Sleep Training - Night Four

9pm asleep quickly to the soothe and glow seahorse. 

9:45pm awake but settled quickly. 

10:45pm awake screaming. Think she has a tummy ache again. Going to change her diet tomorrow to find out what's upsetting her tummy. 

11:30pm really struggling to settle, still very upset. Manage to calm her down on the spare bed. Decide not to try to move her as she's obviously in discomfort. 

3am wake for the dummy but went straight back to sleep. 

9am awake for the day. 

Hopefully tomorrow is better and she stays in her bed. No more tummy aches please! 

January 2014 favourites!

This month I have been enjoying a lot of bath and makeup products. I have especially been enjoying products from Lush. I like Lush bath and shower products but I do find them quite pricey. However for Christmas and my birthday I was lucky enough to receive quite a few bits from lush. I also received some lovely new makeup which I have been loving as well! 

This is a lush bathbomb - I have used many different lush bath bombs this last month. I do not have a favourite one as such I have just been loving using baths bombs in my baths this month! 

Another favourite this moth has been the Burt's Bees lip balm. I had never used this before or any Burt's Bees products but had always heard great things about it. I received this for Christmas and have been loving it. It kind of makes your lips feel tingly when you first apply it but then it leaves them feeling really lovely and soft. I like the fact it fits nicely in my handbag and it smells really nice too!

Another favourite is the Clinique high impact mascara. I have talked about this in a review earlier in the month. I have been using this mascara for 2 years now and still continue to love it!

I have also been really enjoying using the Rimmel scandal eyes eye liner in black. It's like a felt tip pen and so easy to apply. I use it on my upper eye lid and it stays in place all day. It's really pigmented and only cost me £5! Bargain!

My last beayty product favourite is another Clinique product and it's the cream shaper for eyes. It's an eye liner which I use on my lower lids. It's really soft and creamy so doesn't drag as you apply which is one of the things I loathe! Eye liners which feels like they're pulling or scratching!!! It's really pigmented and stays in place. I have been wearing this everyday! 

My last favourite which isn't beauty related is an app called Flappy Bird. I'm not one for playing games really. I use my iPhone for watching YouTube and browsing the internet mostly but everyone was raving about this game! I downloaded it and I've been enjoying the banter with my friends and family as to who can get the highest score! I must admit unlike some others I have got bored of it now but for a few weeks it's been great fun!

What has your January favourites been?

Sleep Training - Night Three

9pm asleep once again with the soothe and glow seahorse (love this!!) 

10pm woke up crying and doesn't look likely to settle. Think she may have a tummy ache. 

10:30pm asleep after falling asleep sitting on the rocking chair with daddy. 

12am woke up but went straight back to sleep. 

2am woke up and went back to sleep after some comforting. 

2:30am woke again just for the dummy. 

5:20am woke up thinking it was morning. Took Mia into spare bedroom to sleep. 

8:30am up for the day. 

Much better night than the previous night!

Sleep Training - Night Two

9pm straight to sleep with soothe and glow seahorse

10pm woke up but went straight back to sleep. 

12:46am awake not wanting to sleep. Went back to sleep and within 5 minutes awake again. 

1am I'm too tired from previous night to battle. Take her into spare room and sleep there. 

Tonight the plan is to move spare mattress into Mia's room so that if we do end up sleeping next to each other again at least it will be in her room. 

Sleep Training - Night One

7:30pm fell asleep to soothe and glow seahorse with no fuss. 

8:30pm woke but went straight back to sleep once we came into the room. 

2:30am woke and refused to go back to sleep :( sat next to her bed until 3:30am. She finally went back to sleep but woke again in 5 minutes. Sat next to her until 4:20am. 

4:30am taken her to spare bedroom to sleep next to me on spare bed. 

8:30am awake for the day. 

Tired.

Mia's new room!

So we have made the decision to move Mia upstairs into her own room! You might be confused as I don't think I ever finished blogging about what was happening with Mia's sleep. Basically she used to sleep in the nursery next to our room at the back of the house. Unfortunately we have construction work going on and they start very early and sometimes move rubble during the night. As Mia has an original sash window which us obviously not double glazed the noise was waking her up constantly.

It was not good. 

So we moved her back into our room and co slept again until she turned 14 months. Last Thursday. 

Last Thursday was the day. The day we decided it was time to try again. We decided to move her to the too floor at the front. Her new room is not backing into the construction site and is double glazed. 

We moved all her furniture upstairs and decided to move her straight into a bed. A cot bed nevertheless but a bed all the same. She had never been a great sleeper in the cot and she was used to being in a bed as she had spent most of her life in bed with us at night. 

I am going to keep a diary night by night of the transition of moving Mia into her new bedroom. I think it will be useful for other parents going through the same transition especially from co sleeping but also for myself to see her improving night by night. I hope. The first blog post of night one will be uploaded tomorrow (they are going to be a few days behind if that makes sense because I wanted to upload this post showing her new room before starting the night diary) 

So this is Mia's new room in photographs

Bedtime soothers

We have bought and tested many products to help Mia calm and settle during bedtime. Some of the products we have:

A lullaby cd. 

A read aloud story. 

Fisher price soothe and glow seahorse. 

A lullaby cot toy. 

The cd is good, she definitely calms to it. The main problem is that Mia is a very light sleeper so any noise that is made once she's asleep can potentially wake her and with a cd I have to physically go in and turn it off. 

This lullaby cd comes with a book and is made by chad valley. It contains the classics like rock-a-by baby and then others that I haven't heard of before. 

The read aloud story called 'it's snorey time' we have yet to try. I bought it in tk maxx before Mia was born because the illustrations looked really cute and I liked that it came with areas aloud story as well. 

Mia's soothe and glow seahorse we bought when Mia was 4 weeks old. She didn't take to it at all and I was pretty disappointed. I had seen lots of mummy vloggers on YouTube and mummy bloggers talking about it and recommending it. Mia just didn't seem bothered by it all all unfortunately. However now she loves it! I put it on when I put her to bed and she watches the tummy gently glow and listens to the lovely gentle lullabies. 

I would definitely recommended trying this. It's become part of our bedtime routine now!

The final product we have (apart from a cot mobile which she never used to much as she mostly co slept with us and now has gone straight into a cot bed) is a lullaby Peter Rabbit. It looks like this:

You ca hang it on the cot or bear the cot. At the moment we have him on her wardrobe as we are using the soothe and glow seahorse more but we used to hang this above her cot for the short time she slept in there! You pull Peter down:

And he plays a soothing lullaby. I can't remember from the top of my head which lullaby he plays?! If anyone knows please let me know. For some reason I'm thinking it's hush little baby but I could be wrong! 

What soothing products do you like to use with your baby? Is there one product that you use every night as part of your bedtime routine?