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I need to do this too. Mima I don't have any suggestions only empathy. For me it has to be eating related as baby currently waking around 5 and settling around 8 so I really cannot go for a run! My husband signed us both up to weightwatchers online but it's so tedious plugging in all your meals and it has given me no incentive whatsoever.....just made me depressed that I'm paying for something and not using it....and I'm just so HUNGRY!!

So after night 4 we're back to 5am wake and feed and not settling this morning. Hmm. Thing is I know sleep changes around now anyway... I'm not enjoying it at all....

As I said - it could just be me and everyone else finds it helpful! I do feel like the 'word is out'...but maybe I just spend too much time on the forum...

Does anyone else find the constant plugs for peoples own music groups a bit annoying - or is it just me?!? In any event the OP has asked mainly for ideas for Crystal Palace.... Re Crystal Palace - I believe there are a number of stay and play/baby and toddler sessions in the Salvation Army building near Sainsburys - certainly an NCT affiliated one on tuesdays - I've not been but have heard about them.

Thanks everyone - Well we're on night 3 tonight so I'll give it 5 nights and assess!! Just thinking now though am tired and would be lovely to go to bed...but baby has only been asleep an hour and a half...

Up. Baby awake but am looking the other way. Toddler banging the side of his cot but I'm pretending he's not....

I don't go out either really but would like to think I might occasionally in the future!! I do have a couple of (medicinal and essential) glasses of wine sometimes too...

Obviously I get the concept, but never bothered with first baby as he woke up all on his own so no opportunity to try it!! Second baby is 14w and seems to be a better sleeper (for now! We are waiting for the 4m sleep regression!) and in an attempt to extend his sleep period the last 2 evenings I've fed him just before going to bed. But it feels wrong somehow hoisting him up, force feeding him, then putting him back - like I'm disturbing his natural sleep pattern. Also I'm worried he'll start waking for the feed and get dependent on it. AND it's really the last thing I feel like doing - I don't get him settled until about 8 really..so the evenings are short and I'm tired. And what if you go out/drink etc?!? So..how did you do it, how long did you do it for, and do you think it was successful? To add - I'm bf him and we've not even tried expressing/bottle (even more hassle!) so I don't think that is an option.

ClareC Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you for all the advice, definitely a > necessity rather than choice, my toddler wakes > around 7, 7.30 ish and there is no rest from then > on! With the night feeds I realy need that extra > couple of hours! > Hmm maybe some are just larks from the start - my 2 yr old wakes around 5.30 too (I do leave him to moan/chat for a bit) but what with baby waking and not settling too my days are starting at 5am..ugh...or even earlier like today!

I don't know - mine is hard to settle post 5am too - and actually the bednest makes little difference apart from the fact I dont have to keep getting out of bed! The only way to ensure sleep at that time seems to be feed..and DON'T MOVE...

We have a bednest and I love it - you can have both sides up like a regular crib, or it attaches to your bed and you can have one side down - it's basically a purpose built version of the above post. It's bigger than a Moses basket but only really good for first 6m I think - and already I am putting the side up halfway as my 14w old is starting to move and twist about!

Seems it's difficult to know what type of jaundice it is and whether it is serious or not doesn't it? With both of mine it developed +24hours after birth and once under the lights the br level came down really quickly - both out again within 12-18 hrs. I suppose that's why I'm a bit cross - in that it probably was unnecessary in their cases and it caused upset and meant I had to give my new baby formula, which I really didn't want to do. But obviously yes the baby's health comes first and if the risks are that unpredictable then you have to be cautious. Baby 1 quite liked his little sunbed actually, but baby 2 hated it and pretty much screamed the entire time - had a sore throat afterwards!

I'm currently a stay at home mum with 2 little ones - for similar reasons to many already put forward - found the first couple of months of motherhood hard and am (was?) in a profession which is male dominated and tricky to work part time if you want to work on good projects and be successful. My husband will always earn more than me (due to profession) and so I think it would really have been me doing all the pick up/drop offs etc. And also I just can't imagine anyone else looking after my babies - I don't have a problem at all with the concept, just the reality for me. I realise we are lucky to have the option - and we certainly made the decision fully aware that our income would be compromised. In addition by making this decision my husband is able to work the hours he does without worrying about childcare issues. I did think about doing some freelance work - and actually did a couple of days but it was sooo hard and such a rush - and then I found I was expecting number 2 baby, so kind of gave up. I worry about what I will do in the future - that in 2 years I've basically removed myself from the market and HOW will I get back in - and do I want to?!? I also wonder whether professionally I have let myself down - I trained long and hard and worked solidly long hours pre babies. I also feel that there is some stigma attached to not working - and as others have said somehow feel the need to justify it/joke about it! I have had people ask me how I could have just given up work when I had a good job - umm...well..you see I have these little people to look after now...!! Luckily I have a number of friends in similar situations so I don't feel too ostracised. I and DO enjoy not having to face horrible commutes/stressful clients/unworkable deadlines. I just need a lightbulb moment when I work out what I will do in the longterm. They didn't mention at school when they were telling us we could run the country if we wanted that part time would be tricky....

Yep. How to entertain the energetic 2 yr old today?!?

With swaddling - does there not come a point when you stop and have to wean them off it? I just can't see myself introducing it now...he likes his grow bag....

Kings do seem hyper alert to jaundice. Both mine ended up having phototherapy - for what I imagine was actually normal physiological jaundice. Neither of them showed any other signs of problems such as being overly sleepy etc. They also put me under a lot of pressure to do formula top up feeds with baby no. 2 - on day one after a c section, so only colostrum milk at that point, but absolutely all he needed. It is very difficult to fight these sorts of interventions when the doctors talk in alarmist terms about what can happen if jaundice is left 'untreated'. So you can be informed, but I'm not sure how you go about questioning the paediatricians when they seem so set on particular courses of action.

Vertbaudet always looks to have nice girlie bedroom stuff. For funky wall stickers notonthehighstreet.com has a huge supply I think. I need to get inspired with eldest's new room too....

I have panic attacks when I remember my one and only rhyme time experience with a 15m old - he ran round the room pulling books off shelves and flinging them in his wake..and it was so busy I couldn't get to him, so just sat and pretended he belonged to someone else....

We've managed the copleston playgroup and the monday playgroup at St Faiths....and the parks so far. My 2 yr old is a real escape artist so I haven't braved anything else yet! Trying CP 1 O'Clock club tomorrow and thought I might try Ruby Rhymes one week...although that might mess up baby's sleep.

Yep we'll be there!

This 'getting into the right school' trauma manages to scare me every time I read these threads. It's usually been the primary school issues that I've worried about but following this I announced to my husband last night in a panicky voice that we could stay in our current house for now as we *may* get into Heber, and that would be ok. But we will have to move to Red Post Hill in 8 years time so we can get the boys into Charter. My eldest child is 2. Husband looked at me as if I were mad.

Storage is an issue, I do admit. But not one that cannot be overcome....

I've started doing the first nap at home too but I cuddle him. Ok when he weighs 14lb...and it lasts all of half an hour! Randomly the other day he slept for about 3 hrs around midday and slept through a feed, transfer to car seat, and nursery run (in car/out car/walk to nursery/back/in house). Bizarre.

I've been on the bus with a Phil and teds. You could have an umbrella fold for the car (or we have bee plus buggy board) and a nice comfy side by side for shopping and walking round (has to be said husband is taking some convincing on the last of these...)

The other websites don't have stock though. Sthg funny going on!! The bugaboo board is the same - obscures the brake - you just have to contort foot to put it on (hmm safe...)