we KNOW our son will behave with my husband, without fail, so he wouldn't need to train him at all- it just seems to be ME around that entices our son to wake up. I actually think I need to train bubs to sleep without DH flapping around worrying me/telling me I'm doing it all wrong. Urgh. BUT I may have a few nights 'off' before I launch into the sleep training so at least I have a bit more energy to actually do it.

Thanks, Moos, it's nice that others feel for me and don't think I'm making a fuss about nothing, as certain relatives have eluded to- lots of 'You're a Mum, so what do you expect?' etc. I sound stupid saying this, but I'm going away to Babington House, sans child, for my birthday in 3 weeks and I will fully admit looking forward to getting the chance to have a lovely meal uninterrupted and being able to SLEEP uninterrupted than I am about the actual trip. How sad is that?! Almost definitely going to get a sleep expert in if sleep doesn't improve, my husband and I are looking into our financial options as we speak. The ironic thing is that a very good friend from school worked on that sleep documentary and asked if I wanted to be a part of it, but as it focused on toddlers, my sleep evading infant didn't match the criteria!

I watched it last week, made for very interesting viewing I thought! Thing is, we've tried both approaches with Baby Baldock but he is so BLOODY stubborn that nothing works...at least not yet. As GinaG3 mentioned, it may very well be a case of adjusting all his timings and keeping my fingers crossed. Thankyou for the offer to lend me your Sleep book, but we've got a lot of amazon vouchers after they made a pigs-ear out of a huge order of ours a few months back...and now I know what they'll be spent on!

Thanks for this. Reading back over what I wrote, it DOES sort of seem like he sees his 'bedtime' as a nap. I've been toying with the idea of getting him up at 7am for a while now, but always put it off because I'm so tired (that old chestnut). But I've GOT to give it a go!

I know we have a lot of talk about sleep/naps, and everyone is probably sick of me and my sleep woes by now, but I feel a rant/pity party coming on. My son is now almost 8 months old,and although he HAS slept through before, although sporadically, he doesn't anymore. He used to nap well in the day but now even a bus ride or car ride or walk in the sling doesn't help, and neither does rocking, shushing, patting or breastfeeding to the point of him being comatose (used to work a treat from 1-4 months). Yesterday he was awake ALL day (8.30-5pm) save a few minutes on my lap around 3 which isn't unusual. Then he slept from 7pm-8pm and was awake and full of beans till 11pm. This is the norm for us and now I am sick of it. I'm going back to work in 3 weeks and don't know how I can survive like this anymore. We DID try sleep training, but he seems to be the only baby in the world it didn't work on, and 11 days of him crying for 2+ hours every night made it enough for me to give up. When he's awake, he's not hungry or wet or ill, he's just...awake. The ONLY thing that gets him to settle from 7-7 is when I'm not around at night (I had an overnight stay in hospital recently and he did it then...grrr) I am now seriously considering taking out a bank loan to pay for a sleep expert, me and my husband are THAT desperate. Wah wah wah...feel v sorry for self :( I really, really hope he won't be one of those kids who doesn't sleep through till they're 3/4/5+ D:

I agree with littlebelka, love love love my bee bt it's rubbish for anything non urban.

In a word; yes. My baby has terrible seperation anxiety ATM and the only way I can leave the room is if his baby Einstein DVD is on. He falls asleep watching big brothers little brother with me. I always said I wouldn't let him watch tv but then again I also said I wouldn't use dummies or cosleep or let him eat chips... Oh well!

Not a website, but h&m's baby clothing is really nice. Lots of babygros/ tshirts with graphic prints and unusual motifs and it's not too shabby on the ol' bank account either!

My baby watches a baby Einstein DVD about world animals, set to a background of classical music. About halfway through, a bloke starts singing about turtles, proper x- factor style and the whole thing is just so out of place and ott that I always end up sniggering like a school boy.

Thanks for this, I'm going to pass it on to my husband and other family members who are giving me a bit of a hard time about going back to work in September!

Oh, bugger off Giselle. Just bugger right off.

Our bugaboo bee has fitted into: Our car (audi a4 estate) a ford Ka Ford fiesta Fiat punto VW polo a MINI renault megane renault clio So i'd go for a bee. The old models are going for about ?280ish on ebay atm.

My son is a crawling and mastering walking TERROR. So far today already we've had: 'NO, hands OUT of the fireplace' (soot, ick) 'NO NO NO, DO NOT EAT THE SOIL' 'Hands out of the poopy nappy, please' 'Please don't lick the TV, sweetie...' His favourite one is to eat his porridge, nosedive at me for a breastfeed and then blow porridgy rasberries on my top, if I'm not quick enough about getting 'the goods' out.

Have been calling them all day, but no joy 1) Does anyone know what the youngest age is for a child to be allowed in the softplay? Son is 7 1/2 months, friend's baby is 10 months. 2) Session times on a Saturday? I know they're each 50 minutes long, but do they run on the hour every hour?

We didn't get our son baptised in the end (because I'm Jewish and, dur...so is he!) but his godparents are/were my husband's best friend and my best friend- they were also the witnesses at our wedding so I felt it was a nice 'fit'. My sister in law threw a fit because SHE wanted to be godmother, dunno why, she doesn't like me or my husband and is usually disinterested in my son...

I resigned myself to wearing leggings from Primark and 'mini dresses' which served as tops, also from Primark. I also lived in a long cardi, but I was really really hugely pregnant in December so maybe not so helpful now :/

Is it still on, or has it finished for the summer? Ta v much!