Comments on: Friday night. Let’s twist again.

By: Jock

Jock — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:19:12 +0000

How about those Magpies !!!!

By: b:p

b:p — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:58:52 +0000

Ah, S. You’re a star (and you’re married to another one!) Thank you! Look after your round small self. Now the topic of birth…that’s something *I* can evangelise on - but the truth is the same as for the above. Everyone is different and THANK GOD FOR THAT!
And, btw, you’ll probably have a baby that is a gun sleeper and wonder what the hell I’ve been going on about…

By: S*

S* — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:45:49 +0000

You are all painting a beautiful picture of parenthood for both J* and I !! (whom only have 84 days til D-day, and counting!)
Although I am loving your honesty, so feel like we should just be trying to prepare ourselves for anything…and not have any sleep expectations at all. (For us or Baby B*)
Sleep deprivation is torture though B. And I don’t know how your poor wrist will ever heal without some decent sleep.
I’m sure there will just come a moment when Z decides to settle, and you will not know yourselves!
But in the meantime…please let us know if you need any help. xx

By: b:p

b:p — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:44:14 +0000

Jeeez - is this what it takes to get M to post his third EVER comment since 2002?? Dylan being an evangelist for his new discovery?!
Dylan - you always pimp your latest fave, be it iMovie or the controlled settling method.

But it basically comes down to a combination of what you prefer and what works best. Are you a Mac or are you a PC?

You have to expect M to give you a swipe - it does sound like your way is the only way. Just because something is great for you doesn’t necessarily mean it will translate to someone else. Health and sanity are as important as the knowledge that you are parenting in a way that your heart is happy with (oh help me, a hippy has taken over my typing fingers and is running, running with them….)

The End.

By: M

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:13:56 +0000

warning: over reactive protective Dad post follows

Screams at 5pm and you are ’sooo much happier’? Are you serious? Whoa!

Dude, that is a different league.

As a reply to your unsolicited (!) advice… Zoe has cried for maybe an hour -in total- in the past two months.
No screams. She is 6 months old. There has been no need to walk around a park or for a car ride etc etc. She is one cool, happy, feisty button.

How can you do the ‘cry it out’ on a kid that doesn’t cry except for thwacking her bean with a toy train?

It is a monumental pain in the arse that she wakes up 4 to 6 times during the night but like B said it is for a few minutes, and she rarely ‘wakes’. That is the price and the magic of co-sleeping. It is still Camp Xray torture for poor B she hates it and has some very tired days, but things are getting better.

Slowly.

Gently.

BTW ‘in arms’… really?

By: b:p

b:p — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:08:33 +0000

What I meant to type was that I thought it was hysterical (and telling) that Karen remembered when each of her babies started sleeping through! I doubt it’s something I’ll ever forget…when it ever happens.

@ Dylan - thank you for food offers

@ Seepi - have tried those little co-sleeping mattress top bed things - too hard on my wrist getting her in and out. We sorted out the cot today, and it’s the same level as the bed - much more ergonomic!

PPS - need to eat…

PPSS - I think my state of mind was far more freaked out and fragile when I was trying to fit my work into her 40 minute naps each day back in April!!

By: seepi

seepi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:49:13 +0000

PPs - it will end eventually.

I took on a writing contract when my first was a newborn - major mistake. My sanity returned when it was finally over. And my baby slept quite well at night…daytime was another story…

By: seepi

seepi — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:41:13 +0000

I hope they give you a spot at sleep school soon! One woman in my mother’s group got in twice - she used to dissolve in tears on her dr - could have helped her case. She then ignored all advice and is still having trouble, but that’s another story…

Anyway, to really take the cake for Assvice, here’s an opposing suggestion to my first one - you could try one of those litte baskets that you actually put in bed with you for co-sleeping?

OR - give up the typing for a fortnight - are you contracted to it - or just need it to eat??

By: dylan

dylan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:12:14 +0000

good luck B, let us know if we can do anything. We can deliver cheese for the squeeze and roo for you! anytime.

By: b:p

b:p — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:35:52 +0000

I just wrote paragraphs in response to all of you, but just hit the delete key. I’m too tired. And I don’t make much sense. Sorry. Things would be far easier if I didn’t have two days of work to get through each week - sometimes it seems that I’ve just hit a bit of a groove with Small Z and then I have to type like a fiend for two days while she hangs with her dad and her nanna. Whatever. I need sanity. I need health. And if the sleep school offers a five day stay, I’ll do two weeks worth of work in a week and head straight in.