What a horrible day

[Fuschia]

Anyone else up?

Yawn

[snowboarder]

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

[Fuschia]

I am going into work at 645 for an early meeting ... Always more restful than a day at home.

[Belle]

Toddler was shouting 'I done a poo' around 6am - turned out to be a clever ruse to get us up...

[Saffron]

I was up at 4:30am, Little Saff stubbornly refusing a bottle of warm milk and tearfully requesting booby as if her world would end without it. Grumpy Mr Saff said he didn't want her in bed with us, so it was a lonely half hour in the rocker in the nursery for me. Mr Saff said he'd take her straight away when she was up for the day. But at 6am when she was up again, he reneged! Decided he was too tired from the long drive home from Sussex (humph) the day before. So he dumped her in bed with us and let her bounce (literally) on my head for an hour before he finally got up and made her breakfast. Not his most shining hour, eh?

But we'll all be up for a lot more sleepless nights if the haematologist decides my high platelet count needs hydroxycarbamide treatment. That will mean no more b/fing, no more easy back to sleep for Little Saff. Then what will I do? Hump a 30 lb toddler plus buggy down the stairs at 4:30am for endless laps around the block??? You must be joking.

[minder]

Wasn't a horrible day for me - my middle one was 15 today!

6/6/96 - D-day as my father-in-law always reminds me!

[Fuschia]

Oh saff that's not very nice :-(

who is your haemo?

[Saffron]

Little Saff at it again last night: Up at 3:30am. Didn't even make it to the rocker this time, fell asleep until 5:30 with her in her junior bed (not *quite* long enough for an adult-- who invented this torturous device???). So obviously Mr Saff's plan last year that putting her in her own bed would make her sleep through the night has proved utter failure. I think we may have to swap her cotbed for a fouton matress on the floor, so I can sleep with her all night. Then at least when she wakes up, I would only have to turn over instead of out of bed, down the hall, and round the corner (the longest 10 metres in the world!).

F- Haem is Lewisham U Hospital: Waited 2 h to see a junior consultant for 5 min last appointment. Arrrggh. I'll surely be old and grey by the time they decide I need definitive treatment, so hopefully Little Saff will be off the boob by then. Ha.

[Fuschia]

You're not close enough to get seen by Kings haematology? I love Dr Arya and Dr Patel, the consultants there, in fact the whole dept is lovely, and I say that as a hospital phobic.

If I were you i would get a futon and just move in with her. But start adding some other sleep cues (lullaby on your phone, blankie, phrase like "roll over, snuggle down" and doing the pantley pull off with a view to night weaning.. make it less traumatic if you have to stop bf

xx

PS You can still start the night in the big bed with your partner!

[sunbob]

Hello Fuschia Thanks for the ref to Pantley PO. I had never heard of it but just had a read and I think it will be useful when no 2 arrives in Nov. No 1 was a super sleepy feeder so there is some advice there I will definitely be taking note of. Thank you.

[Fuschia]

Yes

I have been doing it with my new one since about 3m and he pulls off himself and rolls away

Often he settles himself with a lot of thrashing about while I lie next to him .., I Am hoping teaching good habits