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Bizzy 
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 Posted: 02 April 2008 at 2:08pm |
way to go nicci - your post sounds much more positive too.
go easy on yourself...its a learning experience for you and bub!
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MrsMojo
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 2:19pm |
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Good work Nicci.
I'm pleased to hear that today's been better and it's great that your not stressing about it so much, it's hard to relax when you're worried and just trying to do the best for your baby but once you do relax things seem to fall into place and you enjoy motherhood more.
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kebakat
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 2:20pm |
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Oh yay! I'm happy it's working well today!
Don't worry, we all feel useless at times!
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nicci
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 8:03pm |
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O.K. tonight when I put him to bed (he was so sleepy after his bath and feed that he was just about asleep on my shoulder) he started to cry out, I was making our dinner so I put things down to go and attend to him but by the time I got to his room he had settled himself. Now I know that it's not going to go to plan every day but man I feel bucket loads better today. Fingers crossed the night goes just as well as the day!
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.Mel
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 8:18pm |
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I agree with the other girls, well done! You have done really well. Just keep going the way you are going, and soon, the two of you will be all sorted.
Keep in mind though, babies like to change things around sometimes, and you need to be prepared to just roll with those changes.
Well done!
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monster
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 8:47pm |
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Well done Nicci, glad to hear how well things are going now - you're doing a great job.
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myfullhouse
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 10:33pm |
Glad to hear that things are going better for you. It is definately a learning curve, this parenting thing. Jack was never a very good sleeper, day or night, and I found a sling very useful during the day as I could still doing everything (even go to the toilet  !)
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MyMinis
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Posted: 02 April 2008 at 11:19pm |
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great to hear your day went better, well done.
the sleep video from plunket is def a must see, my mw arranged for me to see it before haleigh was due to switch over, the karitane nurse came over and she helped me for a few hours with teaching me what to do, it was great (perks of living in a small town at the time).
it will take a while to figure their tired signs/ feeding cry/ nappy cry/ cuddle cry believe me i struggled for a while there with Haleigh, with james i knew instantly what to do i could tell the difference between each cry and knew when to go or to leave him.
your doing a great job nicci, fingers crossed you get some sleep tonight and the good days continue
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emz
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Posted: 03 April 2008 at 2:43pm |
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Glad to hear it went well Nicci! When Jack was two weeks old I ended up ringing up my mum in tears cos I had absolutely no idea what I was doing (DH had gone back to work that day). OhBaby is great for when we're completely stumped on something. We have done CIO with Jack since he was 2 months old, but will only leave him for a max of 15 minutes (which is usually only at night as he wants to be up with us and is fighting sleep). Before that we just did rocking, singing, swaddling, dummy basically anything that helped.
One piece of advise someone gave me was take it one sleep at a time. Something might work one time and not work the other, but just keep trying. That advise got me through as I was a wreck!
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