snowboarder

One of my boys is Zach and I love it. He's Zachary about 50% of the time... Like Findley/Finn and Flynn.

Chemist on northcross rd? I thought the big sainsburys did them too actually. Have half a pack you could have?

will amend!

How long has baby been nameless?

I love Orlando (Heath not so much) but would you ever want/need to shorten it? Hard. Some we (I!) liked... Gabriel Jasper Louis Jacob Herbie Rowan Samuel Joel

Teaching/helping a baby to self soothe is really hard - of course they naturally want their mummy - but I think there does come a point when you as a parent might choose to change things. And this may be at 1m or 3yrs - it is very personal. I had no idea about self soothing with baby 1 - so I responded to him immediately at night and fed/rocked to sleep until he was 11m. Then I was practically crazy from lack of sleep, as was he, and we used a type of controlled crying - for us simply breaking the association of milk/sleep took 1 night and 1.5hrs crying and he has slept well ever since. Lucky us. I hated that one night though and naps were tough for some time so was really determined to try a gentler approach with baby 2. For the first 7m he slept with me at night and I fed him to sleep as baby 1, and loved the closeness but not the waking throughout the evening when I wasn't there. But for naps I would put him in his bednest/pram when he was tired and sit and stroke his tummy until he fell asleep. And I did this every single day with dogged consistency!! Sometimes he wasn't too impressed but I always stayed with him until he was asleep and had got there by himself. He found his thumb at 3m and that helped. At 7m he got too big for his bednest and I didn't want to cosleep properly full time - I am a rubbish sleeper and a little warm wriggler wasn't helping!! We moved him to his cot and I fed him at bedtime as normal, but didn't let him fall asleep feeding (not easy!) - and then put him in his cot and sat with him as for naps....overall he seemed to 'get it' - he does wake sometimes and I go to him if he is crying, not if he is just moaning. I basically give him a hug and sit with him stroking him until he falls asleep...he does sometimes cry - I don't leave him, but also I don't feed/rock/use any prop other than reassure him I'm there. Sorry - long ramble, but that's just an account of how I tried/am trying to gently teach my baby (now 9m) to sleep after a fairly tough experience with my first son. I haven't fed him at night now (apart from a couple of cold/teething occasions) since we moved him, but he is fairly sturdy. Good luck rahrah - it is awful..... oh - ps - with baby 1 we did use help of a sleep nanny... Edited to say he didn't cry for 1.5 hrs solid - I did go in and comfort etc....

Littlemoo how dreadful - I am so sorry and your story serves as a sobering reminder of how wrong things can go...I think those of us who only have experience of a positive end result tend to forget. All the best for your third baby. In reference to the study - I have only skimmed this but it seemed interesting - a doula's blog comment on the study : http://hackneydoula.co.uk/?p=492. I had a 'failed' attempt at a home birth for my second son born earlier this year, after my first was born by elective c section. Even though I ended up with another c section at Kings this time I was glad to have the opportunity to labour at home with 2 amazing midwives, and have as undisturbed labour as possible, which would not have been the case in Kings. I would definitely try again if we have another child.

Yes there is room but sometimes had to take shoes off!!

Both mine are fairly sturdy and I think that (and setting it up right) helps keep them imprisoned. I could actually hardly get my eldest son out towards the end. He now doesn't have the baby set as is 2.5 and he keeps escaping - annoying.

Yep, booties/shoes always. The robeez furry booties are amazing and C has NEVER managed to get them off...and super cute too...

For both our children we only have the high chair and the baby set - no cushions and no need for the harness as the ergonomics of it seems to mean they cannot escape (well, mine couldn't!). The baby set is the bar and plastic back rest.

No but we did line the cocoon with a muslin or fleecy blanket - as much to protect from inevitable puking etc as anything else!

EDmummy Wrote: > I would add, don't try and knock yourself out. > The occasional pouch or jar won't corrupt your > child for life. The ideals we have with our first > child are soon kicked into their rightful place > with subsequent children. Relax and be a "slummy > mummy" occasionally and slip in a few pouches. Have to say my littlest (9m) had a philadelphia sandwich and an ellas stage 1 pouch for supper this evening - he loves the fruit and veg ones - I always feel a bit bad when I resort to this but it's not that awful in the scheme of things, right?!? He's a pretty fussy eater though so sometimes I'm just glad to get something other than milk down him...lucky if you don't have that problem!

Omlette mini quiches pasta tuna sandwiches jacket potato fishcakes pizza (toast + tomato sauce + cheese!) Boiled eggs and soldiers banana and avocado kind of think party food!! We generally do the other way round and hot lunch and more basic tea, but similar ideas that don't do 2 'proper' meals...

The 15kg weight limit is misleading - it's something to do with prams only being tested up to 15kg in the uk/europe (?) - check weight limits for the same buggy on us sites for example and you will see that the maclaren quest (for eg) has a 'carrying capacity' of 55lb (25kg?) in America. And I'm pretty certain it's exactly the same buggy. Otherwise - check out some of the sturdier sports type buggies - the nipper 360 (22kg), mountain buggy swift (35kg), phil and teds...etc...

My nearly 9m old still has morning and afternoon naps - approx 9-10am and then around 1.30-3.30...He wakes around 6/6.30 and couldn't last till after lunch I don't think - and would def fall asleep in the buggy/car on the way home from morning trips which is exactly what I do not want!! Maybe she keeps going at nursery because no opportunity to zone out and drop off? I can see him dropping his morning nap sooner than his big brother (16m!) just because he is a better sleeper in general and wakes later, but I hope to keep it up until at least 12m!

We have just under 2 yrs...it's kind of fine, but I really think the character of the child(ren) is the thing that matters not the age gap itself really....

4pm would be great. I also think an hour is too long really for little ones...4-4.45pm and then home for tea - awesome!!

It sounds great..my not quite 3 yr old (ok 2.5 yr old!) adores football and I was sad we couldn't make the tuesday class...but this new one is a bit late for us to be out with the baby too...shame... Is it advertised much do you know? I looked on the ed fusion website and could find no mention of it....

When we had help with our older son's sleep, we were advised to stick to the same times every day - apparently it kind of helps 'reset' their internal clocks. Do have to say I'm not that rigid second time round, but I do more or less keep to the same times as often we have things arranged around naps for both boys...

So hard to know. I certainly wouldn't assume it might not change. My older boy (now 2.5) never slept for more than 30-45 mins until he was one. Then after a bit of sleep training he had 2 x 1.5 hr naps morning and afternoon, only gave up the morning nap at 16m and even now he can sleep for 2 hrs after lunch (I do pay at bedtime though for this now - ooops better get him up!).

Gah. Go for a drive/snuggled up buggy walk or something?

I think totally a phase...I always leave youngest snowboarder 10-15 mins before going to him in the hope that he'll resettle if this happens. I bet one day she'll just go through again. Maybe put her down a bit later? Mine currently does around 9-10am and then 1.30 - unknown (sometimes 2.30, sometimes 3.30!). My battles with sleep over the last couple of years has taught me to be really consistent with what you do and grimly determined. (we're still sitting up in the cot again and again pre settling. sigh)

Thumbs up for the playnest here too - it does have a relatively short life but was great for the time we used it. Toys did not roll away and older brother could do limited damage...

Also - it's like he knows he's being naughty - when I go to lie him down again he giggles and throws himself down. I've decided you shouldn't bother trying to sort out sleep until they are one - they are MUCH more predictable then.