Fuschia

We hate tommee tippee, they shake water everywhere from them! avent magic ups with white spout and take out the inner seal at first, would be my suggestion

Bring the buggy into the living room...?

An inflateable galyt playnest guards against drafts...

I would take him to a &e to be honest, I've lost confidence in the ordinary docs! Get him seen by a paediatrician to be sure everything is OK

nunheadmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I think she had 3 or 4 short > sleeps - but that was around 5-6 months. SHe > carried on with 3 short sleeps for a bit and then > I think around 12 months or so started taking 2 > longer 1 hour sleeps. She's only just started > taking a proper lunchtime sleep now since around > 18months. Sounds exactly like our twins, what they did left to their own devices!

linkadoo is much like the one you've linked to

Moses basket on a stand? swing or something like a linkadoos rocker?

WE spaced them out for all our children, I just didn't feel comfortable with them having 4+ jabs all at once...and they've never reacted badly so I'm happy with that. Rather than 2/3/4m we went for more like 4/5/6/7/8/9m, with each bit of the programme split into 2.

SB: I think I'd be tempted to go back to having a walk in the buggy at the times you want him to nap. Are you missing sleep cues? Need to put them down the second they start to look a bit bleary eyed, in my experience. It just might be he is not ready to extend his slep cycle yet (it's to do with brain development/sleep patterns) and is a particularly hard baby to settle. My first child was the same, he never napped with any regularity or significant length... but our twins are good nappers, and have got better as they've got older. IIRC up until they were about 16m, they used to have a nap in the morning and sometimes the pm one wasn't until 2ish, so it wasn't brilliant for an early bed time ... then at 17m they started at creche 10-12 and once they got over not being able to fall asleep on the way there, they got established with a very substantial 12-2pm nap and a 7pm bedtime. It will come. Glad to hear night times are a bit better.

You could experiment with a dreeam feed or an early 5am feed... but just be aware it might not fix the problem!

Does he wake up after 30 mins crying? I have always assumed if they wake up crying, they want to be resettled.. don't get them up. When smaller mine always wokr up after 45 mins and needing coaxing back off. Now they usually sleep for 2h exactly, if they wake sooner crying I resettle them.

Does sound like a growth spurt...

Waking from 4m isn't unusual and is caused more by brain development than hunger, I'm afraid... http://moxie.blogs.com/askmoxie/2006/02/qa_what_are_sle.html

Yes, it was a thread I started I toyed with getting a train fromForest Hill to L Bridge then tube to Paddington or bus from Camberwell to Paddington but in the end I drove, left at 715 and was there by 9.30, it was quicker than any of the public transport options

Localmama, I'm sorry you have been both doorstepped by the press and then accused of selling your story and on some sort of vendetta. xx

I found we could manage mornng activities whle they had a morning nap by leaving very eely.. so getting in the car at 8.45 for scbool drop, or int the buggy, and making our way to the actvity (by which time they'd be asleep) snd then waking them up at 10.30, say

PS Sometimes tea is at 6, even (when Mr F gets home)

Belle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fuschia - when do you do lunch with a 12-2 nap? > This is what am struggling with at the moment - > today it meant lunch was at 2.30 so he wasn't v > hungry by tea. We're all out of sync as he's v > poorly so not representative but curious to know > how you fit it in. > (Sorry SB for quick hijack!) We havwe to do it at two. Then tea at 5ish. I would prefer to do it early, and sometimes we do it 11.30 but they go to the creche 10-12 and have a big fruit snack just before they leave and they're not hungry, plus I can't keep them awake anyway, so now we have breakfast 7am snack 11.30am lunch 2.15pm tea 5-5.30 and that seems to suit!!! I know a few mums who dash off from playgroups etc at 11.15 to get lunch in and bed at 12, but I'm not really the sort of person to be driven by routine.

Sorry I forget the ages but for a while 2-3-4 (Nap no later than 2h after waking, then again 3h after thatm then bed 4h later) so up at 7, nap at 9-10, nap again 1-2.30, bed 6.30 onwards Then later the first nap went and we ended up with a nap from 12-2 every day. I think naps sort of got into a pattern from about a year old, and the lunchtime only nap, from about 17m

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > this is the worst of east dulwich... self > righteous,self-important, outraged... oh irony...

The Nappy Lady Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ....but I believe Fuschia that T-shirts do not > filter out all harmful rays completely, so > suncream is still essential all over....sure you > know this, but just for safety's sake wanted to > clarify. > > Molly Indeedy. I was thinking of to wear after swimming etc, when back in the shade, rather than as a sun protection per se

Shorties much easier to get on. Suit needs to be snug to be warm.

Indeed! Though the suits I've bought via ebay have always been as new, TBH

By the time you pay postage on ebay, decathlon works out about the same price

Yes! decathlon or two bare feet .co.uk