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L'organist
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Yes, the bags work well.
But I LOVE the idea that the company on the link you put in think they invented them.
We used for our own (born 1994) as second nature because they'd been used for me (1950s vintage) and were made from a pattern used by nanny since the 1930s...
Fact is, if the house is cold you dress accordingly, whether up and moving about or in bed.
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Sarkycow
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My 3yr old used to get very cold as a baby, so in the winter time she wore to go to bed, a sleepsuit (a non-fleecy version of the blanket sleeper linked to by Moo), a fleecy sleepsuit (blanket sleeper) and a 3 tog sleeping bag! That is currently what my 1 yr old is wearing, as she also gets very cold.
Mind you, they were both winter babies, so for the first 4 months they probably spent at least a third of the nights in our bed, as they couldn't retain body heat, even clothed like that and then wrapped in blankets, with a hot water bottle ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Now the 3yr old is in a bed she wears proper pyjamas and fluffy bed socks, and has a nice thick duvet. She seems much more able to keep warm, so I'm hopeful for the baby. I was beginning to think that I'd be needing to buy sleeping bags until middle childhood!
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But I LOVE the idea that the company on the link you put in think they invented them.
I thought the same when I looked at the link last night. I made them from quilted fabric for each of my three sons back in the dim dark ages of the 1970s. They could be bought then, made from a heavy knit material which took days to dry. They were fastened with buttons which came undone easily, thus negating their purpose.
I made mine from quilted material and used a zipper with the pull for the zip hidden under a flap. I also added sleeves to mine. No pattern, just cut out to what looked right. The quilting was warm and dried quickly.
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Any advice on toddler bedwetting? T is 3 and is fine on the potty during the day, but wakes up soaked every morning. We had him in a diaper overnight for several months, but it was making him sore and I was worried he would never get the idea of staying dry overnight. Generally he doesn't seem to be woken up by being wet. We have tried getting him to pee just before we go to bed, and last night he woke up at 4am and went on the potty, but his bed was still wet in the morning. I've been doing weeks of washing sheets and we don't really know what else to try!
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Lamb Chopped
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Tincture of time, I'm afraid. We put a thick towel under LL until he got the hang of it, so I wouldn't have to change everything all the time. But some kids don't stay reliably dry at night until 5 or so. You can ask the doctor, but I think it's mainly a family thing--if your relatives were all late at staying dry, he'll likely be the same.
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Let me echo Lamb Chopped here. It took about a year between the time my boy was reliably dry in the day and when he was dry at night.
Our strategy, for what it's worth, was to tell him that when he went three days in a row with a dry nappy in the morning, he could go without. Two consecutive accidents and he was back in nappies at night again.
Top tip - make his bed, then put down an old plastic shower curtain, then make his bed again. If he has an accident, remove the wet bedding and shower curtain, and he can go straight back to sleep with the minimum of nighttime messing about.
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L'organist
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I'd add to restrict drinks from tea-time onwards and make it milk for preference.
We found this helped, water produced more accidents, and squash or juice - floods
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Moo
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Gwai, one more thing that helps to keep a child warm is to cover his head. The body loses a lot of heat that way.
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Sarkycow
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I don't think society looks well on putting a child's head under the duvet Moo. Even if you claim it's cos they get really cold...
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L'organist
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I think she meant the child should wear a hat or night cap? IME, in a very cold house a night cap is vital - not especially fetching but still ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Originally posted by L'organist:
I think she meant the child should wear a hat or night cap? IME, in a very cold house a night cap is vital - not especially fetching but still
Yes, that's what I meant.
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Hello all. I've come in search of some advice. the Half-Pint has just turned three and has recently been having some vivid dreams, which wake him up thinking about food. Unfortunately, he hasn't learnt much about dreams and isn't yet able to distinguish them from reality at all.
The upshot of this is that he's coming into our bedroom in the middle of the night, upset and asking for sandwiches/pancakes etc, but when we try to tell him they aren't real and he needs to go back to bed, he kicks off, shouting, crying and even getting violent. It takes ten minutes at least to calm him down to the point where he can take in what we're saying and go back to bed.
Does anyone have any advice about ways we could deal with it better, or any similar experiences?
