She now agrees that all of the recommendations may well have changed since she retired 5 years ago, but that was her 2 penny's worth.
Sounds pretty identical to the advice we got. Mrs is a doctor so she was keen that we did everything by the book.
(though we did use some very careful co-sleeping, which is supposed to be a no-no).
Thanks for all the advice chaps.
THe plan is then - maybe raise the overnight temp up a bit to 15 but use an oil filled radiator in our room for first few weeks.
Got a 2.5 gro bag but will get a few more from ebay. If anyone is selling newborn ones let me know.
Mildred I think the only change is that now ( i forget why) dummies are good for sids prevention as well.
Farmer, Teddy is only 12 weeks but I have lost count of the people asking me if he's sleeping through yet, or worse asking if he's "good" by which they mean the same. Drives me up the wall. Still, at least only one person has suggested formula as a "solution" shame it had to be my stepmother!.
+1 for the oil filled heater in the room. Our main heating goes off at 10pm so we have the oil heater on a timer from 10pm to 6am set to 16 to keep the temp ticking over. Doesn't seem to add anything significant to the elec bills either.
Oh yeah, dummies. I forgot about those.
the 4 year old has only just given hers up (begrudgingly and under threat of bad teeth from the Dentist), whereas the little lad, who is 3 on New years day has never touched one, and got a bit pissed off when we tried to introduce it to get him off to sleep.
After a year of the Beamlet only sleeping for a couple of hours at a time, she was breast fed, it came as a welcome relief when she started sleeping through the night.
She's 20 months now and has only just started to sleep for a couple of hours in the day time.
She eats like a horse (mostly) but I am amazed that she doesn't wake up after 14 hours of kip absolutely starving and narky. She's happy to play for bit before she tucks into her Weetabix.
Everyone of them is different.
Ah dummies - great on the one hand as they immediately settle mini-clubber but crap in that if he wakes in the night and doesn't have it, he cries so I have to get up and give him it back.
We've told him that Santa's coming at Xmas and will turn all his dummies into toys so that'll be the end of it as they'll all be gone. He seems fine with the idea now though whether it'll really work when it comes to it...
12 degrees and your radiators kick in, do you lot live in caves, Have you heard of insulation?
Like I said, it's cold in the nursery:
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I think 12 deg is canny considering it was -11 outside this morning.
So the insulation is doing a good job since it was only 18deg when it went off at 21:00 and stayed at about 14 overnight.
Cavities & loft insulation and double glazing.
Agree with the oil-filled rad in the bedroom, and keeping the rest of the house warm-ish for the middle of the night. We got a [url= http://www.gro.co.uk/Gro-Egg.html ]Gro-egg[/url] which helps you keep track of the temperature really easily as it changes colour. The wee one's only twelve days old and seems happy anywhere above 16 degrees.
I think 12 deg is canny
Would you want to sit about in your underwear with your tits hanging out in 12 degrees?
(tho granted if your missus is from Newcastle then she'll be well used to it 😉 )
we got a gro egg too, it recommends between 17 and 21 I think. Have the heating on much more than we used to, TBH it's too hot for me!! he's only 3 weeks though, hopefully he will man up soon!!