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I think I'd offer him plain carbs of some kind, like digestive biscuits, because it sounds like he might be hungry? Or a regular supper before bed,like milk and biscuits. My children have all been vivid dreamers. One is diabetic and regularly needed carbs in the night if his blood sugars went low. The dentist worried about his teeth but it's been fine, he'd swish some water round his mouth before going back to sleep.
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My best mate has a wee boy who'll be two next month. He's very clever and bright (he knows all his letters and numbers which impresses me and can read simple words). He loves Thomas and cars and all the normal wee boy things.
However, every time he goes to bed at night or for a nap he chews his bed. His cot looks like it has been attacked by a chipmunk and every day bits of wood have to be removed from his cot and the floor surrounding it. Last night we could hear him saying 'mess, wood, eat' over the baby monitor.
Any suggestions as to how to prevent bed eating?
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Originally posted by chive:
However, every time he goes to bed at night or for a nap he chews his bed. His cot looks like it has been attacked by a chipmunk and every day bits of wood have to be removed from his cot and the floor surrounding it. Last night we could hear him saying 'mess, wood, eat' over the baby monitor.
Any suggestions as to how to prevent bed eating?
chive, obviously I don't know the child, am not a doctor (well I am, but not a medical doctor), and this is not medical advice etc etc, but there is a medical condition called pica which is characterised by the eating of objects of non-nutritive value. Although they are not sure exactly what causes it, often it seems to be related to iron or zinc deficiency, so it might be worth your friend speaking to the GP or health visitor to see about a referral to check for that. In some kids, just sorting out the deficiency seems to be enough to stop the random eating of bizarre stuff.
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Originally posted by Moo:
Gwai, one more thing that helps to keep a child warm is to cover his head. The body loses a lot of heat that way.
Moo
Oddly enough that belief is a result of
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Lamb Chopped
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Some cribs have plastic doohickeys you can slide right over the rails, probably to prevent that very kind of thing. Probably would have to google for it, though. Alternately (though it's a lot of work), sew on tough fabric coverings.
Is he teething?
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Moo
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quote:
Originally posted by Nightlamp:
quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
Gwai, one more thing that helps to keep a child warm is to cover his head. The body loses a lot of heat that way.
Moo
Oddly enough that belief is a result of
poor science
I did not say that the body loses more heat from the head than any other body part. I simply said that the body loses a lot of heat if the head is uncovered. Twenty-one winters in New Hampshire convinced me of the truth of this.
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Another nephew arrived by caesarian this morning - S & R were told they couldn't have any more but nature decided otherwise. It would have helped if R hadn't been in another hospital with his second diabetic hypo of recent days whilst S was being delivered of the baby!
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Congratulations, Uncle Wodders!
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Can I bump this thread?
Baby is very awkward at 4am onwards every night (all 12 of them), she wants to nurse and be cuddled or sleep right next to me for around 5 hours. I wish I could just co-sleep with her as that's what she wants but I take medication so it's not an option.
Is there anything I can do to settle her so we can get some sleep? We mix feed so I'm wondering about giving her formula instead of bf so she's not hungry, I've tried settling her and then moving her in her sleep, but she knows!
Any ideas?
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L'organist
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Either cut up an old nightdress or wear a piece of flannelette next to your skin for a day, then use it to make a pillowslip.
Put pillow 'dressed' in the thing that smells of mum into the cot with the baby and she should settle.
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Lamb Chopped
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We put LL in a bassinet with net walls right next to my side of the bed at a slightly lower level, and then I more or less lay down and put my arm down next to him until it was too uncomfortable to continue in that position. Then it was I who moved, not him who got moved. And he could still smell me, and if he started to wake I knew it and was able to pat him back to sleep before he got fully awake.
Another thing we did when he was slightly older was to strap him into his carseat and set it between the two of us in the bed. Again, no danger of being rolled over upon ('cause you'd know it, ouch!) and we made sure the carseat couldn't topple. No blankets, of course--a warm sleep outfit instead. Uncomfortable for us a bit, but great for him when he was sick and clingy.
Oh, you probably DON'T want to put a pillow or any other bedding in with baby while you're all asleep, because of the sudden infant death risk. But I've put a worn nightgown of mine down as a sheet on his crib, so he could get the smell and not be at risk for suffocation.
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I believe it is possible to buy co-sleeping cradle mattresses that have raised rims on so you can have them in bed with you but you can't roll into them.
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Mine would sleep cuddled up to me, but wake for Mrs Cniht, because she smelled too appetizing. If baby was actually hungry, I was no use, but when they just wanted comfort, I was fine.
So tell Mr. Sophs that his new name is "pillow"?
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Lamb Chopped
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Depends i suppose on what kind of sleeper he is. Mr Lamb always slept so deep and had such a tendency to use other people (namely me) as a pillow that I figured, naw, let's not go there. Until the kid was big and loud enough to protest forcefully. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) about age two.
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I'm sure an actual parent will know this but isn't there something bad about letting babies sleep in their car seats if not in a car? Something about the position of the neck/head or something?
Lily Pad quickly exits not really knowing but not wanting Sophs to take this advice without a caution...
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the famous rachel
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Hia Sophs,
The cot for beside the bed is a co-sleeper cot. Here's an example. We never had one, but I heard good things from those who do.
The famous baby was a really bad sleeper, and wanting to come into our bed at around 5 am for a few hours was on the (long) list of nighttime problems. I was lucky, in that we could do this, although it left me achy as I have an injured shoulder which didn't take well to sleeping round an infant. I don't have any brilliant suggestions, I'm afraid, so this post is just to say hang in there!
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Have you thought of a Heartbeat (or Back-to-sleep) Bear like these
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Those little bears are adorable - I'm feeling sleepy just looking at them ...
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the famous rachel
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Just thought of another sleep-related trick which surprised me when I learnt it but which certainly worked for us on occaision: white noise.
The famous baby in his non-sleeping phase could be soothed a surprising amount by the sound of my hair-dryer, which we quickly substituted with a CD of fan noises. Apparently white noise is a reasonable substitute for what babies hear in the womb, and is hence comforting.
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Love my 2 year old, B, but I swear I want to strangle him sometimes. We have a 1 month year old, and I'm working again, so I wager we have more than enough night disturbance without B needing to yell every bloody time he wakes up in the night. Sometimes we can just yell "Hush B" and he's okay, but other times--at least every other night lately--he needs to scream and won't stop screaming unless someone else stays with him. I'm sorry kid, but that's just not happening. So we have to move him to the sofa to protect his sister's sleep. But I hate having him sleep on the sofa because I'm always afraid he's going to head over the dining room or kitchen or something and start getting into things. Never has yet, but he easily could, so it's only convention that stops him. (Not like it's rules that stop him since he'd do it during the day!)
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Might B be having scary dreams? It's around 2 that we become more aware of what our night-time other self is up to.
A sleepy bear might help him calm down too
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L'organist
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Gwai
Do you have a night light in the nursery?
Ours slept in the dark from day one: when they stayed with a relative who used a night light they were terrified by the shadows...
Just wondering.
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Sophs, we have found Ewan the Dream Sheep very helpful to get The Little Miss to sleep.
The Little Mister on the other hand is a whole different ballgame and has started waking in the middle of the night and screaming the house down!
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Gwai
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I've thought before that B might be having scary dreams. Of course what can one do about that! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
We don't have a nightlight. We found that when we got a light-blocking curtain it helped some with his sleep, so we have that. We leave the door open a little so we can get to him, so a little light comes in there, but not much.
On the other hand, for the first time ever when B woke up in the middle of the night and I went to him, he managed not to scream when I left. I gave all the ordinary reassurances, and I could tell he was trying to hold it together, but boy did I not expect it to work. Ironically I couldn't make a thing of praising him for being good because I couldn't go back in of course, and by morning it probably feels very distant to him, if he even remembers. (Though I did tell he'd been very good and slept well.) Still no idea how to help him through this, but perhaps he's figuring it out on his own.
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My youngest friend (just 2) has Classic FM very, very quietly playing in her room - ever since she was tiny it's helped smooth out any other sudden noises (like car doors shutting) in the vicinity that might have woken her. A bonus is that she has a great start to her musical awareness!
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The famous toddler, at 2ish, went through a nightmares stage. He was articulate enough to make it clear that he was scared when he woke and his descriptions of the monsters which were scaring him helped us understand what was going on. We bought him a very large, spiky plastic dinosaur (it's over a foot long) which now "guards" the doorway to his bedroom. Every night, we give the dinosaur a list of creatures who are not allowed through the door, and tell him to do good guarding. It helps a lot.
(Plus, if a burglar ever does come in the night, I am seriously intending to pick up the dinosaur by its tail and lamp him. The thing is basically a large spiky club).
Don't know if this is worth a try. In our experience the guard needs to be something scary. A cuddly teddy won't do.
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My elder one went through a nightmare stage at about 2, having nightmares about the "bad man." This bad man had a black car and crashed through windows. Our son was afraid that the bad man might crash through his window when he was asleep.
It took us a while, but we eventually realised that a 4 year old friend had shown him his Batman toy, complete with Batmobile, and had told him all the things that Batman could do, including crashing through windows. Our son had misunderstood "Batman" as "bad man" and his vocabulary didn't let him explain beyond "bad man" "black car" and "window."
Once we'd worked out that the "bad man" was "Batman" we were able to reassure him, and put an end to the nightmares.
However he subsequently had more nightmares (from a story he heard at nursery) and, like the famous rachel, we provided a guard toy.
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We've sorted out a plan for Elaine's nights, I feel a bit mean but it seems to work when Alec takes her into the spare room over night, and brings her into me at six when he leaves for work. I really struggle to settle her, we are assuming it's because I smell of food. I can get her to sleep if she is cuddled to me, or for very brief periods, but don't have the magic touch that my beloved has.
We have fallen in love with the caboo sling, Beloved wears her around the house to settle her and everyone who's carried her really loves it. Especially housemates fiancé and my middle sister, both of whom are ever so slightly broody! I'm currently typing two handed with her tied to my chest and it's great ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Sophs, I don't know if it was an international thing or just local, but last week was "Wear your baby week" here.
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I feel a bit mean but it seems to work
Very difficult to avoid feeling mean, but I think it might be a good idea to try to remember that if this renders you human and functional during the day, it may be doing your little girl a big favour. The person I was at the height of the sleep deprivation phase wasn't well suited to raising a child!
(Also, re: slings. We didn't use the same type as you, but did use two other brands and absolutely love them. I still occasionally carried the famous pre-schooler in one - which converted into a back carrier - until he was 3 and a half, and only stopped then because he simply no longer fit in comfortably!)
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I feel a bit mean but it seems to work when Alec takes her into the spare room over night, and brings her into me at six when he leaves for work.
I think it's anything but mean. She is learning that there are two people who cuddle and cherish her. She depends on you for food, but Alec can do many other things for her.
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Madame had a very difficult pregnancy, so difficult that Dlet had to be an only child. The problems Madame had meant that she could not feed Dlet entirely on her own. I would give him 1 or 2 bottles a day, depending on Madame's milk, and tiring though that was*, did give a bond between us which few fathers have - and not interfering with Madame's bonding.
Each is different, just look for the positives in how you both care for her, and build on them.
* The little bugger would usually sleep through his 10 pm feed, but not the 2 am. Could not train him otherwise.
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My mother could not breastfeed me at all, so the midnight feed (and resulting nappy change) was Dad's responsibility. Hearing him talk about it, it clearly helped him bond with me but, as I usually slept throughout, I am not sure what impact it had on me ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Thanks guys!
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Hi all,
I'm looking for some advice on Christening wear...
Ratlet is being Christened next weekend, and we have a cream silk Victorian robe for her to wear. I haven't really seen it, as my in-laws have it, and are bringing it down at the weekend. They assure me it will fit, as it is huge, apparently.
The question is, what to wear with it? Does a white long sleeved vest (I think the gown is long sleeved), cream tights, and a shawl sound appropriate? Just panicking a little, as if I get this wrong, it will be a last minute rush to sort it out, and I will be stressed enough, as both sets of grandparents are staying with us!
Thanks for any advice...
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by recklessrat:
The question is, what to wear with it? Does a white long sleeved vest (I think the gown is long sleeved), cream tights, and a shawl sound appropriate?
Sounds fine, although the shawl might be too much, depending on how warm the day / your church is.
You might want to take a short-sleeved vest too, as depending on the gown, it might work better.
At least one of mine wore short-sleeved vest, nappy and silk dress.
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